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Decision-making within missing person search (2018)
Journal Article
Harrington, K., Brown, M., Pinchin, J., & Sharples, S. (2018). Decision-making within missing person search. Cognition, Technology and Work, 20(4), 665-680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-018-0515-x

This paper reports the findings of a series of interviews with search and rescue volunteers. Participants were asked to recall accounts of particular incidents which involved searching for a missing adult who could be considered ‘vulnerable’. The pur... Read More about Decision-making within missing person search.

A context-based study of serendipity in information research among Chinese scholars (2018)
Journal Article
Zhou, X., Sun, X., Wang, Q., & Sharples, S. (in press). A context-based study of serendipity in information research among Chinese scholars. Journal of Documentation, 74(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2017-0079

Purpose: The current understanding of serendipity is based primarily on studies employing Westerners as participants, and it remains uncertain whether or not this understanding would be pervasive under different cultures, such as in China. In additio... Read More about A context-based study of serendipity in information research among Chinese scholars.

Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Wilson, M. L., Sharon, N., Maior, H. A., Midha, S., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2018). Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3170665

Research continues to correlate physical signals with mental activity, as opposed to physical activity, with physiological sensors. Further, with the proliferation of wearable technology, it seems imminent that our smart watches can soon keep track o... Read More about Mental workload as personal data: designing a cognitive activity tracker.

Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Reeves, S., & Sharples, S. (2018). Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174214

© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via 'assistant' devices. Yet, exactly how use... Read More about Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life.

Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks (2018)
Journal Article
Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2018). Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173380

Feedback is valuable for allowing us to improve on tasks. While retrospective feedback can help us improve for next time, feedback “in action” can allow us to improve the outcome of on-going tasks. In this paper, we use data from functional Near Infr... Read More about Workload Alerts—Using Physiological Measures of Mental Workload to Provide Feedback During Tasks.

Understanding is key: an analysis of factors pertaining to trust in a real-world automation system (2018)
Journal Article
Balfe, N., Sharples, S., & Wilson, J. R. (2018). Understanding is key: an analysis of factors pertaining to trust in a real-world automation system. Human Factors, 60(4), 477-495. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720818761256

Objective: This paper aims to explore the role of factors pertaining to trust in real-world automation systems through the application of observational methods in a case study from the railway sector. Background: Trust in automation is widely acknow... Read More about Understanding is key: an analysis of factors pertaining to trust in a real-world automation system.

How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Alsuraykh, N. H., Maior, H. A., Wilson, M. L., Tennent, P., & Sharples, S. (2018). How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload. In CHI EA '18 Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188646

Recent work has demonstrated that functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy has the potential to measure changes in Mental Workload with increasing ecological validity. It is not clear, however, whether these measurements are affected by anxiety and stre... Read More about How stress affects functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurements of mental workload.

Natural locomotion based on a reduced set of inertial sensors: decoupling body and head directions indoors (2018)
Journal Article
Bergamini, E., de la Rubia, E., Diaz-Estrella, A., Reyes-Lecuona, A., Langley, A., Brown, M., & Sharples, S. (2018). Natural locomotion based on a reduced set of inertial sensors: decoupling body and head directions indoors. PLoS ONE, 13(4), Article e0195191. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195191

Inertial sensors offer the potential for integration into wireless virtual reality systems that allow the users to walk freely through virtual environments. However, owing to drift errors, inertial sensors cannot accurately estimate head and body ori... Read More about Natural locomotion based on a reduced set of inertial sensors: decoupling body and head directions indoors.

A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing (2018)
Journal Article
Kruusimagi, M., Sharples, S., & Robinson, D. (2018). A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing. Building and Environment, 135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.02.027

We have developed a spatiotemporal heating control algorithm for use in homes. This system utilises a combination of relatively low-tech hardware interfaced with electric heating systems and a smartphone interface to this hardware, and a central serv... Read More about A novel spatiotemporal home heating controller design: system emulation and field testing.

Identifying rail asset maintenance processes: a human-centric and sensemaking approach (2018)
Journal Article
Kefalidou, G., Golightly, D., & Sharples, S. (in press). Identifying rail asset maintenance processes: a human-centric and sensemaking approach. Cognition, Technology and Work, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-017-0452-0

Efficient asset maintenance is key for delivering services such as transport. Current rail maintenance processes have been mostly reactive with a recent shift towards exploring proactive modes. The introduction of new ubiquitous technologies and adva... Read More about Identifying rail asset maintenance processes: a human-centric and sensemaking approach.