All Outputs (27)

Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK (2024)
Journal Article

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)
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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.

Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project (2022)
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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)
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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.

Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction (2020)
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As Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) engages with technologies that sense and actuate the body, there is a need to reconsider the human bodily experience. We present three case studies that each involve different forms of bodily experience: a breath-c... Read More about Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction.

Designing Hybrid Gifts (2020)
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Hybrid gifting combines physical artefacts and experiences with digital interactivity to generate new kinds of gifts. Our review details how gifting is a complex social phenomenon and how digital gifting is less engaging than physical gifting for bot... Read More about Designing Hybrid Gifts.

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

What Smart Campuses Can Teach Us about Smart Cities: User Experiences and Open Data (2018)
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Universities, like cities, have embraced novel technologies and data based solutions to improve their campuses with ‘smart’ becoming a welcomed concept. Campuses in many ways are small-scale cities. They increasingly seek to address similar challenge... Read More about What Smart Campuses Can Teach Us about Smart Cities: User Experiences and Open Data.

The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences (2018)
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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.

Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model (2018)
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© 2018, The Author(s). 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 is mandated by the European Union’s general data pro... Read More about Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model.

Crafting Interactive Decoration (2017)
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We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an exis... Read More about Crafting Interactive Decoration.

In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent (2017)
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In this paper we present the study of interactional arrangements that support the collaboration of headquarters (HQ), field responders and a computational planning agent in a time-critical task setting created by a mixed-reality game. Interactional a... Read More about In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent.

Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox (2016)
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© 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.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
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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.

The Ethical Implications of HCI's Turn to the Cultural (2015)
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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.

Human–agent collaboration for disaster response (2015)
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In the aftermath of major disasters, first responders are typically overwhelmed with large numbers of, spatially distributed, search and rescue tasks, each with their own requirements. Moreover, responders have to operate in highly uncertain and dyna... Read More about Human–agent collaboration for disaster response.

Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns (2013)
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Participate was a 3-year collaboration between industry and academia to explore how mobile, Web and broadcast technologies could combine to deliver environ- mental campaigns. In a series of pilot projects, schools used mobile sensors to enhance scien... Read More about Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns.

Performance-Led Research in the Wild (2013)
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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.

Supporting the creation of hybrid museum experiences (2009)
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This paper presents the evolution of a tool to support the rapid prototyping of hybrid museum experiences by domain professionals. The developed tool uses visual markers to associate digital resources with physical artefacts. We present the iterative... Read More about Supporting the creation of hybrid museum experiences.

Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay (2006)
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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.