Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home

Shipp, Victoria; Coughlan, Tim; Martindale, Sarah; Ng, Kher Hui; Evans, Elizabeth; Mortier, Richard; Reeves, Stuart

doi:10.1145/2638728.2641558

“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.

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.

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.

From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Martindale, S., Wilson, M. L., & Benford, S. (2019). From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it. In CHI '19: proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300378

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Introducing interactivity to films has proven a longstanding and difficult challenge due to their narrative-driven, linear and theatre-based nature. Previous research has suggested that Brain-Computer Int... Read More about From Director's Cut to User's Cut: to Watch a Brain-Controlled Film is to Edit it.

#Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ramchurn, R., Wilson, M. L., Martindale, S., & Benford, S. (2018). #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie. In CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186481

While many still consider interactive movies an unrealistic idea, current delivery platforms like Netflix, commercial VR, and the proliferation of wearable sensors mean that adaptive and responsive entertainment experiences are an immediate reality.... Read More about #Scanners 2 – The MOMENT: a new brain-controlled movie.

Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Durrant, A., Kirk, D. S., Trujillo-Pisanty, D., & Martindale, S. (2018). Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood. In CHI '18: proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173586

We report on a design-led study of the photographic representation of self and family on Facebook during and after becoming parents for the first time. Our experience-centered, research-through-design study engaged eight participants across five UK h... Read More about Admixed portrait: design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood.

The ludic takes work (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Koutsouras, P., Martindale, S., & Crabtree, A. (2017). The ludic takes work. . https://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2017-8

Games that revolve around user-generated content have been explored mainly from a ludic perspective, leaving the work practices that are entailed in content production underexplored. What we argue in this paper is that there is an underlying economy... Read More about The ludic takes work.

"Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Martindale, S., Bedwell, B., Phillips, R., & Pedros, M. (2017). "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing. In DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (529–540). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064743

This paper contributes a participatory design case study that used workshops and ideation frameworks to scaffold a conceptualisation of "user data-actuated" plants. The framework combines ideation cards, worksheets and facilitated co-design, guiding... Read More about "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing.

“We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Koutsouras, P., Martindale, S., & Crabtree, A. (2016). “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market.

In recent years, we have experienced the proliferation of videogames that have, as their main mode of play, the creation of in-game content. Even though existing literature has looked into various characteristics of these games, one of their aspects... Read More about “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market.

Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Victoria, S., Tim, C., Sarah, M., Kher Hui, N., Elizabeth, E., Richard, M., & Stuart, R. (2014). Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. In UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication (931-938). https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Shipp, V., Coughlan, T., Martindale, S., Ng, K. H., Evans, E., Mortier, R., & Reeves, S. (2014). Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. In UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (931-938). https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641558

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

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