Outputs (120)

"More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., Glover, K., Wagner, H., Gibson, R., & Thorn, E. C. (2023). "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(4), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015

Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has revealed weaknesses of digital gifting and explored possibilities of hybrid g... Read More about "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild.

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. 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.

Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint) (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Li, B., Price, D., & Blake, H. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

Background:
Encouraging office workers to break up prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) at work with regular micro-breaks can be beneficial yet challenging. Internet of Things (IoT) offers great promise for delivering more subtle and hence acceptable b... Read More about Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint).

Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home” (2022)
Journal Article
Jäger, N., Dowthwaite, L., Barnard, P., Hughes, A.-M., das Nair, R., Crepaz-Keay, D., Cobb, S., Lang, A., Vayani, F., & Benford, S. (2022). Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home”. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100049

We reflect on our experiences using Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the project “TAS for Health at Home”. Driven by a multi-disciplinary research team that consisted of experts in mental health, stroke rehabilitation, management of multi... Read More about Reflections on RRI in “TAS for Health at Home”.

Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera (2022)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Cliffe, L., & Kelly, E. (2022). Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(6), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531007

Losing Her Voice is a new opera which highlights the challenges of subtly interweaving digital technologies into established cultural forms. Audience members were encouraged to use their own mobile phones to interact with on-stage projections before,... Read More about Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera.

Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Sundnes Løvlie, A., Ryding, K., Rajkowska, P., Bodiaj, E., Paris Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Spence, J., Egede, J., & Spanjevic, B. (2022, April). Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum. Presented at CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA

Museums are interested in designing emotional visitor experiences to complement traditional interpretations. HCI is interested in the relationship between Affective Computing and Affective Interaction. We describe Sensitive Pictures, an emotional vis... Read More about Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum.

Data-Driven Visiting Experiences (2022)
Book Chapter
Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Bodiaj, E., Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Cameron, H., & Spors, V. (2022). Data-Driven Visiting Experiences. In A. Waern, & A. S. Løvlie (Eds.), Hybrid Museum Experiences: Theory and Design (157-175). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463726443

Data is seen as the ‘new oil’ that drives the digital economy, and museums are no exception to this. We investigate how data captured from hybrid museum experiences can become a resource for designers, for museums, and for visitors in their understan... Read More about Data-Driven Visiting Experiences.

Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences (2022)
Journal Article
Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Wagner, H., Craigon, P., Bodiaj, E., Spence, J., Tennent, P., & Benford, S. (2022). Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences. AI EDAM, 36, Article e3. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060421000317

The capture and analysis of diverse data is widely recognized as being vital to the design of new products and services across the digital economy. We focus on its use to inspire the co-design of visitor experiences in museums as a distinctive case t... Read More about Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences.

Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement (2021)
Journal Article
Spence, J., Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Huang, Y., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., Tandavanitj, N., & Benford, S. (2022). Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement. Human-Computer Interaction, 37(2), 180-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1923496

HCI has recently increased its interest in the domains of museums and gifting. The former is often oriented primarily towards the past, while the latter is often oriented towards the future, in terms of anticipating the receiver’s reactions. Our arti... Read More about Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement.

Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play (2021)
Journal Article
Løvlie, A. S., Ryding, K., Spence, J., Rajkowska, P., Waern, A., Wray, T., Benford, S., Preston, W., & Clare-Thorn, E. (2021). Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 14(2), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3446620

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid mus... Read More about Playing Games with Tito: Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play.