Professor TOM RODDEN's Outputs (55)

Discomfort—the dark side of fun (2018)
Book Chapter
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Giannachi, G., Walker, B., Marshall, J., Tennent, P., & Rodden, T. (2018). Discomfort—the dark side of fun. In M. Blythe, & A. Monk (Eds.), Funology 2: from usability to enjoyment (209-224). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_13

For many of us, the notion of ‘fun’ conjures up visions of experiences that are amusing, pleasant, entertaining, playful—perhaps even frivolous. Rides, games, shows and perhaps even the experience of visiting an art gallery can embody these senses of... Read More about Discomfort—the dark side of fun.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018, April). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC Canada

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.

A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data (2018)
Journal Article
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2018). A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data. International Journal of Data Science, 16(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.6339/jds.201801_16%281%29.0001

Investigation of household electricity usage patterns, and matching the patterns to behaviours, is an important area of research given the centrality of such patterns in addressing the needs of the electricity industry. Additional knowledge of househ... Read More about A Method for Evaluating Options for Motif Detection in Electricity Meter Data.

Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pantidi, N., Selinas, P., Flintham, M., Baurley, S., & Rodden, T. Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation. Presented at 29th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI 2017)

Consumer demand for food that satisfies specific needs rather than generic mass produced food is growing. In response, the food industry is actively investigating techniques for efficient and comprehensive food customisation. Digital approaches to fo... Read More about Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation.

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.

New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction (2017)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., & Rodden, T. (in press). New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2017.1298501

Effectively regulating the domestic Internet of Things (IoT) requires a turn to technology design. However, the role of designers as regulators still needs to be situated. By drawing on a specific domain of technology design, human–computer interacti... Read More about New directions in information technology law: learning from human–computer interaction.

In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent (2017)
Journal Article
Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Jiang, W., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., & Rodden, T. (2017). In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Article e4082. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4082

In this paper we present the study of interactional arrangements that support the collaboration of headquarters (HQ), field responders and a computational planning agent in a time-critical task setting created by a mixed-reality game. Interactional a... Read More about In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent.

A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives (2016)
Journal Article
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Wu, F., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Moreau, L., Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Rodden, T., Simpson, E., Reece, S., Roberts, S., & Jennings, N. R. (2016). A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 57, 661-708. https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.5098

Major natural or man-made disasters such as Hurricane Katrina or the 9/11 terror attacks pose significant challenges for emergency responders. First, they have to develop an understanding of the unfolding event either using their own resources or thr... Read More about A disaster response system based on human-agent collectives.

A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers (2016)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Clark, L., Ofemile, A., & Rodden, T. (2016). A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 6(4), Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1145/2983926

The study of agent helpers using linguistic strategies such as vague language and politeness has often come across obstacles. One of these is the quality of the agent's voice and its lack of appropriate fit for using these strategies. The first appro... Read More about A multimodal approach to assessing user experiences with agent helpers.

Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework. Presented at IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Touch screen technology’s first public appearance was in the early 2000s. Touch screens became a part of the daily life with the invention of smartphones and tablets. Now, this technology has the potential to be the next big change in flight deck des... Read More about Mixed method approach in designing flight decks with touch screens: a framework.

Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations. Presented at IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

Many interactional issues with Flight Management Systems (FMS) in modern flight decks have been reported. Avionics designers are seeking for ways to reduce cognitive load of pilots with the aim to reduce the potential for human error. Academic resear... Read More about Designing touch screen user interfaces for future flight deck operations.

Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2016, September). Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aerospace (HCI-Aero '16), Paris, France

In order to benefit from potential reduced operational costs and crew workload airlines are increasingly interested in touchscreen-based Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). This paper focuses on the specific domain of Search and Rescue (SAR) Helicopters. A... Read More about Designing touch-enabled electronic flight bags in SAR helicopter operations.

Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. (2016, September). Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aerospace (HCI-Aero '16), Paris, France

Future flight deck designs from various avionics manufacturer incorporate touchscreen technology. There is little published research investigating the impact of inflight vibrations and increased G-Force (+Gz) on touchscreen usability. A Fitts’ law ex... Read More about Future flight decks: impact of +Gz on touchscreen usability.

Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home (2016)
Journal Article
Alan, A. T., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2016). Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1145/2943770

Smart systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and consequently transforming our lives. The level of system autonomy plays a vital role in the development of smart systems as it profoundly affects how people and these systems interact with each o... Read More about Tariff agent: interacting with a future smart energy system at home.

On Lions, Impala, and Bigraphs: Modelling Interactions in Physical/Virtual Spaces (2016)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Calder, M., Rodden, T., & Sevegnani, M. (2016). On Lions, Impala, and Bigraphs: Modelling Interactions in Physical/Virtual Spaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 23(2), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.1145/2882784

© 2016 ACM. While HCI has a long tradition of formally modelling task-based interactions with graphical user interfaces, there has been less progress in modelling emerging ubiquitous computing systems due in large part to their highly contextual natu... Read More about On Lions, Impala, and Bigraphs: Modelling Interactions in Physical/Virtual Spaces.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J. A., Costanza, E., Jewell, M. O., & Ramchurn, S. D. “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home. Presented at CHI 2016: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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.

“This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tolmie, P., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J., & Luger, E. (2016, February). “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, San Francisco, California, USA

© 2016 ACM. Notions like 'Big Data' and the 'Internet of Things' turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people's everyday interaction... Read More about “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems.

Ethics of Personalized Information Filtering (2015)
Book Chapter
Carter, C. J., Koene, A., Perez, E., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., Rodden, T., & 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.

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., Rodden, T., & 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., Rodden, T., McAuley, D., Cano, M., Adolphs, S., & 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.