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Publications

2023
  • Campbell, J, Çerçi, S., Cecchinato, M.E. (2023). ADHD and Knowledge Work: Exploring Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities for AI. Designing Technology for Neurodivergent Self-Determination: Challenges and Opportunities workshop, Interact 2023. [pdf]
  • Monge Roffarello, A., De Russis, L., Lottridge, D., Cecchinato, M.E. (2023) Understanding Digital Wellbeing within Complex. Introduction to the Special issue on Understanding Digital Wellbeing within Complex Technological Contexts. International Journal of Human Computer Studies.
  • Gould, S., Rudnicka, A., Cook, D., Cecchinato, M.E., Newbold, J., Cox, A.L. (2023). Remote work, work measurement, and the state of work research in human-centred computing. Interacting with Computers.
  • Scott, L., Coventry, L., Cecchinato, M.E., Warner, M. (2023). “I figured her feeling a little bit bad was worth it to not spread that kind of hate”: Exploring How UK Families Discuss and Challenge Misinformation. Proceedings of CHI 2023.
  • De La Vega, J. C. A., Cecchinato, M. E., & Rooksby, J. (2023). Understanding Platform-Mediated Work-Life: A Diary Study with International Gig Economy Freelancers. CSCW 2023
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]
  • 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. (2020). 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
2018
2017
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]
2015
  • Harrison, D. & Cecchinato, M.E. (2015). “Give me five minutes!” Feeling Time Slip By. Proceedings of UbiComp/ISWC ’15 Adjunct. Osaka, Japan. [pdf]
  • 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]
  • 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]
2014
2012

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.