Outputs (11)

Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., McGrath, S., & Benford, S. Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud. Presented at DMRN+10: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2015

Social media technologies have meant that people’s mu- sic consumption and production practices have rapidly changed and evolved. In this paper, we start to explore and present some of our initial findings in respect to this growing area of research... Read More about Understanding social media and sound: music, meaning and membership, the case of SoundCloud.

From front-end to back-end and everything in-between: work practice in game development (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koleva, B., Tolmie, P., Brundell, P., Benford, S., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. From front-end to back-end and everything in-between: work practice in game development. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY '15)

This paper addresses a paucity in the literature of studies of actual game development. It presents the initial findings from a questionnaire addressed to game development companies together with an ethnographic case study that drills into how resour... Read More about From front-end to back-end and everything in-between: work practice in game development.

The Ethical Implications of HCI's Turn to the Cultural (2015)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Anderson, B., Jacobs, R., Golembewski, M., Jirotka, M., Stahl, B. C., Timmermans, J., Giannachi, G., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., Tandavanitj, N., & Jennings, K. (2015). The Ethical Implications of HCI's Turn to the Cultural. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 22(5), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/2775107

We explore the ethical implications of HCI’s turn to the ‘cultural’. This is motivated by an awareness of how cultural applications, in our case interactive performances, raise ethical issues that may challenge established research ethics processes.... Read More about The Ethical Implications of HCI's Turn to the Cultural.

Towards an extended festival viewing experience (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Velt, R., Benford, S., Reeves, S., Evans, M., Glancy, M., & Stenton, P. (2015, June). Towards an extended festival viewing experience. Presented at TVX'15 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

Media coverage of large-scale live events is becoming increasingly complex, with technologies enabling the delivery of a broader range of content as well as complex viewing patterns across devices and services. This paper presents a study aimed at un... Read More about Towards an extended festival viewing experience.

Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., & Xu, L. Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint. Presented at 15th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

We explore how to digitally augment musical instruments by connecting them to their social histories. We describe the use of Internet of Things technologies to connect an acoustic guitar to its digital footprint – a record of how it was designed, bui... Read More about Augmenting a guitar with its digital footprint.

Considering musical structure in location-based experiences (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., & Greenhalgh, C. Considering musical structure in location-based experiences. Presented at 15th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Locative music experiences are often non-linear and as such the final structure of the music heard is guided by the movements of the user. We note an absence of principles regarding how composers should approach the structuring of such locative sound... Read More about Considering musical structure in location-based experiences.

The Challenges of Using Biodata in Promotional Filmmaking (2015)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Martindale, S., Tennent, P., Benford, S., Marshall, J., & Walker, B. (2015). The Challenges of Using Biodata in Promotional Filmmaking. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 22(3), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/2699758

© 2015 ACM. We present a study of how filmmakers collected and visualized physiological data - "biodata" - to construct a series of short promotional films depicting people undergoing "thrilling" experiences. Drawing on ethnographic studies of two ma... Read More about The Challenges of Using Biodata in Promotional Filmmaking.

Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flintham, M. D., Velt, R., Wilson, M. L., Anstead, E. J., Benford, S., Brown, A., Pearce, T., Price, D., & Sprinks, J. (2015, April). Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators. Presented at Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea

There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the... Read More about Run spot run: capturing and tagging footage of a race by crowds of spectators.

ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coughlan, T., Carletti, L., Giannachi, G., Benford, S., McAuley, D., Price, D., Locatelli, C., Sinker, R., & Stack, J. (2015, April). ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks. Presented at Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Seoul, Rebublic of Korea

© Copyright 2015 ACM. Creating and utilizing simple links between items and locations in map-based systems has become a mainstream component of modern computing. In this paper, we explore support for 'art mapping', an activity that requires considera... Read More about ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks.

I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reeves, S., Greiffenhagen, C., Flintham, M., Benford, S., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., & Tandavantij, N. (2015, April). I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public. Presented at CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea

We present a study of a mixed reality game called 'I'd Hide You' that involves live video streaming from the city streets. We chart the significant challenges facing performers on the streets who must simultaneously engage in the game, stream compell... Read More about I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public.