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Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2007). Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. In Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference HCI 07 (193-194)

The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised conversational interface, one that knows and understands its owner, and can... Read More about Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet..

Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007). Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. In Digital Human Modeling (120-129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73321-8_14

The research presented here makes a contribution to the understanding of the recognition of biological motion by comparing human recognition of a set of everyday gestures and motions with machine interpretation of the same dataset. Our reasoning is t... Read More about Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions.

Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites (2007)
Book Chapter
Benyon, D. (2007). Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites. In P. Zaphiris, & S. Kurniawan (Eds.), Human Computer Interaction Research in Web Design and Evaluation (165-184). Hershey, Pa. ; London,: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018

Information architecture concerns how to structure the content of an information space. Information architects design information spaces. Staying with the notion of information space leads us to the realisation that people need to be able to both con... Read More about Information Architecture and Navigation Design for Web Sites.

Establishing key dimensions for reifying soundfields and soundscapes from auditory professionals. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2007). Establishing key dimensions for reifying soundfields and soundscapes from auditory professionals. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Auditory Display (364-371)

This paper presents a unique insight into the way acousticians, computing specialists and sound designers describe the dimensions of sound they use. Seventy-five audio professionals completed a detailed questionnaire created to elicit common definiti... Read More about Establishing key dimensions for reifying soundfields and soundscapes from auditory professionals..

Place and technology in the home. (2007)
Journal Article
Baillie, L., & Benyon, D. (2007). Place and technology in the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 17, 227-256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-007-9063-2

The home is a complex environment, designed for general use but shaped by individual needs and desires. It is a place often shared by several people with different demands and requirements. It is a place embedded with technologies utilised at various... Read More about Place and technology in the home..

Designing with blends: Conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering methods. (2007)
Book
Imaz, M., & Benyon, D. (2007). Designing with blends: Conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering methods. MIT Press

This work talks about how recent research in cognitive science offers new ways to understand the interaction of people and computers and develops a new literacy for well-informed, sensitive software design. The evolution of the concept of mind in cog... Read More about Designing with blends: Conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering methods..