Mass Participation Research
Mass Participation Research
The emergence of ‘app stores’ as a means of distributing software applications on a number of platforms is a recent phenomenon. The relatively easy access to such a potentially wide audience could radically alter the nature of many software trials, yet as the practice is so new, the field has not yet developed a set of guiding principles or an understanding of good practice.
We’ve been developing a number of mobile applications and distributing them to users that number in the hundreds of thousands, studying the methodology of such trials as much as the software itself.
My role in this project has been quite varied: creating mobile applications, desktop visualisation tools for their analysis and conducting user trials, as well as looking at the methodology and ethical challenges of such trials.
Publications
A Hybrid Mass Participation Approach to Mobile Software Trials
A Morrison, D McMillan, S Reeves, S Sherwood, M Chalmers
Accepted for CHI 2012.
SGVis: Analysis of Data From Mass Participation Ubicomp Trials
A Morrison, M Chalmers
Special Issue on ‘Research in the Large’
International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2011.
A Comparison of Distribution Channels for Large-Scale Deployments of iOS Applications
D McMillan, A Morrison, M Chalmers
Special Issue on ‘Research in the Large’
International Journal of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2011.
Informed Consent and Users' Attitudes to Logging in Large Scale Trials
A Morrison, O Brown, D McMillan, M Chalmers
CHI Work In Progress, 2011.
Ethics, Logs and Videotape: Ethics in Large Scale User Trials and User Generated Content
M Chalmers, D McMillan, A Morrison, H Cramer, M Rost, W Mackay,
CHI Workshop Organiser & Extended Abstract, 2011.
SGVis: Analysis of Mass Participation Trial Data
A Morrison, M Chalmers
Research In The Large Workshop at Ubicomp, 2010.
Experiences of Mass Participation in Ubicomp Research
A Morrison, S Reeves, D McMillan, M Chalmers
Research In The Large Workshop at Ubicomp, 2010.
Mass Participation in User Trials
A Morrison, S Reeves, D McMillan, S Sherwood, M Chalmers
Digital Futures, 2010.
Further into the Wild: Running Worldwide Trials of Mobile Systems
D McMillan, A Morrison, O Brown, M Hall, M Chalmers
Proc. 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 210-17, 2010.