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 and Mark Rouncefield at Lancaster and Shahram Izadi at Microsoft.

Publications

Authored

Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2009). Social Interaction around a Rural Community Photo Display. International Journal of Human–Computer Studies 67(12), 1037–1047.
[doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.07.006]

Taylor, N., Cheverst, K. and Müller, J. (2009). Affordances and Signifiers of Community Noticeboards. In Proc. Pervasive 2009 Workshop on Pervasive Advertising.

Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2008). "This Might Be Stupid But...": Participatory Design with Community Displays and Postcards. In Proc. OZCHI 2008, ACM, 41–48.
[doi:10.1145/1517744.1517757]

Taylor, N. and Cheverst, K. (2008). Exploring the Use of Non-Digital Situated Displays in a Rural Community. In Proc. OZCHI 2008 Workshop on Public Situated Displays to Support Communities.

Taylor, N., Cheverst, K., Satchell, C., Foth, M. and McColl, I. (2008). Public Situated Displays to Support Communities. In Proc. OZCHI 2008.

Taylor, N., Cheverst, K., Dix, A., Silva, P.A. and Rouncefield, M. (2008). The Co-realisation of a Village Photo Display. In Proc. CHI 2008 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 2008 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 2007, ACM, 17–24.
[doi:10.1145/1324892.1324896]
(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 1(2), 1–21.

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 2008 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 2008 Workshop on Mobile Interaction in the Real World.

Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Taylor, N. and Kray, C. (2008). Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction with Touchscreen Based Situated Displays. In Proc. CHI 2008 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.