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Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox (2016)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Mortier, R., & Haddadi, H. (2016). Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(6), 947-957. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0939-3

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new economic actor—the consumer as perso... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J. A., Costanza, E., Jewell, M. O., & Ramchurn, S. D. (2016). “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

This paper presents findings from a co-design project that aims to augment the practices of professional energy advisors with environmental data from sensors deployed in clients’ homes. Premised on prior ethnographic observations we prototyped a sens... Read More about “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design (2016)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (in press). Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2

This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumpti... Read More about Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Valchovska, S., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Greenhalgh, C. (2015). "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0890-8

This paper reports on a study of 4CG, a cooperative enterprise located in rural Wales. 4CG operates for the good of the local economy and seeks to diversify its commercial portfolio through the creation of an online shop retailing goods and services... Read More about "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy.

Digital records and the Digital Replay System (2015)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tennent, P., Brundell, P., & Knight, D. (2015). Digital records and the Digital Replay System. In P. Halfpenny, & R. Procter (Eds.), Innovations in Digital Research Methods. SAGE Publications

Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Mortier, R. (2015). Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW.

Human Data Interaction (HDI) is an emerging field of research that seeks to support end-users in the day-to-day management of their personal digital data. This is a programmatic paper that seeks to elaborate foundational challenges that face HDI from... Read More about Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW.

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., Mortier, R., Lodge, T., Brundell, P., & Pantidi, N. (2015). House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6

We draw on ethnographic studies to understand the collaborative nature of network policies or rules in domestic settings. We outline the technical nature of network policy in enterprise domains and how this contrasts with the social or collaborative... Read More about House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks.

Cooking for pleasure (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). Cooking for pleasure. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

Cooking is a mundane feature of everyday life, done by people around the world as a matter of necessity and, for some at least, as the business of pleasure. It seems surprising therefore that food, eating and cooking has, at least until relatively re... Read More about Cooking for pleasure.

A day out in the country (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2013). A day out in the country. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

It is now commonplace to make strong distinctions between tourism and visiting practices in city environments and rural environments (see LAgroup and Interarts 2005), with significantly different motivations presumed to pertain to the two kinds of ac... Read More about A day out in the country.

Performance-Led Research in the Wild (2013)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Row Farr, J., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A., …Giannachi, G. (2013). Performance-Led Research in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/2491500.2491502

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed and studied at public performance in cultural settings such as galler... Read More about Performance-Led Research in the Wild.

Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay (2006)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., French, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., …Graham, C. (2006). Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 15(4), 281-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-006-9026-z

In this paper we consider the development of 'digital records' to support ethnographic study of interaction and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments and articulate the core concept of 'record and replay' through two case studies. One fo... Read More about Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay.

The spatial character of sensor technology (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reeves, S., Pridmore, T., Crabtree, A., Green, J., Benford, S., & O'Malley, C. (2006). The spatial character of sensor technology.

By considering the spatial character of sensor-based interactive systems, this paper investigates how discussions of seams and seamlessness in ubiquitous computing neglect the complex spatial character that is constructed as a side-effect of deployin... Read More about The spatial character of sensor technology.

Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild"
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, M., Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (2013, July). Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild". Presented at HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

HCI system design has largely been focused towards urban areas, the technology and the infrastructure of such environments. Researchers are often unaware of the local, real-word context and the restraints that this can have upon the both the interact... Read More about Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild".

Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coulton, P., Stead, M., Pilling, M., Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., & Sailaja, N. (2024, October). Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures. Presented at Mindtrek 2024, Tampere, Finland

While prosocial behaviour is often described as behaviour intended to help and benefit others, it is primarily considered through an anthropocentric lens in that the others in question are principally humans. In this research, we consider designed sy... Read More about Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures.

Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Reeves, S., Tolmie, P., & Jones, M. (2013, July). Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’. Presented at HIMI: International Conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information, Las Vegas, USA

This paper outlines and describes the development of a multi-media data aggregation system called Placebooks. Placebooks was developed as a ubiquitous toolkit aimed at allowing people in rural areas to create and share digital books that contained a... Read More about Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’.

Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colley, J. A., Bedwell, B., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2013, September). Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring. Presented at 14th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction-INERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

This paper explores the measurement, apportionment and representation of widespread energy monitoring. We explicate the accountability to users of the data collected by this type of monitoring when it is presented to them as a single daylong picture.... Read More about Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring.

"How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013, September). "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation. Presented at ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, Paphos, Cyprus

The title of this paper comes from comments made by an ‘angry’ ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had... Read More about "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation.

Providing occupancy as a service with databox
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yadav, P., Moore, J., Li, Q., Mortier, R., Brown, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., McAuley, D., Amar, Y., Shamsabadi, A. S., & Haddadi, H. (2018, November). Providing occupancy as a service with databox. Presented at CitiFog'18 1st ACM International Workshop, Shenzhen, China

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Occupancy modelling for efficient energy management of indoor spaces has gained significant recent attention. Unfortunately, many such models rely on copying sensor data to the cloud for third-party service... Read More about Providing occupancy as a service with databox.