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Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals (2023)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Manninen, K., Martindale, S., Hazzard, A., Avila, J. P. M., Tennent, P., …Darzentas, D. P. (2023). Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579498

Volunteering benefits recipients, volunteers, communities, and society, while digital technologies establish new opportunities for virtual volunteering. We describe how volunteers transitioned the UK's long-established Oxjam grassroots music festival... Read More about Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals.

Families and mobile devices in museums: designing for integrated experiences (2016)
Journal Article
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Brundell, P., Koleva, B., Roussou, M., Chaffardon, C., & Benford, S. (2016). Families and mobile devices in museums: designing for integrated experiences. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 9(2), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2891416

This paper presents an observational study of eight families engaging with a bespoke tablet experience produced for a space science centre. It documents the various ways in which family members orientate themselves to the usage of technology in this... Read More about Families and mobile devices in museums: designing for integrated experiences.

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., Mortier, R., Lodge, T., Brundell, P., & Pantidi, N. (2015). House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6

We draw on ethnographic studies to understand the collaborative nature of network policies or rules in domestic settings. We outline the technical nature of network policy in enterprise domains and how this contrasts with the social or collaborative... Read More about House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks.