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Understanding the Interplay Between the Digital and the Physical in Shared Augmented Reality Gaming: Probing through Urban Legends (2025)
Journal Article
Xu, J., Luna, S. M., Tigwell, G. W., Lalone, N., Saker, M., Laato, S., Dunham, J., Wang, Y., Chamberlain, A., & Papangelis, K. (2025). Understanding the Interplay Between the Digital and the Physical in Shared Augmented Reality Gaming: Probing through Urban Legends. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1145/3749841

Shared Augmented Reality (Shared AR) is an emerging technology that enables multiple users to interact synchronously within a collocated AR environment. Yet, there is limited research on the group interactions and dynamics in Shared AR, particularly... Read More about Understanding the Interplay Between the Digital and the Physical in Shared Augmented Reality Gaming: Probing through Urban Legends.

AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Chamberlain, A., & Benford, S. (2025, June). AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Poster presented at Third UK AI Conference 2025, London, UK

We present a wearable toolkit designed to enhance shared perception between humans and robots, facilitating real-time data collection to support embedded AI based applications. Advancements in wearable sensor-based technologies mean there are opportu... Read More about AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

AI Lens: A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Transformation (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, R., Chamberlain, A., Higgins, A., Benford, S., Tennent, P., Woodward, K., Price, D., Giannachi, G., Garrett, R., Kitsidis, C., Lancel, K., & Maat, H. (2025, June). AI Lens: A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Transformation. Presented at Third UK AI Conference 2025, London, UK

Abstract (Poster - Video Presentation)
This paper introduces AI Lens, a novel AI-powered camera system that applies live generative transformations to video in real time. By replacing a traditional camera monitor with AI-generated imagery, the syste... Read More about AI Lens: A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Transformation.

Embrace Angels: an Artistic Exploration of how Humans and Robots can Embrace (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lancel, K., Maat, H., Ramchurn, R., Chamberlain, A., Higgins, A., Benford, S., Tennent, P., Woodward, K., Price, D., Giannachi, G., Garrett, R., & Kitsidis, C. (2025, June). Embrace Angels: an Artistic Exploration of how Humans and Robots can Embrace. Presented at Third UK AI Conference 2025, London, UK

Abstract (Poster - Video Presentation)
This video was presented at UK AI The Third UK AI Conference 2025, June 23 - 24, London, UK and relates to Embrace Angels.

Conference
https://uk-ai.org/ukai2025/

Acknowledgements
The Turing AI World Lea... Read More about Embrace Angels: an Artistic Exploration of how Humans and Robots can Embrace.

Exploring Deaf And Hard of Hearing Peoples' Perspectives On Tasks In Augmented Reality: Interacting With 3D Objects And Instructional Comprehension (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mojib Luna, S., Xu, J., Tigwell, G. W., LaLone, N., Saker, M., Chamberlain, A., Schwartz, D. I., & Papangelis, K. (2025, April). Exploring Deaf And Hard of Hearing Peoples' Perspectives On Tasks In Augmented Reality: Interacting With 3D Objects And Instructional Comprehension. Presented at 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Tasks in augmented reality (AR), such as 3D interaction and instructional comprehension, are often designed for users with uniform sensory abilities. Such an approach, however, can overlook the more nuanced needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) use... Read More about Exploring Deaf And Hard of Hearing Peoples' Perspectives On Tasks In Augmented Reality: Interacting With 3D Objects And Instructional Comprehension.

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat (2024)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Chamberlain, A., Nichele, E., Bødker, M., & Turchi, T. (2024). Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(6), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01837-1

When humans and machines start to chat: beyond anthropocentrism

Digital and embedded artificial intelligent (AI) agents with conversational capabilities have gained significant attention in recent years [1, 2]. Using natural language communication... Read More about Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat.

Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., & Marshall, J. (2023, July). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Chamberlain, A., Fischer, J. E., Benford, S., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Kucukyilmaz, A., Barnard, P., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Devlin, K., Mancini, C., & Mills, D. (2023, July). TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Cat Royale is an artist-led exploration of trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) created by the TAS Hub's creative ambassadors Blast Theory. A small community of cats inhabits a purpose built 'cat utopia' at the centre of which a robot arm tries to en... Read More about TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals.

Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, J., Azim, T., Piskopani, A. M., Chamberlain, A., & Zhang, S. (2023, June). Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology. Presented at ICASSPW 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Workshops, Proceedings, Rhodes Island, Greece

The landscape of opportunity is rapidly changing for audio-visual (AV) hearing assistive technology. While hearing assistive devices, such as hearing aids, have traditionally been developed for populations of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) communitie... Read More about Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology.

Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V.-J., Liang, H.-N., & Yue, Y. (2023, April). Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters. Presented at CHI '23 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Crowdsourcing in China is a thriving industry. Among its most interesting structures, we find crowdfarms, in which crowdworkers self-organize as small organizations to tackle macrotasks. Little, however, is known as to which practices these crowdfarm... Read More about Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters.

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Fischer, J., Barnard, P., Greenhalgh, C., Row Farr, J., Tandavanitj, N., & Adams, M. (2022, December). Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems. Poster presented at Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, Newcastle, UK

From cat feeders and cat flaps to robot toys, humans are deploying increasingly autonomous systems to look after their pets. In parallel, industry is developing the next generation of autonomous systems to look after humans in the home – most notably... Read More about Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems.

A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation (2022)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Schmettow, M., Malizia, A., Chamberlain, A., & van der Velde, F. (2023). A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27, 317–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-022-01690-0

The Bot Usability Scale (BUS) is a standardised tool to assess and compare the satisfaction of users after interacting with chatbots to support the development of usable conversational systems. The English version of the 15-item BUS scale (BUS-15) wa... Read More about A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation.

Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emsley, I., & Chamberlain, A. (2021, June). Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification. Presented at 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, Virtual

In this paper, we present our initial findings in using digital methods to consider the way that different devices can connect to the same object. We take a more experimental view of the ways in which network data might be used in compositions to hel... Read More about Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification.