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Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering. In Internet Science (123-132). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_10

Online search engines, social media, news sites and retailers are all investing heavily in the development of ever more refined information filtering to optimally tune their services to the specific demands of their individual users and customers. In... Read More about Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering.

Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding (2015)
Journal Article
Schnädelbach, H., Sun, X., Kefalidou, G., Coughlan, T., Meese, R., Norris, J., & McAuley, D. (2016). Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.10.006

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a novel mechanism to develop research proposals and distribute funding: Creativity Greenhouse (CG). Building on an established funding sandpit mechanism for co-located participants, communication tech... Read More about Creativity Greenhouse: at-a-distance collaboration and competition over research funding.

The case for “n«all”: Why the Big Data revolution will probably happen differently in the mining sector (2015)
Journal Article
Perrons, R. K., & McAuley, D. (2015). The case for “n«all”: Why the Big Data revolution will probably happen differently in the mining sector. Resources Policy, 46(Part 2), 234-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.10.007

Big Data and predictive analytics have received significant attention from the media and academic literature throughout the past few years, and it is likely that these emerging technologies will materially impact the mining sector. This short communi... Read More about The case for “n«all”: Why the Big Data revolution will probably happen differently in the mining sector.

Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters (2015)
Journal Article
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874263

Personal service customization, or personalization, is one of the core tools that are being used by on-line providers of information services such as search engines, social media, news sites and product recommender systems to optimize the individual... Read More about Privacy concerns arising from internet service personalization filters.

Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections (2015)
Journal Article
Vallejos, E. P., Pothong, K., Coleman, S., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., …O'Malley, C. (2015). Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections. Computers and Society, 45(3), 84-90. https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874252

A quick journey through prevention science (e.g., substance misuse prevention) and a comparison between online and offline risks, harm, and vulnerability in children suggests that new approaches and interventions are needed to promote Internet safety... Read More about Juries: acting out digital dilemmas to promote digital reflections.

Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research (2015)
Journal Article
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2016). Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research. Computers and Society, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874268

In this paper, we outline an online survey-based study seeking to understand academic attitudes towards social media research ethics (SMRE). As the exploratory phase of a wider research project, findings are discussed in relation to the responses of... Read More about Understanding academic attitudes towards the ethical challenges posed by social media research.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. In Corpus Linguistics 2015: abstract book (204-206)

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

Creativity Bento Box: a physical resource pack to support interaction in virtual space (2015)
Journal Article
Schnädelbach, H., Coughlan, T., Kefalidou, G., McAuley, D., & Meese, R. (in press). Creativity Bento Box: a physical resource pack to support interaction in virtual space. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 31(11), https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2015.1067478

The Creativity Bento Box is a physical resource pack, designed to support casual social interaction and break taking in an intensive, computer-mediated social activity. It was developed within the Creativity Greenhouse project, which piloted a mechan... Read More about Creativity Bento Box: a physical resource pack to support interaction in virtual space.

ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Coughlan, T., Carletti, L., Giannachi, G., Benford, S., McAuley, D., Price, D., …Stack, J. (2015). ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks. In CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (407-416). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702281

© Copyright 2015 ACM. Creating and utilizing simple links between items and locations in map-based systems has become a mainstream component of modern computing. In this paper, we explore support for 'art mapping', an activity that requires considera... Read More about ArtMaps: Interpreting the spatial footprints of artworks.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

In this paper we argue for the position that responsible safeguards for privacy and ethical treatment of human data are of vital importance to retain the public confidence and trust that is necessary for the development and future success of internet... Read More about Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research.

Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Price, D., McAuley, D., Mortier, R., Greenhalgh, C., Brown, M., & Angelopoulos, S. (2015). Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities. In Social computing and social media: 7th International Conference, SCSM 2015 held as part of HCI International 2015 Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2 – 7, 2015 proceedings (242–252). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20367-6_24

We argue that the current approaches to online social networking give rise to numerous challenges regarding the management of the multiple facets of people’s digital identities within and around social networking sites (SNS). We propose an architectu... Read More about Inter-social-networking: Accounting for multiple identities.

A feasibility study of an in-the-wild experimental public access WiFi network (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Sathiaseelan, A., Mortier, R., Goulden, M., Greiffenhagen, C., Radenkovic, M., Crowcroft, J., & McAuley, D. (2014). A feasibility study of an in-the-wild experimental public access WiFi network. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development - ACM DEV-5 '14 (33-42). https://doi.org/10.1145/2674377.2674383

© 2014 ACM. Universal Internet access has become critical to modern life, leading to many explorations of approaches to increase its availability. In this paper we report on a study of one such approach, PAWS, that seeks to understand the technical a... Read More about A feasibility study of an in-the-wild experimental public access WiFi network.

Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks (2013)
Journal Article
Radenkovic, M., Benslimane, A., & McAuley, D. (2015). Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 26(1), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.265

© 2013 IEEE. Current anonymity techniques for mobile opportunistic networks typically use obfuscation algorithms to hide node's identity behind other nodes. These algorithms are not well suited to sparse and disconnection prone networks with large nu... Read More about Reputation aware obfuscation for mobile opportunistic networks.

Analysing the playground: sensitizing concepts to inform systems that promote playful interaction (2011)
Book Chapter
Rennick-Egglestone, S., Walker, B., Marshall, J., Benford, S., & McAuley, D. (2011). Analysing the playground: sensitizing concepts to inform systems that promote playful interaction. In P. Campos, N. Graham, J. Jorge, N. Nunes, P. Palanque, & M. Winckler (Eds.), Human-computer interaction - INTERACT 2011:13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011: proceedings. Lisbon, Portugal: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4

Playful interaction in an important topic in HCI research, and there is an ongoing debate about the fundamental principles that underpin playful systems. This paper makes a contribution to this debate by outlining a set of sensitizing concepts which... Read More about Analysing the playground: sensitizing concepts to inform systems that promote playful interaction.

Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
Conference Proceeding
Coughlan, T., Brown, M., Lawson, G., McAuley, D., Baurley, S., Tsai, A., …Martin, J. L. Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home.

Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through... Read More about Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home.

Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., …Lang, A. (2022). Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online. University of Nottingham: AHRC/UKRI

The Coronavirus Discourses project supports public health partners Public Health Wales, Public Health England, and NHS Education for Scotland in addressing key challenges that the coronavirus pandemic presents in terms of understanding the flow and i... Read More about Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online.