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Discomfort—the dark side of fun (2018)
Book Chapter
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Giannachi, G., Walker, B., Marshall, J., Tennent, P., & Rodden, T. (2018). Discomfort—the dark side of fun. In M. Blythe, & A. Monk (Eds.), Funology 2: from usability to enjoyment (209-224). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_13

For many of us, the notion of ‘fun’ conjures up visions of experiences that are amusing, pleasant, entertaining, playful—perhaps even frivolous. Rides, games, shows and perhaps even the experience of visiting an art gallery can embody these senses of... Read More about Discomfort—the dark side of fun.

Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering. In Internet Science (123-132). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation (2011)
Book Chapter
Balaam, M., Rennick Egglestone, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Hughes, A., Wilkinson, A., …Burridge, J. (2011). Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation. In D. Tan, B. Begole, & W. Kellog (Eds.), CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397

How to motivate and support behaviour change through design is becoming of increasing interest to the CHI community. In this paper, we present our experiences of building systems that motivate people to engage in upper limb rehabilitation exercise af... Read More about Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation.

Supporting the design of network-spanning applications (2009)
Book Chapter
Rennick Egglestone, S., Boucher, A., Rodden, T., Law, A., Humble, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Greenberg, S. (2009). Supporting the design of network-spanning applications. In D. R. Olsen, K. Hinckley, M. R. Morris, & S. Hudson (Eds.), CHI EA '09: proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. ACM Press

In this case study, we describe our use of ECT, a tool intended to simplify the design and development of network-spanning applications. We have used ECT throughout the course of a two-year collaboration, which has involved individuals with exper... Read More about Supporting the design of network-spanning applications.

Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies (2007)
Book Chapter
Fraser, K., Rodden, T., & O'Malley, C. (2007). Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies. In A. LaMarca, M. Langheinrich, & . K. N. Truong (Eds.), Pervasive Computing: Pervasive 2007 (180-197). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72037-9_11

Extensive educational research discusses the potential for information and communication technologies in supporting homework, but most has focused on providing content. The research in this paper focuses instead on the issues around managing homework... Read More about Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies.