ECSCW Workshop: Ethnography in the Wild

Ethnography in the wild: doing design ethnography with organisations at  ECSCW 2015 (Sept. in Oslo, Norway). Deadline: 3rd July 2015. See http://ethnointhewild.wordpress.com With the rise of ‘in the wild’ research, collaboration between academic researchers and industry or third sector organisations has developed as a core practice within CSCW. While there is a substantial literature about ...

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.

Workshop at MobileHCI ’15: Mobile Collocated Interactions With Wearables

Research on mobile collocated interactions has been looking at situations in which collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their mobile devices, thus going from personal/individual toward shared/multiuser experiences and interactions. However, computers are getting smaller, more powerful, and closer to our bodies. Therefore, mobile collocated interactions research, which originally looked at smartphones and tablets, ...

Building a Birds Eye View – CHI 2015 paper and videos

We have a publication at CHI 2015 entitled Building a Birds Eye View: Collaborative Work in Disaster Response (click to download the PDF). This paper reports an ethnomethodological study of disaster response mission planning of Rescue Global.

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

CSCW ’15 paper: Designing Mobile Experiences for Collocated Interaction

We have a paper forthcoming at CSCW 2015. Download the PDF from the link below. 

Energy Advisors at Work: UbiComp ’14 paper

We have a publication at UbiComp ’14 documenting my recent fieldwork with the Centre for Sustainable Energy. Download the PDF below.

Two new publications on team coordination in AtomicOrchid

We have two recently accepted publications on our work investigating team coordination through a mixed-reality game probe. AtomicOrchid has become somewhat of a key research platform in ORCHID to trial Agent-based technologies in a real-world setting, involving people in the role of field responders and HQ coordinators. Here is a short video about AtomicOrchid: The ...

Publication at CHI 2014: Doing the Laundry with Agents

We have a publication at CHI 2014. Download the PDF from the link below.