Insideness-Outsideness: characterizing the experiences of real and virtual places.
Conference Proceeding
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2004)
Insideness-Outsideness: characterizing the experiences of real and virtual places. In Presence 2004, 340-346
An alternate approach to characterizing and describing experiences of both real and virtually recreated places is described both in theoretical and empirical terms.
It's not interaction, it's make believe.
Conference Proceeding
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Carruthers, L. (2014)
It's not interaction, it's make believe. In Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637248.2637266
A principal, but largely unexplored, use of our cognition when using interacting technology involves pretending. To pretend is to believe that which is not the case, for examp...
My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts.
Conference Proceeding
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2011)
My Grandfather's iPod: an investigation of emotional attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts. In ECCE '11 Proceedings of the 29th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (149-156). https://doi.org/10.1145/2074712.2074742
Motivation -- to explore the nature and dimensions of attachment to digital and non-digital artefacts and explicate any differences in emotional attachment between digital and...
Getting the story straight
Conference Proceeding
McCall, R., Turner, P., Turner, S., & McCall, R. (2001)
Getting the story straight. In A. Blandford, J. Vanderdonckt, & P. Gray (Eds.), People and Computers XV-Interaction without frontiers: joint proceedings of HCI 2001 and IHM 2001. , (267-278). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0353-0_16
We argue that the use of a user-centred design approach necessarily involves some form of story telling or narrative. Given that both the potential end-users and the designers...
Using participatory visualisation of soundscapes to compare designers’ and listeners’ experiences of sound designs
Journal Article
McGregor, I., Turner, P., & Benyon, D. (2014)
Using participatory visualisation of soundscapes to compare designers’ and listeners’ experiences of sound designs. Journal of Sonic Studies, 6(1),
There are numerous rules and well-established guidelines to help designers with the visual appearance of interactive technologies. In contrast, when it comes to the use of sou...
Practical interaction design.
Conference Proceeding
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2009)
Practical interaction design. In HCI Educators 2009 - Playing with our education, 18-19
Practical Interaction Design (PID) is a
method for teaching interaction design. It
incorporates elements of ‘pure’ interaction
design and human–computer interaction
(HCI) to c...
Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefacts
Journal Article
Turner, P., & Turner, S. (2012)
Emotional and aesthetic attachment to digital artefacts. Cognition, Technology and Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-012-0231-x
We report a pair of repertory grid studies that explore the attachment people have for digital and nondigital
artefacts.
In the first study we found no clear distinctions betw...
Evaluating soundscapes as a means of creating a sense of place
Conference Proceeding
Turner, P., McGregor, I., Turner, S., & Carroll, F. (2003)
Evaluating soundscapes as a means of creating a sense of place
We report an empirical study into the creation of, and
response to, a soundscape of a computer centre. We contrast
the use of presence questionnaires, as means of assessing th...
DISCOVERing the impact of reality (poster session)
Conference Proceeding
Dawson, L., Turner, S., Turner, P., Dawson, L., & Munro, A. (2000)
DISCOVERing the impact of reality (poster session). In Proceedings of CVE 2000 (209-210). https://doi.org/10.1145/351006.351053
In this poster paper, we introduce the DISCOVER project, which
is developing a CVE for teams to practice managing emergencies
in offshore and maritime domains. Many factors co...
Enlightened trial and error
Journal Article
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Flint, T. (2012)
Enlightened trial and error. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) IxDetA, 13/14, 64-83
Human-computer interaction as a rationalistic, engineering discipline has been taught successfully for more than 25 years. The established narrative is one of designing usable...