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Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2008, June). Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method. Presented at ICAD 2008: The 14th annual International Conference on Auditory Display, Paris, France

The introduction of effective auditory warnings into a shared environment requires a prior understanding of the existing soundfield and soundscape. Reifying the physical and perceptual auditory environment enables a form of pre-auditioning, as well a... Read More about Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method.

PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N., & Benyon, D. (2008, April). PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. Presented at CHI 2008 Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop, Florence, Italy

This short paper introduces the research of the 14 partner,
EU Framework 6 project, COMPANIONS. It focuses on
the development of PhotoPal, a multimodal system
harnessing the cutting edge of speech recognition, natural
language understanding and d... Read More about PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo..

Towards an account of intuitiveness (2008)
Journal Article
Turner, P. (2008). Towards an account of intuitiveness. Behaviour and Information Technology, 27(6), 475-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290701292330

Intuitive systems are usable systems. Design guidelines advocate intuitiveness and vendors claim it - but what does it mean for a user interface, interactive system, or device to be intuitive? A review of the use of the term 'intuitive' indicates tha... Read More about Towards an account of intuitiveness.

Being-with: A study of familiarity (2008)
Journal Article
Turner, P. (2008). Being-with: A study of familiarity. Interacting with Computers, 20(4-5), 447-454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2008.04.002

How people learn to use an interactive device has always been an important field of research in human-computer interaction (HCI). The theoretical bases of which have ranged from the traditional cognitive perspectives through situated learning to coll... Read More about Being-with: A study of familiarity.

People and Computers XXI - HCI… but not as we know it. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2007, September). People and Computers XXI - HCI… but not as we know it. Presented at 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

At first sight the two themes of this year’s People and
Computers volumes seem to send conflicting messages. On the one hand, “Happy 21st” suggests that British HCI as a
discipline has much to celebrate, having grown from its
inception at the 1985... Read More about People and Computers XXI - HCI… but not as we know it..

Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2007, September). Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet

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..

Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kettley, S., & Smyth, M. (2006, September). Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday. Presented at HCI Conference 2006

This short paper presents an experimental approach to the difficulty of evaluating interactive systems as artefacts for everyday life. The problem arises from the event-like nature of the user-centred evaluation session, as distinct from ‘being’ or t... Read More about Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday..

Listening, corporeality and presence (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & McGregor, I. (2007, October). Listening, corporeality and presence. Presented at PRESENCE 2007: The 10th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Barcelona, Spain

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.

Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, T., Lawson, S., Benyon, D., & Armitage, A. (2007, July). Comparison of human and machine recognition of everyday human actions. Presented at First International Conference on Digital Human Modeling, ICDHM 2007, Beijing, China

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.

Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kettley, S., Smyth, M., Arvind, D. K., Greig, F., McGregor, I., & Paechter, B. (2007, December). Ensemble: embodied experiences in a sound and jewellery installation. Presented at Create 07

ensemble - an interactive collection of networked jewellery with gesturally determined, real time sonic output

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). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-246-6.ch008

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.

A conference panel - but not as we know it! (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., England, D., O'Neill, E., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Finlay, J. (2007, September). A conference panel - but not as we know it!. Presented at 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference

This panel will take the form of a public debate about whether the conference of which it forms part has a future. Academic conferences are increasingly hard to cost-justify and growing awareness of the environmental impact adds to the negative aspec... Read More about A conference panel - but not as we know it!.

ALT text and basic accessibility (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., & Weerts, B. (2007, September). ALT text and basic accessibility. Presented at 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, UK

Recent surveys have shown that the majority of websites are not accessible. Despite legal obligations and the importance of the internet for disabled people, most websites fail to reach a basic level of accessibility, yet web developers are not short... Read More about ALT text and basic accessibility.

Place and technology in the home. (2007)
Journal Article
Baillie, L., & Benyon, D. (2008). Place and technology in the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 17(2-3), 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..

How older people account for their experiences with interactive technology (2007)
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Van de Walle, G. (2007). How older people account for their experiences with interactive technology. Behaviour and Information Technology, 26(4), 287-296. https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290601173499

We present a qualitative study, undertaken over a period of nine months, of older people facing the challenges of learning to use interactive technology, specifically personal computers (PCs) and the internet. We examine the range of causal explanati... Read More about How older people account for their experiences with interactive technology.

Establishing key dimensions for reifying soundfields and soundscapes from auditory professionals. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2007, June). Establishing key dimensions for reifying soundfields and soundscapes from auditory professionals. Presented at ICAD 2007: The 13th International Conference on Auditory Display, Montreal, Canada

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..