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Dr STUART REEVES's Outputs (63)

Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation (2024)
Journal Article
Salimbeni, G., Benford, S., Reeves, S., & Martindale, S. (2024). Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation. Leonardo, 57(4), 415–421. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02546

The article presents a historical overview of the classification of contemporary artworks that either have utilized artificial intelligence as a tool in their creation or focus on AI as their central theme or subject matter. The authors analyze artwo... Read More about Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorisation.

Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Reeves, S., & Cantarutti, M. N. (2024, March). Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets. Presented at 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, Colorado, USA

Robots deployed in public settings enter spaces that humans live and work in. Studies of HRI in public tend to prioritise direct and deliberate interactions. Yet this misses the most common form of response to robots, which ranges from subtle fleetin... Read More about Encountering Autonomous Robots on Public Streets.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Phypers, I., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Galvez Trigo, M., & Maior, H. (2023, July). Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users' access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially... Read More about Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation.

Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI (2023)
Journal Article
Saha, D., Brooker, P., Mair, M., & Reeves, S. (2023). Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI. Science & Technology Studies, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.122892

As part of ongoing research bridging ethnomethodology and computer science, in this article we offer an alternate reading of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper, “On Computable Numbers”. Following through Turing’s machinic respecification of computation, we hop... Read More about Thinking Like a Machine: Alan Turing, Computation and the Praxeological Foundations of AI.

Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Rintel, S. (2023, April). Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation. Presented at CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Organisations wishing to maintain employee satisfaction for hybrid collaboration need to explore flexible solutions that provide value for both remote and on-site employees. In this case study, we report on the roll-out of a telepresence robot pilot... Read More about Your mileage may vary: Case study of a robotic telepresence pilot roll-out for a hybrid knowledge work organisation.

The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work (2023)
Journal Article
Greiffenhagen, C., Xu, X., & Reeves, S. (2023). The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579531

Facial recognition technology (FRT) has become a significant topic in CSCW owing to widespread adoption and related criticisms: the use of FRT is often considered an assault on privacy or a kind of neo-phrenology. This discussion has revolved around... Read More about The Work to Make Facial Recognition Work.

"Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Rintel, S. (2023, March). "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation. Presented at 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Stockholm, Sweden

Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) systems afford remote communication with an embodied physicality and autonomous mobility, which is thought to be useful for creating a sense of presence in hybrid activities. In this paper, drawing on phenomenology,... Read More about "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation.

Revisiting the Digital Plumber: Modifying the Installation Process of an Established Commercial IoT Alarm System (2023)
Journal Article
Castle-Green, T., Reeves, S., Fischer, J. E., & Koleva, B. (2023). Revisiting the Digital Plumber: Modifying the Installation Process of an Established Commercial IoT Alarm System. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 32(3), 607-643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09455-2

The ‘digital plumber’ is a conceptualisation in ubicomp research that describes the work of installing and maintaining IoT devices. But an important and often understated element of commercial IoT solutions is their long-term socio-technical infrastr... Read More about Revisiting the Digital Plumber: Modifying the Installation Process of an Established Commercial IoT Alarm System.

Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation (2022)
Book Chapter
Reeves, S., & Porcheron, M. (2022). Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation. In W. Housley, A. Edwards, R. Beneito-Montagut, & R. Fitzgerald (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. SAGE Publications

When we talk about AI-driven systems there is a tendency by researchers to treat people encountering them as ‘participants’ in human-machine interactions. This seems particularly true for so-called conversational AI, such as voice interfaces or chatb... Read More about Conversational AI: Respecifying participation as regulation.

Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Reeves, S. (2022, October). Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards. Presented at Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI ’22), Aarhus, Denmark

Disabled people's experiences and knowledge are oftentimes not central in design processes. Further, the burden of outreach and sensitising others to these experiences and knowledge is frequently not recognised. This paper offers a workshop approach... Read More about Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards.

Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work (2022)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Greiffenhagen, C., & Perry, M. (2024). Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 33(1), 59-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-022-09436-5

Control rooms have long been a key domain of investigation in HCI and CSCW as sites for understanding distributed work and fragmented settings, as well as the role and design of digital technologies in that work. Although research has tended to focus... Read More about Back to the Control Room: Managing Artistic Work.

Navigating Incommensurability Between Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Reeves, S. Navigating Incommensurability Between Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence

Like many research communities, ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts have begun to get caught up -- yet again -- in the pervasive spectacle of surging interests in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Inspired by discussions amongst a growing netwo... Read More about Navigating Incommensurability Between Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence.

Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Majid, S., Morriss, R., Figueredo, G., & Reeves, S. (2022, June). Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI. Presented at DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing, Virtual Event, Australia

Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a complex, cyclical and chronic mental illness where self-tracking is central to self-management. Mobile technology is often leveraged to support this. Limited research has investigated the everyday practices of self-tracking... Read More about Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI.

Mediated Visits: Longitudinal Domestic Dwelling with Mobile Robotic Telepresence (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Reeves, S., Fischer, J. E., & Rintel, S. (2022, April). Mediated Visits: Longitudinal Domestic Dwelling with Mobile Robotic Telepresence. Presented at CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans LA USA

Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) systems are remotely controlled, mobile videoconferencing devices that allow the remote user to move independently and have a physical presence in the environment. This paper presents a longitudinal study of MRP use... Read More about Mediated Visits: Longitudinal Domestic Dwelling with Mobile Robotic Telepresence.

Unpacking Practitioners' Attitudes Towards Codifications of Design Knowledge for Voice User Interfaces (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khemani, K. H., & Reeves, S. (2022, April). Unpacking Practitioners' Attitudes Towards Codifications of Design Knowledge for Voice User Interfaces. Presented at CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, USA

Recent HCI research has sought to develop guidelines-'heuristics', 'best practices', 'principles' and so on-for voice user interfaces (VUI) to aid both practitioners and researchers in improving the quality of VUI-based design. However, limited resea... Read More about Unpacking Practitioners' Attitudes Towards Codifications of Design Knowledge for Voice User Interfaces.

Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology (2022)
Journal Article
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2022). Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(5), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3514236

Technology "demos"have become a staple in technology design practice, especially for showcasing prototypes or systems. However, demonstrations are also commonplace and multifaceted phenomena in everyday life, and thus have found their way into empiri... Read More about Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology.

Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside (2021)
Journal Article
Laurier, E., Dunkley, R., Smith, T. A., & Reeves, S. (2021). Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside. Gesprächsforschung, 22, 544-568

In this paper, we use ethnomethodology, membership categorisation analysis, and conversation analysis (EMCA) to investigate traversing obstacles in outdoor environments as reflexively constitutive of producing, resisting and adjusting family relation... Read More about Crossing with care: bogs, streams and assistive mobilities as family praxis in the countryside.

The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review (2021)
Journal Article
Majid, S., Reeves, S., Figueredo, G., Brown, S., Lang, A., Moore, M., & Morriss, R. (2021). The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review. JMIR Mental Health, 8(12), Article e27991. https://doi.org/10.2196/27991

Background: The number of self-monitoring apps for bipolar disorder (BD) is increasing. The involvement of users in human-computer interaction (HCI) research has a long history and is becoming a core concern for designers working in this space. The a... Read More about The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review.

The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Majid, S., Reeves, S., Figueredo, G., Brown, S., Lang, A., Moore, M., & Morriss, R. The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review

Background:
Self-monitoring applications for bipolar disorder are increasing in numbers. The application of user-centred design (UCD) is becoming standardised to optimise the reach, adoption and sustained use of this type of technology.

Objectiv... Read More about The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-Tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review.

"I can't get round": Recruiting Assistance in Mobile Robotic Telepresence (2021)
Journal Article
Boudouraki, A., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Rintel, S. (2021). "I can't get round": Recruiting Assistance in Mobile Robotic Telepresence. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW3), Article 248. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432947

Via audiovisual communications and a controllable physical embodiment, Mobile Robotic telePresence (MRP) systems aim to support enhanced collaboration between remote and local members of a given setting. But MRP systems also put the remote user in po... Read More about "I can't get round": Recruiting Assistance in Mobile Robotic Telepresence.