A strong cohort of Lancaster University researchers will be demonstrating their work at one of the leading international computer science conferences this month.

Researchers from Lancaster University’s School of Computing and Communications are to showcase their work at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), which this year is in San Diego.

DIS is the premier international and interdisciplinary conference encompassing all issues related to the design and deployment of interactive systems. The theme for DIS2019 is ‘Contesting Borders and intersections’.

Lancaster academics have six papers accepted at the conference this year – one of the highest numbers from all universities attending DIS, and the highest representation from a UK university.

In addition, one of the papers, ‘A Scenario-Based methodology for Exploring Risks: Children and Programmable IoT’ by Bran Knowles, Sophie Beck, Joe Finney, James Devine and Joseph Lindley, has received an ‘Honourable Mention Award’.

Professor Corina Sas, Assistant Dean for Research Enhancement at Lancaster University’s Faculty of Science and Technology, and Lead of Lancaster University’s pervasive systems research group, said: “We are delighted with the success of our School this year in Human-Computer Interaction research. Following our strong presence at the CHI’19 conference we continue to feature strongly with our presence at DIS’19. Our papers showcase excellent work featuring innovative design approaches and interactive technologies in the domains of health and IoT.”

Lancaster’s presence at DIS:

Paper: A Scenario-Based Methodology for Exploring Risks: Children and Programmable IoT

Honourable Mention Award

Bran Knowles (Lancaster University), Sophie Beck (Lancaster University), Joe Finney (Lancaster University), James Devine (Lancaster University), Joseph Lindley (Lancaster University)

Paper: Examining Interdependencies and Constraints in Co-Creation

Bran Knowles (Lancaster University), Christopher Bull (Lancaster University), Nigel Davies (Lancaster University), Will Simm (Lancaster University), Oliver Bates (Lancaster University), Niall Hayes (Lancaster University)

Paper: Taste Your Emotions: An Exploration of the Relationship between Taste and Emotional Experience for HCI

Thomas Gayler (Lancaster University), Corina Sas (Lancaster University), Vaiva Kalnikaitė (Dovetailed Ltd.)

Paper: BlocKit: A Physical Kit for Materializing and Designing for Blockchain Infrastructure

Irni Eliana Khairuddin (Universiti Teknologi MARA), Corina Sas (Lancaster University), Chris Speed (University of Edinburgh)

Paper: Towards Affective Chronometry: Exploring Smart Materials and Actuators for Real-Time Representation of Changes in Arousal

Muhammad Umair (Lancaster University), Corina Sas (Lancaster University), Muhammad Hamza Latif (Lancaster University)

Paper: Roam-IO: Engaging With People Tracking Data through an Interactive Physical Data Installation

Steven Houben (Lancaster University), Ben Bengler (IXDS), Daniel Gavrilov (University College London), Sarah Gallacher (Arup), Valentina Nisi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute), Nuno Jardim Nunes (IST - U. Lisbon), Licia Capra (University College London (UCL), Yvonne Rogers (UCL Interaction Centre)