Mark Blythe, Jisoo Park, Andrew Monk
This paper describes data collection techniques that capture the ways people use digital television. It reports preliminary findings and examples of the resulting conceptual designs.
Critical Perspectives On Dependability: An Older Person’s Experience of Assistive Technology (2008)
This paper considers multiple meanings of dependability as part of a project investigating home based assistive and smart home technology for older people. It argues that because the term...
Reading Friends Reunited: Adapting Literary Analysis to HCI (2008)
This paper takes the development of literary theory in cultural studies as a starting point for adapting literary analysis to HCI. It illustrates possible approaches based on two traditions of...
Mark A. Blythe, Andrew F. Monk, Kevin Doughty, Mark Blythe, Andrew F Monk, Kevin Doughty, ...
This paper considers the needs of an ageing population and the implications for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research. The discussion is structured around findings from interviews with medical...
Mark Blythe, Josephine Reid, Peter Wright, Erik Geelhoed
This paper reports the findings from quantitative and qualitative studies of Riot! a location sensitive interactive play for voices. The paper begins by introducing Riot!. it then explores the...
While the recording industry continues to lobby for increasingly draconian laws to protect their interests, users of digital technology continue to share files and copy protected music. This paper...
The darker side of email is usually considered in terms of unsolicited mail or spam (e.g. Cerf 2005, Balvanz, Paulsen, and Struss 2004). The problem is well understood and numerous filter systems,...
Digital jewellery and family relationships (2008)
Jayne Wallace, Dan Jackson, Cas Ladha, Patrick Olivier, Andrew Monk, Mark Blythe, ...
Ubiquitous computing technologies are defining an emerging cultural fabric that is becoming interwoven into everyday life and giving form to ‘digital culture’, through which human meaning and...
Contents From the Editor in Chief: Making It Possible pp. 1-3 (2008)
Mark Blythe, Ann Light, October Guest, Marja Kankaanranta, Pertti Saariluoma, Mark Blythe, ...
1 –Day Workshop proposal: Space, Place and Experience in Human-Computer Interaction (2008)
Peter Wright, John Mccarthy, Mark Blythe, Richard Coyne, Kirsten Boehner
The Internet, ubiquitous, mobile, pervasive and wireless computing have led to a vision of a technological future that can be characterised as anytime, anywhere computing. As Coyne and others have...
Pastiche scenarios: Fiction as a resource for user centered design. Interacting with (2008)
Pastiche scenarios draw on fiction as a resource to explore the interior ““feltlife”” aspects of user experience and the complex social and cultural issues raised by technological...
El Wisty, Victor Shklovsky, Mark Blythe, Lene Nielsen, Alan Cooper, Roland Barthes
This paper argues that literary practice as well as literary theory can be drawn on in order to develop our understandings of user experience. Two examples of literary practice are presented:...
16 The ultimate interface and the sums of life? (2008)
Alex Dixon, Tom Mcewan, Dianne Murray, Jonathan Crellin, Cath Dillon, Kit Logan, ...
www.bcs-hci.org.uk Fifty issues of Interfaces and 16 years later – how much has changed?
This paper outlines a lightweight method for collecting data on this phenomenon; it then considers some examples and ends with sketches of technological and cultural interventions
This paper draws on macro and micro theories of user experience in order to focus on the use of Apple’s iPod. It begins by outlining macro theories from Cultural Studies on the process of product...
Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies (2005)
Genevieve Bell, Mark Blythe, Phoebe Sengers
This paper argues that because the home is so familiar, it is necessary to make it strange, or defamiliarize it, in order to open the design space for it. Critical approaches to technology design are...
Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies (2005)
Genevieve Bell, Mark Blythe, Phoebe Sengers
This article argues that because the home is so familiar, it is necessary to make it strange, or defamiliarize it, in order to open its design space. Critical approaches to technology design are of...
Net Neighbours: Adapting HCI methods to cross the digital divide (2005)
This paper describes the development of Net Neighbours, an online shopping scheme that widens Internet access to older people via volunteer telephone intermediaries. It outlines the processes of:...
Gathering Requirements for Inclusive Design (2003)
Mark Blythe, Gordon Baxter, Peter Wright, Keith Cheverst, Karen Clarke, Guy Dewsbury, ...
This paper reports on two qualitative methods- 'technology biographies ' and 'cultural probes '- as methods to facilitate research in interdisciplinary research in domestic...
Technology biographies: field study techniques for home use product development (2002)
The technology biography combines and adapts a number of qualitative data collection techniques to focus on past, present and possible future domestic technologies. Processes, concerns and problems...
Resistance to commodification in further education : a case study. (1997)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wolverhampton, 1997.