RoboClean project

RoboClean project
RoboClean: Human Robot Collaboration for Allergen-Aware Factory Cleaning This project will investigate and demonstrate the potential of human-robot collaboration, integrated with IoT sensors for cleaning and allergen detection on a factory floor. The outcomes of this  project will include the design, implementation, and evaluation of an  interactive  connected system enabling novel human-robot collaboration and sensor data ...

The CharioT Project: Energy Advice for Households

The Chariot Project has developed the Chariot Energy Kit (available here) to support people in managing their energy use. The platform relies on a sensor kit to capture environmental data (such as humidity and temperature), and a visual user interface to interrogate the data for problems, such as damp and cold. Chariot was a collaboration ...

Collaborations with machines

This position has been presented at the CSCW 2016 panel on “Innovations in autonomous systems: Challenges and opportunities for human-agent collaboration”. For an overview of the positions presented, see this Abstract in the ACM DL.   The time could not be more pertinent for the CSCW community to engage with the many challenges posed by ...

CHI ’16 paper: “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: Working with IoT Data in the Home

We have a forthcoming paper at this years’ CHI conference. You can download the PDF from the link below.

CSCW 2016 Workshop on Collocated Interaction: New Challenges in ‘Same Time, Same Place’ Research

**** San Francisco, CA, USA, 27th February 2016. Submission due date: 22nd December 2015, or 8th January 2016. https://collocatedinteraction.wordpress.com/ ***** Call for Participants

New grant: Future Everyday Interaction with the Autonomous Internet of Things

Excited to announce that we have been awarded an EPSRC research grant. The team brings together researchers from the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham with researchers from the Agents, Interaction and Complexity Group at the University of Southampton. The project will run from April 2016 for three years. Proposal summary This project ...

Mini Documentary on our Work with Rescue Global

Mini Documentary on our Work with Rescue Global
We have made a short documentary on our collaboration with Rescue Global, a disaster response charity from London, thanks to the support by filmmaker Raj. The film shows the process of us researchers from the EPSRC-funded ORCHID project doing ethnographic fieldwork, and developing technologies to support Rescue Global’s planning work. The result is the Augmented Bird Table (ABT), a ...

Best Paper Award at AAMAS ’15 for Disaster Management System Paper

Our paper has been awarded the Best Paper Award of the Innovative Applications track at AAMAS. Download the PDF here.

Mobile Collocated Interactions: From Smartphones to Wearables — Workshop at CHI ’15

The collocated design framework paper for the design session is here. PDF of the proposal. Call for Papers – CHI 2015 Workshop http://www.funkydesignspaces.com/mobile_collocated/ Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets were originally conceived and have traditionally been utilized for individual use. Research on mobile collocated interactions has been looking at situations in which collocated users engage ...

NordiCHI workshop: Personal or Social?

Delighted to be co-organising a workshop on collocated interaction design at NordiCHI ’14. Check out the official workshop site at