Publications

Dissertations

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. An Investigation of Eyes-Free Spatial Auditory Interfaces for Mobile Devices: Supporting Multitasking and Location-Based Information. PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. Click to get dissertation

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. The Reliability of the ITU-T Standard Recommendation P.85 for the Evaluation of TTS English Synthesizers on the Web. MSc Dissertation, University College London (UCL), 2001.

Journal Papers

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Aylett, M. P., Brewster, S. A., Von Jungenfeld, R. and Virolainen, A. Designing Interactions with Multilevel Auditory Displays in Mobile Audio-Augmented Reality. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 2015;23(1):Article 3, 30 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2829944

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Oakley, I., Brewster, S.A. Auditory Display Design for Exploration in Mobile Audio-augmented Reality. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 2012;16(8):987-999. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Hewlett, N. The 'trough effect': an ultrasound study. Phonetica. 2007;64(2-3):105-21. Click to get paper

Conference Papers

Sun, Y., Aylett, M. P., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. e-Seesaw: A Tangible, Ludic, Parent-child, Awareness System. To appear in Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2016 Proceedings (San Jose, USA). ACM Press.

Aylett, M. P., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Baillie, L. Interactive Radio: A New Platform for Calm Computing. In Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2015 Proceedings (Seoul, Korea). ACM Press, pp 2085-2090. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732785 Click to get paper

Al Moubayed, N., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., McKay, A. and Vinciarelli A. Face-Based Automatic Personality Perception. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '14). Orlando, Florida. ACM Press, pp 1153-1156. DOI=10.1145/2647868.2655014. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Aylett, M. P., Brewster, S. A., Von Jungenfeld R. and Virolainen, A. Multilevel Auditory Displays for Mobile Eyes-Free Location-Based Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2014 Proceedings (Toronto, Canada). ACM Press, pp 1567-1572. Click to get paper

Aylett, M. P., Kristensson, P. O., Whittaker, S. and Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. None of a CHInd: Relationship Counselling for HCI and Speech Technology. In Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI 2014 Proceedings (Toronto, Canada). ACM Press, pp 749-760.Click to get paper

Aylett, M., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Baillie, L. Evaluating speech synthesis in a mobile context: Audio presentation of Facebook, Twitter and RSS. In Proceedings of Information Technology Interfaces, ITI 2013,(Cavtat/Dubrovnik, Croatia), IEEE, pp 167-172. Click to get paper

McGookin, D., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Brewster, S. and Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, J. Shaking the Dead: Multimodal Location Based Experiences for Un-Stewarded Archaeological Sites. In Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design, NordiCHI'12 (Copenhagen, Denmark), ACM Press. 2012:199-208. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Brewster S.A. Eyes-Free Multitasking: The Effect of Cognitive Load on Mobile Spatial Audio Interfaces. In Proceedings of CHI 2011, (Vancouver, Canada), ACM Press, pp 2173-2176. Click to get paper CHI 2011 BEST PAPER AWARD (Top 1% of submissions)

Trendafilov, D., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Lemmela, S. and Murray-Smith, R. "Can we work this out?": An evaluation of remote collaborative interaction in a mobile shared environment. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2011 (Stockholm, Sweden), ACM Press, pp 499-502. Click to get paper

Halvey, M., Wilson, G., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Brewster, S. A. and Hughes, S. A. The Effect of Clothing on Thermal Feedback Perception. In Proceedings of ACM ICMI 2011 (Alicante, Spain), ACM Press. 2011:217-220. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Brewster, S.A. Designing Spatial Audio Interfaces to Support Multiple Audio Streams. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010 (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM Press, pp 253-256. (Nominee for Best Short Paper, Top 5 of 46 papers) Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. Designing spatial audio interfaces for mobile devices: supporting multitasking and context information. Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010 (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM Press - MobileHCI 2010 Doctoral Consortium. pp 481-482. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Brewster, S. Investigating Background & Foreground Interactions Using Spatial Audio Cues. In Extended Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009 (Boston, USA). ACM Press, pp 3823-3828. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Brewster, S.A. Audio Minimization: Applying 3D Audio Techniques to Multi-Stream Audio Interfaces. In Proceedings of HAID 2009 (Dresden, DE), Springer LNCS Vol 5763. Click to get paper

Strom, V., Nenkova, A., Clark, R., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Brenier, J., King, S. and Jurafsky, D. Modelling Prominence and Emphasis Improves Unit-Selection Synthesis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Interspeech 2007 (Antwerp, Belgium). 2007:1282-1285. Click to get paper

Vazquez-Alvarez, Y. and Huckvale, M. The Reliability of the ITU-P.85 Standard for the Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Interspeech 2002 (Denver, Colorado). 2002:329-332. Click to get paper