Tiny Teams Festival 2020
Exhibition / Performance
Methven, T. (2020)
Tiny Teams Festival 2020. [https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tinyteamsfestival / https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1257850/view/2729697381088908335]. Exhibited at Steam. 9 August 2020 - 15 August 2020. (Unpublished
UK-based entertainment company Yogscast Games and the Yogscast network today announced the first ever Tiny Teams Indie Festival.
This festival aims to shine a spotlight on ga...
Improving User Confidence in Concept Maps: Exploring Data Driven Explanations
Conference Proceeding
Le Bras, P., Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2018)
Improving User Confidence in Concept Maps: Exploring Data Driven Explanations. In CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173978
Automated tools are increasingly being used to generate highly engaging concept maps as an aid to strategic planning and other decision-making tasks. Unless stakeholders can u...
Image-based Emotion Feedback: How Does the Crowd Feel? And Why?
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Kalkreuter, B., & Chantler, M. J. (2017)
Image-based Emotion Feedback: How Does the Crowd Feel? And Why?. In DIS '17 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, (451-463). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064665
In previous work we developed a method for interior designers to receive image-based feedback about a crowd’s emotions when viewing their designs. Although the designers clear...
Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas
Conference Proceeding
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Robb, D. A., & Chantler, M. J. (2017)
Understanding Concept Maps: A Closer Look at How People Organise Ideas. In CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (815-827). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025977
Research into creating visualisations that organise ideas into concise concept maps often focuses on implicit mathematical and statistical theories which are built around algo...
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words but Can it Paint Just One?
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Kalkreuter, B., & Chantler, M. J. (2016)
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words but Can it Paint Just One?. In DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, (959-970). https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901791
Imagery and language are often seen as serving different aspects of cognition, with cognitive styles theories proposing that people can be visual or verbal thinkers. Most feed...
Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking
Conference Proceeding
Robb, D. A., Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2016)
Well-Connected: Promoting Collaboration by Effective Networking. In CSCW '16 Companion Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion, 90-93. doi:10.1145/2818052.2874333
We have developed a method and system that uses mutually agreed problem structuring and self-selection to bring together meeting attendees with complementary interests. The me...
What To Study In HCI? A Reflection Based On CHI and UK Research Data
Presentation / Conference
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Robb, D. A., & Chantler, M. J. (2015, April)
What To Study In HCI? A Reflection Based On CHI and UK Research Data. Presented at What to Study in HCI? Workshop at CHI’15: 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI is a wide, varied, and complex field that covers a broad spectrum of research. We therefore believe that there is no simple answer to the question 'what to study in HCI?' ...
I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search
Conference Proceeding
Methven, T. S., Padilla, S., & Chantler, M. J. (2015)
I Don't Think We've Met: Encouraging Collaboration via Topic-Based Search. In CSCW'15 Companion Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 29-32. doi:10.1145/2685553.2702678
We present PaperPilot1 (bit.ly/paperpilot) a new tool which performs smart collaborator search using research concepts automatically extracted from the CSCW domain, as charact...
Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI
Presentation / Conference
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., & Chandler, M. J. (2014, September)
Is British HCI Important? A topic-based comparison with CHI. Paper presented at HCI 2014 - Sand, Sea and Sky - Holiday HCI
We have applied topic modelling to the full-text British HCI and CHI corpora in order to automatically derive one hundred topics and their trends. We use these to compare the ...
Hot topics in CHI: trend maps for visualising research
Conference Proceeding
Padilla, S., Methven, T. S., Corne, D. W., & Chantler, M. J. (2014)
Hot topics in CHI: trend maps for visualising research. In CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 815-824. doi:10.1145/2559206.2578867
The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel method of identifying and visualising research trends in an automated, unbiased way. The output of this we call a 'Trend Map', an...