Publications

2008

• Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Dan Rosenfeld, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler, Jonathan Westhues. Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology with an Electronically Switchable Diffuser. In Proc. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08). October 2008.
• Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges. SideSight: Multi-"touch" interaction around small devices. In Proc. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '08). October 2008.
• Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Steve Hodges, Darren West, Malcolm Hall, Bill Buxton, Mike Molloy. Experiences with Building a Thin Form-factor Touch and Tangible Tabletop. In IEEE Symposium on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TableTop 08). October 2008. 
• Nicolas Villar. Flying Low: A minimalist wearable computer to curtail embarrassing situations. In Adj. Proc. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'08). September 2008.
• William Gaver, Andy Boucher, And Law, Sarah Pennington, John Bowers, Jacob Beaver, Jan Humble, Tobie Kerridge, Nicolas Villar, Alex Wilkie. Threshold Devices: looking out from the home. In Proc. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'08). April 2008.
• Yuvraj Agarwal, Steve Hodges, James Scott, Ranveer Chandra, Victor Bahl and Rajesh Gupta. Somniloquy: Maintaining network connectivity while your computer sleeps. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-42, March 2008
• Nishkam Ravi, James Scott, Lu Han and Liviu Iftode. Context-aware Battery Management for Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), Hong Kong, March 2008
• Thomas Seifried, Matt Jervis, Michael Haller, Masood Massodian, Nicolas Villar. Integration of Virtual and Real Document Organization. In Proc. Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference (TEI '08) . February 2008.
• Florian Block, Nicolas Villar, Hans Gellersen. A Malleable Physical Interface for Copying, Pasting, and Organizing Digital Clips. In Proc. Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference (TEI '08) . February 2008.

2007

• Izadi, S., Agarwal, A., Criminisi, A., Winn, J., Blake, A., Fitzgibbon. A. 2007. C-Slate: A Multi-Touch and Object Recognition System for Remote Collaboration using Horizontal Surfaces. In IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). IEEE Tabletop 2007.
• Agarwal, A., Izadi, S., Chandraker, M., Blake. A. 2007, High Precision Multi-touch Sensing on Surfaces using Overhead Cameras. In IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). IEEE Tabletop 2007.
• Taylor, S., Izadi, S., Ozenc, K. and Harper, R. VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction. In adjunct proceedings of IEEE Conference on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007). IEEE Tabletop 2007.
• Brown, B., Taylor, A., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., and Kaye, J. 2007. Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock. In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007). Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, London.
• Hodges, S., Izadi, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A. and Buxton , B. ThinSight: Versatile Multi-touch Sensing for Thin Form-factor Displays. Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology UIST '07, 259-268. (Best paper award)
• Hodges, S., Izadi, S., Butler, A. and Rrustemi, A. ThinSight: A new interaction technology for ubicomp. In Adjunct proceedings of 9th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Innsbruck, Austria, September 2007).
• Izadi, S., Hodges, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A., and Buxton, B. 2007. ThinSight: integrated optical multi-touch sensing through thin form-factor displays. In Proceedings of SIGRRAPH Emerging Displays Technologies: Images and Beyond – the Future of Displays and interaction (San Diego, California, August 04 - 04, 2007). SIGGRAPH EDT'07, vol. 252. ACM Press, New York, NY.
• Hodges, S., Thorne, T., Mallinson, H. and Floerkemeier, C. "Assessing and Optimizing the Range of UHF RFID to Enable Real-World Pervasive Computing Applications". In A. LaMarca et al. (Eds.): Pervasive 2007, LNCS 4480, pp. 280 – 297, 2007. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
• Berry, E., Kapur, N., Williams, L., Hodges, S., Watson, P., Smyth, G., Srinivasan, J., Smith, R., Wilson, B. and Wood, K. "The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with limbic encephalitis". Special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 2007, 17 (4/5), 582-681, “Encephalitis: Assessment and Rehabilitation Across the Lifespan (Special Issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation)”. ISBN: 978-1-84169-836-6.
• Bilgen, A. and Izadi, S. Using Cellphones to Interact with Public Displays from a Distance. In Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive Computing, 5th International Conference, PERVASIVE 2007, Toronto, Canada, May 13-16, 2007.
• Sellen, A., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., and Harper, R. 2006. The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 1307-1312.
• Sellen, A., Fogg, A., Hodges, S. and Wood, K. Do life-logging technologies support memory for the past? An experimental study using SenseCam. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, Irvine, CA, (2007), 81-90. (Honorable mention, Best of CHI Awards).
• Mallinson, H., Hodges, S., Thorne, A. A System to Test the Performance of RFID-Tagged Objects, saint-w, p. 23, 2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINTW'07).
• Tan, D., Sellen, A., Czerwinski, M., Bell, G., Gemmell, J., Wood, K., Robertson, G., Oliver, N., Berry, E., Hodges, S., and Kapur, N. "Supporting human memory with a personal digital lifetime store". In J. Teevan and W. Jones (Eds.), Personal Information Management: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Washington Press, 2007.

2006

• Sellen, A., Harper, R., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., Regan, T., Taylor, A. S., and Wood, K. R. 2006. HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home. In Proceedings of the 2006 20th Anniversary Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 04 - 08, 2006). CSCW '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 383-392.
• Harper, R & Hodges, S. "Beyond talk, beyond sound: Emotional expression and the future of mobile connectivity". In Höflich, J. & Hartmann, M. (Eds), Mobile Communication in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic View, Frank & Timme, 2006, ISBN 3865960413.
• Taylor, A. S., Eardley, R., Hodges, S., Regan, T., Sellen, A., Swan, L. and Wood, K. R. "Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more". Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Nordichi '06, Oslo, Norway, (2006), 115-124.
• Steve Hodges, Lyndsay Williams, Emma Berry, Shahram Izadi, James Srinivasan, Alex Butler, Gavin Smyth, Narinder Kapur, and Ken Wood. "SenseCam: a Retrospective Memory Aid". In Dourish and A. Friday (Eds.): Ubicomp 2006, LNCS 4206, pp. 177 – 193, 2006. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
• H. Mallinson, S. Hodges and A. Thorne. "Determining a Better Metric for RFID Performance in Environments with Varying Noise Levels".
  12th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, 2006.
• Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi and Simon Han. "wasp: a platform for prototyping ubiquitous computing devices". Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, Lancanster University, June 2006.

2005

• Eardley, R., Swan, L., Sellen, A., Taylor, A. S., Hodges, S., Wood, K. R. and Williams, L. "Designing Augmented Refrigerator Magnets". Ubicomp '05, Poster Session. Tokyo, Japan, (2005).

2004

• Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Ken Wood, Roger Lueder, Gordon Bell. "Passive Capture and Ensuing Issues for a Personal Lifetime Store". Proceedings of the the 1st ACM workshop on continuous archival and retrieval of personal experiences New York, USA October 2004.
• Wood, K., Fleck, R. & Williams, L (2004) Playing with SenseCam. Proceedings of Playing with Sensors: Exploring the boundaries of sensing for playful ubiquitous computing (W3), UbiComp 2004, Nottingham, UK.

2002

• John Krumm, Lyndsay Williams, and Greg Smith. "SmartMoveX on a Graph - An Inexpensive Active Badge Tracker". Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2002), September/October 2002, pp. 299-307.
• John Krumm; Lyndsay Williams; Greg Smith. "SmartMoveX on a Graph - An Inexpensive Active Badge Tracker". MSR Technical report, June 2002.

Presentations

 2008

• Steve Hodges, Research in the Sensors and Devices group. 19 November 2008. Presentation to the Knowledge Media Lab, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
• Steve Hodges, Surface computing and beyond: More expressive interaction. 18 November 2008. Presentation at the UK-Japan HCI workshop held at the Bristish Embassy, Tokyo, Japan.
• Steve Hodges and Shahram Izadi, SecondLight demo (skip forward to 84:00 minute mark). 29 October 2008. PDC 2008, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, USA.
• Steve Hodges, Surface computing: The post-PC experience. 8 October 2008. Presentation at the UKDL Event on Touch Screen Technology and Interactive Display Technology, Cambridge, UK.
• Steve Hodges, A thin form-factor “touch and tangible” tabletop. 3 October 2008. Paper presentation at IEEE TableTop 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Steve Hodges, ThinSight:Versatile Multi-touch Sensing for Thin Form-factor Displays. 26 September 2008. Invited paper presentation at HCI 2008, Liverpool, UK.

2007

• Steve Hodges, “Casting a wider net: New applications for wireless sensing”. 18 October 2007. Keynote presentation at IEEE SenseApp, Second IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications, Dublin, Ireland.
• Steve Hodges “Group overview and various projects”. Presentation to Intel Digital Health, Cambridge MA, 12 October 2007.
• Steve Hodges, “Group overview and ThinSight”. Presentation to MIT Media Lab, 12 October 2007.
• Steve Hodges. "Casting a wider net: New applications for wireless sensing". Presented 30 May 2007 at the first SensorNet ‘North West UK Sensor Network Day’ at Lancaster University.
• Steve Hodges. "Sensors and Devices Group overview”, presented 17 April 2007 to the DGP Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
• Emma Berry, British Psychological Society Annual Conference 2007, York, March 2007, Using SenseCam, a wearable camera, to alleviate autobiographical memory loss.
• Georgina Browne. Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology, Toronto, June 2007, Stimulating Episodic Memory Using SenseCam (Poster).
• Emma Berry. 4th Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, San Sebastian, July 2007, SenseCam & memory rehabilitation.
• Georgina Browne. British Psychological Society National PSIGE Conference – Special Interest Group for Psychologists working with Older People, Nottingham, July 2007, SenseCam & memory rehabilitation.
• Georgina Browne. Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine: Annual Scientific Meeting 2007, Cardiff, September, SenseCam: A wearable camera can help improve autobiographical memory in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
• Emma Berry & Georgina Browne. Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, Rochester, New York, October 2007, The role of SenseCam in memory rehabilitation.

2006

• Steve Hodges. "SenseCam, wireless sensors and RFID". Presented 14 November 2006 at Intel Research Seattle.
• Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi and Simon Han. "wasp: A platform for prototyping ubiquitous computing devices". Presented 2 June 2006 at the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing, Lancaster University.
• Emma Berry. 3rd Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Liechtenstein, July 2006, SenseCam as an aid for autobiographical memory in an amnesic patient & other clinical applications.
• Emma Berry. Memories for Life Colloquium: the future of our pasts, British Library Conference Centre, London, December 2006, The use of a wearable camera, SenseCam, as a pictorial diary to improve autobiographical memory in a patient with severe memory impairment.

2005

• Steve Hodges. "Just what you need: Simplifying electronic devices", presented 27 April 2005 at the International Forum ‘Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity’.

2004

• Steve Hodges. "Track and trace for the global supply chain using RFID". Presented 3 November 2004 at Cambridge University Computer Lab as part of the Wednesday Seminar Series for Michaelmas Term 2004. Abstract here.
• Lyndsay Williams. "Human Computer Interaction and Accessibility:SenseCam - A black box and image recorder for the human body". Presented 21 October 2004 at the Becta Expert Technology Seminar on Human Computer Interaction and Accessibility

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