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Publications by Rob Comber

Peer reviewed

Articles

[1]
Ghorayeb, A., Comber, R. & Gooberman-Hill, R. (2023). Development of a Smart Home Interface With Older Adults : Multi-Method Co-Design Study. JMIR Aging, 6(1), e44439.
[2]
Hadjigeorgiou, E., Clark, B., Simpson, E., Coles, D., Comber, R., Fischer, A. R. H. ... Frewer, L. J. (2022). A systematic review into expert knowledge elicitation methods for emerging food and feed risk identification. Food Control, 136, 108848.
[3]
Ghorayeb, A., Comber, R. & Gooberman-Hill, R. (2021). Older Adults' Perspectives of Smart Home Technology : Are We Developing the Technology That Older People Want?. International journal of human-computer studies, 147.
[4]
Panzone, L. A., Sniehotta, F. F., Comber, R. & Lemke, F. (2020). The effect of traffic-light labels and time pressure on estimating kilocalories and carbon footprint of food. Appetite, 155.
[5]
Almeida, T., Balaam, M. & Comber, R. (2020). Woman-centered design through humanity, activism, and inclusion. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(4), 1-30.
[6]
Johnson, C., Bell, S., Borrion, A. & Comber, R. (2020). Working with Infrastructural Communities : A Material Participation Approach to Urban Retrofit. Science, Technology and Human Values.
[7]
Dow, A., Comber, R. & Vines, J. (2019). Communities to the left of me, bureaucrats to the right. Here i Am, stuck in the middle. interactions, 26(5), 27-33.
[8]
McGrane, S. J., Acuto, M., Artioli, F., Chen, P., Comber, R., Cottee, J. ... Yan, X. (2019). Scaling the nexus : Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food. The Geographical Journal, 185(4), 419-431.
[9]
Pargman, D., Eriksson, E., Bates, O., Kirman, B., Comber, R., Hedman, A. & van den Broeck, M. (2019). The future of computing and wisdom : Insights from Human-Computer Interaction. Futures : The journal of policy, planning and futures studies, 113.
[10]
Wilson, A., Tewdwr-Jones, M. & Comber, R. (2019). Urban planning, public participation and digital technology : App development as a method of generating citizen involvement in local planning processes. Environment and planning B : Urban analytics and city science, 46(2), 286-302.
[11]
Lampinen, A., McGregor, M., Comber, R. & Brown, B. (2018). Member-Owned Alternatives : Exploring Participatory Forms of Organising with Cooperatives. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1-19.
[12]
Mitchell Finnigan, S. (2017). Augmenting Audits : Exploring the Role of Sensor Toolkits in Sustainable Buildings Management. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(2).
[13]
Simpson, E., Garbett, A., Comber, R. & Balaam, M. (2016). Factors important for women who breastfeed in public : a content analysis of review data from FeedFinder. BMJ Open, 6(10).
[14]
Poole, E. S., Comber, R. & Hoonhout, J. (2015). Disruption as a Research Method for Studying Technology Use in Homes. Interacting with computers, 27(1), 13-20.
[15]
Vlachokyriakos, V., Dunphy, P., Taylor, N., Comber, R. & Olivier, P. (2014). BallotShare : An exploration of the design space for digital voting in the workplace. Computers in human behavior, 41, 433-443.
[16]
Comber, R. & Thieme, A. (2013). Designing beyond habit : opening space for improved recycling and food waste behaviors through processes of persuasion, social influence and aversive affect. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 17(6), 1197-1210.
[17]
Ganglbauer, E., Fitzpatrick, G. & Comber, R. (2013). Negotiating Food Waste : Using a Practice Lens to Inform Design. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(2).

Conference papers

[18]
Popova, K., Demir, A. D., Park, J. Y., Comber, R. (2024). Voicing Discomfort, Communicating Breakdowns: Design Exploration of Felt Ethics in a Body-Based Workshop. In Live � Uniting HCI for a Hyperlocal and Global Experience: Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2024. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[19]
Comber, R., Eriksson, E. (2023). Computing as Ecocide. In Ninth Computing within Limits 2023. PubPub.
[20]
Rossitto, C., Lindrup, M. V. A., Comber, R., Tholander, J., Jacobsson, M., Cabral, A., Hagensby Jensen, R. (2023). Data-Enabled Sustainability : The Collective Work of Turning Data into Actions for Environmental Care. In CSCW 2023 Companion: Conference Companion Publication of the 2023 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (pp. 506-511). Association for Computing Machinery.
[21]
Lindrup, M., Tholander, J., Rossitto, C., Comber, R., Jacobsson, M. (2023). Designing for Digital Environmental Stewardship in Waste Management. In DIS 2023: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (pp. 1-14). Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[22]
Almqvist, A., Hedman, A., Clear, A. K., Comber, R. (2023). Different Together : Design for Radical Placemaking. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-16). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[23]
Stojanov, M., Pargman, D., Hazas, M., Comber, R., Zapico, J. L. (2023). How do we arrive at constraints? : Articulating limits for computing. In Computing within Limits. PubPub.
[24]
Ásgeirsdóttir, T., Comber, R. (2023). Making Energy Matter : Soma Design for Ethical Relations in Energy Systems. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-14). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[25]
Comber, R., Rossitto, C. (2023). Regulating Responsibility : Environmental Sustainability, Law, and the Platformisation of Waste Management. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-19). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[26]
Ståhl, A., Balaam, M., Comber, R., Sanches, P., Höök, K. (2022). Making New Worlds - Transformative Becomings with Soma Design. In CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-17). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[27]
Lindrup, M. V. A., Cheon, E., Skov, M. B., Raptis, D., Comber, R. (2022). Sustainable Foodtures : Exploring Roles of Future Technology in Sustainable Food Shopping. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[28]
Rossitto, C., Comber, R., Tholander, J., Jacobsson, M. (2022). Towards Digital Environmental Stewardship : the Work of Caring for the Environment in Waste Management. In CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 1-16). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[29]
Deng, J., Wang, Y., Velasco, C., Altarriba Altarriba Bertran, F., Comber, R., Obrist, M., Isbister, K., Spence, C., Floyd'mueller, F. (2021). The Future of Human-Food Interaction. In Proceedings CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Virtual Event / Yokohama Japan, May 8-13, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[30]
Börjesson Rivera, M., Eriksson, E., Comber, R. (2020). Diminishing space : peer-to-peer sharing as a transition practice. In ICT4S2020: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability. (pp. 220-226). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[31]
Almeida, T., Chen, K.-L., Comber, R., Balaam, M. (2019). Dismantling Feminist Biology through the Design of eTextiles. In Research through Design 2019..
[32]
Balaam, M., Comber, R., Clarke, R. E., Windlin, C., Ståhl, A., Höök, K., Fitzpatrick, G. (2019). Emotion Work in Experience-Centred Design. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK..
[33]
Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., Comber, R. (2019). The Right to the Sustainable Smart City. In CHI 2019: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[34]
Comber, R., Lampinen, A., Haapoja, J. (2019). Towards post-interaction computing : Addressing immediacy, (un)intentionality, instability and interaction effects. In Halfway to the Future Symposium: Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019a. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[35]
Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., Comber, R. (2018). Connected seeds and sensors : Co-designing internet of things for sustainable smart cities with urban food-growing communities. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Association for Computing Machinery.
[36]
Pargman, D., Eriksson, E., Comber, R., Kirman, B., Bates, O. (2018). The futures of computing and wisdom. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI ’18. (pp. 960-963). ACM Press.
[37]
Clear, A. K., Finnigan, S. M., Olivier, P., Comber, R. (2017). "I'd Want to Burn the Data or at Least Nobble the Numbers" : Towards Data-mediated Building Management for Comfort and Energy Use. In CSCW'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING. (pp. 2448-2461). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[38]
Ferdous, H. S., Vetere, F., Davis, H., Ploderer, B., O'Hara, K., Comber, R., Farr-Wharton, G. (2017). Celebratory Technology to Orchestrate the Sharing of Devices and Stories during Family Mealtimes. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). (pp. 6960-6972). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[39]
Simpson, E., Comber, R., Garbett, A., Jenkins, E. I., Balaam, M. (2017). Experiences of Delivering a Public Health Data Service. Presented at 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 6-11, 2017. (pp. 6171-6183). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[40]
Manuel, J., Vigar, G., Bartindale, T., Comber, R. (2017). Participatory Media : Creating Spaces for Storytelling in Neighbourhood Planning. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). (pp. 1688-1701). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
[41]
Strohmayer, A., Laing, M., Comber, R. (2017). Technologies and Social Justice Outcomes in Sex Work Charities : Fighting Stigma, Saving Lives. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). (pp. 3352-3364). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[42]
Dow, A., Vines, J., Lowe, T., Comber, R., Wilson, R. (2017). What Happens to Digital Feedback? : Studying the Use of a Feedback Capture Platform by Care Organisations. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM SIGCHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI'17). (pp. 5813-5825). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[43]
Garbett, A., Comber, R., Jenkins, E., Olivier, P. (2016). App Movement : A Platform for Community Commissioning of Mobile Applications. In 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. (pp. 26-37). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[44]
Almeida, T., Comber, R., Balaam, M. (2016). HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women's Health. In 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. (pp. 2599-2611). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[45]
Almeida, T., Comber, R., Wood, G., Saraf, D., Balaam, M. (2016). On Looking at the Vagina through Labella. In 34th annual chi conference on human factors in computing systems, CHI 2016. (pp. 1810-1821). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[46]
Crivellaro, C., Taylor, A., Vlachokyriakos, V., Comber, R., Nissen, B., Wright, P. (2016). Re-Making Places : HCI, 'Community Building' and Change. In 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. (pp. 2958-2969). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[47]
Elsden, C., Mellor, S., Olivier, P., Wheldon, P., Kirk, D., Comber, R. (2016). ResViz : Politics and Design Issues in Visualizing Academic Metrics. In 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. (pp. 5015-5027). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[48]
Celina, H., Kharrufa, A., Preston, A., Comber, R., Olivier, P. (2016). SOLE Meets MOOC : Designing Infrastructure for Online Self-Organised Learning with a Social Mission. In DIS 2016: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM CONFERENCE ON DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS. (pp. 484-496). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[49]
Ferdous, H. S., Ploderer, B., Davis, H., Vetere, F., O'Hara, K., Farr-Wharton, G., Comber, R. (2016). TableTalk : Integrating Personal Devices and Content for Commensal Experiences at the Family Dinner Table. In UBICOMP'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING. (pp. 132-143). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[50]
Dow, A., Vines, J., Comber, R., Wilson, R. (2016). ThoughtCloud : Exploring the Role of Feedback Technologies in Care Organisations. In 34TH ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS, CHI 2016. (pp. 3625-3636). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[51]
Crivellaro, C., Comber, R., Dade-Robertson, M., Bowen, S. J., Wright, P., Olivier, P. (2015). Contesting the City : Enacting the Political Through Digitally Supported Urban Walks. In CHI 2015: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 33RD ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS. (pp. 2853-2862). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[52]
Strohmayer, A., Comber, R., Balaam, M. (2015). Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness. In CHI 2015: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 33RD ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS. (pp. 2275-2284). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[53]
Balaam, M., Comber, R., Jenkins, E., Sutton, S., Garbett, A. (2015). FeedFinder : A Location-Mapping Mobile Application for Breastfeeding Women. In CHI 2015: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 33RD ANNUAL CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS. (pp. 1709-1718). ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY.
[54]
Comber, R., Thieme, A., Rafiev, A., Taylor, N., Kraemer, N., Olivier, P. (2013). BinCam : Designing for Engagement with Facebook for Behavior Change. Presented at 14th IFIP TC 13 INTERACT International Conference on Designing for Diversity, SEP 02-06, 2013, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA. (pp. 99-115). SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN.

Chapters in books

[55]
Green, N., Comber, R. & Kuznesof, S. (2020). A Digital Nexus : Sustainable HCI and Domestic Resource Consumption. In S. J. Yates & R. E. Rice (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Technology and Society. Oxford University Press.
[56]
Comber, R., Laing, M. & Strohmayer, A. (2018). Justice-oriented ecologies : A framework for designing technologies with sex work support services. In Susan Dewey, Isabel Crowhurst, Chimaraoke Izugbara (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Sex Industry Research. Routledge.
[57]
Clear, A. & Comber, R. (2018). Towards a social practice theory perspective on sustainable HCI research and design. In Mike Hazas and Lisa Nathan (Ed.), Digital Technology and Sustainability. Routledge.
[58]
Comber, R. & Thieme, A. (2017). BinCam : Evaluating Persuasion at Multiple Scales. In Little, L Sillence, E Joinson, A (Ed.), BEHAVIOR CHANGE RESEARCH AND THEORY: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES (pp. 181-194). Elsevier BV.

Non-peer reviewed

Articles

[59]
Su, N. M., Hardy, J., Vigil-Hayes, M., Veinot, T. & Comber, R. (2021). Introduction : Performing Rurality with Computing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 28(3).
[60]
Comber, R. (2020). Announcing a new CHI subcommittee : critical and sustainable computing. interactions, 27(4), 101-103.
[61]
Höök, K. & Comber, R. (2020). Sustainable practices for the academic business sector : publish in journals such as TOCHI. interactions, 27(4), 99-100.
[62]
Comber, R., Choi, J. H., Hoonhout, J. & O'Hara, K. (2014). Designing for human-food interaction : An introduction to the special issue on 'food and interaction design'. International journal of human-computer studies, 72(2), 181-184.
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