Professor TOM RODDEN's Outputs (32)

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.

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.

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.

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-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.

“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.

Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avsar, H., Fischer, J. E., & Rodden, T. Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck. Presented at 2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

The avionics industry is seeking to understand the challenges and benefits of touchscreens on flight decks. This paper presents an investigation of interactive displays on the flight deck focusing on the impact of target size, placement and vibration... Read More about Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck.

Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wu, F., Ramchurn, S. D., Jiang, W., Fischer, J. E., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2015, July). Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response. Presented at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15), Buenos Aires, Argentina

We consider a setting where an agent-based planner instructs teams of human emergency responders to perform tasks in the real world. Due to uncertainty in the environment and the inability of the planner to consider all human preferences and all attr... Read More about Agile Planning for Real-World Disaster Response.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., Rodden, T., & McAuley, D. (2015, July). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. Presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015, Lancaster, UK

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.

HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ramchurn, S. D., Huynh, T. D., Ikuno, Y., Flann, J., Wu, F., Moreau, L., Jennings, N. R., Fischer, J. E., Jiang, W., Rodden, T., Simpson, E., Reece, S., & Roberts, S. (2015, May). HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives. Presented at 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey

This paper proposes a novel disaster management system called HAC-ER that addresses some of the challenges faced by emergency responders by enabling humans and agents, using state-of-the-art algorithms, to collaboratively plan and carry out tasks in... Read More about HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives.

Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Luger, E., Urquhart, L., Rodden, T., & Golembewski, M. (2015, April). Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process. Presented at CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, South Korea

© Copyright 2015 ACM. The regulatory climate is in a process of change. Design, having been implicated for some time, is now explicitly linked to law. This paper recognises the heightened role of designers in the regulation of ambient interactive tec... Read More about Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues within the Design Process.

Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koene, A., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., Adolphs, S., O’Malley, C., Rodden, T., & McAuley, D. Research ethics and public trust, preconditions for continued growth of internet mediated research: public confidence in internet mediate research. Presented at International Conference of Information Systems Security and Privacy ICISSP 2015

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.

Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Reece, S., Ramchurn, S., & Jones, D. Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response. Presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15)

Command and control environments ranging from transport control rooms to disaster response have long been of interest to HCI and CSCW as rich sites of interactive technology use embedded in work practice. Drawing on our engagement with disaster respo... Read More about Building a birds eye view: collaborative work in disaster response.

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.

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.