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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reconciling the Gap Between Seamless and Seamful Design Approach
This paper explores conceptually and empirically the complex and multi-layered networks of interaction where personal data is shared across different platforms. This is explored through the vocabulary and tens...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning
We present StyleBabel, a unique open access dataset of natural language captions and free-form tags describing the artistic style of over 135K digital artworks, collected via a novel participatory method from ...
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Sensing Data in the Home
Human interaction with computers is no longer clearly bounded and so our user expectations no longer fit the pragmatics of design. We are increasingly data subjects within a complex network of lifestyle device...
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Open AccessComparative costs and activity from a sample of UK clinical trials units
The costs of medical research are a concern. Clinical Trials Units (CTUs) need to better understand variations in the costs of their activities.
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Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime
The chapter introduces the concept of temporal ubiquity to describe smartphones’ ability to enable users to travel across real and historical times. From applications that recover past events from our social m...
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Open AccessIntervention to reduce excessive alcohol consumption and improve comorbidity outcomes in hypertensive or depressed primary care patients: two parallel cluster randomized feasibility trials
Many primary care patients with raised blood pressure or depression drink potentially hazardous levels of alcohol. Brief interventions (BI) to reduce alcohol consumption may improve comorbid conditions and red...
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Open AccessStudy protocol for the randomised controlled trial: Antiglucocorticoid augmentation of anti-Depressants in Depression (The ADD Study)
Some patients with depression do not respond to first and second line conventional antidepressants and are therefore characterised as suffering from treatment refractory depression (TRD). On-going psychosocial...
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Open AccessThe FiCTION dental trial protocol – filling children’s teeth: indicated or not?
There is a lack of evidence for effective management of dental caries (decay) in children’s primary (baby) teeth and an apparent failure of conventional dental restorations (fillings) to prevent dental pain an...
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An internet of old things as an augmented memory system
The interdisciplinary Tales of Things and electronic Memory (TOTeM) project investigates new contexts for augmenting things with stories in the emerging culture of the Internet of Things (IoT). Tales of Things...
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Open AccessCom-BI-ne: preliminary results of a feasibility trial of brief intervention to improve alcohol consumption and comorbid outcomes in hypertensive or depressed primary care patients
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Open AccessBrief intervention to prevent hazardous drinking in young people aged 14–15 in a high school setting (SIPS JR-HIGH): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Whilst the overall proportion of young people drinking alcohol in the United Kingdom has decreased in recent years, those who do drink appear to drink a larger amount, and more frequently. Early and heavy drin...
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Open AccessThe management of dental caries in primary teeth - involving service providers and users in the design of a trial
There is a lack of evidence for the effective management of dental caries in children’s primary teeth. The trial entitled ‘Filling Children’s Teeth: Indicated Or Not?’ (FiCTION) was designed to examine the cli...
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Walking Through Time: Use of Locative Media to Explore Historical Maps
Smartphones are becoming a standard across creative and consumer communities, and their locative properties are beginning to change the way that we navigate physical and social spaces. Platforms that contain G...
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Open AccessUsing a business model approach and marketing techniques for recruitment to clinical trials
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are generally regarded as the gold standard for evaluating health care interventions. The level of uncertainty around a trial's estimate of effect is, however, frequently li...
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Critical Design :: Is It Just Designers Doing Ethnography or Does It Offer Something More for Interaction Design?
The panel will discuss the contribution of Critical Design to the field of Interaction Design and reflect on the insights that it provides on interaction.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Storytelling within an Internet of Things
The movement from a screen based experience of the internet to one in which everything is connected in the actual world is slowly becoming a reality. The advent of smart phones and data free contracts has prov...
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Open AccessA pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of a Diabetes REcall And Management system: the DREAM trial
Following the introduction of a computerised diabetes register in part of the northeast of England, care initially improved but then plateaued. We therefore enhanced the existing diabetes register to address t...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a series of patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX
The aim of the LIFELAX randomised controlled trial (diet and lifestyle vs. laxatives in the management of chronic constipation) is to develop and evaluate a cost effective intervention to promote diet and lifesty...
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Open AccessProtocol for north of England and Scotland study of tonsillectomy and adeno-tonsillectomy in children (NESSTAC). A pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing surgical intervention with conventional medical treatment in children with recurrent sore throats
Uncertainties surrounding the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of childhood tonsillectomy for recurrent sore throat led the NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme to commission this research to evaluat...
