Publications

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2022

Iacovides, I., Cutting, J., Beeston, J., Cecchinato, M.E., Mekler, E., Cairns, P. (2022). Close but not too close: Distance and relevance in designing games for reflection. Proceedings of CHI PLAY 2022.
Honorable Mention.
Newbold, J., Rudnicka, A., Cook, D., Cecchinato, M.E., Gould, S., Cox, A. (2022). The New Normals of Work: Developing strategies for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Human-Computer Interaction (Special Issue on The New Future of Remote Work: Responses to the Pandemic), 1-24.
De La Vega, J. C. A., Cecchinato, M. E., & Rooksby, J. (2022). Design Opportunities for Freelancing Platforms: Online Freelancers’ Views on a Worker-Centred Design Fiction. Proceedings of CHIWORK Symposium.
Honorable Mention.
Rudnicka, A., Cook, D., Cecchinato, M. E., Gould, S., Newbold, J., & Cox, A.L. (2022). The end of the active work break? Remote work, sedentariness and the role of technology in creating active break-taking norms. Proceedings of CHIWORK Symposium.

2021

Desjardins, A., Tomico, O., Lucero, A., Cecchinato, M. E., & Neustaedter, C. (2021). Introduction to the Special Issue on First-Person Methods in HCI. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 28(6), 1-12.
De La Vega, J. C. A., Cecchinato, M. E., & Rooksby, J. (2021). “Why lose control?” A Study of Freelancers’ Experiences with Gig Economy Platforms. Proceedings of CHI 2021.
Best Paper Award (<1%) | Acceptance rate: ~24%

Çerçi, S., Cecchinato, M. E., Vines, J. (2021). How Design Researchers Interpret Probes: Understanding the Critical Intentions of a Designerly Approach to Research. Proceedings of CHI 2021.

2020

Cecchinato, M. E., Gould, S., & Pitts, H. (forthcoming). Self-tracking and sousveillance at work: Human-Computer Interaction and social science. In Phoebe Moore and Jamie Woodcock (Eds.) “Augmented Exploitation: Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Work”. Pluto Press.
Cecchinato, M. E., & Cox, A. L. (2020). Work-home boundaries and communication technologies. In Simeon Yates and Ronald E. Rice (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society. Oxford University Press.
Alvarez de la Vega, J.C., Cecchinato, M. E., & Rooksby, J. (2020). The Gig Economy in Times of COVID-19: Designing for Gig Workers’ Needs. Microsoft Research New Future of Work Symposium.
Rudnicka, A., Newbold, J.N., Cook, D., Cecchinato, M. E., Gould, S., & Cox, A.L. (2020). Eworklife: developing effective strategies for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft Research New Future of Work Symposium.
Cox, A. L., Bird, J., Brumby, D., Cecchinato, M. E., Gould, S., (2020). Prioritizing Unread Emails: An Experiment Showing that People Send Urgent Responses Before Important or Short Ones. Human-Computer Interaction, 1-24.
Rich, A., Aly, A., Cecchinato, M. E., Lascau, L., Baker, M., Viney, R., and Cox, A. L. (2020). Evaluation of a novel intervention to reduce burnout in doctors-in-training using self-care and digital wellbeing strategies: a mixed-methods pilot. BMC Medical Education, 20(1), 1-11.
Rooksby, J. Cecchinato, M. E., Asadzadeh, P. Philpott, M., & Bunn C. (2020). Design Opportunities for Digital Men’s Health: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Football Fandom. Proceedings of DIS 2020.
Fleck, R., Cecchinato, M. E., Cox, A.L., Harrison, D., Marshall, P., Hoo Na, J., & Skatova, A. (2020). Life-Swap: How Discussions Around Personal Data Can Motivate Desire for Change. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. [pdf]

2019

Cecchinato, M. E., Rooksby, J., Hiniker, A., Munson, S., Lukoff, K., Ciolfi, L., Thieme, A., Harrison, D. (2019). Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research and Practice Agenda. CHI’19 Extended Abstracts. [workshop website]
Lucero, A., Desjardins, A., Neustaedter, C., Höök, K., Hassenzahl, M., Cecchinato, M. E.. (2019). A Sample of One: First-person research methods in HCI. DIS’19 Extended Abstracts. [workshop website]

2018

Pateman, M., Harrison, D., Marshall, P., & Cecchinato, M.E. (2018).The Role of Aesthetics and Design: Wearables in Situ. Proceedings CHI ’18 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Canada. [pdf].
Acceptance rate: 39.8%

2017

Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A. L., & Bird, J. (2017). Always On(line)? User Experience of Smartwatches and their Role within Multi-Device Ecologies. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing systems. Denver, CO. [pdf] [video preview]
Acceptance rate: 25%
Cecchinato, M.E. & Harrison, D. (2017). Degrees of Agency in Owners and Users of Home IoT Devices. Making Home: Asserting Agency in the Age of IoT Workshop, ACM CHI, Denver, CO. [pdf] [workshop website]

2016

Cox, A.L., Gould, S., Cecchinato, M.E., Iacovides, I., Renfree, I. (2016). Design Frictions for Mindful Interactions: The Case for Microboundaries. Proceedings CHI ’16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. San Jose, CA. [pdf]
Acceptance rate: 43.4%

Cecchinato, M.E., Sellen, A., Shokouhi, M., & Smyth, G. (2016). Finding email in a multi-device, multi-account world. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing systems. San Jose, CA. [pdf]
Best Paper Award (<1%) | Acceptance rate: 23.4%
Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A.L., Bird, J. (2016, May). Work-Life Balance through Tangibles and the Internet of Things. Tangibles4Health Workshop, ACM CHI, San Jose, CA. [pdf] [workshop website]

2015

Harrison, D. & Cecchinato, M.E. (2015). “Give me five minutes!” Feeling Time Slip By. Proceedings of UbiComp/ISWC ’15 Adjunct. Osaka, Japan. [pdf]
Acceptance rate: 23%

Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A.L., & Bird, J. (2015). Smartwatches: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly? Proceedings CHI ’15 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, South Korea. [pdf]
Acceptance rate: 45%

Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A.L., & Bird, J. (2015). Working 9-5? Professional Differences in Email and Boundary Management Practices. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing systems. Seoul, South Korea. [pdf] [video preview]
Acceptance rate: 23%
Cecchinato, M.E., Fleck, R., Bird, J., & Cox, A.L. (2015). Online vs. Offline: Implications for Work Identity. Between the Lines: Reevaluating the Online/Offline Binary Workshop, ACM CHI, Seoul, South Korea. [pdf] [workshop website]
Cecchinato, M.E., Cox, A.L., & Bird, J. (2014). “I check my emails on the toilet”: Email Practices and Work-Home Boundary Management. Socio-Technical Systems and Work-Home Boundaries Workshop, ACM MobileHCI, Toronto, Canada. [pdf]

2014

Cecchinato, M.E. (2014). Email management and work-home boundaries. In Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services (pp. 403-404). ACM. [pdf]
Cecchinato, M.E., Bird, J., & Cox, A.L. (2014) Personalised Email Tools: A Solution to Email Overload? Personalised Behaviour Change Technologies Workshop, ACM CHI, Toronto, Canada. [pdf] [workshop website]

2012

Wijekoon, D., Cecchinato, M.E., Hoggan, E., & Linjama, J. (2012). Electrostatic modulated friction as tactile feedback: intensity perception. Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Haptics: perception, devices, mobility, and communication – Volume Part I. (pp.613-624). Springer-Verlag. [available in ACM DL]
Acceptance rate: 23%

Theses

Cecchinato, M.E. (2018). Communicating in a Multi-Role, Multi-Device, Multi-Channel World: How Knowledge Workers Manage WorkHome Boundaries. Doctoral thesis. University College London. [pdf]

Cecchinato, M. E. (2013). User experience evaluation of multimodal evaluation. M.Sc. dissertation. University of Padua.