Ben Bedwell

During and after my PhD I was a part-time then full-time Research Associate in the Mixed Reality Lab in the University of Nottingham’s School of Computer Science; in the year of completing the PhD I was seconded to the Horizon Research Institute, part of the RCUK Digital Economy programme. During the secondment I successfully applied for a Research Fellow position within Horizon.

Publications

[2010,inproceedings] bibtex

B. Bedwell, H. Schnädelbach, A. Chamberlain, and T. Caruana, "Pervasive Projection: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Phone Projectors," in Ubiprojection workshop on Personal Projection in conjunction with Pervasive conference, 2010.

@inproceedings{citeulike:7158190, author = {Bedwell, Ben and Schn\"{a}delbach, Holger and Chamberlain, Alan and Caruana, Theresa}, booktitle = {Ubiprojection workshop on Personal Projection in conjunction with Pervasive conference}, citeulike-article-id = {7158190}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/pdf/bedwell\_ubiprojection2010.pdf}, day = {17}, howpublished = {Electronically}, keywords = {projectors}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2010-05-12 10:53:21}, priority = {0}, title = {Pervasive Projection: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Phone Projectors}, url = {http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/ubiproject2010/pdf/bedwell\_ubiprojection2010.pdf}, year = {2010} }
[2010,phdthesis] bibtex

B. Bedwell, "A Framework to Guide the Design of Environments Coupling Mobile and Situated Technologies," PhD Thesis , 2010.

@phdthesis{citeulike:6858977, abstract = {An increasing number of devices are being situated in public spaces yet interactions with such devices are problematic: they tend to be impersonal and subject to social apprehension while devices suitable for specific tasks may be difficult to locate. This thesis considers how one might design for these environments to overcome these issues and deliver engaging user experiences. It proposes the coupling of the interactive features of mobile and situated devices to facilitate personalised interactions with those situated devices. The thesis explores coupling techniques that extend the computational capabilities of the situated device through the addition of the input, output and storage capabilities of the mobile device. Finally it considers how multiple points of coupling can be used to link sequences of interactions with different situated devices providing rich, cohesive experiences across an environment. The thesis presents a novel framework that builds upon previous work. Existing work is reviewed that links mobiles with single situated displays, and mobiles for mediating the exploration of physical spaces to address the lack of work addressing multiple situated devices in public. This review grounds a proposal and elaboration of a core model of interaction within a coupling environment, providing the basis for a design framework. This was supported by the implementation of a test-bed that consisted of six couples in various configurations, underpinned by a software infrastructure. Formative user studies refined the framework and revealed novel aspects of the user experience for study. It was found that through support for narrative and personal orchestration, coupling environments afford personalised trajectories. By designing for personal trajectories the visitor has a more enjoyable personal experience and seeks to improve the experiences of others. In addition, coupling environments support social experiences; the step-by-step nature of a visitor's trajectory through the coupling environment lends itself to gradually introducing visitors to social coupled interaction and reducing social awkwardness.}, author = {Bedwell, Ben}, citeulike-article-id = {6858977}, posted-at = {2010-03-16 20:19:02}, priority = {2}, school = {University of Nottingham}, title = {A Framework to Guide the Design of Environments Coupling Mobile and Situated Technologies}, year = {2010} }
[2009,inproceedings] bibtex

B. Bedwell, H. Schnädelbach, S. Benford, T. Rodden, and B. Koleva, "In support of city exploration," in Proceedings of SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, New York, NY, USA, 2009, pp. 1171-1180.

@inproceedings{citeulike:5877717, abstract = {The novel experience Anywhere allowed participants to explore an urban area, tying together information not normally available, new points of views and interaction embedded into physical places. Guided by 'unseen', on-the-street performers in an ongoing conversation maintained over mobile phones, they gained access to locative media and staged performances. Our analysis demonstrates how Anywhere produced engaging and uniquely personalised paths through a complex landscape of content, negotiated by the performer-participant pair around various conflicting constraints. We reflect our analysis through the lens of the key characteristics exhibited by mechanisms that support city exploration, before focussing on possible extensions to the technological support of teams of professional and amateur guides.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bedwell, Ben and Schn\"{a}delbach, Holger and Benford, Steve and Rodden, Tom and Koleva, Boriana}, booktitle = {Proceedings of SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {5877717}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518879}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518879}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518879}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {framework}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1171--1180}, posted-at = {2009-10-02 16:31:20}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {In support of city exploration}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518879}, year = {2009} }
[2007,inproceedings] bibtex

B. Bedwell and B. Koleva, "Demonstrating Coherent Interactions between Personal Mobile Devices and Situated Installations," in Proceedings of the Joint Workshop "Mobile Interaction with the Real World" (MIRW 2007) and 5th Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" (MGuides 2007) in Conjunction with the MobileHCI conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2007, pp. 47-50.

@inproceedings{Bedwell07, author = {Bedwell, Ben and Koleva, Boriana}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Joint Workshop "Mobile Interaction with the Real World" (MIRW 2007) and 5th Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" (MGuides 2007) in Conjunction with the MobileHCI conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}, citeulike-article-id = {2986182}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/mirw2007/papers/MIRW2007\_Bedwell.pdf}, editor = {Broll, Gregor and De Luca, Alexander and Rukzio, Enrico and Noda, Chie and Wisner, Paul and Cheverst, Keith and Schmidt-Belz, Barbara}, institution = {University of Munich, Department of Computer Science, Media Informatics Group}, keywords = {context, examples, framework, globalexplorer, installation, mobile}, location = {Singapore}, month = {October}, pages = {47--50}, posted-at = {2008-07-11 00:18:34}, priority = {0}, title = {Demonstrating Coherent Interactions between Personal Mobile Devices and Situated Installations}, url = {http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/mirw2007/papers/MIRW2007\_Bedwell.pdf}, year = {2007} }
[2006,inproceedings] bibtex

H. Schnädelbach, J. Hale, W. Dorner, B. Bedwell, S. Benford, and J. Mardell, "Future Garden," in Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, 2006, pp. 346-351.

@inproceedings{Schnadelbach07, abstract = {The Eastern edge of Nottingham (UK) city centre is undergoing substantial restructuring, which will have a major impact on the people living in the area. Future Garden is an interactive story, delivered on a handheld PDA device, which explores the past, present and possible futures of Sneinton Market, one part of the area to be re-developed. This paper introduces Future Garden including its novel navigation interface based on video and self-reporting and some early results of the still ongoing evaluation. Keywords: mobile HCI, storytelling, interactive, urban regeneration.}, author = {Schn\"{a}delbach, Holger and Hale, Jonathan and Dorner, Willi and Bedwell, Ben and Benford, Steve and Mardell, Jo}, booktitle = {Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment}, citeulike-article-id = {2986148}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11944577\_34}, doi = {10.1007/11944577\_34}, journal = {Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment}, keywords = {anywherechi, architecture, examples, feedback, futuregarden, hypermedia, link, navigation, videotrail, willi}, pages = {346--351}, posted-at = {2008-07-10 23:02:02}, priority = {0}, title = {Future Garden}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11944577\_34}, year = {2006} }

Education

In early 2010 I completed my PhD in the University of Nottingham School of Computer Science; my thesis was titled “A Framework to Guide the Design of Environments Coupling Mobile and Situated Technologies” and details of the work can be found here.

I completed my 3-year BSc (Hons) in Computer Science also in the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2005. My work for the undergraduate degree included a personal research and software development project, “Content-based Indexing and Retrieval for the World Wide Web”; during this project I produced a compact web-based system to classify, index and then allow rapid access to a large number of images, using wavelet transformations to extract the salient visual features, binary search trees to efficiently index the classified images, then PHP to allow traversal of those trees.

I attended the Colchester Royal Grammar School for both my GCSE and A-Level courses, leaving the CRGS 6th Form in 2002.

Contact

For academic/University matters contact me via e-mail at bzb{at}cs.nott.ac.uk

I can be found in the Horizon Research Institue within the Sir Colin Campbell Building on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus Innovation Park.

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