Publications

Zander Wilson, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Rob Comber

There has been a recent shift in England towards empowering citizens to shape their neighbourhoods. However, current methods of participation are unsuitable or unwieldy for many people. In this paper, we report on ChangeExplorer,

Aiden Doherty, Dan Jackson, Nils Hammerla, Thomas Plotz, Patrick Olivier, Malcolm Granat, Tom White, Vincent van Hees, Michael Trenell, Christopher Owen, Stephen Preece, Rob Gillions, Simon Sheard, Tim Packman, Soren Brage, Nicholas Wareham

Physical activity has not been objectively measured in prospective cohorts with sufficiently large numbers to reliably detect associations with multiple health outcomes.

John O’Brien, Peter Gallagher, Daniel Stow, Nils Hammerla, Thomas Ploetz, Michael Firbank, Cassim Ladha, Karim Ladha, Dan Jackson, Roisin McNaney, Nicol Ferrier, Patrick Olivier

Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with a decline in physical activity. Typically this is assessed by self-report questionnaires and,

Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Bernd Ploderer, Hilary Davis, Frank Vetere, Kenton O’Hara, Geremy Farr-Wharton, Rob Comber

This paper joins the ubiquitous computing scholarship that investigates the use of technologies in collocated shared settings like family mealtime. Family mealtimes are an important site for fostering togetherness, sharing everyday experiences,

Vidya Sarangapani, Ahmed Kharrufa, Madeline Balaam, David Leat, Pete Wright

Cross-cultural learning has gained increased interest and importance within school curricula in recent years. Schools are using technology to accumulate resources for cross-cultural learning,

Aneeq Zia, Yachna Sharma, Vinay Bettadapura, Eric Sarin, Thomas Ploetz, Mark Clements, Irfan Essa

Routine evaluation of basic surgical skills in medical schools requires considerable time and effort from supervising faculty. For each surgical trainee, a supervisor has to observe the trainees in person. Alternatively, supervisors may use training videos,

Jennifer Bradley, Emma Simpson, Ivan Poliakov, John Matthews, Patrick Olivier, Ashley Adamson, Emma Foster

Online dietary assessment tools offer a convenient, low cost alternative to traditional dietary assessment methods such as weighed records and face-to-face interviewer-led 24-h recalls. INTAKE24 is an online multiple pass 24-h recall tool developed for use with 11–24 year-old.

Hanna Celina, Ahmed Kharrufa, Anne Preston, Rob Comber, Patrick Olivier

We present the design, deployment and evaluation of three configurations of an online learning activity for would-be social innovators and activists, with the aim of understanding the factors that are critical to the design of an infrastructure to support such communities of learners.

Rachel Clarke, Jo Briggs, Ann Light, Pete Wright

With the increased relevance of digital technologies in civil life comes the challenge of how to design research for citizen engagement. Drawing from three reflexive case studies presenting socially engaged arts (SEA) projects, we describe how, as artists,

Mark Blythe, Kristina Andersen, Rachel Clarke, Pete Wright

Much of the academic and commercial work that seeks to innovate around technology has been dismissed as “solutionist” because it solves problems that don’t exist or ignores the complexity of personal, political and environmental issues. This paper traces the “solutionism” critique to its origins in city planning and highlights the original concern with imaging and representation in the design process.

Chris Elsden, Sebastian Mellor, Patrick Olivier, Pete Wheldon, Dave Kirk, Rob Comber

The use of data and metrics on a professional and personal level has led to considerable discourse around the performative power and politics of ‘big data’ and data visualisation, with academia being no exception.

Teresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Madeline Balaam

Designing for women’s healthcare remains an underexplored area of HCI, particularly outside informational systems for maternal health. Drawing on a case study of a body disruption – urinary incontinence in women – we illustrate the experience of women’s health both from the perspective of the patient and the therapist.

Stacey Kuznetsov, Christina Santana, Elenore Long, Rob Comber, Carl DiSalvo

This workshop will examine everyday food science practices such as fermenting, brewing, or pickling edible materials, as well as foraging, bartering, or dumpster diving for food. We hope to gather a diverse group of HCI researchers,

Teresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Gavin Wood, Dean Saraf, Madeline Balaam

Women’s understandings of their own intimate anatomy has been identified as critical to women’s reproductive health and sexual wellbeing. However, talking about it, seeking medical help when necessary as well as examining oneself in order to ‘know’

Jenny Waycott, Cosmin Munteanu, Hilary Davis, Anja Thieme, Wendy Moncur, Roisin McNaney, John Vines, Stacy Branham

In the HCI community, there is growing recognition that a reflective and empathetic approach is needed to conduct ethical research in sensitive settings with people who might be considered vulnerable or marginalized.

Gerry Wilkinson, Ahmed Kharrufa, Jonathan Hook, Bradley Pursglove, Gavin Wood, Hendrik Haeuser, Nils Hammerla, Steve Hodges, Patrick Olivier

Expressiveness, which we define as the extent to which rich and complex intent can be conveyed through action, is a vital aspect of many human interactions.

John Vines, Roisin McNaney, Amey Holden, Ivan Poliakov, Pete Wright, Patrick Olivier

In this paper, we reflect upon the ethical dilemmas faced during our research exploring the potential of Google Glass as a self-care technology for people with Parkinson’s.

Reem Talhouk, Sandra Mesmer, Anja Thieme, Madeline Balaam, Patrick Olivier, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas

There are currently over 1.1 million Syrian refugees in need of healthcare services from an already overstretched Lebanese healthcare system. Access to antenatal care (ANC) services presents a particular challenge.

Konstantinos Kazakos, Siddhartha Asthana, Madeline Balaam, Mona Duggal, Amey Holden, Limalemla Jamir, Nanda Kishore Kannuri, Saurabh Kumar, Amarendar Reddy Manindla, Subhashini Arcot Manikam, GVS Murthy, Papreen Nahar, Peter Phillimore, Shreyaswi Sathyanath, Pushpendra Singh, Meenu Singh, Pete Wright, Deepika Yadav, Patrick Olivier

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platforms have been widely deployed in resource-limited settings.

Andy Garbett, Rob Comber, Ed Jenkins, Patrick Olivier

There is an increasing demand to encourage inclusivity in the design of digital services. In response to this issue we have created App Movement, a platform that enables the promotion,

Tom Feltwell, Shaun Lawson, Ben Kirman, John Vines

It has long been identified that people consciously curate, manage and maintain multiple online individual identities based on characteristics such as race, gender, and societal status; research has also established that people may choose to emphasise one such identity other another as a means to avoid stigmatisation,

Róisín McNaney, Mohammad Othman, Dan Richardson, Paul Dunphy, Telmo Almaral, Nick Miller, Helen Stringer, Patrick Olivier, John Vines

We present Speeching, a mobile application that uses crowdsourcing to support the self-monitoring and management of speech and voice issues for people with Parkinson’s (PwP).

Chris Elsden, Bettina Nissen, Andy Garbett, Dave Chatting, Dave Kirk, John Vines

We introduce Metadating — a future-focused research and speed-dating event where single participants were invited to “explore the romance of personal data”. Participants created “data profiles” about themselves,

Anja Thieme, John McCarthy, Paula Johnson, Stephanie Phillips, Jayne Wallace, Siân Lindley, Karim Ladha, Daniel Jackson, Diana Nowacka, Ashur Rafiev, Cassim Ladha, Tom Nappey, Mathew Kipling, Pete Wright, Thomas Meyer, Patrick Olivier

This paper describes the challenges and lessons learned in the experience-centered design (ECD) of the Spheres of Wellbeing,

Andy Dow, John Vines, Rob Comber, Rob Wilson

ThoughtCloud is a lightweight, situated, digital feedback system designed to allow voluntary and community sector care organisations to gather feedback and opinions from those who use their services. In this paper we describe the design and development of ThoughtCloud and its evaluation through a series of deployments with two organisations.

Matt Marshall, Dave Kirk, John Vines

Increasingly, governments and organisations publish data on expenditure and finance as ‘open’ data in order to be more transparent to the public in how funding is spent. Accountable is a web-based tool that visualises and relates open financial data provided by local government and non-profit organisations (NPOs) in the UK.

Ian Johnson, John Vines, Nick Taylor, Ed Jenkins, Justin Marshall

In recent years there has been an increased focus upon developing platforms for community decision-making, and an awareness of the importance of handing over civic platforms to community organisations to oversee the process of decision-making at a local level.

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Clara Crivellaro, Christopher Le Dantec, Eric Gordon, Pete Wright, Patrick Olivier

The current economic crisis has thrown the relationship between citizens, communities and the state into sharp relief. Digital Civics is an emerging cross-disciplinary area of research that seeking to understand the role that digital technologies can play in supporting relational models of service provision,

Clara Crivellaro, Alex Taylor, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Bettina Nissen, Pete Wright

We present insights from an extended engagement and design intervention at an urban regeneration site in South East London. We describe the process of designing a walking trail and system for recording and playing back place-specific stories for those living and working on the housing estate,

Nils Hammerla, Shane Halloran, Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these isolated applications of custom deep architectures it is, however, difficult to gain an overview of their suitability for problems ranging from the recognition of manipulative gestures to the segmentation and identification of physical activities like running or ascending stairs.

Chris Elsden, Sebastian Mellor, Rob Comber

Metrics in academia are often an opaque mess, filled with biases and ill-judged assumptions that are used in overly deterministic ways. By getting involved with their design, academics can productively push metrics in a more transparent direction. Using the metric of grant income,

Reuben Kirkham, Mary Webster, Ko-Le Chen, John Vines

We consider the findings of a study of the experiences of Postgraduate Researchers with Disabilities and explore how this relates to academic freedom. Drawing upon the provisions of the Public Sector Equality Duty and Indirect Discrimination within the Equality Act (2010),

Aftab Khan, Eugen Berlin, Sebastian Mellor, Robin Thompson, Nils Hammerla, Roisin McNaney, Patrick Olivier, Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition (HAR), i.e., the automated detection and classification of specific activities that a person pursues, is one of the core concerns of mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Tom Bartindale, Guy Schofield, Clara Crivellaro, Pete Wright

The emergence of participatory, on-demand and interactive media is changing the media production landscape. Producing interactive media is often more complex than creating traditional linear films, resulting in increased pressure for production teams.

Aftab Khan, Nils Hammerla, Sebastian Mellor, Thomas Ploetz

Real-world deployments of accelerometer-based human activity recognition systems need to be carefully configured regarding the sampling rate used for measuring acceleration. Whilst a low sampling rate saves considerable energy, as well as transmission bandwidth and storage capacity, it is also prone to omitting relevant signal details that are of interest for contemporary analysis tasks.

Sunil Rodger, John Vines, Janice McLaughlin

Digital technologies offer the possibility of community empowerment via the reconfiguration of public services. This potential relies on actively involved citizens engaging with decision makers to pursue civic goals. In this paper we study one such group of involved citizens,

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Karim Ladha, Nick Taylor, Paul Dunphy, Patrick McCorry, Patrick Olivier

Online and digital technologies support and extend the action repertoires of localised social movements. In this paper we examine the ways by which digital technologies can support “on-the-ground”

Ahmed Kharrufa, Patrick Olivier

Attribute gates are a new user interface element designed to address the problem of concurrently setting attributes and moving objects between territories on a digital tabletop. Motivated by the notion of task levels in activity theory, and crossing interfaces,