Digital Futures Programme and Abstracts

Monday, Oct 11

The Royal Suite, Crowne Plaza Nottingham

9:00 – 10:30 Registration (Bar area outside Royal Suite)


10:30 Welcome

Derek McAuley; University of Nottingham

John Hand; RCUK, Digital Economy Programme


10:45 Keynote

(Session Chair: Vicki Hanson, University of Dundee)

Living with a Contextual Footprint  (Tom Rodden; University of Nottingham)


11:30 Digital Identity and Storage

(Session Chair: Paul Watson, Newcastle University)

Unclouded Vision  (Jon Crowcroft, Anil Madhavapeddy, Malte Schwarzkopf, Theodore Hong and Richard Mortier; University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham)

Digital Inheritance (Wendy Moncur and Annalu Waller; University of Dundee)

The Personal Container, or Your Life in Bits (Richard Mortier, Chris Greenhalgh, Derek McAuley, Alexa Spence, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jon Crowcroft and Steve Hand; University of Nottingham and University of Cambridge)

 

12:30 Lunch (Lacemaker Restaurant)

 

14:00 Digital Interaction and Experience

(Session Chair:  John Seton, British Telecommunications) 

The Documentation and Archiving of Mixed Media Experiences: the Case of Rider Spoke (Gabriella Giannachi, Duncan Rowland, Steve Benford and Dominic Price; University of Exeter and University of Nottingham)

“Automics” - Assisted Mobile Authoring of Photostories as Souvenirs of a Day in the Park  (Duncan Rowland, Abigail Durrant, Joel Fischer, Dave Kirk, Steve Benford and Derek McAuley; University of Nottingham)

Collaborative Cross-Modal Interfaces (Nick Bryan-Kinns, Tony Stockman and Oussama Metatla; Queen Mary University of London)

Web 2.0 for Collaborative Production  (Ella Taylor-Smith and Peter Cruickshank; Edinburgh Napier University)

 

15:45 Break (Bar area outside Royal Suite)

 

16:15 Digital Communities

(Session Chair: Tim Norman, University of Aberdeen)

Seeds - Designing for (and with) the Digitally Disengaged (Lorna Gibson, Graeme Coleman, Vicki Hanson, Elizabeth Valentine, Ania Bobrowicz, Saikat Kundu, Alison McKay and Raymond Holt; University of Dundee, University of Kent, and University of Leeds) 

CHARM: The Social Norm Approach to Sustainable Behaviour Change (Ruth Rettie, Kevin Burchell, Parisa Eslambolchilar, Matthew Studley, Richard Byrne, Simon Chambers and Kavita Patel; Kingston University, Swansea University, and University of West England)

VoiceYourView: Mapping Public Confidence in Policing (Baseerit Nasa, Jane Binner, Will Simm, Maria Angela Ferrario, Jon Whittle and Busayawan Lam; University of Sheffield, Lancaster University, and Brunel University)

 

18:30 Posters and Reception (Arcade, 1st floor)

(Session Chair: Richard Mortier, University of Nottingham)

 

20:00 Conference Dinner (The Royal Suite, Crowne Plaza Nottingham)

(Please present your conference dinner ticket)

 

Tuesday, Oct 12

The Royal Suite, Crowne Plaza Nottingham

 

8:30   Refreshments and registration (Bar area outside Royal Suite)

 

9:00 Keynote

(Session Chair:  Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham)

New Technologies for the Digital Economy (Andrew J. Herbert; Microsoft Research Cambridge)

 

9:45  Digital Experimentation (In the Wild)

(Session Chair:  Atau Tanaka, Newcastle University)

Mass Participation in User Trials (Alistair Morrison, Stuart Reeves, Donald McMillan, Scott Sherwood and Matthew Chalmers; University of Glasgow)

Open Data and the Competitive Co-Creation of Value (Catherine Mulligan and Richard Mortier; University of Nottingham) 

Adaptive Design (Kyle Montague, Vicki Hanson and Andy Cobley; University of Dundee) 

Positioning in the Wild – Illustrating Emerging Issues (Adam Moore, Mark Paxton, Mike Jackson and Gary Priestnall; University of Nottingham)

 

11:00 Break (Bar area outside Royal Suite)

 

11:30 Emergent Ideas (quick fire presentations)

(Session Chair:  Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham)

Innovator's Dilemma: Digital Inclusion vs. Innovation (George Kuk; University of Nottingham)

Fairtracing.org and Ethical Marketing 2.0 (Dorothea Kleine and Ann Light; Royal Holloway, University of London and Sheffield Hallam University)

Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion through Community Journalism and Bespoke Design (Paul Egglestone and Jon Rogers; University of Central Lancashire and University of Dundee)

Digital Body Hopping - Migrating Artificial Companions (Michael Kriegel, Ruth Aylett, Kheng Lee Koay, Kyron Du Casse, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Pedro Cuba, and Krzysztof Arent; Heriot Watt University, University of Hertfordshire, INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico and University of Wroclaw, Poland) 

Digital Transport: Using DE Systems to monitor and assess the technical and driving performance of Electric Vehicles (Phil Blythe, Graeme Hill and Lakshmi Suresh; Newcastle University)

Balancing Commuter Traffic with Agents (Martin Carpenter and Nikolay Mehandjiev; University of Manchester)

The Study of Elderly Drivers (Amy W Guo, Simon Edwards and Phil Blythe; Newcastle University)

User and Organisational needs for ad-hoc car sharing (David Golightly, Sarah Sharples, Alex Irune, Caroline Leygue, Jo Cranwell and Claire O'Malley; University of Nottingham)

NHS e-Labs: Engineering Digital Health Economies (Iain Buchan, John Ainsworth, Sarah Thew and Gary Leeming; University of Manchester)

Energy Harvesting MEMS: A Promising Alternative to Power the Digital Economy (Elhadj Benkhelifa and Ashutosh Tiwari; Cranfield University)

 

13:00 Lunch (Lacemaker Restaurant)

 

14:30 Digital Inclusion

(Session Chair:  John Farrington, University of Aberdeen)

Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (Paul Watson, Vicki Hanson and Patrick Olivier; Newcastle University and University of Dundee)

Facilitating Appropriate Consumer Access to Health Information (Lorna Gibson and Vicki Hanson; University of Dundee)

Sustaining Digital Engagement: Some Emerging Issues (Leela Damodaran and Wendy Olphert; Loughborough University)

 

15:30 Break (Bar area outside Royal Suite)

 

16:00 Digital Infrastructure

(Session Chair:  Les Carr, University of Southampton)

A Provenance Fabric to Support the Digital Economy (Peter Edwards, Edoardo Pignotti and Richard Reid; University of Aberdeen)

From Consumer to Producer: Ubiquitous Technologies for Outside Broadcast (Martin Flintham, Dominic Price, Duncan Rowland, Steve Benford, Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj; University of Nottingham and Blast Theory)

Towards a Platform for Urban Games (Martin Flintham, Chris Greenhalgh, Andrew Greenman, Tom Lodge, Richard Mortier, Rachel Jacobs, Matt Watkins and Robin Shackford; University of Nottingham and Active Ingredient)

 

17:00 Adjourn

Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham

Paul Watson, Newcastle University

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