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Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data: Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2023 Sorrento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386740

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599708

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.

“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
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., …Perez Vallejos, E. (2023). “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. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (987-1001). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962

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.

Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Patel, M., & Zhao, J. (2020). Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2020 18th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT (26-28)

This paper describes the first stage of the ongoing development of two scales to measure online wellbeing and trust, based on the results of a series of workshops with younger and older adults. The first, the Online Wellbeing Scale includes subscales... Read More about Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust.

"It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Zhao, J., Patel, M., Perez Vallejos, E., …Jirotka, M. (2020). "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies. In IDC '20: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (121-134). https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394410

Children and young people make extensive and varied use of digital and online technologies, yet issues about how their personal data may be collected and used by online platforms are rarely discussed. Additionally, despite calls to increase awareness... Read More about "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies.

MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Price, D., Jacobs, R., Darzentas, D., Perez Vallejos, E., Chadborn, N., Martindale, S., & Urquhart, L. (2019). MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (271--276). https://doi.org/10.1145/3301019.3323882

The Memory Machine is an ambitious project that aims to develop a device to capture people's memories to create a blend of personal and factual data that builds identities, and contextualizes personal recollections. The Memory Machine has been guided... Read More about MeMa: Designing the Memory Machine.

Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Vallejos, E. P., Nilsson, T., Siebers, O., Siebert, P., Craven, M., & Fuentes, C. (2019). Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare

Digital mental healthcare constitutes a complex area for development of novel technological solutions. Designers are frequently forced to deal with requirements posed by a range of different stakeholders with particular needs, goals and interests whi... Read More about Untangling multi-stakeholder perspectives in digital mental healthcare.

UnBias Youth Juries (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Cano, M., Vallejos, E. P., Koene, A., & Patel, M. (2018). UnBias Youth Juries. In SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (276-280). https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217928

The UnBias Youth Juries engage young people in discussion of issues that affect their online lives, especially in relation to algorithms, through the presentation of scenarios and prompts. Results from the first wave of juries, held in February 2017,... Read More about UnBias Youth Juries.

Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Perez, E., Koene, A., Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., & Cano, M. (2017). Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness. In WebSci '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference (247-251). https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091512

This paper explores the policy recommendations made by young people regarding algorithm fairness. It describes a piece of ongoing research developed to bring children and young people to the front line of the debate regarding children's digital right... Read More about Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. In Corpus Linguistics 2015: abstract book (204-206)

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

In this paper we argue for the position that responsible safeguards for privacy and ethical treatment of human data are of vital importance to retain the public confidence and trust that is necessary for the development and future success of internet... Read More about Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.