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“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Trigo, M. J. G., Reyes-Cruz, G., Maior, H. A., Pepper, C., Price, D., Leonard, P., …Fischer, J. E. (2023). “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot. In 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309364

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public f... Read More about “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, J., Clos, J., Price, D., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023). Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597520

Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems that simulate real-world scenarios to optimize system performance, reduce physical losses, and ensure user safety. Although digital twins have been widely adopted in industrial settings, there is... Read More about Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Phypers, I., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Fischer, J., Reeves, S., …Maior, H. (2023). Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597532

Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users' access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially... Read More about Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation.

Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Price, D., Pacchierotti, C., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2023, July). Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics. Poster presented at IEEE World Haptics Conference, Delft, Netherlands

This work-in-progress paper presents a prototyping toolkit developed to design haptic interaction experiences. With developments in wearable and sensor technologies, new opportunities arise everyday to create rich haptic interaction experiences actin... Read More about Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., …Perez Vallejos, E. (2023). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (987-1001). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

Feasibility and acceptability of an Internet of Things-enabled sedentary behavior intervention: mixed-methods study (2023)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Price, D., Li, B., & Blake, H. (2023). Feasibility and acceptability of an Internet of Things-enabled sedentary behavior intervention: mixed-methods study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25, Article e43502. https://doi.org/10.2196/43502

Background: Encouraging office workers to break up prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) at work with regular micro-breaks can be beneficial yet challenging. Internet of Things (IoT) offers great promise for delivering more subtle and hence acceptable... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability of an Internet of Things-enabled sedentary behavior intervention: mixed-methods study.

Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint) (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Li, B., Price, D., & Blake, H. Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

Background: Encouraging office workers to break up prolonged sedentary behavior (SB) at work with regular micro-breaks can be beneficial yet challenging. Internet of Things (IoT) offers great promise for delivering more subtle and hence acceptable b... Read More about Feasibility and Acceptability of an Internet of Things–Enabled Sedentary Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint).

Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus (2020)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Knight, D., Smith, C., & Price, D. (2020). Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus. Corpora, 15(2), 141-168. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0192

Corpora have revolutionised the way we describe and analyse language in use. The sheer scale of collections of texts, along with the appropriate software for structuring and analysing this data, has led to a fuller understanding of the characteristic... Read More about Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus.

Using Internet of Things to Reduce Office Workers’ Sedentary Behavior: Intervention Development Applying the Behavior Change Wheel and Human-Centered Design Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Huang, Y., Benford, S., Price, D., Patel, R., Li, B., Ivanov, A., & Blake, H. (2020). Using Internet of Things to Reduce Office Workers’ Sedentary Behavior: Intervention Development Applying the Behavior Change Wheel and Human-Centered Design Approach. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(7), Article e17914. https://doi.org/10.2196/17914

Background: Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with various adverse health outcomes. The prevalence of prolonged sitting at work among office workers makes a case for SB interventions to target this setting and population. Everyday mundane objects... Read More about Using Internet of Things to Reduce Office Workers’ Sedentary Behavior: Intervention Development Applying the Behavior Change Wheel and Human-Centered Design Approach.

Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Price, D., Benford, S., & Blake, H. Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention

Background: Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with various adverse health outcomes. The prevalence of prolonged sitting at work among office workers makes a case for SB interventions to target this setting and population. Everyday mundane obje... Read More about Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention.

Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Huang, Y., Price, D., Benford, S., Patel, R., & Blake, H. Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention

Background: Sedentary behavior (SB) is associated with various adverse health outcomes. The prevalence of prolonged sitting at work among office workers makes a case for SB interventions to target this setting and population. Everyday mundane obje... Read More about Using digitally augmented objects to reduce sedentary behavior in office workers: design and development of the WorkMyWay intervention.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271--276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided... Read More about MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine.

Domesticating data: socio-legal perspectives on smart homes and good data design (2019)
Book Chapter
FLINTHAM, M., GOULDEN, M., PRICE, D., & Urquhart, L. (2019). Domesticating data: socio-legal perspectives on smart homes and good data design. In A. Daly, S. K. Devitt, & M. Mann (Eds.), Good data (343 -360). Institute of Network Cultures

In this chapter, we focus on the so-called ‘smart home’ as an archetypal group space into which the Internet of Things is spreading. As most homes are shared spaces we focus on what ‘good data’ might look like in a space that is essentially defined b... Read More about Domesticating data: socio-legal perspectives on smart homes and good data design.

Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Price, D., McAuley, D., Mortier, R., Greenhalgh, C., Brown, M., & Angelopoulos, S. (2015). Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities. In Social computing and social media: 7th International Conference, SCSM 2015 held as part of HCI International 2015 Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2 – 7, 2015 proceedings (242–252). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20367-6_24

We argue that the current approaches to online social networking give rise to numerous challenges regarding the management of the multiple facets of people’s digital identities within and around social networking sites (SNS). We propose an architectu... Read More about Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities.

Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns (2013)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Paxton, M., Glover, K., Flintham, M., Price, D., Benford, S., …Greenhalgh, C. (2014). Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0756-x

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.