Research

My research interests involve situated displays, particularly their utilisation for the benefit of communities. Situated displays are popping up everywhere these days, from bus stops to health centre waiting rooms, and I believe they are well suited to supporting communications and information sharing in small communities, and reinforcing key notions of community such as a sense of history. However, to achieve this, display designs and their place within the community must be carefully considered. I hope to contribute to the understanding of the roles situated displays can play in communities, and the methods which can be utilised in their development.

I'm funded by a Microsoft Research European PhD Scholarship and supervised by Keith Cheverst at Lancaster and Shahram Izadi at Microsoft.

Publications

Authored

Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2008). "This Might Be Stupid But...": Participatory Design with Community Displays and Postcards. In Proc. OZCHI 08, forthcoming.

Taylor, N., Cheverst, K., Dix, A., Silva, P.A. and Rouncefield, M. (2008). The Co-realisation of a Village Photo Display. In Proc. CHI 08 Workshop on Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos.

Taylor, N., Rouncefield, M., Cheverst, K. and Shahram, I. (2008). Encouraging Community Spirit with Situated Displays. In Proc. AISB 08 Persuasive Technology, AISB, 39–42.

Taylor, N., Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Race, N.J.P., Rouncefield, M. and Graham, C. (2007). Probing Communities: Study of a Village Photo Display. In Proc. OZCHI 07, ACM Press, 17–24.
(Runner-Up, Best Paper)

Contributed

Müller, J., Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Taylor, N., Paczkowski, O., Krüger, A. (2009). Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction in Situated Public Display Deployments. International Journal of Mobile Human–Computer Interaction, forthcoming.

Cheverst, K., Taylor, N., Rouncefield, M., Galani, A. and Kray, C. (2008). The Challenge of Evaluating Situated Display based Technology Interventions Designed to Foster a Sense of Community. In Proc. UbiComp 08 Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation.

Cheverst, K., Coulton, P., Bamford, W. and Taylor, N. (2008). Supporting (Mobile) User Experience at a Rural Village 'Scarecrow Festival': A Formative Study of a Geolocated Photo Mashup Utilising a Situated Display. In Proc. MobileHCI 08 Workshop on Mobile Interaction in the Real World.

Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Taylor, N., Kray, C. and Müller, J. (2008). Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction with Touchscreen Based Situated Displays. In Proc. CHI 08 Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone-Based Interaction with Public Displays.

Cheverst, K., Krüeger, A., Müller, J. and Taylor, N. (2007). Considering the Evaluation and Design of (Public) Situated Displays: Enabling Users to Choose Amongst Different Design Alternatives In-situ. In Proc. AmI-07 Workshop on Evaluating Ubiquitous Systems with Users.