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Haptic User Experience Evaluation for Virtual Reality
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aldhous, J., Sobolewska, E., & Webster, G. (2022, July). Haptic User Experience Evaluation for Virtual Reality. Presented at 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI2022), Keele, Staffordshire

Hapticians (engineers, researchers or designers) are developing 'haptic displays' to replicate the complexity of sensations and interactivity accommodated by the hand. Haptic displays hold potential in allowing users to interact with each other and m... Read More about Haptic User Experience Evaluation for Virtual Reality.

Corralling Culture as a Concept in LIS Research
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020, October). Corralling Culture as a Concept in LIS Research. Presented at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology, Virtual

Individuals’ cultural backgrounds influence their use of societal resources, including libraries. A literature search and review was completed on the treatment of culture in library and information science (LIS) in the body of work on information beh... Read More about Corralling Culture as a Concept in LIS Research.

Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Webster, G., & Ryan, F. (2020, September). Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy. Presented at ISIC 2020 The Information Behaviour conference, Pretoria, South Africa

The increasing dependence on social media and other online systems as part of everyday life has grown considerably over the years. At the same time, the complexity and security of online systems has also been increasing, making it more challenging fo... Read More about Assisting Information Practice: From Information Intermediary To Social Proxy.

What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Brazier, D., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2022, October). What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants. Presented at Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference ASIS&T 2022, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Public libraries offer important services for newcomer populations, including forced migrants. They help facilitate the integration of forced migrants into the host country, increase their levels of trust within new communities, and build social capi... Read More about What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants.

The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020, September). The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland. Presented at ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) 2020, Pretoria, South Africa

Introduction - Individuals’ cultural backgrounds influence their use of societal resources, including those offered in public libraries. Well-established in library research are explorations of the benefits of public library use to new-comer communit... Read More about The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland.

Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020, September). Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries. Presented at ISIC (Information Seeking In Context) 2020, Pretoria, South Africa

Introduction - Library researchers are often concerned with the factors that affect individual use of public library resources. To date, culture as a determinant of public library use has not been fully explored across all public library populations.... Read More about Investigating the ‘why’ rather than the ‘how’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries.

'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Webster, G., & Smith, C. (2018, October). 'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity. Presented at ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Krakow, Poland

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present empirical research which examines the ways youth workers in the United Kingdom perceive their work in the context of digital literacy project facilitation. There is currently limited research focusing on d... Read More about 'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity..

Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Webster, G., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017, July). Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play. Presented at The 2017 British Human Computer Interaction Conference, Sunderland, UK

This paper examines young people’s participation in digital culture and current approaches to measure its social impact. The analysis of the literature presented here reveals current scholarly understanding of the value of digital youth culture, soci... Read More about Evaluating the social impact of youth digital culture co-creation: let’s participate and play.

Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Sripada, S. G., Mellish, C., Melero, Y., Arts, K., Lambin, X., & Wal, R. V. D. (2014, April). Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study. Presented at Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation

If an NLG system needs to be put in place as soon as possible it is not always possible to know in advance who the us-ers of a system are or what kind of in-formation will interest them. This paper describes the development of a system and contextual... Read More about Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study..

A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, H. H., Taylor, S., Webster, G., Jekjantuk, N., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., ap Rheinallt, T., & Byrne, K. (2014, November). A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates. Presented at 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand

This paper presents a lightweight approach to representing inexact dates on the semantic web, in that it imposes minimal ontological commitments on the ontology author and provides data that can be queried using standard approaches. The approach is p... Read More about A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates.

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015, March). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. Presented at 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS).
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hanson, V. L., Webster, G., & Dennis, M. (2015, September). Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). Presented at INTERACT 2015: Human-Computer Interaction

We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe [1]. However, chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an increasing global obesity problem still cause a growing number of premature... Read More about Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS)..

CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, H. H., Beel, D., Webster, G., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., & Wallace, C. (2014, November). CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas. Presented at 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand

As mobile devices proliferate and their computational power has increased rapidly over recent years, mobile applications have become a popular choice for visitors to enhance their travelling experience. However, most tourist mobile apps currently use... Read More about CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas.

Youth digital participation: measuring social impact
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Smith, C. F., & Webster, G. (2017, June). Youth digital participation: measuring social impact. Paper presented at i3 - information: interactions and impact

1.Introduction
The concept of ‘youth participation’ has developed since the early 2000s in a time during which young people's everyday lives have become more heavily influenced and shaped by ‘multimodal, interactive, convergent, and networked media’... Read More about Youth digital participation: measuring social impact.