All Outputs (59)

Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, K., Hall, C. L., Babbage, C., Dodzo, S., Greenhalgh, C., Lucassen, M., …Hollis, C. (2024). Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01475-7

Background : A serious game called SPARX (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts), originally developed in New Zealand and incorporating cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles, has been shown to help reduce symptoms of depressi... Read More about Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK.

The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars (2023)
Journal Article
Martinez Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., & McPherson, A. (2023). The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars. Journal of New Music Research, 52(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832

Guitarists struggle to play their instruments while simultaneously using additional computing devices (i.e., encumbered interaction). We explored designs with guitarists through co-design and somaesthetic design workshops, learning that they (unsurpr... Read More about The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars.

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice Cards: a Tool to Support Responsible Practice (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Portillo, V., Greenhalgh, C., Craigon, P. J., & Ten Holter, C. (2023). Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice Cards: a Tool to Support Responsible Practice. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599721

Researchers often find it hard to know where, when and how to start when applying Responsible Innovation approaches to their own research projects and proposals. Based on experience supporting a range of researchers and projects, we have developed a... Read More about Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice Cards: a Tool to Support Responsible Practice.

Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., …Marshall, J. (2023). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599709

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

Crafting Interactive Experiences with Non-programmers (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Greenhalgh, C. (2023). Crafting Interactive Experiences with Non-programmers. In EICS '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3596454.3597174

The Mixed Reality Lab has a long history of creating public interactive experiences in collaboration with creative practitioners. Looking across four such experiences, this keynote explores the role of code (i.e., bespoke software) in making them pos... Read More about Crafting Interactive Experiences with Non-programmers.

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Fischer, J., Barnard, P., Greenhalgh, C., Row Farr, J., …Adams, M. (2022). Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems. In ACI '22: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565995.3566046

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.

Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project (2022)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Craigon, P., Liz, D., Greenhalgh, C., & Pérez-Vallejos, E. (2022). Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100045

Integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles into a research project is key to ensure outputs are ethically acceptable and socially desirable. However, translating RRI principles into practice is challenging as there are no rec... Read More about Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project.

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.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., …Valstar, M. (2021). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. In IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (112-119). https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478350

Access to healthcare advice is crucial to promote healthy societies. Many factors shape how access might be constrained, such as economic status, education or, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, remote consultations with health practitioners. Our wo... Read More about Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study.

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Egede, J. O., Jaiswal, S., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Price, D., Elliot, N., Nixon, N., …Valstar, M. (2021). Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety. In IVA '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (52-59). https://doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478361

Virtual human technologies are now being widely explored as therapy tools for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. These technologies leverage the ability of the virtual agents to engage in naturalistic social interactions with a... Read More about Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety.

Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production (2021)
Book Chapter
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021). Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78635-9_72

The digital transformation of the recording industry is one of the most well-known in recent times, with the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) making new methods of music production available to amateurs and professionals in almost any setting beyond t... Read More about Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production.

Following the journey of scores through a complex musical work (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Kallionpää, M. (2020). Following the journey of scores through a complex musical work. In AM '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Audio Mostly Conference (249-252). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411109.3411116

We chart the composition and technical development of a non-linear, interactive work for pianist, Disklavier piano and interactive system called Climb!. Collaborating with a composer and performers we focus on the journey of score representations thr... Read More about Following the journey of scores through a complex musical work.

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of AM '19, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356617

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.

Adaptive Musical Soundtracks: from in-game to on the street (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2019). Adaptive Musical Soundtracks: from in-game to on the street. In AM'19: Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound (31-38). https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356597

We describe the challenges of creating location-based adaptive musical soundtracks, which we try to address via the iterative development of daoplayer, a tool to create such media experiences. Daoplayer is broadly modelled on the functionality of com... Read More about Adaptive Musical Soundtracks: from in-game to on the street.

Augmenting Guitars for Performance Preparation (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Martinez Avila, J. P. M., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Benford, S. (2019). Augmenting Guitars for Performance Preparation. In AM'19: Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference: A Journey in Sound (69–75). https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356602

A substantial number of Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) are built upon existing musical instruments by digitally and physi- cally intervening in their design and functionality to augment their sonic and expressive capabilities. These are commonly... Read More about Augmenting Guitars for Performance Preparation.

Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Martinez Avila, J. P., Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Chamberlain, A. (2019). Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform. In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300706

Guitars are physical tools (for making music) that require skillful two-handed use. Their use is also supported by diverse digital and physical resources, such as videos and chord charts. To understand the challenges of interacting with supporting r... Read More about Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform.

Zest: REST over ZeroMQ (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Moore, J., Arcia-Moret, A., Yadav, P., Mortier, R., Brown, A., McAuley, D., …Amar, Y. (2019). Zest: REST over ZeroMQ. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (1015-1019). https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730686

© 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.

An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Martinez-Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Benford, S. (2018). An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices. In AM '18: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion (1–5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3275381

The practice of working musicians extends beyond the act of performing musical works at a concert. Rather, a significant degree of individual and collaborative preparation is necessitated prior to the moment of presentation to an audience. Increasing... Read More about An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices.

The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences (2018)
Journal Article
Hazzard, A., Spence, J., Greenhalgh, C., & McGrath, S. (2018). The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(4), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0013

The rapid development of mobile devices, networks, and sensors over the past 20 years has expanded the range of listening experiences such that they are not constrained to homes, cars, workplaces, cinemas, and concert halls. Locative or mobile listen... Read More about The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences.

Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Kallionpää, M., Weigl, D. M., …Lin, M. (2018). Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174142

We report on the design, premiere and public evaluation of a multifaceted audience interface for a complex non-linear musical performance called Climb! which is particularly suited to being experienced more than once. This interface is designed to en... Read More about Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences.