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Presence and consciousness. (2009)
Book Chapter
Turner, P. (2009). Presence and consciousness. In D. Benyon, M. Smyth, & I. Helgason (Eds.), Presence for everyone: a short guide to presence research (21-24). Peach Consortium

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..

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008, April). Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. Presented at Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08

Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simply interact with them. They may do this through having behaviours that encou... Read More about Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships.

Hearing Abilities Assessment (2024)
Patent
McGregor, I. (2024). Hearing Abilities Assessment. W O 2024/041821 A1. World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau

A method for assessing hearing abilities of a human person having two ears, the method comprising: - providing two audio signals to two respective ear speakers at a person's corresponding ears; - measuring at least one value of at least one parameter... Read More about Hearing Abilities Assessment.

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). Visualising the soundfield and soundscape: extending Macaulay and Crerar’s 1998 method. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display

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). PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. In Proceedings of CHI Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop

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..

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.

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..

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.

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

ALT text and basic accessibility (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., & Weerts, B. (2007). ALT text and basic accessibility. In D. Ramduny-Ellis, & D. Rachovides (Eds.), People and computers XXI : HCI-- but not as we know it : proceedings of HCI 2007, the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference (1-4)

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.

The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. (2006)
Journal Article
McCall, R., Benyon, D., Smyth, M., O'Neill, S., McCall, R., & Carroll, F. (2006). The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.15.6.668

This paper describes the design, application, and refinement of a qualitative tool designed to study sense of place. The Place Probe incorporates a range of stimuli and techniques aimed at articulating a person's sense of place. It has been developed... Read More about The place probe: exploring a sense of place in real and virtual environments..

Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2006). Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments. In World Forum on Acoustic Ecology Conference (334-344)

This paper reports an empirical study to investigate how individuals perceive and classify elements of their workplace auditory environments. The participants were 18 university employees chosen for their varying degrees of room occupancy, from singl... Read More about Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments.

Familiarity as a basis for universal design (2006)
Journal Article
Walle, G. V. D., Turner, P., Turner, P., & Van de Walle, G. (2006). Familiarity as a basis for universal design. Gerontechnology : international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society, 5(3), 150-159. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2006.05.03.004.00

The aim of Universal Design is to make interactive artifacts usable by the broadest possible range of users and how best to achieve this lies at the heart of human-computer interaction (H CI). HCI relies on a variety of tools , techniques and a num... Read More about Familiarity as a basis for universal design.