Professor TOM RODDEN's Outputs (8)

Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Ramchurn, S. D., Colley, J. A., & Rodden, T. Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty. Presented at ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014)

We present an ethnographic study of energy advisors working for a charity that provides support, particularly to people in fuel poverty. Our fieldwork comprises detailed observations that reveal the collaborative, interactional work of energy advisor... Read More about Energy advisors at work: charity work practices to support people in fuel poverty.

Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Kerne, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Reece, S., Pantidi, N., & Rodden, T. Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game. Presented at International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP 2014)

We generate requirements for time-critical distributed team support relevant for domains such as disaster response. We present the Radiation Response Game to investigate socio-technical issues regarding team coordination. Field responders in this mix... Read More about Supporting team coordination on the ground: requirements from a mixed reality game.

Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management (2014)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Bedwell, B., RODDEN, T., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Spence, A. (2014). Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.008

Smart grids are a key feature of future energy scenarios, with the overarching goal of better aligning energy generation and demand. The work presented here considers the role of the user in such systems, and the contexts in which such roles might em... Read More about Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management.

Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, S. D., Wu, F., Jennings, N. R., & Rodden, T. Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams. Presented at Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on

We present a field trial of how instructions from an intelligent planning agent are dealt with by distributed human teams, in a time-critical task setting created through a mixed-reality game. We conduct interaction analysis to examine video recorded... Read More about Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams.

Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., Rodden, T., Ramchurn, S. D., & Jennings, N. R. (2014, April). Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home. Presented at CHI 2014: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada

Future energy systems that rely on renewable energy may bring about a radical shift in how we use energy in our homes. We developed and prototyped a future scenario with highly variable, real-time electricity prices due to a grid that mainly relies o... Read More about Doing the laundry with agents: a field trial of a future smart energy system in the home.

Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moran, S., Pantidi, N., Rodden, T., Chamberlain, A., Griffiths, C., Zilli, D., & Merrett, G. Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment. Presented at CHI 2014: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-b... Read More about Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment.

Supporting group interactions in museum visiting (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tolmie, P., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., & Reeves, S. Supporting group interactions in museum visiting. Presented at 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 14)

Ethnographic study in two contrasting museums highlights a widespread but rarely documented challenge for CSCW design. Visitors' engagement with exhibits often ends prematurely due to the need to keep up with or attend to fellow group members. We unp... Read More about Supporting group interactions in museum visiting.

Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day? (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. (2014, July). Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?. Presented at 14th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia

UK electricity market changes provide opportunities to alter households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall electricity network. Work on clustering similar households has concentrated on daily load profiles and the variability... Read More about Variability of behaviour in electricity load profile clustering: who does things at the same time each day?.