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Zest: REST over ZeroMQ
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moore, J., Arcia-Moret, A., Yadav, P., Mortier, R., Brown, A., McAuley, D., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Haddadi, H., & Amar, Y. (2019, March). Zest: REST over ZeroMQ. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan

© 2019 IEEE. In this paper we introduce, Zest (REST over ZeroMQ), a middleware technology in support of an Internet of Things (IoT). Our work is influenced by the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) but emphasises systems that can support fine-gr... Read More about Zest: REST over ZeroMQ.

Experiencing the Future Mundane
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coulton, P., Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., Colley, J., Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., Forrester, I., & Kerlin, L. (2019, March). Experiencing the Future Mundane. Presented at RTD 2019 Research Through Design, Delft-Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Through the design, development and implementation of the Living Room of the Future (LRoTF), we build upon existing work to progress two strands of research. The first explores how media broadcasters may utilise Object-Based Media (OBM) to provide mo... Read More about Experiencing the Future Mundane.

The Living Room of the Future
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Colley, J., Crabtree, A., Gradinar, A., Coulton, P., Forrester, I., Kerlin, L., & Stenton, P. (2019, June). The Living Room of the Future. Presented at 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX 19), Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Emergent media services are turning towards the use of audience data to deliver more personalised and immersive experiences. We present the Living Room of The Future (LRoTF), an embodied design fiction built to both showcase future adaptive physicall... Read More about The Living Room of the Future.

Experiencing mundane AI futures
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pilling, M., Coulton, P., Lodge, T., Crabtreeb, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2022, June). Experiencing mundane AI futures. Presented at DRS2022, Bilbao, Spain

Whilst popular visions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often presented through the lens of sentient machines, our lived experience of AI is more mundane and exemplified by so-called ‘smart’ products and services. Whilst this mundane reality is of... Read More about Experiencing mundane AI futures.

Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020, July). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of... Read More about Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home.

The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021, September). The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production. Presented at Audio Mostly 2021, Trento University, Italy

In this paper we report on two ethnographic studies of professional music producers at work in their respective studio settings, to underpin the design of intelligent tools and platforms in this domain. The studies are part of a body of work that exp... Read More about The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production.

Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (2024, June). Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability. Presented at IMX 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Stockholm, Sweden

As novel media experiences turn towards audience personal data for enhancement, a range of socio-technical challenges that confront their adoption into the everyday lives of audiences are simultaneously surfaced. Podcasts, being the latest member of... Read More about Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability.

Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGarry, G., Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., & Urquhart, L. D. (2024, September). Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), Austin, Texas, USA

This paper explores expert accounts of autonomous systems (AS) development in the medical device domain (MD) involving applications of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other algorithmic and mathematical modelling techniques. W... Read More about Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI.

Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenhalgh, C., Chamberlain, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Valchovska, S., & Crabtree, A. (2014, June). Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices. Presented at International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, Copenhagen, Denmark

A large and growing proportion of the general population in the UK and similar nations routinely carry smart phones and access the Internet while on the go. However, especially in rural areas, mobile Internet access can be intermittent and slow, and... Read More about Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices.

The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwok, S. Y., Skatova, A., Shipp, V., & Crabtree, A. (2015, August). The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras. Presented at 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, Copenhagen, Denmark

Self-report methods such as experience sampling provide an important means of understanding individual behaviors. The arrival of wearable camera technologies opens up research opportunities to provoke and explore in-depth contextual self-reflection... Read More about The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras.

Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colley, J. A., & Crabtree, A. (2018, March). Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox. Presented at Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018, London, UK

All rights reserved. In this paper, we report on the potential for the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive new immersive media experiences. We introduce Object Based Media (OBM) and the Databox platform as a means of driving this turn to the IoT and ne... Read More about Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox.

Doing innovation in the wild
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., & Jones, M. (2013, September). Doing innovation in the wild. Presented at Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI, Trento, Italy

IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lodge, T., Crabtree, A., & Brown, A. (2018, October). IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default. Presented at UbiComp 2018, Singapore

In the domestic IoT domain, data is often collected by phys- ical sensors and actuators embedded in the household and used to provide contextually relevant services to end users. Given that this data is often personal, the EU’s General Data Protectio... Read More about IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default.

Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lodge, T., Brown, A., & Crabtree, A. (2018, September). Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge. Presented at ESORICS International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, Barcelona, Spain

We present an overview of the Databox application devel- opment environment or SDK as a means of enabling trusted IoT app development at the network edge. The Databox platform is a dedicated domestic platform that stores IoT, mobile and cloud data an... Read More about Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge.

Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., McAuley, D., & Stenton, P. (2018, June). Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data. Presented at ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The turn towards personal data to drive novel media experiences has resulted in a shift in the priorities and challenges associated with media creation and dissemination. This paper takes up the challenge of explicating this novel and dynamic scenari... Read More about Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018, April). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC Canada

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable applications that foster a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy way of life. If end-users are to take full advantage of these developments we foresee the need for future IoT systems and services to... Read More about Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation.

Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mortier, R., Zhao, J., Crowcroft, J., Wang, L., Qi, L., Haddadi, H., Amar, Y., Crabtree, A., Colley, J., Lodge, T., Brown, A., McAuley, D., & Greenhalgh, C. (2016, December). Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?. Presented at ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking 2016, Irvine, California, USA

We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – ofte... Read More about Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?.

“This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tolmie, P., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J., & Luger, E. (2016, February). “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, San Francisco, California, USA

© 2016 ACM. Notions like 'Big Data' and the 'Internet of Things' turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people's everyday interaction... Read More about “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems.

A day in the life of things in the home
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2016, February). A day in the life of things in the home. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 16), San Francisco, USA

This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life o... Read More about A day in the life of things in the home.