Outputs (7)

Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thorn, E., Spence, J., Koleva, B., & Benford, S. D. (2024, May). Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project. Presented at CHI '24: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu HI USA

We report on a six-year collaboration with a small community organisation to develop and deploy a permanent physical / digital locative media experience as part on an ongoing community regeneration project. We describe how this unfolded over four pha... Read More about Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project.

"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.

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.

Customizing hybrid products (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Preston, W., Angus, A., Thorn, E.-C., & Glover, K. (2018, April). Customizing hybrid products. Presented at CHI 2018: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, QC, Canada

We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which... Read More about Customizing hybrid products.

Crafting Interactive Decoration (2017)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Quinn, A., Thorn, E.-C., Glover, K., Preston, W., Hazzard, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Mortier, R. (2017). Crafting Interactive Decoration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 24(4), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058552

We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an exis... Read More about Crafting Interactive Decoration.

Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Preston, W., Benford, S., Thorn, E.-C., Koleva, B., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Mortier, R., Quinn, A., Stell, J., & Worboys, M. (2017, June). Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale. Presented at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17)

As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automaticall... Read More about Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale.

Exploring large-scale interactive public illustrations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thorn, E.-C., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Koleva, B., Preston, W., Benford, S., Quinn, A., & Mortier, R. Exploring large-scale interactive public illustrations. Presented at ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016)

We present a research-through-design exploration of transforming large-scale public illustrations into interactive media. We collaborated with creative practitioners to extend an existing visual marker technology to support spatial and layered inter... Read More about Exploring large-scale interactive public illustrations.