Outputs (16)

SOLAS 128 (2021)
Digital Artefact
Methven, T. (2021). SOLAS 128. [software]

Award-winning game launched on Steam and Switch. Project lead - developer, game and puzzle designer. Published by Armor Games Studios, and designed with accessibility in mind. Explore SOLAS 128, a game of interconnected puzzles where you redirect... Read More about SOLAS 128.

Tiny Teams Festival 2020 (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Methven, T. (2020). Tiny Teams Festival 2020. [https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tinyteamsfestival / https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1257850/view/2729697381088908335]. Exhibited at Steam. 9 August 2020 - 15 August 2020. (Unpublished)

UK-based entertainment company Yogscast Games and the Yogscast network today announced the first ever Tiny Teams Indie Festival. This festival aims to shine a spotlight on games from indie micro-studios and will be broadcast live on Steam and Twit... Read More about Tiny Teams Festival 2020.

Improving User Confidence in Concept Maps: Exploring Data Driven Explanations (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Le Bras, P., Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2018). Improving User Confidence in Concept Maps: Exploring Data Driven Explanations. In CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173978

Automated tools are increasingly being used to generate highly engaging concept maps as an aid to strategic planning and other decision-making tasks. Unless stakeholders can understand the principles of the underlying layout process, however, we have... Read More about Improving User Confidence in Concept Maps: Exploring Data Driven Explanations.

Image-based Emotion Feedback: How Does the Crowd Feel? And Why? (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Kalkreuter, B., & Chantler, M. J. (2017). Image-based Emotion Feedback: How Does the Crowd Feel? And Why?. In DIS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (451-463). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064665

In previous work we developed a method for interior designers to receive image-based feedback about a crowd’s emotions when viewing their designs. Although the designers clearly desired a service which provided the new style of feedback, we wanted to... Read More about Image-based Emotion Feedback: How Does the Crowd Feel? And Why?.

Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Robb, D. A., & Chantler, M. J. (2017). Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas. In CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (815-827). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025977

Research into creating visualisations that organise ideas into concise concept maps often focuses on implicit mathematical and statistical theories which are built around algorithmic efficacy or visual complexity. Although there are multiple techniqu... Read More about Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas.

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words but Can it Paint Just One? (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Kalkreuter, B., & Chantler, M. J. (2016). A Picture Paints a Thousand Words but Can it Paint Just One?. In DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (959-970). https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901791

Imagery and language are often seen as serving different aspects of cognition, with cognitive styles theories proposing that people can be visual or verbal thinkers. Most feedback systems, however, only cater to verbal thinkers. To help rectify this,... Read More about A Picture Paints a Thousand Words but Can it Paint Just One?.

Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2016). Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking. In CSCW '16 Companion Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion (90-93). https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2874333

We have developed a method and system that uses mutually agreed problem structuring and self-selection to bring together meeting attendees with complementary interests. The method builds upon previous tools which facilitate structuring and to these w... Read More about Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking.

What To Study In HCI? A Reflection Based On CHI and UK Research Data (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Robb, D. A., & Chantler, M. J. (2015, April). What To Study In HCI? A Reflection Based On CHI and UK Research Data. Presented at What to Study in HCI? Workshop at CHI’15: 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

HCI is a wide, varied, and complex field that covers a broad spectrum of research. We therefore believe that there is no simple answer to the question 'what to study in HCI?' To shed some light on it, however, we reflect on this question with the aid... Read More about What To Study In HCI? A Reflection Based On CHI and UK Research Data.

I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2015). I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search. In CSCW'15 Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (29-32). https://doi.org/10.1145/2685553.2702678

We present PaperPilot1 (bit.ly/paperpilot) a new tool which performs smart collaborator search using research concepts automatically extracted from the CSCW domain, as characterized by 5,516 papers taken from four conferences in the area. PaperPilot... Read More about I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search.

Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., & Chandler, M. J. (2014, September). Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI. Paper presented at HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI, Southport, UK

We have applied topic modelling to the full-text British HCI and CHI corpora in order to automatically derive one hundred topics and their trends. We use these to compare the distributions of topics and changing foci of two conferences over the last... Read More about Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI.