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The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars (2023)
Journal Article
Martinez Avila, J., Hazzard, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., & McPherson, A. (2023). The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars. Journal of New Music Research, 52(1), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2023.2274832

Guitarists struggle to play their instruments while simultaneously using additional computing devices (i.e., encumbered interaction). We explored designs with guitarists through co-design and somaesthetic design workshops, learning that they (unsurpr... Read More about The Stretchy Strap: supporting encumbered interaction with guitars.

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.

Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera (2022)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Cliffe, L., & Kelly, E. (2022). Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(6), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531007

Losing Her Voice is a new opera which highlights the challenges of subtly interweaving digital technologies into established cultural forms. Audience members were encouraged to use their own mobile phones to interact with on-stage projections before,... Read More about Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera.

Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction (2020)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Ramchurn, R., Marshall, J., Wilson, M. L., Pike, M., Martindale, S., …Walker, B. (2021). Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction. Human-Computer Interaction, 36(5-6), 361-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2020.1754214

As Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) engages with technologies that sense and actuate the body, there is a need to reconsider the human bodily experience. We present three case studies that each involve different forms of bodily experience: a breath-c... Read More about Contesting control: journeys through surrender, self-awareness and looseness of control in embodied interaction.

Designing Hybrid Gifts (2020)
Journal Article
Koleva, B., Spence, J., Benford, S., Kwon, H., Schnädelbach, H., Thorn, E., …Lane, G. (2020). Designing Hybrid Gifts. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(5), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3398193

Hybrid gifting combines physical artefacts and experiences with digital interactivity to generate new kinds of gifts. Our review details how gifting is a complex social phenomenon and how digital gifting is less engaging than physical gifting for bot... Read More about Designing Hybrid Gifts.

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2020). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences (2018)
Journal Article
Hazzard, A., Spence, J., Greenhalgh, C., & McGrath, S. (2018). The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(4), 231-240. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0013

The rapid development of mobile devices, networks, and sensors over the past 20 years has expanded the range of listening experiences such that they are not constrained to homes, cars, workplaces, cinemas, and concert halls. Locative or mobile listen... Read More about The Rough Mile: a Design Template for Locative Audio Experiences.

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.

Crafting Interactive Decoration (2017)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Quinn, A., Thorn, E., Glover, K., Preston, W., …Mortier, R. (2017). Crafting Interactive Decoration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 24(4), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058552

We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an exis... Read More about Crafting Interactive Decoration.