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The Digital Rubber Hand Illusion (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aldhous, J., Hetherington, R., & Turner, P. (2017). The Digital Rubber Hand Illusion. In Proceedings of British HCI 2017 – Digital Make-Believe. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.59

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a body ownership illusion whereby congruently stroking a fake rubber hand and a subject's hidden hand while observing the rubber hand produces the illusion of them feeling the touch on the rubber hand and experiencin... Read More about The Digital Rubber Hand Illusion.

The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., Turner, P., & Banach, A. (2016, June). The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park. Presented at 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children - IDC '16

This is a demonstration of a Minecraft facsimile of Jupiter Artland, a sculpture park on the outskirts of Edinburgh. With the cooperation of primary school children we developed a mixed reality game employing Minecraft. Our aim is to investigate atta... Read More about The Ensoulment of Virtual Space Minecraft as a Tool for Engaging With a Sculpture Park.

It's not interaction, it's make believe. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Carruthers, L. (2014). It's not interaction, it's make believe. In Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637248.2637266

A principal, but largely unexplored, use of our cognition when using interacting technology involves pretending. To pretend is to believe that which is not the case, for example, when we use the desktop on our personal computer we are pretending, tha... Read More about It's not interaction, it's make believe..

Looking at technology with Parkour eyes. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., & Turner, P. (2014, June). Looking at technology with Parkour eyes. Paper presented at Interaction Design and Children

This workshop paper discusses the theme of repurposing and its relationship to appropriation. By centering on the social, cultural aspect of appropriation we link it to affordance through structuration theory. We argue that children view technology w... Read More about Looking at technology with Parkour eyes..

Soundscapes and repertory grids: comparing listeners’ and a designer’s experiences. (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., & Turner, P. (2012). Soundscapes and repertory grids: comparing listeners’ and a designer’s experiences. In P. Turner, S. Turner, & I. McGregor (Eds.), ECCE 2012 (131-137). https://doi.org/10.1145/2448136.2448164

This paper reports on establishing whether listeners have the same listening experience as the person who designed the sound. Surprisingly, there is little or no evidence as to whether what is designed to be heard is what is actually heard. The study... Read More about Soundscapes and repertory grids: comparing listeners’ and a designer’s experiences..

My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2011). My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. In ECCE '11 Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (149-156). https://doi.org/10.11

Motivation -- to explore the nature and dimensions of attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts and explicate any differences in emotional attachment between digital and non-digital artefacts. Research approach -- Repertory grid based study... Read More about My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts..

Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Larsson, P., & Turner, P. (2011). Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences. In ECCE '11: Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (89-92). https

This paper illustrates a method for the early evaluation of auditory displays in context. A designer was questioned about his expectations of an auditory display for Heavy Goods Vehicles, and the results were compared to the experiences of 10 listene... Read More about Evaluating a vehicle auditory display: comparing a designer's expectations with listeners' experiences.

The role of appropriation in the design of engaging artefacts (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flint, T., & Turner, P. (2011, May). The role of appropriation in the design of engaging artefacts. Paper presented at Re-Thinking Technology in Museums 2011

Creating engaging artefacts is a key objective for anyone involved in the design and implementation of interactive media. This is particularly true for those artefacts that comprise, complement and enliven modern museums. While recognising that engag... Read More about The role of appropriation in the design of engaging artefacts.

Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Burrows, L., Turner, S., & Turner, P. (2010). Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze. In M. Neerincx, & W. Brinkman (Eds.), Proceedings of ECCE 2010

Motivation – The work described in this paper investigated the potential of a low fidelity desktop application using the metaphor of the ‘tourist gaze’ in conveying a sense of place. Research approach – An exploratory study was used, in which an app... Read More about Re-creating Edinburgh: adopting the tourist gaze..

The Anatomy of Engagement. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P. (2010). The Anatomy of Engagement. In ECCE 2010

Soundscape mapping: a tool for evaluating sounds and auditory environments (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., LePlâtre, G., Turner, P., & Flint, T. (2010). Soundscape mapping: a tool for evaluating sounds and auditory environments. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Auditory Display

This paper describes a soundscape mapping tool, and provides an illustration of its use in the evaluation of an in-car auditory interface. The tool addresses three areas: communicating what people are listening to, showing how soundscapes can be visu... Read More about Soundscape mapping: a tool for evaluating sounds and auditory environments.

User experience at Edinburgh Napier University. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, S., & Turner, P. (2010, February). User experience at Edinburgh Napier University. Paper presented at BCS workshop on user experience competencies

Practical interaction design. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2009). Practical interaction design. In HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our education (18-19)

Practical Interaction Design (PID) is a method for teaching interaction design. It incorporates elements of ‘pure’ interaction design and human–computer interaction (HCI) to convey some of the playful flavour of the former with the tool-rich pra... Read More about Practical interaction design..

Do web pages have personalities? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Wilson, L. (2009). Do web pages have personalities?. In L. Norros, H. Koskinen, L. Salo, & P. Savioja (Eds.), Designing beyond the Product – (53-60)

We are fundamentally social animals: we are geared to understanding each other; to gauging each other's moods and states of mind; and we are very adept at judging each others personalities. This ability to judge personality can also be generalized to... Read More about Do web pages have personalities?.

Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sobolewska, E., Smith, C. F., & Turner, P. (2009, April). Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise. Paper presented at HCI Educators 2009

The teaching and perhaps more importantly the practice of ethnographic techniques has become increasing important within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). But ethnography is also synonymous with in situ data collection over extended periods of time m... Read More about Auto-ethnography: problems, pitfalls and promise.

Listening, corporeality and presence (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & McGregor, I. (2007). Listening, corporeality and presence. In PRESENCE 2007: The 10th Annual International Workshop on Presence (43-49)

The use of sound to create or enhance the sense of presence is well recognized and the measurements of which have focused on hearing, e.g. “were you able to identify a particular sound?”, “how well could you localize the sounds”. To this treatment of... Read More about Listening, corporeality and presence.

Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davenport, E., Turner, P., & Van de Walle, G. (2006, July). Inclusion or alienation? computer literacy in a group of older people. Paper presented at IFIP 8.2 Working Conference on Social Exclusion--Societal and Organisational Implications for Information

Reliving VE day with activated schemata. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Tzovaras, D. (2005). Reliving VE day with activated schemata. In Proc. 8th International Workshop on Presence (33-38)

This paper reports some preliminary work on the IntoMyWorld candidate Presence II project. One of the key components of IntoMyWorld is a mixed reality ‘album’ of important events. The album will contain entries which will allow people, for exampl... Read More about Reliving VE day with activated schemata..

Familiarity as changing perception. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Davenport, E., & Van de Walle, G. (2004). Familiarity as changing perception. In D. J. Reed, G. Baxter, & M. Blythe (Eds.), Twelfth European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (171-179)

Care and involvement: a classification of user experience. (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Davenport, E., & Turner, S. (2004). Care and involvement: a classification of user experience. In P. Turner, E. Davenport, & S. Turner (Eds.), Second Workshop on Space, Spatiality and Technologies