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Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hoare, M., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Chamberlain, A. (2014). Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age.

A fast expanding network of DIY music communities in the UK see digital technologies transforming ways in which part-time amateur musicians are able to collabo- rate creatively and form alliances, producing unique per- formance techniques, experiment... Read More about Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age.

You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., & Burnett, G. (2014). You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Musical soundtracks have great potential to enhance mobile walking experiences such as tours and guides, much as they already do for films and games. They also raise new challenges for composers as the music must fit a given landscape and respond to... Read More about You’ll never walk alone: designing a location-based soundtrack.

Gifting personal interpretations in galleries (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Fosh, L., Benford, S., Reeves, S., & Koleva, B. (2014). Gifting personal interpretations in galleries. In CHI 2014 : conference proceedings: the 32nd annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014

The designers of mobile guides for museums and galleries face three major challenges: fostering rich interpretation, delivering deep personalization, and enabling a coherent social visit. We propose an approach to tackling all three simultaneously by... Read More about Gifting personal interpretations in galleries.

Supporting group interactions in museum visiting (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Tolmie, P., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., & Reeves, S. (2014). Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Ethnographic study in two contrasting museums highlights a widespread but rarely documented challenge for CSCW design. Visitors' engagement with exhibits often ends prematurely due to the need to keep up with or attend to fellow group members. We unp... Read More about Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Musical intersections across the digital and physical (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Kwon, H. (2014). Musical intersections across the digital and physical.

Digital musical experiences are commonplace, everyday occurrences for many of us. Digital technologies facilitate where, how and what we access, and they increasingly offer new methods for capturing, sharing, enhancing and supporting such musical exp... Read More about Musical intersections across the digital and physical.