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Dr MAX WILSON's Outputs (51)

Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, H., Benerradi, J., Maior, H. A., Pike, M., Landowska, A., & Wilson, M. L. (2024, March). Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload. Presented at CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Sheffield, UK

Cognitive style has been shown to influence users’ interaction with search interfaces. However, as a fundamental dimension of cognitive styles, the relationship between the Verbal-Imagery (VI) cognitive style dimension and search behaviour has not be... Read More about Exploring the Impact of Verbal-Imagery Cognitive Style on Web Search Behaviour and Mental Workload.

Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study (2024)
Journal Article
Landowska, A., Wilson, M. L., Craven, M. P., & Harrington, K. (2024). Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 184, Article 103206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103206

With the growing concern for the health of ageing populations, much research continues to look at the impact of cognitive training, particularly in relation to cognitive decline. We sought to use novel techniques, including augmented reality and port... Read More about Adaptative computerized cognitive training decreases mental workload during working memory precision task - A preliminary fNIRS study.

Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Shaban, J., Ma, X., Shalliker, M., Midha, S., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding Cognitive Personal Informatics (CogPI) has become a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a... Read More about Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload.

When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaban, J., Roy, M., Stephens-Marsh, M., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding cognitive personal informatics has become a pressing issue. Mental Workload is an emotionally ag... Read More about When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad.

Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaban, J., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023). Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload.

This paper presents a research plan, at the outset of new doctoral research, designing for reflection on cognitive personal informatics and self-tracking of Mental Workload. The research will build upon the Mental Workload cycle, considering how peop... Read More about Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload.

CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L. (2023). CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond). In CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3574183

A key challenge for people that are new to reviewing is pitching the review at the right level, and getting the tone and structure of a review right. This course aims to help participants understand a) the different expectations of different venues a... Read More about CHI2023 Course on How to Peer Review for CHI (and Beyond).

Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Midha, S., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2022). Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking. In FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (564-573). https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533119

With rapid growth in the development of consumer neurotechnology, it is imperative to consider the ethical implications that this might have in order to minimise consumer harm. Whilst ethical and legal guidelines for commercialisation have previously... Read More about Ethical Concerns and Perceptions of Consumer Neurotechnology from Lived Experiences of Mental Workload Tracking.

Perceptions of Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia: Acceptability Study with Patient and Public Involvement Workshops (2022)
Journal Article
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2022). Perceptions of Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia: Acceptability Study with Patient and Public Involvement Workshops. JMIR Serious Games, 10(2), Article e32489. https://doi.org/10.2196/32489

Background: Cognitive training and assessment technologies offer the promise of dementia risk reduction and a more timely diagnosis of dementia, respectively. Cognitive training games may help reduce the lifetime risk of dementia by helping to build... Read More about Perceptions of Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia: Acceptability Study with Patient and Public Involvement Workshops.

Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Midha, S., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2022). Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life. In CHI '22 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517690

We can now buy consumer brain-computer interface devices to help us meditate and focus, but what are we aiming to achieve? Mental workload (MWL) is an established concept, and as a form of personal data could be useful for making positive life change... Read More about Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life.

The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parsa, S., Maior, H. A., Thumwood, A. R. E., Wilson, M. L., Hanheide, M., & Esfahani, A. G. (2022). The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation. In CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Article No.: 253). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519814

The use of human operator managed robotics, especially for safety critical work, includes a shift from physically demanding to mentally challenging work, and new techniques for Human-Robot Interaction are being developed to make teleoperation easier... Read More about The Impact of Motion Scaling and Haptic Guidance on Operators’ Workload and Performance in Teleoperation.

Workplace 4.0: Exploring the Implications of Technology Adoption in Digital Manufacturing on a Sustainable Workforce (2022)
Journal Article
Leesakul, N., Oostveen, A.-M., Eimontaite, I., Wilson, M. L., & Hyde, R. (2022). Workplace 4.0: Exploring the Implications of Technology Adoption in Digital Manufacturing on a Sustainable Workforce. Sustainability, 14(6), Article 3311. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14063311

As part of the Industry 4.0 movement, the introduction of digital manufacturing technologies (DMTs) poses various concerns, particularly the impact of technology adoption on the workforce. In consideration of adoption challenges and implications, var... Read More about Workplace 4.0: Exploring the Implications of Technology Adoption in Digital Manufacturing on a Sustainable Workforce.

Using Patient and Public Involvement to Elicit Opinion on Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. Using Patient and Public Involvement to Elicit Opinion on Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia

Background:

Cognitive training and assessment technologies offer the promise of dementia risk reduction and more timely diagnosis of dementia respectively. Cognitive training technologies may help to reduce the lifetime risk of dementia by helping... Read More about Using Patient and Public Involvement to Elicit Opinion on Cognitive Training Games and Assessment Technologies for Dementia.

Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview (2021)
Book Chapter
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2021). Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview. In Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology Design and Acceptance (21-32). Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78108-8_2

Online walkthrough interviews were conducted via internet video-calling, which formed part of wider Patient and Public Involvement activities investigating perceptions of digital and gamified cognitive assessment and training/coaching applications. P... Read More about Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview.

Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS (2020)
Journal Article
Midha, S., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2021). Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 147, Article 102580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102580

The motivation behind using physiological measures to estimate cognitive activity is typically to build technology that can help people to understand themselves and their work, or indeed for systems to do so and adapt. While functional Near Infrared... Read More about Measuring Mental Workload Variations in Office Work Tasks using fNIRS.

Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction (2020)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Ramchurn, R., Marshall, J., Wilson, M. L., Pike, M., Martindale, S., …Walker, B. (2021). Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction. Human-Computer Interaction, 36(5-6), 361-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2020.1754214

As Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) engages with technologies that sense and actuate the body, there is a need to reconsider the human bodily experience. We present three case studies that each involve different forms of bodily experience: a breath-c... Read More about Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction.

Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition in Future Digital Manufacturing Environments (2020)
Journal Article
Argyle, E. M., Marinescu, A., Wilson, M. L., Lawson, G., & Sharples, S. (2021). Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition in Future Digital Manufacturing Environments. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 145, Article 102522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102522

As Digital Manufacturing transforms traditionally physical work into more system-monitoring tasks, new methods are required for understanding people's mental workload and prolonged capacity for focused attention.

Many physiological measures have... Read More about Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition in Future Digital Manufacturing Environments.

Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, K., Craven, M. P., Wilson, M. L., & Landowska, A. (2020). Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health. . Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49065-2_4

User-centred evaluation of brain-training and coaching applications is discussed, with a focus on dementia. A brief outline of outcomes measures used for cognitive training is presented. The design of a set of four patient and public involvement work... Read More about Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dong, M., Husain, M., Brooks, D., Wilson, M., Craven, M., Destrebecq, F., …Baden-Kristensen, K. (2019). Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention. In K. Niedderrer, G. Ludden, R. Cain, & C. Wölfel (Eds.), International MinD Conference 2019 - Designing with and for People with Dementia: Well-being, Empowerment and Happiness (151-154)

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of the rapidly growing and crushing aging challenge that threatens to economically undermine today's healthcare system. AD prevalence will grow to over 100 million cases in 2050. AD is incurable but can be pr... Read More about Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention.

Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, R., Martinez-Avila, J., Martindale, S., Chamberlain, A., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

We report on the design and deployment of systems for the performance of live score accompaniment to an interactive movie by a Networked Musical Ensemble. In this case, the audiovisual content of the movie is selected in real time based on user input... Read More about Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsuraykh, N. H., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2019). How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected. In PervasiveHealth'19: Proceedings of the 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (371-376). https://doi.org/10.1145/3329189.3329235

Mental Workload (MWL) can be both good and bad; we can thrive under high MWL, or our performance can drop if the demands become either too low or too high. Similarly, stress is not always bad, short term stress can be beneficial to overcome a challen... Read More about How Stress and Mental Workload are Connected.

From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, R., Martindale, S., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it. In CHI '19: proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300378

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Introducing interactivity to films has proven a longstanding and difficult challenge due to their narrative-driven, linear and theatre-based nature. Previous research has suggested that Brain-Computer Int... Read More about From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it.

The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huurdeman, H., Kamps, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2019). The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages.

This experience paper shines more light on a simulated work task approach to studying information seeking stages. This explicit multistage approach was first utilized in Huurdeman, Wilson, and Kamps [14] to investigate the utility of search user inte... Read More about The Multi-Stage Experience: the Simulated Work Task Approach to Studying Information Seeking Stages.

Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Knight, I. A., Wilson, M. L., Brailsford, D. F., & Milic-Frayling, N. (2019). Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews. In Proceedings of 2019 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (203-212). https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298937

Systematic reviews are a comprehensive and parameterised form of literature review, found in most disciplines, that involve exhaustive analyses and rigorous interpretation of prior literature. Performing systematic reviews, however, can involve repet... Read More about Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews.

Search tactics used in solving everyday how-to technical tasks: repertoire, selection and tenacity (2019)
Journal Article
Rutter, S., Blinzler, V., Ye, C., Wilson, M. L., & Twidale, M. D. (2019). Search tactics used in solving everyday how-to technical tasks: repertoire, selection and tenacity. Information Processing and Management, 56(3), 919-938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.02.008

With greater access to computational resources, people use search to address many everyday challenges in their lives, including solving technology problems. Although there are now many useful ‘how-to’ resources online (especially videos on YouTube),... Read More about Search tactics used in solving everyday how-to technical tasks: repertoire, selection and tenacity.

fNIRS and Neurocinematics (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, R., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Martindale, S., Benford, S., & Cai, M. (2018, October). fNIRS and Neurocinematics. Poster presented at fNIRS2018, Tokyo, Japan

When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McNabb, L., Laramee, R. S., & Wilson, M. L. (2018). When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths. In G. Tam, & F. Vidal (Eds.), EG UK Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (163-171). https://doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20181221

Choropleth maps are an invaluable visualization type for mapping geo-spatial data. One advantage to a choropleth map over other geospatial visualizations such as cartograms is the familiarity of a non-distorted landmass. However, this causes challeng... Read More about When size matters: Towards evaluating perceivability of choropleths.

Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Sharon, N., Maior, H. A., Midha, S., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker. Presented at 3rd Symposium on Computing and Mental Health: Understanding, Engaging, and Delighting Users

Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.

Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Locke, C., & Swann, D. (2018). Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice.

We present the first stage of our on-going artist-driven BCI collaboration, where we equipped an artist with the brain scanning technique functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) in order to record mental workload levels during her creative prac... Read More about Brain activity and mental workload associated with artistic practice.

#Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, R., Wilson, M. L., Martindale, S., & Benford, S. (2018, April). #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie. Presented at CHI 2018: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts), Montreal QC, Canada

While many still consider interactive movies an unrealistic idea, current delivery platforms like Netflix, commercial VR, and the proliferation of wearable sensors mean that adaptive and responsive entertainment experiences are an immediate reality.... Read More about #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie.

Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2018). Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173380

Feedback is valuable for allowing us to improve on tasks. While retrospective feedback can help us improve for next time, feedback “in action” can allow us to improve the outcome of on-going tasks. In this paper, we use data from functional Near Infr... Read More about Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. Presented at CHI 2018: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts)

Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.

Generating vague neighbourhoods through data mining of passive web data (2017)
Journal Article
Brindley, P., Goulding, J., & Wilson, M. L. (in press). Generating vague neighbourhoods through data mining of passive web data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2017.1400549

Neighbourhoods have been described as \the building blocks of public services society". Their subjective nature, however, and the resulting difficulties in collecting data, means that in many countries there are no officially defined neighbourhoods e... Read More about Generating vague neighbourhoods through data mining of passive web data.

Complex search task: how to make a phone safe for a child (2017)
Journal Article
Rutter, S., Blinzler, V., Ye, C., Twidale, M. B., & Wilson, M. L. (2017). Complex search task: how to make a phone safe for a child. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1798,

There are many factors in task design that might make it ‘complex’: having multiple components, having multiple cross-dependent components, tasks that involve comparison, evaluation, estimation, or learning. In this paper, we discuss a case study of... Read More about Complex search task: how to make a phone safe for a child.

Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Alsuraykh, N., & Maior, H. A. (2017). Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS.

Gathering neuro-physiological data during user studies, and analysing the continuous data they produce, typically involves making a tradeoff between detail and practical utility. is paper describes our long-term work-in-progress towards developing... Read More about Measuring mental workload in IIR user studies with fNIRS.

The Tetris model of resolving information needs within the information seeking process (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L. (2017). The Tetris model of resolving information needs within the information seeking process.

Theoretical abstractions, of many different aspects of search, have played a crucial role in driving research into human information seeking and retrieval forward. From models of the Information Seeking Process, to how we perceive search systems, the... Read More about The Tetris model of resolving information needs within the information seeking process.

Search literacy: learning to search to learn (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Ye, C., Twidale, M. B., Grasse, H., Rosenthal, J., & McKittrick, M. (2016). Search literacy: learning to search to learn.

People can often find themselves out of their depth when they face knowledge-based problems, such as faulty technology, or medical concerns. This can also happen in everyday domains that users are simply inexperienced with, like cooking. These are co... Read More about Search literacy: learning to search to learn.

#Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pike, M., Ramchurn, R., Benford, S., & Wilson, M. L. (2016, May). #Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction. Presented at CHI'16: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California, USA

This paper explores the design space of bio-responsive entertainment, in this case using a film that responds to the brain and blink data of users. A film was created with four parallel channels of footage, where blinking and levels of attention and... Read More about #Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction.

Active and passive utility of search interface features in different information seeking task stages (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huurdeman, H. C., Wilson, M. L., & Kamps, J. (2016). Active and passive utility of search interface features in different information seeking task stages.

Models of information seeking, including Kuhlthau’s information Search Process model, describe fundamentally different macro-level stages. Current search systems usually do not provide support for these stages, but provide a static set of features pr... Read More about Active and passive utility of search interface features in different information seeking task stages.

Using fNIRS in usability testing: understanding the effect of web form layout on mental workload (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lukanov, K. E., Maior, H. A., & Wilson, M. L. (2016). Using fNIRS in usability testing: understanding the effect of web form layout on mental workload.

Amongst the many tasks in our lives, we encounter web forms on a regular basis, whether they are mundane like registering for a website, or complex and important like tax returns. There are many aspects of Usability, but one concern for user interfac... Read More about Using fNIRS in usability testing: understanding the effect of web form layout on mental workload.

Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rahman, M. A., & Wilson, M. L. (2015). Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search.

Serendipitously discovering new information can bring many benefits. Although we can design systems to highlight serendipitous information, serendipity cannot be easily orchestrated and is thus hard to study. In this paper, we deployed a working sear... Read More about Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search.

#Scanners: integrating physiology into cinematic experiences (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pike, M., Ramchurn, R., & Wilson, M. L. (2015). #Scanners: integrating physiology into cinematic experiences.

In this paper we present #Scanners, a digital arts installation that aims to bridge the gap between digital arts and neuroscience. #Scanners is an experience in which an individual wears a wireless brain scanners whilst being presented media which is... Read More about #Scanners: integrating physiology into cinematic experiences.

Examining the reliability of using fNIRS in realistic HCI settings for spatial and verbal tasks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maior, H. A., Pike, M., Sharples, S., & Wilson, M. L. (2015). Examining the reliability of using fNIRS in realistic HCI settings for spatial and verbal tasks.

Recent efforts have shown that functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has potential value for brain sensing in HCI user studies. Research has shown that, although large head movement significantly affects fNIRS data, typical keyboard use, mous... Read More about Examining the reliability of using fNIRS in realistic HCI settings for spatial and verbal tasks.

Two-way Affect Loops in multimedia experiences (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pike, M., Ramchurn, R., & Wilson, M. L. (2015). Two-way Affect Loops in multimedia experiences.

A users interaction with a film typically involves a One Way Affect (1WA), in which the film being consumed has an affect on the consumer. Recent advances in physiological monitoring technology however has facilitated the notion of a Two Way Affect L... Read More about Two-way Affect Loops in multimedia experiences.

Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M. L., Ali, S. A., & Valstar, M. F. (2014). Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression. In IIiX '14 Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637006

Searching for online health information has been well studied in web search, but social media, such as public microblogging services, are well known for different types of tacit information: personal experience and shared information. Finding useful... Read More about Finding information about mental health in microblogging platforms: a case study of depression.

A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ye, C., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions.

Although research is increasingly interested in session-based retrieval, comparably little work has focused on how best to divide web histories into sessions. Most automated attempts to divide web histories into sessions have focused on dividing web... Read More about A user defined taxonomy of factors that divide online information retrieval sessions.

More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meier, F., Elsweiler, D., & Wilson, M. L. (2014, June). More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour. Presented at Proceedings of the Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Microblogging services, such as Twitter, offer a variety of interactive features that allow users to engage with contacts in their social network and the content they produce. One such feature is the favourite button on Twitter, an icon in the form o... Read More about More than Liking and Bookmarking? Towards Understanding Twitter Favouriting Behaviour.

A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brindley, P., Goulding, J., & Wilson, M. L. (2014). A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.

Neighbourhoods have been described by the UK Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as the “building blocks of public service society”. Despite this, difficulties in data collection combined with the concept’s subjective nature have... Read More about A data driven approach to mapping urban neighbourhoods.