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“What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home (2018)
Journal Article
Hyland, L., Crabtree, A., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., & Fuentes, C. (in press). “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-018-9314-4

This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visi... Read More about “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home.

Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018)
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.

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

Provenance Network Analytics: An approach to data analytics using data provenance (2018)
Journal Article
Huynh, T. D., Ebden, M., Fischer, J., Roberts, S., & Moreau, L. (2018). Provenance Network Analytics: An approach to data analytics using data provenance. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 32(3), 708-735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-017-0549-3

Provenance network analytics is a novel data analytics approach that helps infer properties of data, such as quality or importance, from their provenance. Instead of analysing application data, which are typically domain-dependent, it analyses the da... Read More about Provenance Network Analytics: An approach to data analytics using data provenance.

Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable (2017)
Journal Article
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Colley, J., Rodden, T., & Costanza, E. (2017). Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), 597-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9293-x

© 2017, The Author(s). We present fieldwork findings from the deployment of an interactive sensing system that supports the work of energy advisors who give face-to-face advice to low-income households in the UK. We focus on how the system and the da... Read More about Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable.

In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent (2017)
Journal Article
Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Jiang, W., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., & Rodden, T. (2017). In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Article e4082. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4082

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.

Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., McGregor, M., Brown, B., Luger, E., Candello, H., & O'Hara, K. Talking with conversational agents in collaborative action. Presented at 20th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17)

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. (2017, February). "Do animals have accents?": Talking with agents in multi-party conversation. Presented at 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), Portland, Oregon, USA

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.

A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives (2016)
Journal Article
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Wu, F., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Moreau, L., Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Rodden, T., Simpson, E., Reece, S., Roberts, S., & Jennings, N. R. (2016). A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 57, 661-708. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.5098

Major natural or man-made disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the 9/11 terror attacks pose significant challenges for emergency responders. First, they have to develop an understanding of the unfolding event either using their own resources or thr... Read More about A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives.

Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future (2016)
Journal Article
Lucero, A., Clawson, J., Fischer, J. E., & Robinson, S. (2016). Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future. mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience, 5(6), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13678-016-0008-x

This Special Issue focuses on the emerging use of wearable technologies for mobile collocated interactions. Rather than merely listing off the articles that follow, we wish to introduce this Special Issue by discussing the past, present, and future o... Read More about Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future.

Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations. Presented at IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework. Presented at IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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.

Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2016, September). Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations. Presented at HCI-Aero '16: Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aerospace, Paris France

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.

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

Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lucero, A., Porcheron, M., & Fischer, J. E. (2016, September). Collaborative use of mobile devices to curate sources of inspiration. Presented at MobileHCI '16: 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Florence, Italy

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.

Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home (2016)
Journal Article
Alan, A. T., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2016). Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1145/2943770

Smart systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and consequently transforming our lives. The level of system autonomy plays a vital role in the development of smart systems as it profoundly affects how people and these systems interact with each o... Read More about Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J. A., Costanza, E., Jewell, M. O., & Ramchurn, S. D. “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home. Presented at CHI 2016: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Sharples, S. Using mobile phones in pub talk. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16)

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Porcheron, M., Lucero, A., Quigley, A., Scott, S. D., Ciolfi, L., Rooksby, J., & Memarovic, N. Collocated interaction: new challenges in ‘same time, same place’ research. Presented at Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in 'Same Time, Same Place' Research workshop at CSCW '16

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck. Presented at 2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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.