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Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A. N., May, A., Warren, J., & Oakley, I. (2014, April). Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions. Presented at 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tangible interaction is a compelling interface paradigm that elegantly merges the fluency of physical manipulation with the flexibility of digital content. However, it is currently challenging to understand the real benefits and advantages of tangibl... Read More about Classifying physical strategies in tangible tasks: a video-coding framework for epistemic actions.

TouchCloud: An Exploratory Study in Physically Tagging the Cloud. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abreu Esteves, A., Quintal, F., & Oakley, I. (2014, February). TouchCloud: An Exploratory Study in Physically Tagging the Cloud. Poster presented at International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

Informing design by recording tangible interaction. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2011). Informing design by recording tangible interaction. . https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979893

Evaluating tangible user interfaces is challenging. Despite the wealth of research describing the design of tangible systems, there is little empirical evidence highlighting the benefits they can confer. This paper presents a toolkit that logs the ma... Read More about Informing design by recording tangible interaction..

Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2011, January). Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines. Presented at The 5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 2011

This paper presents Eco Planner, a tangible system that aims to encourage users to behave more sustainably. It is based on a tabletop system showing a tabular view on which users can manipulate tokens to express and observe information about their da... Read More about Eco Planner: A Tabletop System for Scheduling Sustainable Routines.

Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2010). Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (643-646). https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868994

Tangible interaction promises interfaces with ready affordances, which embrace physicality and which naturally support collaboration. However, the complexity of the hardware required to produce tangible systems has typically constrained their operati... Read More about Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel.

WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week (2017)
Exhibition / Performance
Verweij, D., Abreu Esteves, A., Khan, V., & Bakker, S. WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week. Exhibited at Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 21 October 2017 - 29 October 2017. (Unpublished)

Every design has its own story, a story about ideas, exploring, decisions and adaptations. During Mind the Story, the lecture program that accompanies Mind the Step, the focus is on people involved in the design process. As user, client, organization... Read More about WaveTrace Demo at the Dutch Design Week.

On and Offline Tangible Interaction: Studying the Secret Lives of Augmented Objects (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oakley, I., & Esteves, A. (2013). On and Offline Tangible Interaction: Studying the Secret Lives of Augmented Objects. In 2013 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR). https://doi.org/10.1109/isuvr.2013.12

The smart, augmented objects that appear in systems that support tangible interaction have a dual life. While they can exhibit complex digital behaviors in the technological context they are designed for, they are also static, standard physical objec... Read More about On and Offline Tangible Interaction: Studying the Secret Lives of Augmented Objects.

Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, C., Esteves, A., & McGregor, I. (2017, November). Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events. Presented at Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI 2017

This paper explores the use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) as a way to deliver a front row experience to any audience member during a live event. To do so, it presents a two-part user study that compares participants reported sense of presence acros... Read More about Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events.

Maker Movements, Do-It-Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design: Implications for HCI Research (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smyth, M., Helgason, I., Kresin, F., Balestrini, M., Unteidig, A. B., Lawson, S., Gaved, M., Taylor, N., Auger, J., Hansen, L. K., Schuler, D. C., Woods, M., & Dourish, P. (2018, April). Maker Movements, Do-It-Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design: Implications for HCI Research. Presented at 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '18, Montreal, Canada

Falling costs and the wider availability of computational components, platforms and ecosystems have enabled the expansion of maker movements and DIY cultures. This can be considered as a form of democratization of technology systems design, in alignm... Read More about Maker Movements, Do-It-Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design: Implications for HCI Research.

Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination (2018)
Report
Campbell, K., & Johnston, L. (2018). Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination. Scotland: Macmillan Cancer Support

This Bulletin presents the evidence and learning on the implementation of holistic needs assessment (HNA) within 11 completed local projects from the national evaluative perspective. The data sources used are given in Appendix One. It focuses on dif... Read More about Transforming Care After Treatment Partnership, Integration and Co-ordination.

Quality of life among survivors of prolonged critical illness; a mixed methods study (2008)
Journal Article
Ramsay, P., Huby, G., Thompson, A., & Walsh, T. (2007). Quality of life among survivors of prolonged critical illness; a mixed methods study. Critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Forum, 12(Suppl 2), (P508). ISSN 1364-8535

Introduction: Survivors of prolonged critical illness (requiring ≥ 14 days ventilation) experience the highest prevalence and severest forms of critical illness-related morbidity. This study examines the degree to which generic questionnaires reflec... Read More about Quality of life among survivors of prolonged critical illness; a mixed methods study.

Reducing delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome and other time-critical conditions: a systematic review to identify the behaviour change techniques associated with effective interventions (2019)
Journal Article
Farquharson, B., Abhyankar, P., Smith, K., Dombrowski, S. U., Treweek, S., Dougall, N., Williams, B., & Johnston, M. (2019). Reducing delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome and other time-critical conditions: a systematic review to identify the behaviour change techniques associated with effective interventions. Open Heart, 6(1), Article e000975. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2018-000975

Background: Time to treatment in many conditions, particularly acute coronary syndrome, is critical to reducing mortality. Delay between onset of symptoms and treatment remains a worldwide problem. Reducing patient delay has been particularly challen... Read More about Reducing delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome and other time-critical conditions: a systematic review to identify the behaviour change techniques associated with effective interventions.

Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model. (2018)
Journal Article
Adamson, L. (2018). Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 6(3), 91-96. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v6i3.376

This on the horizon article proposes a relational model for enabling the development of skills and attributes associated with ‘compassionate craftsmanship’ in the developing nurse. This pedagogic model was informed by findings from the author’s res... Read More about Helping Student Nurses Learn the Craft of Compassionate Care: A Relational Model..

Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Esteves, A., Quintal, F., Caires, F., Baptista, V., & Mendes, P. (2019). Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input. In 2019 5th Experiment International Conference (exp.at'19). https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2019.8876565

This paper presents Wattom, a highly interactive ambient eco-feedback smart plug that aims to promote a more sustainable use of electricity in the home. This paper describes our latest implementation of the Wattom plug, and three system applications.... Read More about Wattom: Ambient Eco-feedback with Mid-air Input.

Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGowan, J., Leplatre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics. In Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.67

What does music look like? Representation of sound has taken many forms over time, from sinusoidal wave patterns, through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the amplitude of an audio signal. One aspect of music visualisation that has n... Read More about Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics.

The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Egan, C., Thompson, R., & O'Dowd, A. (2019). The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3338103.3338110

In light of the devastating ecological effects of climate breakdown and with human well-being under severe stress, this paper presents The Lions' Gate-an in-development, urban, interactive permaculture project on-campus in Edinburgh, Scotland. We arg... Read More about The Lions' Gate: Towards a Permaculture-inspired Blended Space.

Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients (2019)
Journal Article
Kelly, L. J., Snowden, A., Paterson, R., & Campbell, K. (2019). Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients. British Journal of Nursing, 28(14), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2019.28.14.S4

Background The literature on patient experience of living with a central venous access device (CVAD) is growing, but remains sparse. It suggests that patients accept CVADs as should reduce episodes of repeated cannulations. However, a recent doctor... Read More about Health professionals' lack of knowledge of central venous access devices: the impact on patients.

Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science (2018)
Journal Article
Mocanu, D. C., Mocanu, E., Stone, P., Nguyen, P. H., Gibescu, M., & Liotta, A. (2018). Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 2383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04316-3

Through the success of deep learning in various domains, artificial neural networks are currently among the most used artificial intelligence methods. Taking inspiration from the network properties of biological neural networks (e.g. sparsity, scale-... Read More about Scalable training of artificial neural networks with adaptive sparse connectivity inspired by network science.

Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks (2017)
Journal Article
Torres Vega, M., Koonen, A. M. J., Liotta, A., & Famaey, J. (2018). Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7(2), 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1109/lwc.2017.2771771

In light of the extreme radio congestion, the time has come to consider the upper parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical beam-steered wireless communications offer great potential for future indoor short-range connectivity, due to virtually u... Read More about Fast Millimeter Wave Assisted Beam-Steering for Passive Indoor Optical Wireless Networks.