Stuart Reeves: Notes on research

I decided to retire this blog a while back. All new posts will now be on my Medium page: https://medium.com/@5tuartreeves

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Talking with machines? Voice interfaces and conversation design

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This post documents a process I have used for ‘anonymising’ video (FSVO ‘anonymous’). COMPATIBILITY THINGS: macOS Sierra, VLC 2.2.6, ffmpeg 3.4 (installed via homebrew , and compiled �...

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On 22nd of June 2017, the UK’s Teaching Excellence Framework  (TEF) results were released. While this immediately led to celebratory noises from the various ‘winners’, the prominent ‘los...

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There’s a significant and rich body of research on video games, spanning various disciplines. It addresses a wide range of aspects of video gaming, encompassing studies of video gaming cultures...

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My colleagues Susanne Bødker , Kasper Hornbæk , Antti Oulasvirta , and I together have penned a short article that asks nine reflective questions about the practice of HCI research. We think t...

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> “Can you come up with a (concrete) design problem in interface > design that can NOT be formulated as a search problem?” This was a question posed to me recently by An...

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(This piece was originally presented at a Microsoft Research and Mobile Life workshop hosted at MSR Cambridge  by the Human Experience & Design group on the 9th of March 2016. The title of t...

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We are offering a fully-funded 3-year PhD studentship to investigate the intersection of established industrial User eXperience (UX) and design professions, with the increasing availability of co...

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Research on social media is popular. What does not seem to be so popular is finding ways to closely examine people’s actual, real-time use of social media, or in other words, how they use it mo...

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Thanks to Lone Koefoed Hansen, I’m able to post a recording of my talk on “Human-computer interaction as science” that I delivered at the Aarhus Decennial conference (Critical Alternatives...

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My paper “Human-computer interaction as science ” (PDF ) is in the proceedings of Critical Alternatives 2015 , which is the 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference . The paper attempts to unpack t...

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I made this ironic depiction  (PDF ) of how some in HCI research might view ‘science’, particularly as part of a broader ordering of knowledge. It was initially a reaction, taking the idea ...

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Based on my earlier blog post , ACM Interactions magazine has published “Locating the ‘Big Hole’ in HCI Research ” in its July / August 2015 issue.  I’ve made a draft copy of the a...

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With the recent interest in live mobile video streaming services like Periscope and Meerkat , I thought I’d give a brief summary of some relevant findings from our study of Blast Theory ’s g...

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At CHI 2014 a paper was presented (Liu et al., 2014 ) which sought to demonstrate, through an analysis of keywords specified in a large tranche of CHI papers (from the last 20 years), that HCI r...

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Having seen some academic responses to the UX-HCI survey I performed , I thought a number of clarifications might help to unpack the assumptions and purposes of the survey that I had while constr...

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I’m writing this brief entry in response to Sandy Gould ’s tweets below on the topics raised by the HCI-UX survey results . Gould raises a number of very important points. > Interested in...

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A while back (September 2014) I ran a 5-minute survey targeted at UX professionals to elicit thoughts on the links between their work and that of academic HCI (full details are on my website ). ...

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I have three new publications that I can now make available here. 1. “I’D HIDE YOU: PERFORMING LIVE BROADCASTING IN PUBLIC ”: a paper to appear at CHI 2015 .  This is an ethnomethodolo...

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