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Publications
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
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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]
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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
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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
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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%
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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]
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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
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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]
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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
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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.