Dr ALAN CHAMBERLAIN's Outputs (31)

Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (in press). Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. T... Read More about Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment.

Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat (2024)
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Borsci, S., Chamberlain, A., Nichele, E., Bødker, M., & Turchi, T. (2024). Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(6), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01837-1

When humans and machines start to chat: beyond anthropocentrism

Digital and embedded artificial intelligent (AI) agents with conversational capabilities have gained significant attention in recent years [1, 2]. Using natural language communication... Read More about Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat.

Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities (2024)
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Benford, S., McGarry, G., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Gibson, R., & Avila, J. P. M. (2024). Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities. Journal of New Music Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2423613

We explore how augmenting musical instruments with digital identities can enhance their provenance, utility during creative practice, and personal meaning. A literature review reveals the importance of object identities in general and instrument iden... Read More about Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities.

What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction (2024)
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Iber, M., Enge, K., Rönnberg, N., Neidhardt, A., Schnell, N., Pollack, K., kallionpää, M., & Chamberlain, A. (2024). What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(5), 655-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01835-3

Special issue: Perspectives on Modalities in Sound and Music Interaction

Issue Editors: Michael Iber, Kajetan Enge, Niklas Rönnberg, Annika Neidhardt, Norbert Schnell, Katharina Pollack, Maria Kallionpää, Alan Chamberlain

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Personal and ubiquitous computing, special issue: “Sonic experiences: interaction, connectivity, and multi-sensory technologies” (2023)
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Turchet, L., Chamberlain, A., & Kallionpää, M. (2023). Personal and ubiquitous computing, special issue: “Sonic experiences: interaction, connectivity, and multi-sensory technologies”. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27(5), 1779–1781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01777-2

This special issue is a collection of papers from the Audio Mostly conference held in Trento, Italy, in 2021. The theme of the conference was, “Sonic Experiences in the Era of the Internet of Sounds”. Unfortunately, the conference was held during the... Read More about Personal and ubiquitous computing, special issue: “Sonic experiences: interaction, connectivity, and multi-sensory technologies”.

Ciao AI: the Italian adaptation and validation of the Chatbot Usability Scale (2023)
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Borsci, S., Prati, E., Malizia, A., Schmettow, M., Chamberlain, A., & Federici, S. (2023). Ciao AI: the Italian adaptation and validation of the Chatbot Usability Scale. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27(6), 2161-2170. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-023-01731-2

Chatbot-based tools are becoming pervasive in multiple domains from commercial websites to rehabilitation applications. Only recently, an eleven-item satisfaction inventory was developed (the ChatBot Usability Scale, BUS-11) to help designers in the... Read More about Ciao AI: the Italian adaptation and validation of the Chatbot Usability Scale.

GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance (2022)
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Hossaini, A., Gingrich, O., Rahman, S., Grierson, M., Murr, J., Chamberlain, A., & Renaud, A. (2022). GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance. Proceedings of the ACM on computer graphics and interactive techniques, 5(4), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533610

Live performers often describe "playing to the audience"as shifts in emphasis, timing and even content according to perceived audience reactions. Traditional staging allows the transmission of physiological signals through the audience's eyes, skin,... Read More about GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and Agency During Live Performance.

A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation (2022)
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Borsci, S., Schmettow, M., Malizia, A., Chamberlain, A., & van der Velde, F. (2023). A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27, 317–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-022-01690-0

The Bot Usability Scale (BUS) is a standardised tool to assess and compare the satisfaction of users after interacting with chatbots to support the development of usable conversational systems. The English version of the 15-item BUS scale (BUS-15) wa... Read More about A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation.

Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self Through Location-based Social Networks (2021)
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Papangelis, K., Lykourentzou, I., Khan, V.-J., Chamberlain, A., Cao, T., Saker, M., & Lalone, N. (2021). Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self Through Location-based Social Networks. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 4(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3473043

Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one’s location. Yet, these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What... Read More about Locating Identities in Time: An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self Through Location-based Social Networks.

The Chatbot Usability Scale: the Design and Pilot of a Usability Scale for Interaction with AI-Based Conversational Agents (2021)
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Borsci, S., Malizia, A., Schmettow, M., van der Velde, F., Tariverdiyeva, G., Balaji, D., & Chamberlain, A. (2022). The Chatbot Usability Scale: the Design and Pilot of a Usability Scale for Interaction with AI-Based Conversational Agents. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(1), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01582-9

Standardised tools to assess a user's satisfaction with the experience of using chatbots and conversational agents are currently unavailable. This work describes four studies; including a systematic literature review, with an overall sample of 141 pa... Read More about The Chatbot Usability Scale: the Design and Pilot of a Usability Scale for Interaction with AI-Based Conversational Agents.

From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound (2021)
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Chamberlain, A., Hazzard, A., Kelly, E., Bødker, M., & Kallionpää, M. (2021). From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01554-z

This introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators t... Read More about From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound.

LabelSens: enabling real-time sensor data labelling at the point of collection using an artificial intelligence-based approach (2020)
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Woodward, K., Kanjo, E., Oikonomou, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2020). LabelSens: enabling real-time sensor data labelling at the point of collection using an artificial intelligence-based approach. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24(5), 709-722. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01427-x

In recent years, machine learning has developed rapidly, enabling the development of applications with high levels of recognition accuracy relating to the use of speech and images. However, other types of data to which these models can be applied hav... Read More about LabelSens: enabling real-time sensor data labelling at the point of collection using an artificial intelligence-based approach.

Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City (2020)
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Papangelis, K., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V.-J., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Liang, H.-N., Sadien, I., & Cao, T. (2020). Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3364997

Expressions of territoriality have been positioned as one of the main reasons users alter their behaviors and perceptions of spatiality and sociality while engaging with location-based social networks (LBSN). Despite the potential for this interplay... Read More about Performing the Digital Self: Understanding Location-Based Social Networking, Territory, Space, and Identity in the City.

Designing and evaluating mobile self-reporting techniques: crowdsourcing for citizen science (2019)
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Younis, E. M. G., Kanjo, E., & Chamberlain, A. (2019). Designing and evaluating mobile self-reporting techniques: crowdsourcing for citizen science. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 23(2), 329-338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01207-2

In recent years, mobile phone technology has taken tremendous leaps and bounds to enable all types of sensing applications and interaction methods, including mobile journaling and self-reporting to add metadata and to label sensor data streams. Mobil... Read More about Designing and evaluating mobile self-reporting techniques: crowdsourcing for citizen science.

Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes (2018)
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Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., & Papangelis, K. (2018). Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 66(6), 468-477. https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0025

© 2018 Audio Engineering Society. All rights reserved. The paper presents reflections on understanding the issues of designing locative sonic memory-scapes. As physical space and digital media become ever more intertwined, together forming and augmen... Read More about Sounding Out Ethnography and Design: Developing Metadata Frameworks for Designing Personal Heritage Soundscapes.

Audio technology and mobile human-computer interaction: from space and place, to social media, music, composition and creation (2017)
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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.

Conquering the city: understanding perceptions of mobility and human territoriality in location-based mobile games (2017)
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Papangelis, K., Metzger, M., Sheng, Y., Liang, H.-N., Chamberlain, A., & Cao, T. (2017). Conquering the city: understanding perceptions of mobility and human territoriality in location-based mobile games. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(3), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1145/3130955

With the increasing popularity of mobile video games, game designers and developers are starting to integrate geolocation into video games. Popular location-based games such as Ingress or Pokémon Go have millions of users, yet little is known about h... Read More about Conquering the city: understanding perceptions of mobility and human territoriality in location-based mobile games.

Special theme on privacy and the Internet of Things (2017)
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Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Haddadi, H., & Mortier, R. (2018). Special theme on privacy and the Internet of Things. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1066-5

Screwbots (2016)
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Malizia, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2016). Screwbots. Ubiquity, 2016(October), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3005397

Have you ever thought of lying to your smartphone to protect your privacy? Everyday we face a dilemma about privacy: We take advantage of apps that are able to use our location or data to provide smart services at the expense of privacy (we all know... Read More about Screwbots.

Ways of walking: understanding walking's implications for the design of handheld technology via a humanistic ethnographic approach (2016)
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Eslambolchilar, P., Bødker, M., & Chamberlain, A. (2016). Ways of walking: understanding walking's implications for the design of handheld technology via a humanistic ethnographic approach. Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.201605192618

It seems logical to argue that mobile computing technologies are intended for use “on-the-go.” However, on closer inspection, the use of mobile technologies pose a number of challenges for users who are mobile, particularly moving around on foot. In... Read More about Ways of walking: understanding walking's implications for the design of handheld technology via a humanistic ethnographic approach.