489 research outputs found
Conversational agent use in a café
No full textAnonymised transcripts of conversational agent use in a café that were used for the following publication:
Martin Porcheron, Joel E. Fischer, and Sarah Sharples. 2017. “Do Animals Have Accents?”: Talking with Agents in Multi-party Conversation. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.299829
Automated Essay Writing: An AIED Opinion
No full textThis opinion piece emerged from research for the book, Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers, by Mike Sharples and Rafael Pérez y Pérez, published by Routledge. While thinking of ways to promote the book, I realised that students could employ AI story generators to write essays. That led me to research automated essay writing, write a Twitter thread that has garnered 43,000 engagements, and author a blog article (Sharples, 2022). The current piece is a revised and expanded version of that article
User-centred design of patient information for hospital admissions and patient experience
No full textThis paper describes a user-centred approach to information design in an Acute Medical Unit (AMU). It presents a process for inclusion of clinical staff, nurses and patients in the design of information to be used for improving the efficiency of patient admissions to the wards and to increase patient understanding and satisfaction with the service. Human factors expertise was sought to assess the environment, admissions to the AMU and patient clerking by junior doctors. The paper outlines the challenges of designing for multiple users with varying needs and the intricacies of information design and provision when developing a patient leaflet for use in the NHS.</p
Evaluation of human work, 4th ed./ Edit.: John R. Wilson and Sarah Sharples
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Evaluation of human work, 4th ed./ Edit.: John R. Wilson and Sarah Sharples
No full textxxxii, p. 999.: ill.; 26 c
Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity
No full textSerendipity is where unexpected circumstances and an insightful 'aha' moment result in a valuable outcome. We discuss how interactive systems can support the process of serendipity: from making new connections, to projecting and exploiting their potential value. We focus in particular on how technology can support reflection -- which is an important part of the serendipity process. By considering findings from a set of empirical studies and a set of design principles aimed at encouraging reflection, we present an early stage digital 'Semantic Sketchbook' which was designed with the aim of supporting reflection (as well as other aspects of the process of serendipity). We discuss how our 'Semantic Sketchbook' has the potential to create opportunities for serendipity and the next steps we intend to take in developing it and evaluating its success
Why the inflation in legislation on women’s bodies
No full textThis dissertation argues that historical patriarchal theories have crept into the world’s legal systems to date, and as a result this has led to inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies. The author seeks to prove that patriarchal theories have become part of our social and legal institutions to date, resulting in unnecessary controls placed upon women’s bodies to the point that, women’s attempt to assert autonomy over their own bodies have been criminalised or placed under heavy civil penalties. The author suggests that this has been particularly so because, women have been relegated to the private sphere and as such, are underrepresented within the legislature, political arenas, the process passing legislation and the legal profession in general. As well as analysing the structure of the various social, legal and political institutions as they relate to the causes of inflation in legislation upon women’s bodies, the author investigates the medicalisation of women’s bodies which has led to over legislation with regards to: legislation and women’s attire, Indecent exposure and the breast, the treatment of military women with regards to their bodily autonomy and pregnancy
Greenhead Stories: People, Place and Sharing Authority Across Cultural Lines
No full textThe Greenhead Stories project sought to bring a range of voices together to discuss the shared space of Greenhead Park, a Victorian park just a short walk beyond Huddersfield’s town centre. Over the course of its history, the park has been the home of many day-to-day leisure activities, as well as serving as a public gathering place for much larger events including silent marches, charity fundraisers, and a number of cultural festivals. In the last few years, local residents have witnessed huge changes to the park after a multi-million pound restoration grant was donated by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Over the course of the restoration, the project aimed to record public memories surrounding the park during a time at which physical evidence of the park’s past was disrupted. In addition to collecting memories of place, the project employed a ‘shared authority’ methodology through a collaborative recording and contextual documentation process. Beyond the content of what was recorded, the Greenhead Stories project set out to explore the possibilities of building a contextual digital archive as a means of addressing some of the dilemmas currently facing oral history theory and practice. Through building partnerships with local organisations and working with the many different communities who share the space, the project aimed to record a broad history of the park, and explore the ways in which the space is a part of both individual and collective memory in Huddersfield. This dissertation, along with the accompanying digital archive and audiowalk, highlights the project’s historical and methodological findings, and in doing so provides solutions to some of the dilemmas and questions facing oral history theory today
Will autonomous vehicles make us sick?
No full textAutonomous vehicles have the potential to radically change the way we use and interact with our cars. Current thinking assumes that drivers will engage in non-driving tasks and, accordingly, future vehicle design may look dramatically different. However, the use cases envisaged are also known to exacerbate the incidence and severity of carsickness. This paper will discuss these scenarios with reference to the aetiology of carsickness and suggest design constraints to facilitate acceptable future autonomous vehicle design
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