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2008

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). Tabletop 2007.
  • Arter, D. Buchanan, G. Joes, M. & Harper, R. (2007) Incidental Information and Mobile Search, Mobile HCI 07 ACM, Research Publishing Singapore, pp129-136.
  • Banks, R., Regan, T., Harper, R. and Sellen, A. BubbleBoard: A visual answering machine. ECSCW '07.
  • Bannon, L. Wagner, I,. Gutwin, C. Harper, R. & Schmidt, K, (Eds),  (2007) ECSCW: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Springer, London
  • Brown, B., Laurier, E., Lorimer, H., Jones, O., Juhlin, O., Noble, A., Perry, M., Pica, D., Sormani, P., Strebel, I., Swan, L., Taylor, A. S., Watts, L. and Weilenmann, A. Driving and passengering: notes on the natural organization of ordinary car travel. Mobilities Journal.
  • 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. Forthcoming. (Nominated for Best Paper).
  • Brown, L.M. and Williamson, J., "Shake2talk: Multimodal Messaging for Interpersonal Communication", 2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (Seoul, Korea), 2007, Springer LNCS.
  • Harper,  R. Regan, T. Safouane, D. Rubens, S. & Rouncefield, (2007). ‘Trafficking: design for the viral exchange of multimedia content,’ Mobile HCI 2007, ACM, Research Publishing Singapore, pp49-64.
  • 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.
  • Harper, R. Randall, D. Smyth, N. Evans,C. Heledd, L. & Moore, R., 'Thanks for the memory', Interact: HCI 2007, (2007) Lancaster, Sept (Winner of Best Short Paper Award). 
  • Hodges, S., Izadi, S., Butler, A., Rrustemi, A., and Buxton, B. 2007. ThinSight: Versatile Multi-touch Sensing for Thin Form-factor Displays. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology (Rhode Island, USA, October 2007).UIST 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.
  • 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). Tabletop 2007.
  • Jones, M., Buchanan, G., Harper, R. & Xech P. L.  (2007) ‘Questions Not Answers: A Novel Mobile Search Technique’, by Proceedings CHI  07, San Jose, ACM Press
  • Kirk, D., Sellen, A., Harper, R. and Wood, K. Understanding videowork. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, Irvine, CA, (2007), 61-70.
  • Luff, P., Adams, G., Bock, W., Drazin, A., Frohlich, D., Heath, C., Herdman, P., Linketscher, N., Murphy, R., Norrie, M., Sellen, A., Signer, B., Tallyn, E. & Zeller, E. Augmented Paper: Developing Relationships between Digital Content and Paper. Springer Verlag’s CSCW series (2007).
  • Maunder, A, Marsden, G. Harper, R.(2007) ‘Creating and sharing multi-media packages using large situated public displays’, Mobile HCI 07, (2007) ACM, Research Publishing Singapore, pp188-93.
  • Randall, D. Rouncefield, M. & Harper, R.. Fieldwork and Design. Kluwer Academic Press: Dordrecht and Godlaming. (2007).
  • 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).
  • Swan, L., Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S. & Harper, R. Containing family clutter. HOIT 2007 171-184 (2007).
  • Swan, L., Taylor, A. S. and Harper, R. Making place for clutter and other ideas of home. ACM TOCHI.
  • Swann, L. Taylor, A. & Harper, R. (2007). 'Thanks for the memory', Harper, R. Randall,D. Smyth, N. Evans,C. Heledd, L. & Moore, R. Interact: HCI 2007, Lancaster, Sept (Winner of Best Short Paper Award).
  • Taylor, A. S., Harper, R., Swan, L., Izadi, S., Sellen, A. and Perry, M. Homes that make us smart. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue: Pervasive Computing in the Domestic Space, 11, 5, (2007), 383-393.
  • Taylor, A. S., Swan, L. & Randall, D. Listening with indifference. (2007).3rd Ethnographic Practice in Industry Conference, EPIC 239-250.
  • Taylor, A. S., Swan, L. & Durrant, A. Designing family photo displays. European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, ECSCW '07 79-98. (2007)
  • Taylor, S., Izadi, S., Ozenc, K. and Harper, R. (2007).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). Tabletop 2007.
  • Terrenghi, L., Patel, D., Marquardt, N., Harper, R. and Sellen, A. The Time-Mill: An interactive mirror evoking reflective experiences in the home. (not published).
  • Terrenghi, L., Kirk, D., Izadi, S., Sellen, A. and Harper, R. Affordances for manipulation of physical versus digital media on interactive surfaces. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, Irvine, CA, (2007), 1157-1156.
  • Wyche, S., Taylor, A. S. and Kaye, J. Pottering: A design-oriented investigation. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’07, Irvine, CA, (2007), 1893-1898.

2006

  • Axelsson, A., and Regan, T. Playing online. In P. Vorderer and J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing Video Games: Motives, responses, and consequences. Erlbaum, (2006).
  • Brown, B., and Sellen, A. Sharing and listening to music. In K. O’Hara and B. Brown (Eds.), Consuming Music Together: Social and Collaborative Aspects of Music Consumption Technologies, 37-56. The Netherlands: Springer, (2006).
  • Hamill, L. and Harper, R. Talking intelligence: A historical and conceptual exploration of speech-based human-machine interaction in smart homes. International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK, (2006).
  • Harper, R & Hodges, S. (2006) ‘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. Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp255-273.
  • Harper, R. & Hamill, L. (2005), ‘Kids will be Kids: the Role of Mobiles in Teenage Life’ in Hamill, L. and Lasen, A. (eds) Mobile World Past, Present and Future, Springer-Verlag UK (CSCW series) pp61-73.
  • Harper, R. Rouncefield, M. & Regan, T. (2006) TV in the Hand, OZCHI 2006, Sydney, Australia.
  • Harper, R., Rauterberg, M. & Combetto, M. (Eds) (2006) Entertainment Computing -ICEC 2006, Springer, Hiedleberg, Germany.
  • Hodges, S., Williams, L., Berry, E., Izadi, S., Srinivasan, J., Butler A., Smyth, G., Kapur N., and Wood, K. 2006. SenseCam: A Retrospective Memory Aid. In Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Orange County, CA, USA, September 17-21, 2006). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 4206. Springer-Verlag, London, 177-193.
  • Hsieh, G., Wood, K., Sellen, A. Peripheral display of digital handwritten notes. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '06. Montreal, Canada, (2006), 285-288.
  • Izadi, S. and Rodden, T. Using large displays and mobile devices for collocated collaboration and media sharing, IEEE CST 2006.
  • Kirk, D., Sellen, A., Rother, C., and Wood, K. 2006. Understanding photowork. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '06. Montreal, Canada, (2006), 761-770.
  • Lindström, M., Ståhl, A., Höök, K., Sundström, P., Combetto, M., Taylor, A. S., Bresin, R. and Laakosathi, J. Affective Diary – designing for bodily expressiveness and self-reflection. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '06. Montreal, Canada, (2006), 1037-1042.
  • Sellen, A., Eardley, R ., Izadi, S., Harper, R. The Whereabouts Clock: early testing of a situated awareness device. Extended Abstracts of Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '06. Montreal, Canada, (2006), 1307-1312.
  • Sellen, A., Harper, R., Eardley, R., Izadi, S., Regan, T., Taylor, A. S. and Wood, K. R. HomeNote: Supporting Situated messaging in the home. Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSCW '06. Banff, Canada, (2006), 383-392.
  • 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.
  • Swan, L. Izadi, S. Taylor, A. Harper. R. and Sellen, A. Rethinking the smart home. International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, Hommerton College, Cambridge, UK, (2006).
  • Taylor, A. S. Intelligence in context. International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, Hommerton College, Cambridge, UK, (2006).
  • Taylor, A. S., Izadi, S., Swan, L., Harper, R. and Buxton, B. Building bowls for miscellaneous media. Physicality ’06, (2006).
  • 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, Nordichi '06, Oslo, Norway, (2006), 115-124.
  • Terrenghi, L., Harper, R. & Sellen, A. Inspirations for design. Open session, Ubicomp ’06, Irvine, CA, (2006).
  • Tohidi, M., Buxton, W., Baecker, R., and Sellen, A. Getting the right design and the design right. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '06. Montreal, Canada, (2006), 1243-1252.
  • Tohidi, M., Buxton, W., Baecker, W. & Sellen, A. User sketches: A quick, inexpensive and effective way to elicit more reflective user feedback. Fourth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Nordichi '06, Oslo, Norway, (2006), 105-114.

2005

  • Brush, A. J., Palen, L., Swan, L. and Taylor, A. S. Special Interest Group (SIG): Designs for the home. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05. ACM Press, Portland, OR, (2005), 2035-2036.
  • Drucker, S., Regan, T., Roseway, A., and Lofstrom, M. Visual decision maker: A recommendation system for co-located users. DUX ‘05, Poster session. San Francisco, (2005).
  • Duff, P., McCarthy, M., Muller, H., Randell, C, Izadi, S., Boucher, A., Law, A., Pennington, S. and Swinford R. 2005. A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking. In Proceedings of the 7th international Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Tokyo, Japan, September September 11-14, 2005). Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 3660. Springer-Verlag, London, 123-140.
  • 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).
  • Edwards, W.K.   Newman, M.W.   Smith, T.F.   Sedivy, J.  and Izadi, S. 2005. An extensible set-top box platform for home media applications, In IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 51, 4 (Nov. 2005), 1175- 1181.
  • Harper, R.  The local and the global: Paradoxes of the mobile age. In Nyiri, K (Ed) Communications for the 21st Century, Passengen Verlag, Vienna, (2005), pp. 31-38.
  • Harper, R. Teenage life to Victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life. In Glotz, P. Bertchi, S. Locke, C (Eds), Thumb Culture: the Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society, Transcript Verlag, Bielefield, (2005), pp. 101-113.
  • Harper, R. The moral order of text: Explorations in the social performance of SMS. In Mobile Communication – Perspectives and Current Research Fields, Hoflich, J. and Gebhart, J. (Eds), Peter Lang GmbH – Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin, (2005), pp. 199-222.
  • Harper, R. Towards a new Communications Genre. IEEE Computer, On-Line Magazine, (2005), 99-101.
  • Harper, R. & Hamill, L. Kids will be kids: The role of mobiles in teenage life. In Hamill, L. and Lasen, A. (Eds), Mobile World Past, Present and Future, Springer-Verlag, UK, (2005), pp. 61-73.
  • Harper, R. Randall, D. and Rouncefield, M. Fieldwork and ethnography in design: The state of play from the CSCW Perspective. Proceedings of EPIC, American Anthropology Association, Redmond, USA, (2005), pp. 81-100.
  • Harper, R., Palen, L. and Taylor, A. S. (eds) The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS. Springer, Amsterdam, 2005.
  • Harper, R. (2005) 'The Myth of Convergence', in The Receiver,
  • Izadi, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Brignull, H., Rogers, Y., and Lindley, S. 2005. The iterative design and study of a large display for shared and sociable spaces. Conference on Designing For User Experience, DUX '05. San Francisco, CA, (2005).
  • Kindberg, T., Spasojevic, M., Fleck, R. and Sellen, A. The ubiquitous camera: An in-depth study of camera phone use. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4(2), pp. 42-50, 2005.
  • Kindberg, T., Spasojevic, M., Fleck, R. and Sellen, A. I saw this and thought of you: Some social uses of camera phones. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05. Portland, OR, (2005), 1545-1548.
  • O’Hara, K. Harper, R. Unger, A. Sharpe, B. Wilkes, J. and Jansen, M. TxtBoard: From text-to-person to text-to-home. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05. Portland, OR, (2005), 1705-1708.
  • O’Hara, K. Harper, R. Unger, A. Sharpe, B. Wilkes, J. and Jansen, M. Text Messaging to the Home with TxtBoard. HCI International 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, (2005).
  • Swan, L., & Taylor, A. S. Notes on fridge doors. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05. Portland, OR, (2005), 1813-1816.
  • Taylor, A. S. and Swan, L. Artful systems in the home. Conference on Human Factors and Computing systems, CHI '05. Portland, OR, (2005), 641-650.
  • Taylor, A. S. 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, (2005).
  • Taylor, A. S. Phone talk. In R. Ling & P. Pedersen (eds), Mobile communications: Re-negotiation of the social sphere (pp. 149-166). Springer-Verlag, Godalming, (2005).
  • Taylor, A. S., & Vincent, J. A sms history. In L. Hamill & A. Lasen (eds), Mobiles: Past, present and future (pp. 75-91). Springer, Godalming, (2005).

2004

  • Taylor, A. S. and Swan, L. List making in the home. Computer Supported Collaborative Work, CSCW '04. Chicago, IL, (2004), 542-545.

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