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Established: June 10, 2005
We’ve moved!
We have a brand new website showcasing the work, publications and people in HXD.
You can find it at out new address, which is hxd.research.microsoft.com.
People
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Tony Wieser
Senior Research Software Development Engineer
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Abigail Sellen
Principal Researcher
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Researcher
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Cecily Morrison
Post Doc Researcher
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Ewa Luger
Post Doc Researcher
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Gavin Smyth
Developer
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Haiyan Zhang
Innovation Director
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Kenton O'Hara
Researcher
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Martin Grayson
Senior SDE
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Nicolas Villar
Researcher
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Richard Banks
Principal Design Manager
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Bob Corish
Designer/Researcher
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Sean Rintel
Post Doc Researcher
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Siân Lindley
Researcher
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Tim Regan
Senior Research Software Development Engineer
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Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction
Ken Hinckley, Seongkook Heo, Michel Pahud, Christian Holz, Hrvoje Benko, Abigail Sellen,
Richard Banks, Kenton O'Hara, Gavin Smyth, Bill Buxton
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Pre-Touch Sensing for Mobile Interaction
Ken Hinckley, Seongkook Heo, Michel Pahud, Christian Holz, Hrvoje Benko, Abigail Sellen,
Richard Banks, Kenton O'Hara, Gavin Smyth, Bill Buxton
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Things We Own Together: Sharing Possessions at Home
Jane Gruning, Siân Lindley
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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The Tyranny of the Everyday in Mobile Video Messaging
Sean Rintel, Richard Harper, Kenton O'Hara
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Office Social: Presentation Interactivity for Nearby Devices
Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Kenton O'Hara, Sean Rintel,
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Office Social: Presentation Interactivity for Nearby Devices
Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Kenton O'Hara, Sean Rintel
May 2016
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Ethical Encounters in Human-Computer Interaction
Jenny Waycott, Cosmin Munteanu , Hilary Davis, Anja Thieme, Wendy Moncur, Roisin
McNaney, John Vines, Stacy Branham
April 2016
ACM
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Syrian Refugees and Digital Health in Lebanon: Opportunities for Improving
Antenatal Health
Reem Talhouk, Sandra Mesmar, Anja Thieme, Madeline Balaam, Patrick Olivier, Chaza Akik,
Hala Ghattas
April 2016
ACM
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Challenges for Designing new Technology for Health and Wellbeing in a
Complex Mental Healthcare Context
Anja Thieme, John McCarthy, Paula Johnson, Stephanie Phillips, Jayne Wallace, Siân Lindley,
Karim Ladha, Daniel Jackson, Diana Nowacka, Ashur Rafiev, Cassim Ladha, Thomas Nappey,
Mathew Kipling, Peter Wright, Thomas D. Meyer, Patrick Olivier
April 2016
ACM
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Reorienting categories as a members’ phenomena
Richard Fitzgerald, Sean Rintel
January 2016
Routledge
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Choice: the sciences of reason in the 21st century: a critical assessment
Richard Harper
December 2015
Polity Press
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Pick Up and Play: Understanding Tangibility for Cloud Media
Donald McMillan, Barry Brown, Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley, Roy Martens
December 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Ripples of mediatization: Social media and the exposure of the pool interview
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dcm, Sean Rintel, Daniel Angus, Richard
Fitzgerald
November 2015
Elsevier
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Ad hoc adaptability in video-calling
Sean Rintel, Kenton O'Hara, Behnaz Rostami Yehaneh,
November 2015
ACM ITS'2015 - Workshop on Interacting with Multi-Device Ecologies in the Wild
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Memory Dialogue
Stephanie Neumann, Richard Banks
September 2015
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Designing for Mental Wellbeing: Towards a More Holistic Approach in the
Treatment and Prevention of Mental Illness
Anja Thieme, Jayne Wallace, Thomas D. Meyer, Patrick Olivier
July 2015
ACM
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SonicAIR: Supporting independent living with reciprocal ambient audio
awareness
Hanif Baharin, Stephen Viller, Sean Rintel
July 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Placing in Age: Transitioning to a New Home in Later Life
Siân Lindley, Jayne Wallace
July 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Conversation Analysis of Video-Mediated Communication: Interactional Repair
of Distortion in Long-Distance Couples’ Video Calls
Sean Rintel
June 2015
Sage
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Web
Social Media as a Resource for Understanding Security Experiences: A
Qualitative Analysis of #Password Tweets
Paul Dunphy, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Anja Thieme, James Nicholson, John McCarthy, Patrick
Olivier
May 2015
USENIX Association
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Ethical Encounters in HCI: Research in Sensitive Settings
Jenny Waycott, Hilary Davis, Anja Thieme, Stacy Branham, John Vines, Cosmin Munteanu
May 2015
ACM
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Usability and acceptability of ASSESS MS: a system to support the assessment of
motor dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis using depth-sensing computer vision
Cecily Morrison, Marcus D'Souza, Kit Huckvale, Jonas F Dorn, Jessica Burggraaff, Christian
Philipp Kamm, Saskia Marie Steinheimer, Peter Kontschieder, Antonio Criminisi, Bernard
Uitdehaag, Frank Dahlke, Ludwig Kappos, Abigail Sellen
May 2015
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‘Me For You’: Lessons About Everyday Video Messaging From Skype Qik
Sean Rintel, Richard Harper, Rod Watson, Kenton O'Hara
April 2015
ACM CHI2015 Workshop - Everyday Telepresence: Emerging Practices and Future Research
Directions
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Behind the Scences at HCI’s Turn to the Arts
April 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Playing the Legal Card: Using Ideation Cards to Raise Data Protection Issues
within the Design Process
April 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Digital Collections and Digital Collecting Practices
Abigail Sellen, Siân Lindley
April 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Data-in-Place: Thinking Through the Relations Between Data and Community
Alex Taylor, David Sweeney, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Lillie Grainger, Jessica Lingel, Siân
Lindley, Jessa Lingel, Tim Regan
April 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Designing Engaging Data in Communities
David Sweeney, Tim Regan, Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Siân Lindey, Alex Taylor, John Helmes
April 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Making Time
Siân Lindley
March 2015
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Omnirelevance in Technologised Interaction: Couples Coping with Video Calling
Distortions
Sean Rintel
March 2015
Sage Publications Ltd
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Drug Target Optimization in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Using Innovative
Computational Platform
Ryan Chuang, Benjamin A. Hall, David Benque, Byron Cook, Samin Ishtiaq, Nir Piterman, Alex
Taylor, Moshe Vardi, Steffen Koschmieder, Berthold Gottgens, Jasmin Fisher
February 2015
Nature Publishing Group
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Wireless Smartphone Mirroring in Video Calls
Kenton O'Hara, Jesper Kjeldskov
January 2015
IFIP Interact 2015
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Scientists and software – surveying the species distribution modelling
community
Sadia Ahmed, Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Stephen Emmott, Lucas Joppa
January 2015
Wiley
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Vision-based body tracking: turning Kinect into a clinical tool
Cecily Morrison, Peter Culmer, Helena Mentis, Tamar Pincus
December 2014
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Touchless Interaction in Surgery
Tom Carrell, Helena Mentis, Graeme Penney, Antonio Criminisi, Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen,
Mark Rouncefield, Neville Dastur, Varnavas, Bob Corish
December 2014
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Modelling biology – working through (in-)stabilities and frictions
Alex Taylor, Jasmin Fisher, Byron Cook, Samin Ishtiaq, Nir Piterman
November 2014
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FoodWorks: Tackling Fussy Eating by Digitally Augmenting Children’s
Meals
Sangita Ganesh, Paul Marshall, Yvonne Rogers, Kenton O'Hara
October 2014
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Quantifying Progression of Multiple Sclerosis via Classification of Depth Videos
P. Kontschieder, M. DSouza, C. P. Kamm, J. Burggraaff, P. Tewarie, T. Vogel, M. Azzarito, P.
Chin, F. Dahlke, C. Polman, L. Kappos, B. Uitdehaag, A. Criminisi, J.F. Dorn, C. Morrison, R.
Corish, D. Zikic, A. Sellen, Darko Zikic, Abigail Sellen, Antonio Criminisi, Peter Kontschieder
September 2014
Springer
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Data and life on the street
Alex Taylor, Tim Regan, David Sweeney, Siân Lindley
July 2014
Sage
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Collaborating with Computer Vision Systems: An Exploration of Audio
Feedback
Cecily Morrison, Neil Smyth, Bob Corish, Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen,
June 2014
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A Small Space for Playful Messaging in the Workplace: Designing and Deploying
Picco
John Downs, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Siân Lindley, John Helmes, Gavin Smyth
June 2014
ACM
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Interactional Order and Constructed Ways of Seeing with Touchless Imaging
Systems in Surgery
Kenton O'Hara, Gerardo Gonzalez, Graeme Penney, Abigail Sellen, Bob Corish, Helena Mentis,
Andreas Varnavas, Antonio Criminisi, Mark Rouncefield, Neville Dastur, Tom Carrell,
June 2014
Springer
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Pdf
Hybrid Crafting: Toward an integrated practice of crafting with physical and
digital components
Connie Golsteijn, Elise van den Hoven, David Frohlich, Abigail Sellen
June 2014
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Pdf
Domestic appropriations of tokens to the web
Jung-Joo Lee, Siân Lindley, Salu Ylirisku, Giulio Jacucci, Tim Regan, Marcus Nurminen
June 2014
ACM
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Trust, Computing and Society
Richard Harper
May 2014
Cambridge University Press
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Searching for Myself: Motivations and Strategies for Self-Search
Siân Lindley, Cathy Marshall
May 2014
ACM
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Assessment of Disability in Multiple Sclerosis Using the Kinect-Camera System:
A Proof-of-Concept Study
M. D Souza, C. Kamm, J. Burggraaff, P. Tewarie, B. Glocker, J. Dorn, T. Vogel, C. Morrison,
Abigail Sellen, M. Machacek, P. Chin, B. Uitdehaag, Antonio Criminisi, F. Dahlke, C. Polman,
L. Kappos
April 2014
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Place-onas: Shared resource for designing body tracking applications
Cecily Morrison, Abigail Sellen, Bob Corish
April 2014
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Designing for Slowness, Anticipation and Re-visitation: A Long Term Field
Study of the Photobox
William T. Odom, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, David Kirk, Tim Regan, Mark Selby, Jodi L.
Forlizzi, John Zimmerman
April 2014
ACM
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Curation through use: Understanding the personal value of social media
Xuan Zhao, Siân Lindley
April 2014
ACM
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Everyday Dwelling with WhatsApp
Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Michael Massimi
March 2014
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Quick and Dirty: Streamlined 3D Scanning in Archaeology
Jarrod Knibbe, Kenton O'Hara, Angeliki Chrysanthi, Mark T. Marshall, Peter D. Bennett,
Graeme Earl, Shahram Izadi, Mike Fraser
March 2014
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Social Media in Australia
John Harrison, Sean Rintel, Elizabeth Mitchell
February 2014
Dignity Press
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Designing for Human-Food Interaction: Special Issue on Food and Interaction
Design
Rob Comber, Jaz Choi, Jettie Hoonhout, Kenton O'Hara
February 2014
Elsevier
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Craving, creating, and constructing comfort: insights and opportunities for
technology in hospice
Michael Massimi
January 2014
ACM
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Life transitions and online health communities: reflecting on adoption, use, and
disengagement
Michael Massimi
January 2014
ACM
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“Real, but Glossy” – Technology and the Pursuit of Magic in Modern Weddings
Michael Massimi, Richard Harper, Abigail Sellen
January 2014
ACM
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Facebook in the university workplace
Aurora Francois, Aparna Hebbani, Sean Rintel
November 2013
ANZCA
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Pdf
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From lifeguard to bitch: The problem of promiscuous categories in story telling
via video chat by a long-distance couple
Richard Fitzgerald, Sean Rintel
October 2013
Australian Journal of Communication
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Leisure-Based Reading and The Place of E-Books in Everyday Life
Annika Hupfeld , Abigail Sellen, Kenton O'Hara, Tom Rodden
September 2013
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the felt-life of engineers in large software
projects
Richard Harper, Christian Bird, Tom Zimmermann, Brendan Murphy
September 2013
Springer
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Towards a tool for design ideation: Insights from use of SketchStorm
Siân Lindley, Xiang Cao, John Helmes, Richard Morris, Sam Meek
September 2013
British Computer Society
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Pdf
Toward Compound Navigation Tasks on Mobiles via Spatial Manipulation
Michel Pahud, Ken Hinckley, Shamsi Iqbal, Abigail Sellen, William Buxton, Bill Buxton
August 2013
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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‘Eyes Free’ In-Car Assistance: Parent And Child Passenger Collaboration
During Phone Calls
Chandrika Cycil, Mark Perry, Eric Laurier, Alex Taylor
August 2013
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Modelling Digital Habitus: The relationship between the internet and the density
and duration of friendship ties
Richard Harper
June 2013
Microsoft Research
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Video Calling in Long-Distance Relationships: The Opportunistic use of
Audio/Video Distortions as a Relational Resource
Sean Rintel
June 2013
CIOS
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Crisis Memes: The Importance of Templatability to Internet Culture and
Freedom of Expression
Sean Rintel
June 2013
Intellect Books
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Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use
Lucas Joppa, Richard Harper, Kenji Takeda, Kenton O'Hara, David Gavaghan, Stephen Emmott
May 2013
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Pdf
Rethinking the web as a personal archive
Siân Lindley, Richard Banks, Abigail Sellen, Tim Regan, Catherine C. Marshall, Cathy
Marshall
May 2013
International World Wide Web Conference
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Graduate Student Use of a Multi-Slate Reading System
Nicholas Chen, Francois Guimbretiere, Abigail Sellen
April 2013
ACM
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Imaging the body: embodied vision in minimally invasive surgery
Helena Mentis, Alex Taylor
April 2013
ACM
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Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the ‘aesthetic’ of the home
Salu Ylirisku, Siân Lindley, Giulio Jacucci, Richard Banks, Craig Stewart, Abigail Sellen,
Richard Harper, Tim Regan
April 2013
ACM
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Design to promote mindfulness practice and sense of self for vulnerable women
in secure hospital services
Anja Thieme, Jayne Wallace, Paula Johnson, John McCarthy, Siân Lindley, Peter Wright,
Patrick Olivier, Thomas Meyer
April 2013
ACM
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Mind the gap: The timeline as a narrative frame for personal content
Siân Lindley
April 2013
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Wearable cameras in health: The state of the art and future possibilities
(editorial)
Aiden R. Doherty, Steve Hodges, Abby C. King, Alan F. Smeaton, Emma Berry, Chris J.A.
Moulin, Siân Lindley, Paul Kelly, Charlie Foster
March 2013
Elsevier
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What is a file?
Eno Thereska, Richard Harper, Gavin Smyth
February 2013
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Non-Static Nature of Patient Consent: Shifting Privacy Perspectives in Health
Information Sharing
Eno Thereska
February 2013
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Supporting a sense of connectedness: Meaningful things in the lives of new
university students
Elizabeth Bales, Siân Lindley
February 2013
ACM
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Beyond file systems: understanding the nature of places where people store their
data
Eno Thereska, Oriana Riva, Richard Banks, Siân Lindley, Richard Harper
February 2013
Microsoft Research
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Bodily Interaction in the Dark
Linden Vongsathorn, Helena Mentis, Kenton O'Hara
January 2013
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Changing perspectives of time in HCI
Siân Lindley, Elsa Vaara, Pedro Ferreira, Vygandas Simbelis, Bob Corish,
January 2013
ACM
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On the naturalness of touchless: putting the “interaction― back into NUI
Kenton O'Hara, Richard Harper, Helena Mentis, Abigail Sellen, Alex Taylor
January 2013
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
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Measuring social behaviour as an indicator of experience
Siân Lindley, Andrew F. Monk
January 2013
Taylor & Francis
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At the interface of biology and computation
Alex Taylor, Nir Piterman, Samin Ishtiaq, Jasmin Fisher, Byron Cook, Caitlin Cockerton, Sam
Bourton, David Benque
January 2013
ACM
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Dynamic Spatial Positioning: Physical Collaboration Around Interactive Tables
by Children in India
Izdihar Jamil, Mark Perry, Sriram Subramanian, Kenton O'Hara,
January 2013
International Federation of Information Processing
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Tech-tied or tongue-tied? Technological versus social trouble in relational video
calling
Sean Rintel
January 2013
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Making sense of big text: A visual-first approach for analysing text data using
Leximancer and Discursis
Daniel Angus, Sean Rintel, Janet Wiles
November 2012
Taylor & Francis
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Lost in Translation: Understanding the Possession of Digital Things in the Cloud
Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, Eno Thereska
May 2012
ACM
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Computer-mediated collage: Notes and future directions
Jonathan Bean, Siân Lindley
May 2012
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Technology heirlooms? Considerations for passing down and inheriting digital
materials
William Odom, Richard Banks, Richard Harper, David Kirk, Siân Lindley, Abigail Sellen
May 2012
ACM
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Before I forget: From personal memory to family history
Siân Lindley
April 2012
Taylor & Francis
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(DIY)biology and opportunities for HCI
Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex Taylor, Eric Paulos, Carl DiSalvo, Tad Hirsch
April 2012
ACM
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At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI
Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex Taylor, Tim Regan, Nicolas Villar, Eric Paulos
April 2012
ACM
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“It’s simply integral to what I do―: Enquiries into how the web is
weaved into everyday life
Siân Lindley, Sam Meek, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper
April 2012
International World Wide Web Conference
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ZZFS: A hybrid device and cloud file system for spontaneous users
Michelle L. Mazurek, Eno Thereska, Dinan Gunawardena, Richard Harper, James Scott
February 2012
USENIX
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The Role of Physical Controllers in Motion Video Gaming
Dustin Freeman, Otmar Hilliges, Otmar Hilliges, Abigail Sellen, Kenton O'Hara, Shahram Izadi,
Ken Woodberry
January 2012
ACM
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BMA: visual tool for modeling and analyzing biological networks
David Benque, Sam Bourton, Caitlin Cockerton, Byron Cook, Jasmin Fisher, Samin Ishtiaq, Nir
Piterman, Alex Taylor, Moshe Y. Vardi
January 2012
Springer-Verlag
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A design perspective on three technology heirlooms
Richard Banks, David Kirk, Abigail Sellen
January 2012
ACM
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Interaction design and emotional wellbeing
David Coyle, Conor Linehan, Karen Tang, Siân Lindley
January 2012
ACM
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Food for talk: Phototalk and commensality
Kenton O'Hara, John Helmes, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, Martin Bhomer, Elise van den
Hoven,
January 2012
ACM
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Socio-technical lifelogging: Deriving design principles for a future proof digital
past
Steve Whittaker, Vaiva Kalnakaite, Daniella Petrelli, Abigail Sellen, Nicolas Villar, Ofer
Bergman, P Clough, J Brockmeier
January 2012
ACM
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At home with surface computing
David Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Richard Banks, Otmar Hilliges, Stuart Taylor
January 2012
ACM
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Shades of lightweight: Supporting cross-generational communication through
home messaging
Siân Lindley
January 2012
Springer
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Towards a More Cherishable Digital Object
Connie Golsteijn, Elise van den Hoven, David Frohlich, Abigail Sellen
January 2012
ACM
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The Evolution of Fail Pets: Strategic Whimsy and Brand Awareness in Error
Messages
Sean Rintel
November 2011
UX Magazine
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What is a File?
Richard Harper, Eno Thereska, Siân Lindley, Richard Banks, Gavin Smyth
October 2011
Microsoft Research
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The Future of Writing
Professor Anthony Dunne, Richard Banks, Alex Taylor, Onkar Kular, David Benqué, Dash
Macdonald, Demitrios Kargotis, Kobe Barhad, Nicolas Myers, Sascha Pohflepp, Chris Woebken,
Kellenberger–White, Tim Regan
October 2011
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Mechanical hijacking: how robots can accelerate UbiComp deployments
Scott Davidoff, Nicolas Villar, Alex Taylor, Shahram Izadi
September 2011
ACM
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The future of looking back
Richard Banks
September 2011
Microsoft
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Sketching in software and hardware Bluetooth as a design material
Petra Sundström, Alex Taylor, Kenton O'Hara,
August 2011
ACM
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The secret life of teens: online versus offline photographic displays at home
Abigail Durrant, David Frohlich, Abigail Sellen, David Uzzell
June 2011
Routledge
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Antiquarian answers: book restoration as a resource for design
Daniela K. Rosner, Alex Taylor
May 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Inspirational bits: towards a shared understanding of the digital material
Petra Sundström, Alex Taylor, Katja Grufberg, Niklas Wirström, Jordi Solsona Belenguer,
Marcus Lundén
May 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
A VJ Centered Exploration of Expressive Interaction
David Green, John McCarthy, Stuart Taylor, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier
May 2011
ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
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Out there
Alex Taylor
May 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Passing on memories in later life
Siân Lindley
May 2011
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Pdf
“Oh and how things just don’t change, the more things stay the same―:
Reflections on SenseCam images 18 months after capture
Siân Lindley, Maxine Glancy, Richard Harper, Dave Randall, Nicola Smyth
May 2011
Elsevier
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Pdf
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Web
Social Digital Objects for Grandparents
Graham Pullin, Jon Rogers, Richard Banks, Tim Regan, Ali Napier, Polly Duplock
April 2011
Royal College of Art, London
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Web
(Whose) value-sensitive design: A study of long-distance relationships in an
Arabic cultural context
Tamara Alsheikh, Jennifer A. Rode, Siân Lindley
March 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Meerkat and Tuba: design alternatives for randomness, surprise and serendipity
in reminiscing
John Helmes, Kenton O'Hara, Nicolas Villar, Alex Taylor
February 2011
Interact
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Matters of life and death: locating the end of life in lifespan-oriented hci research
Michael Massimi, William Odom, Richard Banks, David Kirk
January 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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A Sense of Body
Richard Harper
January 2011
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Blended Interaction Spaces
Kenton O'Hara, Jesper Kjeldskov, Jeni Paay
January 2011
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
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The effects of interaction techniques on talk patterns in collaborative peer
learning around interactive tables
Izdihar Jamil, Mark Perry, Kenton O'Hara
January 2011
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Exploring the potential for touchless interaction in image-guided interventional
radiology
Rose Johnson, Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen, Claire Cousins, Antonio Criminisi,
January 2011
ACM
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Rudiments 1, 2 & 3: design speculations on autonomy
John Helmes, Alex Taylor, Xiang Cao, Kristina Höök, Peter Schmitt, Nicolas Villar
January 2011
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Making Public Media Personal: Nostalgia and Reminiscence in the Office
Paul Andre, Abigail Sellen, m.c. schraefel, Ken Wood
January 2011
ACM
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Embodiment in brain-computer interaction
Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper,
January 2011
ACM
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Sociable killers: understanding social relationships in an online first-person
shooter game
Abigail Sellen, Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel, Xiang Cao
January 2011
ACM
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Designing through making: exploring the simple haptic design space
Camille Moussette, Richard Banks
January 2011
ACM
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Conversational management of network trouble perturbations in personal
videoconferencing
Sean Rintel
December 2010
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
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Web
Reciprocity, Deep Storage and Letting go: opportunities for designing
interactions with inherited digital materials
William Odom, Richard Banks, David Kirk
September 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Design’s processional character
Laurel Swan, Diana Tanase, Alex Taylor
August 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
On human remains: Value and practice in the home archiving of cherished
objects.
David Kirk, Abigail Sellen
July 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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FerroSynth: A Ferromagnetic Music Interface
Stuart Taylor, Jonathan Hook,
June 2010
Microsoft Research
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Beyond total capture: A constructive critique of lifelogging
Abigail Sellen, Steve Whittaker
May 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Pdf
Who’s Hogging the Bandwidth?: The Consequences Of Revealing The Invisible
In the Home
Marshini Chetty, Richard Banks, Richard Harper, Tim Regan, Abigail Sellen, Christos
Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Peter Key
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Understanding online communication through Arab eyes
Siân Lindley, Jennifer A. Rode, Tamara Alsheikh
April 2010
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Now let me see where I was: Understanding how Lifelogs mediate memory
Vaiva Kalnikaite, Abigail Sellen, Steve Whittaker, Dave Kirk
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems
Alex Taylor, Nicolas Villar
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Passing on and putting to rest: Understanding bereavement in the context of
interactive technologies
Will Odom, Richard Harper, Abigail Sellen, Dave Kirk, Richard Banks
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Visible and controllable RFID tags
Alex Taylor, Nicolas Villar
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Designing a technological playground: A field study of the emergence of play in
household messaging
Siân Lindley, Richard Harper, Abigail Sellen
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Graspables revisited: multi-touch vs. tangible input for tabletop displays in
acquisition and manipulation tasks
David Kirk, Shahram Izadi
April 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Remembering rituals of remembrance: Capturing Xantolo through SenseCam
Siân Lindley, Eduardo H. Calvillo Gámez, Juan José Gámez Leija
April 2010
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Telling the whole story: Anticipation, inspiration and reputation in a field
deployment of TellTable
Siân Lindley, John Helmes, Abigail Sellen, Xiang Cao
February 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Web
Opening Up the Family Archive
Dave Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stuart Taylor, Richard Banks, Otmar Hilliges
February 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Understanding Family Communication across Time Zones
Xiang Cao, Abigail Sellen, A.J. Brush, Dave Kirk, Darren Edge, Xianghua Ding
January 2010
ACM
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Home video communication: Mediating “closeness”
Dave Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Xiang Cao
January 2010
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
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Horizontal Interactive Surfaces in Distributed Assemblies
Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Kenton O'Hara
January 2010
Springer
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This project explores the use of new touchless technology in medical practice. With advances in
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