All Outputs (29)

Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality (2024)
Journal Article

Immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), provide a great opportunity to create relevant contexts in consumer studies. However, challenges persist in consuming food and drink during immersion and ensuring effective data collection. This s... Read More about Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality.

“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)
Conference Proceeding

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.

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts (2023)
Conference Proceeding

This study focuses on the hybrid gifting model, where both physical and digital objects combine to create a single gift. For this in-the-world study, we turn to nostalgic emotions. We aimed to uncover if hybrid gifting can facilitate nostalgic experi... Read More about Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts.

"More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article

Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has revealed weaknesses of digital gifting and explored possibilities of hybrid g... Read More about "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild.

Improving simulated consumption context with virtual Reality: A focus on participant experience (2022)
Journal Article

Context can have a significant impact on liking, emotional response and product choice, and Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising tool to evoke realistic consumption contexts in a controlled testing environment. This study compared an innovative approa... Read More about Improving simulated consumption context with virtual Reality: A focus on participant experience.

A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products (2020)
Journal Article

Product-service systems (PSS) composed of physical products and digital services are emerging as an important new product category. In this paper we suggest that the established metaphor of 'layering' is insufficient to capture the diverse ways in wh... Read More about A framework for differentiation in composed digital-physical products.

Modalities of Expression: Capturing Embodied Knowledge in Cooking (2020)
Conference Proceeding

When cooking we negotiate between instructions in recipes and personal preferences to make in-the-moment creative decisions. This process represents moments of creativity that utilise and reveal our embodied knowledge. This paper focuses on the captu... Read More about Modalities of Expression: Capturing Embodied Knowledge in Cooking.

Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower (2019)
Journal Article

This paper presents findings from the deployment of a technology probe-the connected shower-and implications for the development of 'living services' or autonomous context-aware consumer-oriented IoT services that exploit sensing to gain consumer 'in... Read More about Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower.

Domesticating data: socio-legal perspectives on smart homes and good data design (2019)
Book Chapter

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.

The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life (2018)
Journal Article

This paper presents the design and field study of the Connected Shower, a bespoke IoT device that captures water flow, temperature, shower-head movement, and shower product weight. We deployed the device in six UK homes for a week to understand the u... Read More about The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life.

Tensions within the Ministry of Provenance: reflections on co-creating a research game together with artists (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Research games are challenging to design as they seek to fulfil a research agenda as well as work as a game. We have successfully collaborated with a group of artists in a research game about people’s perception of provenance called The A... Read More about Tensions within the Ministry of Provenance: reflections on co-creating a research game together with artists.

Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper we present the creation and deployment of a concerted set of Mixed Reality Technologies designed for creating engaging public experiences and enhanced storytelling opportunities focused on artefacts. Under the title of the Mixed Reality... Read More about Object-focused mixed reality storytelling: technology-driven content creation and dissemination for engaging user experiences.

Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media (2018)
Conference Proceeding

In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, and the rise of ‘fake news’ disseminated via the internet and social media, individuals may face uncertainty about the veracity of information availab... Read More about Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media.

Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Consumer demand for food that satisfies specific needs rather than generic mass produced food is growing. In response, the food industry is actively investigating techniques for efficient and comprehensive food customisation. Digital approaches to fo... Read More about Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

Playing with social and emotional game companions (2016)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study that explores player game experience by implementing the ERiSA Framework in games. A study with Action Role-Playing Game (RPG) was designed to evaluate player interactions with game companions, w... Read More about Playing with social and emotional game companions.

Harnessing the digital records of everyday things (2016)
Conference Proceeding

We address how, framed by the Internet of Things, digitally-enabled physical objects may acquire rich digital records throughout their lifetimes, and how these might enhance their value, meaning and utility. We reflect on emerging findings from two c... Read More about Harnessing the digital records of everyday things.

Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions (2015)
Conference Proceeding

This paper describes the evaluation of our fully integrated virtual game companions framework (ERiSA) [4]. We conducted three user studies with different scenarios using two versions of The Smile Game[4] in semi-public and public spaces. In our study... Read More about Play SMILE Game with ERiSA: a user study on game companions.

Understanding food consumption lifecycles using wearable cameras (2015)
Journal Article

Provenance for the people: an HCI perspective on the W3C PROV standard through an online game (2015)
Conference Proceeding

In the information age, tools for examining the validity of data are invaluable. Provenance is one such tool, and the PROV model proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium in 2013 offers a means of expressing provenance in a machine readable format. I... Read More about Provenance for the people: an HCI perspective on the W3C PROV standard through an online game.

I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public (2015)
Conference Proceeding

We present a study of a mixed reality game called 'I'd Hide You' that involves live video streaming from the city streets. We chart the significant challenges facing performers on the streets who must simultaneously engage in the game, stream compell... Read More about I'd Hide You: Performing Live Broadcasting in Public.