I joined
MSR's Cambridge Lab in September 2004 as a member of the Socio-digital Systems Group (
SDS).
Since joining, I've undertaken investigations into a range of routine aspects of everyday life - with a particular emphasis on life at home. For instance, I've shown what some might describe as an unhealthy preoccupation with hoarding, dirt, clutter and similar seemingly banal subject matter. Most recently, I have begun obsessing over robots and other curious ‘thinking’ machines.
Much of this work has been considered alongside the design of computing technology. Rather than informing design directly, however, I've sought with varying success to open up the possibilities for different and hopefully new ways of interacting with technology. A further goal has been to reflect on the intersections between humans and machines, and wonder what the unceasing developments in science and technology might mean for being human.
Papers & Articles
Taylor, A. S. (April, 2009). Machine intelligence. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '09, pp. 2109-2118.
Ståhl, A., Hook, K., Svensson, M., Taylor, A. S. & Combetto, M. (June, 2009) Experiencing the Affective Diary. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, PUC, 13(5), pp. 365-378.
Lindley, S. E., Banks, R., Harper, R., Jain, A., Regan, T., Sellen, A., & Taylor, A. S. (Feb, 2009). Resilience in the face of innovation: Household trials with BubbleBoard. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(2), pp. 154-164.
Little, L., Sillence, E., Sellen, A., and Taylor, A. (Feb, 2009). Editorial: The family and communication technologies. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67(2), pp. 125-127.
Taylor, A. S., Wyche, S. P., and Kaye, J. (October, 2008). Pottering by design. Fifth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer interaction: Building Bridges. NordiCHI '08, pp. 363-372.
Swan, L., Taylor, A. S. & Harper, R. (Jul, 2008). Making place for clutter and other ideas of home. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact, TOCHI. 15(2).
Swan, L. & Taylor, A. S. (2008). Photo displays in the home. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '08, pp. 261-270.
Laurier, E., Lorimer, H., Brown, B., Jones, O., Juhlin, O., Noble, A., Perry, M., Pica, D., Sormani, P., Strebel, I., Swan, L., Taylor, A. S., Watts, L. and Weilenmann, A. (2008). Driving and passengering: notes on the ordinary organization of car travel. Mobilities, 3(1), pp. 1-23.
Taylor, A. S., Swan, L. and Randall, D. Listening with indifference. (2007). Third Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference, EPIC 2007, AAA, Arlington, VA., pp. 239-250.
Taylor, A. S., Harper, R., Swan, L., Izadi, S., Sellen, A. and Perry, M. (2007). Homes that make us smart. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue: Pervasive Computing in the Domestic Space, 11(5), pp. 383-393.
Brown, B., Taylor, A., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., and Kaye, J. (2007). Locating family values: A field trial of the Whereabouts Clock. Ninth International Conference, UbiComp '07. Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 354-371.
Taylor, A. S., Swan, L. and Durrant, A. (2007) Designing family photo displays. Tenth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW '07, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 79-98.
Swan, L., Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S. and Harper, R. (2007). Containing family clutter. HOIT '07. pp. 171-184.
Wyche, S., Taylor, A. S. and Kaye, J. (2007). Pottering: A design-oriented investigation. CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, ACM Press, Irvine, CA, pp. 1893-1898.
Sellen, A., Harper, R., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., Regan, T., Taylor, A. S. and Wood, K. R. (2006, Nov 4-8). Situated messaging in the home. Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSCW '06. Banff, Canada, ACM Press, pp. 383-392.
Taylor, A. S., Eardley, R., Hodges, S., Regan, T., Sellen, A., Swan, L. and Wood, K. R. (2006, Oct 16-18) Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more. Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Nordichi '06, Oslo, Norway, pp. 115-124.
Lindström, M., Ståhl, A., Höök, H., Sundström, P., Laaksolahti, J., Combetto, M. Taylor, A. S. and Bresin, R. (2006, April 24-27). Affective diary: designing for bodily expressiveness and self-reflection. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '06 1037-1042
Taylor, A. S. and Swan, L. (2005, April 2-7). Artful systems in the home. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05, Portland, OR, ACM Press, pp. 641-650.
Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. (2005, April 2-7). Notes on fridge doors. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05, Portland, OR, ACM Press, pp. 1813-1816.
Taylor, A. S., & Swan, L. (2004, Nov 6-10). List making in the home. Paper presented at the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSCW '04. Chicago, IL, ACM Press, pp. 542-545.
More...
Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. (2004, April 24-29). An ethnography of lists in mothers' work. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI Fringe 2004, Vienna, Austria.
Taylor, A. S., & Stone, A. (2004, April 15-16). Information on-the-go. Paper presented at the conference on The Life of Mobile Data: Technology, Mobility and Data Subjectivity, Guildford, Surrey.
Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2003). The gift of the gab: a design oriented sociology of young people's use of mobiles. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (JCSCW), 12(3), 267-296.
Taylor, A. S. (2003, June 22-24). Phone-talk & local forms of subversion. Front Stage - Back Stage. Paper presented at the fourth international conference to examine the emerging social and economic meanings of mobile telephony and mobile communication. Grimstad, Norway.
Berg, S., Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2003, April 5-10). Mobile Phones for the next generation: Device designs for teenagers. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, ACM Press, pp. 433-440.
Poria, Y. & Taylor, A. S. (2002). MUDs and their potential contribution to Tourism. Anatolia, 13(2), 199-212.
Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2002). Switching on to switch off: An analysis of routine TV watching habits and their implications for electronic programme guide design. usableiTV, 1(3), 7-13.
Taylor, A. S. (2002). The Problem of Using Naturalistic Studies to Inform Design: Activity Theory as a means to bridge the divide between a study of teenage mobile phone users & design. Unpublished Doctoral Thesis, University of Surrey, Guildford.
Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2002, April 20-25). Age-old practices in the 'New World': A study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users. Paper presented at the conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ACM Press, pp. 439-446.
O'Hara, K., Taylor, A. S., Newman, W., & Sellen, A. J. (2002). Understanding the materiality of writing from multiple sources. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 56(3), 269-305.
Poria, Y., & Taylor, A. S. (2002). "I'm not afraid to be gay when I am on the net". Minimising social risk for lesbian and gay consumers searching for hotel related information. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, 11(2/3), 127-142.
Poria, Y., & Taylor, A. S. (2001). Wrestling with MUDS: Exploring wine and alcohol Discussion Forums. International Journal of Wine Marketing, 13(2), 5-17.
Newman, W. M., Taylor, A. S., Dance, C. R., & Taylor, S. A. (2000, August 17-19). Performance Targets, Models and Innovation in Interactive System Design. Paper presented at the Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2000, New York City, NY, pp. 381-387.
Newman, W. M., & Taylor, A. S. (1999, August 30 - September 3). Towards a methodology employing critical parameters to deliver performance improvements in interactive systems. Paper presented at Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT '99, Edinburgh, pp. 605-612.
Newman, W. M., Dance, C. R., Taylor, A. S., Taylor, S. A., Taylor, M., & Aldhous, T. (1999, June 7-11). CamWorks: A Video-Based Tool for Efficient Capture from Paper Source Documents. Paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Florence, Italy.
Chapters & Books
Harper, R. Taylor, A. S. and Molloy, M., (2008) Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century. In C. Knappett and L. Malafouris, Eds. Material Agency, Springer, London.
Taylor, A. S. (2005). Part 2: The public and private spaces. In R. Ling & P. Pedersen (eds), Mobile communications: Re-negotiation of the social sphere (pp. 83-91). Springer-Verlag, Godalming.
Taylor, A. S. (2005). Phone talk. In R. Ling & P. Pedersen (eds), Mobile communications: Re-negotiation of the social sphere (pp. 149-166). Springer-Verlag, Godalming.
Taylor, A. S., & Vincent, J. (2005). A sms history. In L. Hamill & A. Lasen (eds), Mobiles: Past, present and future (pp. 75-91). Springer, Godalming.
Harper, R., Palen, L., & Taylor, A. S. (eds). (2005). The Inside Text: Social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS. Springer, The Netherlands.
Berg, S., Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2005). Gift of the gab. In R. Harper, L. Palen & A. S. Taylor (eds), The Inside Text: Social, cultural and design perspectives on SMS (pp. 271-285). Springer, The Netherlands.
Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2003). Switching on to switch off. In R. Harper (ed) Inside the Smart Home. (pp. 115-126). Springer-Verlag, London.
Demonstrations
Chen, J. and Taylor, A. S. (Lund, Sweden, October 20-22, 2008). entrigue: re-picturing the home. Fifth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer interaction: Building Bridges. NordiCHI '08, vol. 358. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 363-372.
Jain, A., Marquardt, N. & Taylor, A. S. (Copenhagen, Denmark, October 15-18, 2008). Near-Future RFID. Artifacts Session, Fourth Annual International Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, EPIC '08, pp. 352-353.
Jain, A. & Taylor, A. S. (Los Angeles, California, August 11-15, 2008). Life and death of energy-autonomous devices. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Art Gallery. SIGGRAPH '08. ACM, New York, NY, p. 70.
Durrant, A., Taylor, A. S., Molloy, M., Sellen, A., Frohlich, D., Gosset, P., & Swan, L. (Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2008). Speculative devices for photo display. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 2297-2302.
Jain, A. & Taylor, A. S. (New York, 2008). Domestic Gubbins. Design and the Elastic Mind (online exhibits), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Jain, A. & Taylor, A. S. (New York, 2008).Objects Incognito: RFID and Body Readers. Design and the Elastic Mind (online exhibits), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Workshop & Interest Group Papers
Bassoli, A., Brewer, J, & Taylor, A. S. (2008). Automated Journeys. Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp '08, pp. 201-202.
March, W., Nafus, D., Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. (2008). Night and darkness: interaction after dark. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 3985-3988.
Lindley, S. E., Durrant, A. C., Kirk, D. S., & Taylor, A. S. (2008). Collocated social practices surrounding photos. Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 3921-3924.
Graves Petersen, M., Taylor, A., Ijspeert, A. & Krogh, P. (2008 , Jan 21-22). Imagining Domestic Interiors: Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Furniture. Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
Taylor, A. S. (2006, April 5-7). Intelligence in context. International Symposium on Intelligent Environments. Hommerton College, Cambridge, UK.
Swan, L., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., Taylor, A. S., Harper, R. & Perry, M. (2006, April 5-7) Rethinking the "smart" home. International Symposium on Intelligent Environments. Hommerton College, Cambridge, UK.
Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S., Swan, L., Harper, R. and Buxton, B. (2006, Feb 6-7). Building bowls for miscellaneous media. First International Conference on Physicality. Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Eardley, R., Swan, L., Sellen, A., Taylor, A. S., Hodges, S., Wood, K. R. and Williams, L. (2005, Sept 11-14) Designing Augmented Refrigerator Magnets. Ubicomp '05, Poster Session. Tokyo, Japan.
Swan, L. & Taylor, A. S. (2005, Oct 20-22). Audrey, Anyone? 4S, Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting. Pasadena, California.
Brush, A. J., Palen, L., Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. (2005, April 2-7). Designs for the home. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, Special Interest Group (SIG), CHI '05, Portland, OR, ACM Press, pp. 2035-2036.
Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. (2004, April 26). A short note on design troubles & enlisting critical reflection. Paper presented at the CHI 2004, Reflective HCI Workshop, Vienna, Austria.
Taylor, A. S. (2003, September 24-26). Primitive practices between the young and mobile: designing for teenagers' mobile relations. The People Inspired Innovation (PII3) Conference, Adastral Park, Suffolk.
Taylor, A. S., & Cohen Kiel, A. (2003, April 5-10). Recovering the Social Life of Things. Paper presented at the CHI 2003, Designing Culturally Situated Technologies for the Home Workshop, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Taylor, A. S. (2002, 19-23 October). Teenage 'Phone-talk' and its Implications for Design. Paper presented at the NordiCHI 2002, Bridging the gap between field studies and design workshop, Aarhus, Denmark.
Taylor, A. S., & Harper, R. (2001, March 31 - April 5). 'Talking Activity': Young people and mobile phones. Paper presented at the CHI 2001, Mobile Communications Workshop, Seattle, Washington.
Taylor, S. A., Dance, C. R., Newman, W. M., Taylor, A. S., Seeger, M., & Taylor, M. (1999). Advances in interactive video scanning of paper documents. Paper presented at the Document Image Processing and Multimedia Colloquium (DIPM99), IEE, Savoy Place, London, UK.
Taylor, A. S., & Newman, W. M. (1998, September 21). Setting performance targets for the design of interactive systems.Paper presented at the Understanding Work and Designing Artefacts Workshop, York, UK.
Reports
Taylor, A. S., Rouncefield, M., Harper, R., & Hamill, L. (2001). Digital Re-Mastering of Content (Commercial Report). Guildford, Surrey: Digitial World Research Centre.
Taylor, A. S., Moray, N., Harper, R., & Hamill, L. (2001). Real World Navigation: The Navigational Properties of Television Audience Decision Making in Domestic Settings (Commercial Report). Guildford, Surrey: Digitial World Research Centre.
Newman, W. M., & Taylor, A. S. (1999). Critical Parameters in Interactive System Design: Pointers from a Literature-based Study of Representation of Performance (Technical Report No. EPC-1999-101). Cambridge, UK: Xerox Research Centre Europe.
Patents
Kuruoglu, E. E. & Taylor, A. S. (2002). Methods and Apparatus for Forward Annotating Documents and for Generating a Summary from a Document Image. (European Patent Application, Appliaction No. 02022944.9).
Kuruoglu, E. E., & Taylor, A. S. (2001). Method and Apparatus for Generating a Summary from a Document Image. (Patent Application, Docket No. D/A0606).
Taylor, A. S., & Kuruoglu, E. E. (2001). Method and Apparatus for Forward Annotating Documents. (Patent Application, Docket No. D/99632).