CEA Fellow Awarded Best Paper at Human Computer Interaction International (HCCII) Conference 2024
David Frohlich and colleagues won best paper award at the Human Computer Interaction International (HCCII) July 2024 Conference, held at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
This was in the sub-conference track on Human Aspects of IT for the Ageing Population.
The paper describes a new kind of social media system called Neighbourhood Natter for facilitating conversations between neighbours face-to-face; challenging the notion that mediated communication always needs to be online. The system was co-designed and tested with residents of Whiteley Village retirement community in Surrey, who expressed a strong desire to meet each other in person after the pandemic, but appreciated a kind of talking stick system that facilitates equitable discussion without one person dominating.
The full paper can be found here.
David also presented a second paper on the Next Generation Paper project entitled “A market-ready ecosystem for authoring and playing back augmented books”. This described an augmented travel guide released by project partners Bradt Travel with the project app, containing printed hotlinks that played on a nearby phone when reading. This and other work on new media and gerontology from Digital World Research Centre can be found on the Centre website.