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Overview

Andy Crabtree is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their main research topics include Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Design Education and Practice, Persona Design and Applications, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, and Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Andy Crabtree cover a range of themes in technology and design. These include:

  • "The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home" (2021) published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • "Productive Oscillation as a strategy for doing more-than-human design research" (2023) in Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern" (2022) published in Journal of Responsible Technology
  • "Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment" (2025) in Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Legal Provocations for HCI in the Design and Development of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems" (2022) featured in arXiv (Cornell University)

Andy Crabtree frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Glenn McGarry, Paul Coulton, Tom Lodge, Alan Chamberlain, and Lachlan Urquhart.

Their work is often published in venues such as Human-Computer Interaction, arXiv (Cornell University), Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Responsible Technology, and AI & Society.

Best Publications

  • Can you see me now

    Steve Benford;Andy Crabtree;Martin Flintham;Adam Drozd

  • Domestic Routines and Design for the Home

    Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden

  • Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography

    Andy Crabtree

  • Where on-line meets on the streets: experiences with mobile mixed reality games

    Martin Flintham;Steve Benford;Rob Anastasi;Terry Hemmings

  • Designing with Care: Adapting Cultural Probes to Inform Design in Sensitive Settings

    G Dewsbury;J Hughes;K Cheverst;K Clarke

  • Coping with uncertainty in a location-based game

    S. Benford;R. Anastasi;M. Flintham;C. Greenhalgh

  • Ethnomethodologically Informed Ethnography and Information System Design.

    Andy Crabtree;David M. Nichols;Jon O'Brien;Mark Rouncefield

  • “Playing with the Bits” User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments

    Jan Humble;Andy Crabtree;Terry Hemmings;Karl-Petter Åkesson

  • The Frame of the Game: Blurring the Boundary between Fiction and Reality in Mobile Experiences

    Steve Benford;Andy Crabtree;Stuart Reeves;Jennifer Sheridan

  • Ethnography considered harmful

    Andrew Crabtree;Tom Rodden;Peter Tolmie;Graham Button

  • Finding a Place for UbiComp in the Home

    Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden;Terry Hemmings;Steve Benford

  • Collaborating around collections: informing the continued development of photoware

    Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden;John Mariani

  • Ethnography in Participatory Design

    Andy Crabtree

  • Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development

    Alan Chamberlain;Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden;Matt Jones

  • Probing the Probes

    K. Clarke;M. Rouncefield;T. Rodden;T. Hemmings

  • Ways of the hands

    David Kirk;Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden

  • Performance-Led Research in the Wild

    Steve Benford;Chris Greenhalgh;Andy Crabtree;Martin Flintham

  • Orchestrating a mixed reality game 'on the ground'

    Andy Crabtree;Steve Benford;Tom Rodden;Chris Greenhalgh

  • Supporting ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing in the wild

    Andy Crabtree;Steve Benford;Chris Greenhalgh;Paul Tennent

  • Making the home network at home: Digital housekeeping

    Peter Tolmie;Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden;Chris Greenhalgh

  • Introduction to the Special Issue of “The Turn to The Wild”

    Andy Crabtree;Alan Chamberlain;Rebecca E. Grinter;Matt Jones

  • Hybrid ecologies: understanding cooperative interaction in emerging physical-digital environments

    Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden

  • The ins and outs of home networking: The case for useful and usable domestic networking

    Rebecca E. Grinter;W. Keith Edwards;Marshini Chetty;Erika S. Poole

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Rodden
Tom Rodden University of Nottingham
Mark Rouncefield
Mark Rouncefield Lancaster University
Chris Greenhalgh
Chris Greenhalgh University of Nottingham
Richard Mortier
Richard Mortier University of Cambridge
Steve Benford
Steve Benford University of Nottingham
Hamed Haddadi
Hamed Haddadi Imperial College London
Craig Murray
Craig Murray Lancaster University
Keith Cheverst
Keith Cheverst Lancaster University
John P. Moore
John P. Moore Cornell University
Michael B. Twidale
Michael B. Twidale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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