UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices
Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Darzentas, D. (2023)
UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. In M. Tentori, N. Weibel, K. Van Laerhoven, & Z. Zhou (Eds.), UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (802-806). https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3605113
IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of su...
Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference
Conference Proceeding
(2023)
Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195
Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its ...
“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories
Conference Proceeding
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., …Perez Vallejos, E. (2023)
“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. In DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (987-1001). https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595962
We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and...
C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting
Conference Proceeding
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Thorn, E., Glover, K., Gibson, R., …Wagner, H. G. (2023)
C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting. In C&C '23: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3593052
This workshop uses the outputs of a two-year Research through Design project as a springboard for bringing together a community of researchers interested in Hybrid Gifting. We...
Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S. D., Sundnes Løvlie, A., Ryding, K., Rajkowska, P., Bodiaj, E., Paris Darzentas, D., …Spanjevic, B. (2022)
Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum. In CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502080
Museums are interested in designing emotional visitor experiences to complement traditional interpretations. HCI is interested in the relationship between Affective Computing ...
Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences
Journal Article
Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Wagner, H., Craigon, P., Bodiaj, E., Spence, J., …Benford, S. (2022)
Data-inspired co-design for museum and gallery visitor experiences. Artificial intelligence for engineering design, analysis and manufacturing : AI EDAM, 36, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0890060421000317
The capture and analysis of diverse data is widely recognized as being vital to the design of new products and services across the digital economy. We focus on its use to insp...
Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement
Journal Article
Spence, J., Darzentas, D., Cameron, H., Huang, Y., Adams, M., Farr, J. R., …Benford, S. (2022)
Gifting in Museums: Using Multiple Time Orientations to Heighten Present-Moment Engagement. Human-Computer Interaction, 37(2), 180-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1923496
HCI has recently increased its interest in the domains of museums and gifting. The former is often oriented primarily towards the past, while the latter is often oriented towa...
VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects
Conference Proceeding
Spence, J., Darzentas, D. P., Huang, Y., Cameron, H. R., Beestin, E., & Benford, S. (2020)
VRtefacts: Performative Substitutional Reality with Museum Objects. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395459
We explore how a combination of manipulations and transitions can extend Substitutional Reality to create a highly personal Virtual Reality experience. Our design aimed to mee...
Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum
Journal Article
Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Brundell, P., & Collishaw, M. (2020)
Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369394
We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the me...
Demo hour
Journal Article
Mann, D., Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Chamberlain, A., Darzentas, D., Avila, J. P. M., …Otte, L. (2019)
Demo hour. Interactions, 26(4), 8-11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338074
Abstract not available.