All Outputs (75)

An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Saker, M., Lykourentzou, I., Khan, V., Chamberlain, A., & Grudin, J. (2021). An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms. In CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445603

Crowdsourcing is a new value creation business model. Annual revenue of the Chinese market alone is hundreds of millions of dollars, yet few studies have focused on the practices of the Chinese crowdsourcing workforce, and those that do mainly focus... Read More about An Examination of the Work Practices of Crowdfarms.

Crowdsourcing in China: Exploring the Work Experiences of Solo Crowdworkers and Crowdfarm Workers (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Khan, V., Lykourentzou, I., Chamberlain, A., & Saker, M. (2020). Crowdsourcing in China: Exploring the Work Experiences of Solo Crowdworkers and Crowdfarm Workers. In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2020

Recent research highlights the potential of crowdsourcing in China. Yet very few studies explore the workplace context and experiences of Chinese crowdworkers. Those that do, focus mainly on the work experiences of solo crowdworkers but do not deal w... Read More about Crowdsourcing in China: Exploring the Work Experiences of Solo Crowdworkers and Crowdfarm Workers.

Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City (2020)
Journal Article
Papangelis, K., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Liang, H., …Cao, T. (2020). Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3364997

Expressions of territoriality have been positioned as one of the main reasons users alter their behaviors and perceptions of spatiality and sociality while engaging with location-based social networks (LBSN). Despite the potential for this interplay... Read More about Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City.

Research ‘In the Wild’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (2020). Research ‘In the Wild’. In A. Chamberlain, & A. Crabtree (Eds.), Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab (1-6). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18020-1_1

Over recent years the term `in the wild' has increasingly appeared in publications within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The phrase has become synonymous with a range of approaches that focus upon carrying out research-based studies r... Read More about Research ‘In the Wild’.

Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Martinez-Avila, J., Martindale, S., Chamberlain, A., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

We report on the design and deployment of systems for the performance of live score accompaniment to an interactive movie by a Networked Musical Ensemble. In this case, the audiovisual content of the movie is selected in real time based on user input... Read More about Improvising a Live Score to an Interactive Brain-Controlled Film.

Brain-Controlled Cinema (2019)
Book Chapter
Ramchurn, R., Martindale, S., Wilson, M. L., Benford, S., & Chamberlain, A. (2019). Brain-Controlled Cinema. In A. Nijholt (Ed.), Brain Art: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Artistic Expression, 377-408. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-14323-7_14

Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Martinez Avila, J. P., Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Chamberlain, A. (2019). Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform. In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300706

Guitars are physical tools (for making music) that require skillful two-handed use. Their use is also supported by diverse digital and physical resources, such as videos and chord charts. To understand the challenges of interacting with supporting r... Read More about Encumbered Interaction: a Study of Musicians Preparing to Perform.

An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Martinez-Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Benford, S. (2018). An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices. In AM '18: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2018 on Sound in Immersion and Emotion (1–5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3243274.3275381

The practice of working musicians extends beyond the act of performing musical works at a concert. Rather, a significant degree of individual and collaborative preparation is necessitated prior to the moment of presentation to an audience. Increasing... Read More about An AI-based design framework to support musicians' practices.

Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes (2018)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., & Papangelis, K. (2018). Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(6), 468-477. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0025

© 2018 Audio Engineering Society. All rights reserved. The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmen... Read More about Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes.

A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., De Roure, D., Willcox, P., Emsley, I., & Malizia, A. (2018). A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces. In M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Theories, Methods, and Human Issues (24-34). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91238-7_3

© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This short paper presents the initial research insights of an ongoing research project that focuses upon understanding the role of landscape, its use as a resource for designing in... Read More about A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces.

Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Kallionpää, M., Weigl, D. M., …Lin, M. (2018). Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174142

We report on the design, premiere and public evaluation of a multifaceted audience interface for a complex non-linear musical performance called Climb! which is particularly suited to being experienced more than once. This interface is designed to en... Read More about Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences.

An agent on my shoulder: AI, privacy and the application of human-like computing technologies to music creation (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Malizia, A., & De Roure, D. (2017). An agent on my shoulder: AI, privacy and the application of human-like computing technologies to music creation.

Human-Like Computing technologies are intelligent systems that interact with people in human-like way. By bringing together the disciplines of Artificial Intelligence, Ethnography and Interaction Design, and applying them in a real world context we... Read More about An agent on my shoulder: AI, privacy and the application of human-like computing technologies to music creation.

Hearing the humanities: sonifying Steele’s Shakespeare (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Emsley, I., Chamberlain, A., & De Roure, D. (2017). Hearing the humanities: sonifying Steele’s Shakespeare.

We present initial work that explores the use of sonification to represent Joshua Steele’s symbolic notation. This provides a manner of overhearing a previous performance and testing the method’s reproducibility and uncertainties within it.

The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Kallionpää, M., & Benford, S. (2017). The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance.

New technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are steadily having an impact upon the world of opera. The evolving use of performance-based software such as Ableton Live and Max/MSP has created new and excit... Read More about The art and ‘science’ of opera: composing, staging & designing new forms of interactive theatrical performance.

Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., De Roure, D., & Willcox, P. (2017). Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity.

This poster describes a compositional technique that used crowd-sourced midi clips in order to develop a piece of music, which was later performed. This work in progress highlighted some of the issues facing the designers of systems that enable the ‘... Read More about Social music machine: crowdsourcing for composition & creativity.

Mapping media and meaning: autoethnography as an approach to designing personal heritage soundscapes (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., & Papangelis, K. (2017). Mapping media and meaning: autoethnography as an approach to designing personal heritage soundscapes.

The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing of locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmenting meaning and experience, we need methods to furt... Read More about Mapping media and meaning: autoethnography as an approach to designing personal heritage soundscapes.

Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Chamberlain, A. (2017). Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance.

This paper1 expands upon our previous work, and starts to unpack notions of autonomy and control in musical composition and performance-based systems. The term autonomous has become synonymous with technologies such as “autonomous vehicles” and “dron... Read More about Are the robots coming? Designing with autonomy & control for musical creativity & performance.

Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation (2017)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., Hazzard, A., McGookin, D., De Roure, D., Willcox, P., & Papangelis, K. (2017). Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMHCI.2017100103

Audio-based mobile technology is opening up a range of new interactive possibilities. This paper brings some of those possibilities to light by offering a range of perspectives based in this area. It is not only the technical systems that are develop... Read More about Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation.

Unfolding the interplay of self-identity and expressions of territoriality in location-based social networks (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Papangelis, K., Sheng, Y., Liang, H., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V., & Cao, T. (2017). Unfolding the interplay of self-identity and expressions of territoriality in location-based social networks.

Self-identity in mobile location-based social networks (LBSN) is a relatively underexplored topic. In this paper, we present our initial understandings on the role that LBSN play in the self-identity of its users and introduce a relationship between... Read More about Unfolding the interplay of self-identity and expressions of territoriality in location-based social networks.

The gift of the algorithm: beyond autonomy and control (2017)
Other
Chamberlain, A., & De Roure, D. (2017). The gift of the algorithm: beyond autonomy and control. [Digital Performance]

This piece brings together, participation, algorithmic composition and augmentation (as a mechanism by which people can work together to augment and support a composer’s workflow). The performance is about understanding the ways in which composition... Read More about The gift of the algorithm: beyond autonomy and control.