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Professor TOM RODDEN's Outputs (55)

Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colley, J. A., Bedwell, B., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2013, September). Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring. Presented at 14th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction-INERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

This paper explores the measurement, apportionment and representation of widespread energy monitoring. We explicate the accountability to users of the data collected by this type of monitoring when it is presented to them as a single daylong picture.... Read More about Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring.

Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity. Presented at Digital Futures 2012: the Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference

Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households' electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users... Read More about Finding the creatures of habit: clustering households based on their flexibility in using electricity.

Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Jones, M., & Rogers, Y. (2012, June). Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development. Presented at DIS Designing Interactive Systems (ACM), Newcastle, UK

We are starting to see a paradigm shift within the field of HCI. We are witnessing researchers leaving the safety and security of their controlled, lab-based environments and moving their research out into ‘the wild’. Their studies are carrying out i... Read More about Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development.

Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance (2011)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Oppermann, L., Flintham, M., Benford, S., Tolmie, P., Adams, M., Row Farr, J., Tandavanitj, N., Marshall, J., & Rodden, T. (2011). Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15, 717–730. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0351-3

Touring location-based experiences is chal- lenging, as both content and underlying location services must be adapted to each new setting. A study of a touring performance called Rider Spoke as it visited three different cities reveals how profession... Read More about Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance.

Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation (2011)
Book Chapter
Balaam, M., Rennick Egglestone, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Hughes, A., Wilkinson, A., Nind, T., Axelrod, L., Harris, E., Ricketts, I., Mawson, S., & Burridge, J. (2011). Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation. In D. Tan, B. Begole, & W. Kellog (Eds.), CHI 2011: conference proceedings and extended abstracts: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979397

How to motivate and support behaviour change through design is becoming of increasing interest to the CHI community. In this paper, we present our experiences of building systems that motivate people to engage in upper limb rehabilitation exercise af... Read More about Motivating mobility: designing for lived motivation in stroke rehabilitation.

Supporting the design of network-spanning applications (2009)
Book Chapter
Rennick Egglestone, S., Boucher, A., Rodden, T., Law, A., Humble, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Greenberg, S. (2009). Supporting the design of network-spanning applications. In D. R. Olsen, K. Hinckley, M. R. Morris, & S. Hudson (Eds.), CHI EA '09: proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520426

In this case study, we describe our use of ECT, a tool
intended to simplify the design and development of
network-spanning applications. We have used ECT
throughout the course of a two-year collaboration,
which has involved individuals with exper... Read More about Supporting the design of network-spanning applications.

Supporting the creation of hybrid museum experiences (2009)
Journal Article
Koleva, B., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Schnädelbach, H., Glover, K., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., & Dade-Robertson, M. (2009). Supporting the creation of hybrid museum experiences. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1519001

This paper presents the evolution of a tool to support the rapid prototyping of hybrid museum experiences by domain professionals. The developed tool uses visual markers to associate digital resources with physical artefacts. We present the iterative... Read More about Supporting the creation of hybrid museum experiences.

Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies (2007)
Book Chapter
Fraser, K., Rodden, T., & O'Malley, C. (2007). Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies. In A. LaMarca, M. Langheinrich, & . K. N. Truong (Eds.), Pervasive Computing: Pervasive 2007 (180-197). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72037-9_11

Extensive educational research discusses the potential for information and communication technologies in supporting homework, but most has focused on providing content. The research in this paper focuses instead on the issues around managing homework... Read More about Trust, privacy and relationships in 'pervasive education': Families' views on homework and technologies.

Home-school technologies: Considering the family (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, K., Rodden, T., & O'Malley, C. (2006, June). Home-school technologies: Considering the family. Presented at IDC06: 5th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Tampere Finland

Research has focused on building technologies to support children in their transitions between home and school without a developed sense of how individual families react to such technologies. We interviewed three different families about their reacti... Read More about Home-school technologies: Considering the family.

Expected, sensed, and desired: A framework for designing sensing-based interaction (2005)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Schnädelbach, H., Koleva, B., Anastasi, R., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., Green, J., Ghali, A., Pridmore, T., Gaver, B., Boucher, A., Walker, B., Pennington, S., Schmidt, A., Gellersen, H., & Steed, A. (2005). Expected, sensed, and desired: A framework for designing sensing-based interaction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 12(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/1057237.1057239

Movements of interfaces can be analyzed in terms of whether they are expected, sensed, and desired. Expected movements are those that users naturally perform; sensed are those that can be measured by a computer; and desired movements are those that a... Read More about Expected, sensed, and desired: A framework for designing sensing-based interaction.

Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valchovska, S., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Rodden, T. Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy. Presented at DE 2013: Open Digital

This paper outlines recent developments in the Scaling the Rural Enterprise (SRE) research project – an interdisciplinary project that combines the expertise of social scientists, computer scientists and software developers, in order to inform the de... Read More about Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy.

An approach for assessing clustering of households by electricity usage
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Craig, T., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. An approach for assessing clustering of households by electricity usage. Presented at UKCI 2012, the 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence

How a household varies their regular usage of electricity
is useful information for organisations to allow accurate
targeting of behaviour modification initiatives with the aim of improving the overall efficiency of the electricity network. The var... Read More about An approach for assessing clustering of households by electricity usage.

The application of a data mining framework to energy usage profiling in domestic residences using UK data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. The application of a data mining framework to energy usage profiling in domestic residences using UK data. Presented at Buildings Don't Use Energy, People Do: Research Students' Conference

Changes in the UK electricity market mean that domestic
users will be required to modify their usage behaviour in order that supplies can be maintained. Clustering allows usage proles collected at the household level to be clustered into groups and... Read More about The application of a data mining framework to energy usage profiling in domestic residences using UK data.

Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data. Presented at UKCI 2011, the 11th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence

Abstract—The UK electricity industry will shortly have
available a massively increased amount of data from domestic
households and this paper is a step towards deriving useful
information from non intrusive household level monitoring of
electrici... Read More about Application of a clustering framework to UK domestic electricity data.

Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dent, I., Wagner, C., Aickelin, U., & Rodden, T. Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering. Presented at Digital Engagement 11

Changes in the UK electricity market mean that domestic
users will be required to modify their usage behaviour in
accordance with energy eciency targets. Clustering allows
usage data, collected at the household level, to be clustered
into groups... Read More about Creating personalised energy plans: from groups to individuals using Fuzzy C Means Clustering.