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Barry Brown is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences and psychology, with a particular focus on sociology and political science as well as human-computer interaction and social psychology.

The main topics covered in Barry Brown's body of work include:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Smart Parking Systems Research
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Their recent publications illustrate this multidisciplinary approach across various aspects of technology, society, and mobility. These include:

  • "Designing Motion: Lessons for Self-driving and Robotic Motion from Human Traffic Interaction" (2022), published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "Notes on the practices and appearances of e-scooter users in public space" (2020), published in the Journal of Transport Geography
  • "From Self-Tracking to Sleep-Hacking" (2022), published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "The Work to Make Piecework Work: An Ethnographic Study of Food Delivery Work in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2023), published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "A Bip, a Beeeep, and a Beep Beep: How Horns Are Sounded in Chennai Traffic" (2020), published in Research on Language and Social Interaction

Barry Brown has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Journal of Transport Geography
  • Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • Symbolic Interaction
  • interactions

Their work often involves collaboration with various researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Éric Laurier
  • Sylvaine Tuncer
  • Riyaj Shaikh
  • Airi Lampinen
  • Christian Licoppe

Barry Brown's research contributions cover an intersection of technology and everyday social practices, focusing on how innovative interaction technologies influence work, mobility, and urban environments. Their expertise brings together elements from human-computer interaction, social psychology, and urban transport studies.

Best Publications

  • Dealing with mobility: understanding access anytime, anywhere

    Mark Perry;Kenton O'hara;Abigail Sellen;Barry Brown

  • Tourism and mobile technology

    Barry Brown;Matthew Chalmers

  • Interweaving mobile games with everyday life

    Marek Bell;Matthew Chalmers;Louise Barkhuus;Malcolm Hall

  • Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age

    Barry Brown;Nicola Green

  • Shakra: tracking and sharing daily activity levels with unaugmented mobile phones

    Ian Anderson;Julie Maitland;Scott Sherwood;Louise Barkhuus

  • Place as a Practical Concern of Mobile Workers

    Barry Brown;Kenton O'Hara

  • Into the wild: challenges and opportunities for field trial methods

    Barry Brown;Stuart Reeves;Scott Sherwood

  • From awareness to repartee: sharing location within social groups

    Louise Barkhuus;Barry Brown;Marek Bell;Scott Sherwood

  • Locating family values: a field trial of the whereabouts clock

    Barry Brown;Alex S. Taylor;Shahram Izadi;Abigail Sellen

  • Lessons from the lighthouse: collaboration in a shared mixed reality system

    Barry Brown;Ian MacColl;Matthew Chalmers;Areti Galani

  • Designing for Labour: Uber and the On-Demand Mobile Workforce

    Mareike Glöss;Moira McGregor;Barry Brown

  • CSCW at play: 'there' as a collaborative virtual environment

    Barry Brown;Marek Bell

  • The Trouble with Autopilots: Assisted and Autonomous Driving on the Social Road

    Barry Brown;Eric Laurier

  • The television will be revolutionized: effects of PVRs and filesharing on television watching

    Barry Brown;Louise Barkhuus

  • Smartwatch in vivo

    Stefania Pizza;Barry Brown;Donald McMillan;Airi Lampinen

  • A diary study of information capture in working life

    Barry A. T. Brown;Abigail J. Sellen;Kenton P. O'Hara

  • Learning from Games: HCI Design Innovations in Entertainment Software.

    Jeff Dyck;David Pinelle;Barry A. T. Brown;Carl Gutwin

  • Picking pockets on the lawn: the development of tactics and strategies in a mobile game

    Louise Barkhuus;Matthew Chalmers;Paul Tennent;Malcolm Hall

  • Maps and Journeys: An Ethno-methodological Investigation

    Barry A. T. Brown;Eric Laurier

  • Experts at Play Understanding Skilled Expertise

    Stuart Reeves;Barry Brown;Eric Laurier

  • Awareness and Repartee: Sharing location on the go

    Louise Barkhuus;Barry Brown;Marek Bell;Scott Sherwood

  • Sharing the square: collaborative leisure in the city streets

    Barry Brown;Matthew Chalmers;Marek Bell;Malcolm Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Chalmers
Matthew Chalmers University of Glasgow
Abigail Sellen
Abigail Sellen Microsoft (United States)
Kenton O'Hara
Kenton O'Hara Microsoft (United States)
Anthony Steed
Anthony Steed University College London
Steve Benford
Steve Benford University of Nottingham
Chris Greenhalgh
Chris Greenhalgh University of Nottingham
Lars Erik Holmquist
Lars Erik Holmquist Nottingham Trent University
Shahram Izadi
Shahram Izadi Google (United States)
Tom Rodden
Tom Rodden University of Nottingham
Owain Jones
Owain Jones The Open University

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