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Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Lodge, T., Brown, A., & Crabtree, A. (2018). Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge. In DPM 2018, CBT 2018: Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (313-328). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00305-0_22

We present an overview of the Databox application devel- opment environment or SDK as a means of enabling trusted IoT app development at the network edge. The Databox platform is a dedicated domestic platform that stores IoT, mobile and cloud data an... Read More about Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge.

Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., McAuley, D., & Stenton, P. (2018). Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data. In TVX '18 Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (101-113). https://doi.org/10.1145/3210825.3210830

The turn towards personal data to drive novel media experiences has resulted in a shift in the priorities and challenges associated with media creation and dissemination. This paper takes up the challenge of explicating this novel and dynamic scenari... Read More about Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data.

Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Colley, J. A., & Crabtree, A. (2018). Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox. In Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018 ( 1-6). https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2018.0034

All rights reserved. In this paper, we report on the potential for the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive new immersive media experiences. We introduce Object Based Media (OBM) and the Databox platform as a means of driving this turn to the IoT and ne... Read More about Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox.

“What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home (2018)
Journal Article
Hyland, L., Crabtree, A., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., & Fuentes, C. (in press). “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-018-9314-4

This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visi... Read More about “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174021

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable applications that foster a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy way of life. If end-users are to take full advantage of these developments we foresee the need for future IoT systems and services to... Read More about Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation.

Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model (2018)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Glover, K., Haddadi, H., …McAuley, D. (2018). Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model. Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 4(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-018-0054-5

© 2018, The Author(s). This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and is mandated by the European Union’s general data pro... Read More about Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model.

The practical politics of sharing personal data (2017)
Journal Article
Tolmie, P., & Crabtree, A. (in press). The practical politics of sharing personal data. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1071-8

The focus of this paper is upon how people handle the sharing of personal data as an interactional concern. A number of ethnographic studies of domestic environments are drawn upon in order to articulate a range of circumstances under which data may... Read More about The practical politics of sharing personal data.

Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable (2017)
Journal Article
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Colley, J., Rodden, T., & Costanza, E. (2017). Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), 597-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9293-x

© 2017, The Author(s). We present fieldwork findings from the deployment of an interactive sensing system that supports the work of energy advisors who give face-to-face advice to low-income households in the UK. We focus on how the system and the da... Read More about Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable.

Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Mortier, R. (2017). Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model.

This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and mandated in data protection legislation. We briefly outline the ‘external’... Read More about Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model.

Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world (2017)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Knight, W. (2017). Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y

In this paper we examine the notion of privacy as promoted in the digital economy and how it has been taken up as a design challenge in the fields of CSCW, HCI and Ubiquitous Computing. Against these prevalent views we present an ethnomethodological... Read More about Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world.

Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., & Stenton, P. (2017). Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides.

Media researchers are adopting personalisation in diverse ways to deliver increasingly context-sensitive and customised media experiences. This paper explores user attitudes towards a personalised Electronic Programme Guide which tailors media recomm... Read More about Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides.

Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mortier, R., Zhao, J., Crowcroft, J., Wang, L., Qi, L., Haddadi, H., …Greenhalgh, C. (2016). Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?. In CAN 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking (49-54). https://doi.org/10.1145/3010079.3010082

We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – ofte... Read More about Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?.

Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone (2016)
Journal Article
Perera, C., Wakenshaw, S. Y., Baarslag, T., Haddadi, H., Bandara, A. K., Mortier, R., …Crowcroft, J. (2017). Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 28(1), Article e3125. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3125

The Internet of Things is expected to generate large amounts of heterogeneous data from diverse sources including physical sensors, user devices and social media platforms. Over the last few years, significant attention has been focused on personal d... Read More about Valorising the IoT Databox: creating value for everyone.

“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.

Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox (2016)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Mortier, R., & Haddadi, H. (2016). Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(6), 947-957. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0939-3

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new economic actor—the consumer as perso... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J. A., Costanza, E., Jewell, M. O., & Ramchurn, S. D. (2016). “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

This paper presents findings from a co-design project that aims to augment the practices of professional energy advisors with environmental data from sensors deployed in clients’ homes. Premised on prior ethnographic observations we prototyped a sens... Read More about “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design (2016)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (in press). Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2

This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumpti... Read More about Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design.