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Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice Cards: a Tool to Support Responsible Practice (2023)
Conference Proceeding

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

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

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

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.

Design and Evaluation of Virtual Human Mediated Tasks for Assessment of Depression and Anxiety (2021)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding

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.

The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production (2021)
Conference Proceeding

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.

ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies (2021)
Conference Proceeding

We present ALTCAI, a Wizard of Oz Embodied Conversational Agent that has been developed to explore the use of interactive agents as an effective and engaging tool for delivering health and well-being advice to expectant and nursing mothers in Nigeria... Read More about ALTCAI: Enabling the Use of Embodied Conversational Agents to Deliver Informal Health Advice during Wizard of Oz Studies.

Following the journey of scores through a complex musical work (2020)
Conference Proceeding

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

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

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

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.

Failing with Style: Designing for Aesthetic Failure in Interactive Performance (2019)
Conference Proceeding

Failure is a common artefact of challenging experiences, a fact of life for interactive systems but also a resource for aesthetic and improvisational performance. We present a study of how three professional pianists performed an interactive piano co... Read More about Failing with Style: Designing for Aesthetic Failure in Interactive Performance.

Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform (2019)
Conference Proceeding

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

© 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.

Providing occupancy as a service with databox (2018)
Conference Proceeding

© 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.

An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices (2018)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding

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.

The Rough Mile: Reframing Location Through Locative Audio (2017)
Conference Proceeding

We chart the design and deployment of The Rough Mile: a multi-layered locative audio walk that blends pre-recorded spoken word, original music, and ambient environmental sound with real-time external ambient sound by employing bone conduction headpho... Read More about The Rough Mile: Reframing Location Through Locative Audio.

Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and mandated in data protection legislation. We briefly outline the ‘external’... Read More about Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model.