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Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home (2020)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2020)
Conference Proceeding

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.

New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care (2019)
Conference Proceeding

As the IoT is taking hold in the home, in healthcare, factories, and industry, new challenges and approaches arise for HCI research and design. For example, HCI is exploring agency delegation and automation to support the user in managing the deluge... Read More about New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care.

Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials (2019)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Hybrid events: Mediating collocated participation (2018)
Conference Proceeding

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). This workshop invites the CSCW community to explore hybrid events – large collocated events where technology is used to support audience participation. We argue that the technology landscape has change... Read More about Hybrid events: Mediating collocated participation.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation (2018)
Conference Proceeding

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 (2018)
Conference Proceeding

© 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.

Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action (2017)
Conference Proceeding

This one-day workshop intends to bring together both academics and industry practitioners to explore collaborative challenges in speech interaction. Recent improvements in speech recognition and computing power has led to conversational interfaces be... Read More about Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action.

"Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation (2017)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we unpack the use of conversational agents, or so-called intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), in multi- party conversation amongst a group of friends while they are socialising in a café. IPAs such as Siri or Google Now can be found... Read More about "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation.

Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Many interactional issues with Flight Management Systems (FMS) in modern flight decks have been reported. Avionics designers are seeking for ways to reduce cognitive load of pilots with the aim to reduce the potential for human error. Academic resear... Read More about Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations.

Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Touch screen technology’s first public appearance was in the early 2000s. Touch screens became a part of the daily life with the invention of smartphones and tablets. Now, this technology has the potential to be the next big change in flight deck des... Read More about Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework.

Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability (2016)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations (2016)
Conference Proceeding

In order to benefit from potential reduced operational costs and crew workload airlines are increasingly interested in touchscreen-based Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). This paper focuses on the specific domain of Search and Rescue (SAR) Helicopters. A... Read More about Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations.

Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration (2016)
Conference Proceeding

We demonstrate a prototype mobile application designed to support individually collecting personal sources of inspiration on mobile phones, and then the sharing and curating of these collected materials in a face-to-face situation.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents findings from a co-design project that aims to augment the practices of professional energy advisors with environmental data from sensors deployed in clients’ homes. Premised on prior ethnographic observations we prototyped a sens... Read More about “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

Using mobile phones in pub talk (2016)
Conference Proceeding

We present the findings from a study of how people interleave mobile phone use with conversation in pubs. Our findings, informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, unpack the interactional methods through which groups of people in pubs oc... Read More about Using mobile phones in pub talk.

Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research (2016)
Conference Proceeding

In the 25 years since Ellis, Gibbs, and Rein proposed the time-space taxonomy, research in the ‘same time, same place’ quadrant has diversified, perhaps even fragmented. This one-day workshop will bring together researchers with diverse, yet converge... Read More about Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research.

Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck (2015)
Conference Proceeding

The avionics industry is seeking to understand the challenges and benefits of touchscreens on flight decks. This paper presents an investigation of interactive displays on the flight deck focusing on the impact of target size, placement and vibration... Read More about Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

A study of human-agent collaboration for multi-UAV task allocation in dynamic environments (2015)
Conference Proceeding

We consider a setting where a team of humans oversee the coordination of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform a number of search tasks in dynamic environments that may cause the UAVs to drop out. Hence, we develop a set of multi-UAV su... Read More about A study of human-agent collaboration for multi-UAV task allocation in dynamic environments.

Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response (2015)
Conference Proceeding

We consider a setting where an agent-based planner instructs teams of human emergency responders to perform tasks in the real world. Due to uncertainty in the environment and the inability of the planner to consider all human preferences and all attr... Read More about Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response.