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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
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Trigo, M. J. G., Reyes-Cruz, G., Maior, H. A., Pepper, C., Price, D., Leonard, P., Tochia, C., Hyde, R., Watson, N., & Fischer, J. E. (2023, August). “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot. Presented at IEEE RO-MAN 2023, Busan, South Korea

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.

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S. D., Mancini, C., Chamberlain, A., Schneiders, E., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Kucukyilmaz, A., Salimbeni, G., Ngo, V. Z. H., Barnard, P., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., & Row Farr, J. (2024, May). Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. Presented at CHI '24 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hawaii, USA

While ethical challenges are widely discussed in HCI, far less is reported about the ethical processes that researchers routinely navigate. We reflect on a multispecies project that negotiated an especially complex ethical approval process. Cat Royal... Read More about Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space.

The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abioye, A. O., Hunt, W., Gu, Y., Schneiders, E., Naiseh, M., Fischer, J. E., Ramchurn, S. D., Soorati, M. D., Archibald, B., & Sevegnani, M. (2024, March). The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction. Presented at HRI '24: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boulder CO USA

Formal Modelling is often used as part of the design and testing process of software development to ensure that components operate within suitable bounds even in unexpected circumstances. In this paper, we use predictive formal modelling (PFM) at run... Read More about The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction.

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Mancini, C., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., & Fischer, J. (2024, May). Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. Presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), Honolulu, HI, USA

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. In this paper, we present the proj... Read More about Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans.

"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Craigon, P., Piskopani, A.-M., Dowthwaite, L., Lu, Y., Lisinska, J., Shafipour, E., Stein, S., & Fischer, J. (2024, June). "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions. Presented at ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT ’24), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Radical and disruptive interventions are needed to reach "Net Zero" by 2050 to avert the climate catastrophe. Although governments, companies, cities, and institutions have pledged to take action and reduce their carbon emissions, the idea of persona... Read More about "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions.

Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, J., Reyes Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Maior, H. A. (2024, June). Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education. Presented at CHIWORK 2024, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Telepresence robotics enable people to synchronously communicate and interact at a distance. The Covid-19 pandemic caused in-person teaching and research activities to migrate online in almost all society sectors (including higher education). In hybr... Read More about Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education.

Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM).
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baguley, K., Fischer, J., & Hyde, R. (2024, September). Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM). Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas

We present a new prototype tool intended to enable SMOs without specialist expertise in the area to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM) with confidence. We report on the design and (briefly) evaluation of the tool, demonstrating the potential u... Read More about Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM)..

Progressivity for voice interface design
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., Porcheron, M., & Sikveland, R. O. (2019). Progressivity for voice interface design. In CUI '19: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (1–8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3342775.3342788

Drawing from Conversation Analysis (CA), we examine how the orientation towards progressivity in talk--keeping things moving--might help us better understand and design for voice interactions. We introduce progressivity by surveying its explication i... Read More about Progressivity for voice interface design.

"Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Rintel, S. (2023, March). "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation. Presented at 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Stockholm, Sweden

Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) systems afford remote communication with an embodied physicality and autonomous mobility, which is thought to be useful for creating a sense of presence in hybrid activities. In this paper, drawing on phenomenology,... Read More about "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation.

Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jestin, I., Fischer, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Large, D. R., & Burnett, G. (2022, July). Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles. Presented at CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, UK

Voice assistants in future autonomous vehicles may play a major role in supporting the driver during periods of a transfer of control with the vehicle (handover and handback). However, little is known about the effects of different qualities of the v... Read More about Effects of Wording and Gendered Voices on Acceptability of Voice Assistants in Future Autonomous Vehicles.

Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egede, J., Galvez Trigo, M. J., Hazzard, A., Porcheron, M., Bodiaj, E., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., & Valstar, M. (2021, September). Designing an Adaptive Embodied Conversational Agent for Health Literacy: a User Study. Presented at 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), Virtual Event, Kyoto, Japan

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.

Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020, July). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of... Read More about Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home.

Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2020, April). Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments. Presented at CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu HI USA

More than a billion people in the world live with some form of visual impairment, and a wide variety of technologies are now routinely used by them in the course of 'getting on' in everyday life. However, little is known about the ways in which assis... Read More about Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments.

NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Valstar, M. (2020, July). NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies. Presented at CUI '20: 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Bilbao Spain

We present NottReal, an application designed for simulating Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) in Wizard of Oz studies. We briefly discuss the premise and advantages of the Wizard of Oz method before moving onto introducing the design of the application, w... Read More about NottReal: A Tool for Voice-based Wizard of Oz studies.

Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Malik, O., & Ramchurn, S. D. (2019, May). Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials. Presented at CHI '19: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland Uk

Predictions of people's behaviour increasingly drive interactions with a new generation of IoT services designed to support everyday life in the home, from shopping to heating. Based on the premise that such automation is difficult due to the conting... Read More about Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials.

Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Reeves, S. (2022, October). Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards. Presented at Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI ’22), Aarhus, Denmark

Disabled people's experiences and knowledge are oftentimes not central in design processes. Further, the burden of outreach and sensitising others to these experiences and knowledge is frequently not recognised. This paper offers a workshop approach... Read More about Supporting Awareness of Visual Impairments and Accessibility Reflections through Video Demos and Design Cards.

HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Wu, F., Moreau, L., Jennings, N. R., Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Rodden, T., Simpson, E., Reece, S., & Roberts, S. (2015, May). HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey

This paper proposes a novel disaster management system called HAC-ER that addresses some of the challenges faced by emergency responders by enabling humans and agents, using state-of-the-art algorithms, to collaboratively plan and carry out tasks in... Read More about HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018, April). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC Canada

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable applications that foster a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy way of life. If end-users are to take full advantage of these developments we foresee the need for future IoT systems and services to... Read More about Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation.

Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Sharples, S. (2018, April). Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC Canada

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via 'assistant' devices. Yet, exactly how use... Read More about Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life.

Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2016, September). Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aerospace (HCI-Aero '16), Paris, France

Future flight deck designs from various avionics manufacturer incorporate touchscreen technology. There is little published research investigating the impact of inflight vibrations and increased G-Force (+Gz) on touchscreen usability. A Fitts’ law ex... Read More about Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability.