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    Music, Design and Ethnography: An Interview with Steve Benford

    Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing at the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. His research interests span creative and cultural applications of computing, from interact...

    Andrew McPherson, Steve Benford in New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (2019)

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    Brain-Controlled Cinema

    This chapter explores the space of Brain-Computer Interaction as a tool to enhance storytelling within cinema, as a means to overcome some of the main critiques of interactive film in terms of interaction and ...

    Richard Ramchurn, Sarah Martindale, Max L. Wilson, Steve Benford in Brain Art (2019)

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    Discomfort—The Dark Side of Fun

    For many of us, the notion of ‘fun’ conjures up visions of experiences that are amusing, pleasant, entertaining, playful—perhaps even frivolous. Rides, games, shows and perhaps even the experience of visiting ...

    Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker in Funology 2 (2018)

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    Office Workers’ Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Taking Regular Micro-breaks at Work: A Diary-Probed Interview Study

    Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are important for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many computerized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and...

    Yitong Huang, Steve Benford, Hilde Hendrickx in Persuasive Technology: Development and Imp… (2017)

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    Understanding food consumption lifecycles using wearable cameras

    Application of design in HCI is a common approach to engendering behavioural change to address important challenges such as sustainability. Encouraging such change requires an understanding of current motivati...

    Kher Hui Ng, Victoria Shipp, Richard Mortier in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2015)

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    Gifting as a Novel Mechanism for Personalized Museum and Gallery Interpretation

    The designers of mobile guides for museums and galleries are increasingly concerned with delivering rich interpretation that can be personalized to meet the diverse needs of individual visitors. However, incre...

    Lesley Fosh, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalizat… (2015)

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    Understanding mass participatory pervasive computing systems for environmental campaigns

    Participate was a 3-year collaboration between industry and academia to explore how mobile, Web and broadcast technologies could combine to deliver environmental campaigns. In a series of pilot projects, scho...

    Alan Chamberlain, Mark Paxton, Kevin Glover in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2014)

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    Designing for reportability: sustainable gamification, public engagement, and promoting environmental debate

    There is a growing emphasis in many countries on matters such as participation in e-government, e-democracy, the provision of forums for online debate, and so on. A critical issue in all of these cases is one ...

    Peter Tolmie, Alan Chamberlain, Steve Benford in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2014)

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    Exploring attractions and exhibits with interactive flashlights

    Flashlights are cheap, robust and fun. Most people from adults to children of an early age are familiar with flashlights and can use them to search for, select and illuminate objects and features of interest. ...

    Jonathan Green, Tony Pridmore, Steve Benford in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2014)

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    Participate: Pervasive Computing for Environmental Campaigns

    Participate was a three year collaboration between industry and academia to explore how mobile, Web and broadcast technologies could combine to deliver environmental campaigns. In a series of pilot projects, s...

    Alan Chamberlain, Dominic Price in HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended… (2013)

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    Refining Rules Learning Using Evolutionary PD

    Using glyphs to associate digital media with physical materials has great potential to enhance learning. A key challenge, however, lies in enabling children to author their own glyphs that integrate well with ...

    Afdallyna Harun, Steve Benford in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications a… (2013)

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    Understanding Mobile Notification Management in Collocated Groups

    We present an observational study of how notifications are handled by collocated groups, in the context of a collaborative mobile photo-taking exercise. Interaction analysis of video recordings is used to unco...

    Joel E. Fischer, Stuart Reeves, Stuart Moran in ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th Europe… (2013)

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    Pursuing Leisure: Reflections on Theme Park Visiting

    In this paper, we present the theme park as a novel commercial setting and distinct cultural ecology for CSCW research, presenting challenges to technology designers interested in supporting cultural visiting ...

    Abigail Durrant, David S. Kirk, Steve Benford in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (2012)

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    Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance

    Touring location-based experiences is challenging, 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 ...

    Alan Chamberlain, Leif Oppermann, Martin Flintham in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2011)

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    Analysing the Playground: Sensitizing Concepts to Inform Systems That Promote Playful Interaction

    Playful interaction in an important topic in HCI research, and there is an ongoing debate about the fundamental principles that underpin playful systems. This paper makes a contribution to this...

    Stefan Rennick Egglestone, Brendan Walker in Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011 (2011)

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    Flypad: Designing Trajectories in a Large-Scale Permanent Augmented Reality Installation

    A long-term naturalistic study reveals how artists designed, visitors experienced, and curators and technicians maintained a public interactive artwork over a four year period. The work consisted of a collabor...

    Martin Flintham, Stuart Reeves in ECSCW 2011: Proceedings of the 12th Europe… (2011)

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    Personalizing the Theme Park: Psychometric Profiling and Physiological Monitoring

    Theme parks are important and complex forms of entertainment, with a broad user-base, and with a substantial economic impact. In this paper, we present a case study of an existing theme park, and use this to m...

    Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Amanda Whitbrook in User Modeling, Adaption and Personalization (2011)

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    Lessons from Touring a Location-Based Experience

    Touring location-based experiences is challenging 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 d...

    Leif Oppermann, Martin Flintham, Stuart Reeves, Steve Benford in Pervasive Computing (2011)

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    MobGeoSen: facilitating personal geosensor data collection and visualization using mobile phones

    Mobile sensing and map** applications are becoming more prevalent because sensing hardware is becoming more portable and more affordable. However, most of the hardware uses small numbers of fixed sensors tha...

    Eiman Kanjo, Steve Benford, Mark Paxton in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2008)

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    Pressing the Flesh: Sensing Multiple Touch and Finger Pressure on Arbitrary Surfaces

    This paper identifies a new physical correlate of finger pressure that can be detected and measured visually in a wide variety of situations. When a human finger is pressed onto a hard object the flesh is comp...

    Joe Marshall, Tony Pridmore, Mike Pound, Steve Benford in Pervasive Computing (2008)

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