PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo.
Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N., & Benyon, D. (2008)
PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. In Proceedings of CHI Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop
This short paper introduces the research of the 14 partner,
EU Framework 6 project, COMPANIONS. It focuses on
the development of PhotoPal, a multimodal system
harnessing the c...
A critical analysis of e-government evaluation models at national and local municipal levels
Journal Article
Zahran, D. I., Al-Nuaim, H. A., Rutter, M. J., & Benyon, D. (2015)
A critical analysis of e-government evaluation models at national and local municipal levels. Electronic Journal of e-Government, 13, 28-42
The importance of e-government models lies in their offering a basis to measure and guide e-government. There is still no agreement on how to assess a government online. Most ...
Scenarios for Companions.
Book Chapter
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2013)
Scenarios for Companions. In Your Virtual Butler: the making of, 79-96. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37346-6_8
This paper is concerned with understanding the needs of Companion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’). The problem with developing technologies such as companions is...
Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks
Book Chapter
Leach, M., & Benyon, D. (2010)
Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks. In M. Wachowicz (Ed.), Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility, (229-242). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-769-5.ch014
The Speckled Computing project is a large multisite research project based in Scotland, UK. The aim of the project is to investigate, prototype, and produce tiny (1mm3) comput...
The role of task analysis in systems design
Journal Article
Benyon, D. (1992)
The role of task analysis in systems design. Interacting with Computers, 4(1), 102-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/0953-5438%2892%2990015-8
Task analysis and systems analysis are both collections of techniques aimed at the development of interactive computer-based systems. Clearly there must be some relationship b...
Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience
Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., & Egan, C. (2017)
Sustainable HCI: Blending permaculture and user-experience. In DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems. , (39-43). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079115
For approximately 10 years the SIGCHI Sustainable HCI (sHCI) and Sustainable Interaction Design (SID) communities have debated the contribution that HCI can make to sustainabi...
Designing Coordinated Multiple Views of Information Space.
Conference Proceeding
McEwan, T., Igoniderigha, N., & Benyon, D. (2014)
Designing Coordinated Multiple Views of Information Space. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2014.9
Information visualisation has long been recognized as a powerful aid to understanding: what Stuart Card has called ‘the amplification of cognition’. Research and development i...
Scenarios and the HCI-SE design problem.
Journal Article
Benyon, D. & Macaulay, C. (2002)
Scenarios and the HCI-SE design problem. Interacting with Computers. 14, 397-405. doi:10.1016/S0953-5438(02)00007-3. ISSN 0953-5438
Diaper's critical review of Carrol's book ‘Making Use’ raises a number of interesting issues about how to set about the design of interactive systems. In particular Diaper pos...
Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments
Conference Proceeding
McGregor, I., Crerar, A., Benyon, D., & LePlâtre, G. (2006)
Mapping workplace soundscapes: Reifying Office Auditory Environments. In World Forum on Acoustic Ecology Conference (334-344
This paper reports an empirical study to investigate how individuals perceive and classify elements of their workplace auditory environments. The participants were 18 universi...
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...