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Overview

Christian Heath is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science, with a focus on various subfields including Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their work explores a range of topics centered on communication strategies and interaction. Main topics include:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Digital Communication and Language
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication

They have published research in several academic venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • AI & Society
  • British Journal of Management
  • Discourse Processes
  • Culture and Organization
  • Visual Studies

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Recipient design in human-robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot's competence" (2023, AI & Society)
  • "Embedding Impact in Research: Addressing the Interactional Production of Workplace Activities" (2021, British Journal of Management)
  • "Embodied Action, Projection, and Institutional Action: The Exchange of Tools and Implements During Surgical Procedures" (2020, Discourse Processes)
  • "Reconciling knowledge sharing with individual tasks: interaction and interruptions in the open-plan office" (2022, Culture and Organization)
  • "Servicing the body: placing glasses on the client's head at the opticians" (2020, Visual Studies)

Christian Heath frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors. Notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Paul Luff
  • Dirk vom Lehn
  • Sylvaine Tuncer
  • Christian Licoppe
  • Francesca Salvadori

Best Publications

  • Body movement and speech in medical interaction

    Christian Heath;Katherine Nicholls

  • Collaboration and controlCrisis management and multimedia technology in London Underground Line Control Rooms

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design

    Paul Luff;Jonathan Hindmarsh;Christian Heath

  • Video in Qualitative Research: Analysing Social Interaction in Everyday Life

    Christian Heath;Jon Hindmarsh;Paul Luff

  • Technology in Action: Index

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Mobility in collaboration

    Paul Luff;Christian Heath

  • Collaborative activity and technological design: task coordination in London underground control rooms

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Exhibiting Interaction: Conduct and Collaboration in Museums and Galleries

    Dirk vom Lehn;Christian Heath;Jon Hindmarsh

  • Disembodied conduct: communication through video in a multi-media office environment

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Workplace Studies: List of contributors

    Paul Luff;Jon Hindmarsh;Christian Heath

  • Technology and social interaction: the emergence of 'workplace studies'.

    Christian Heath;Hubert Knoblauch;Paul Luff

  • Documents and professional practice: “bad” organisational reasons for “good” clinical records

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Embodied reference: A study of deixis in workplace interaction

    Jonathan Hindmarsh;Christian Heath

  • Configuring Awareness

    Christian Heath;Marcus Sanchez Svensson;Jon Hindmarsh;Paul Luff

  • Media space and communicative asymmetries: preliminary observations of video-mediated interaction

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • On sharks, trolls, and their patent prey—Unrealistic damage awards and firms’ strategies of “being infringed”

    Markus Reitzig;Joachim Henkel;Joachim Henkel;Christopher Heath

  • One is not enough: multiple views in a media space

    William W. Gaver;Abigail Sellen;Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Tasks-in-interaction: paper and screen based documentation in collaborative activity

    Paul Luff;Christian Heath;David Greatbatch

  • Talk and recipiency : Sequential organization in speech and body movement

    Christian Heath

  • Video-Analysis. Methodology and Methods

    Dirk Vom Lehn;Christian Heath

  • Body movement and speech in medical interaction: Postscript: the use of medical records and computers during the consultation

    Christian Heath;Katherine Nicholls

  • Technology in Action: ‘Interaction’ with computers in architecture

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Luff
Paul Luff King's College London
Hideaki Kuzuoka
Hideaki Kuzuoka University of Tokyo
Steve Benford
Steve Benford University of Nottingham
Abigail Sellen
Abigail Sellen Microsoft (United States)
Chris Greenhalgh
Chris Greenhalgh University of Nottingham
John Bowers
John Bowers Newcastle University
Yoshinori Kuno
Yoshinori Kuno Saitama University
Liam J. Bannon
Liam J. Bannon University of Limerick
Nigel Gilbert
Nigel Gilbert University of Surrey
Rosemarie McCabe
Rosemarie McCabe City, University of London

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