Publications

You can find a list of my publications below. You may also view my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Papers

• Harrison, D., Rowland, S., Wood, G., Bakewell, L., Petridis, I., Long, K., Vasileiou, K., Barnett, J., Barreto, M., Wilson, M., Lawson, S. & Vines, J. (2022). Designing Technology-Mediated Peer Support for Postgraduate Research Students at Risk of Loneliness and Isolation. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
• Fleck, R., Cecchinato, M. E., Cox, A. L., Harrison, D., Marshall, P., Na, J. H., & Skatova, A. (2020). Life-swap: how discussions around personal data can motivate desire for change. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24(5), 669-681.

Conference Papers

• Don Samitha Elvitigala, Armağan Karahanoğlu, Andrii Matviienko, Laia Turmo Vidal, Dees Postma, Michael D Jones, Maria F. Montoya, Daniel Harrison, Lars Elbæk, Florian Daiber, Lisa Anneke Burr, Rakesh Patibanda, Paolo Buono, Perttu Hämäläinen, Robby Van Delden, Regina Bernhaupt, Xipei Ren, Vincent Van Rheden, Fabio Zambetta, Elise Van Den Hoven, Carine Lallemand, Dennis Reidsma, and Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller. 2024. Grand Challenges in SportsHCI. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).
• Dylan, T., Harrison, D., & Durrant, A. (2022). Communicative Openness within Adoptive Families: The Role of Photos and Visual Communication. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 807-820). [23% acceptance rate].
• Harrison, D., Banks, R., Regan, T., Grayson, M. (2017). Presenting Physical Things Digitally: New Collecting Practices. In Proceedings of Research Through Design 2017. [14% acceptance rate]
• Harrison, D., Marshall, P., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. and Bird, J. (2015). Activity Tracking: Barriers, Workarounds and Customisation. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. [26% acceptance rate]
• Gallacher, S., O’Connor, J., Bird, J., Rogers, Y., Capra, L., Harrison, D., and Marshall, P. (2015). Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the Workplace through Playful and Lightweight Interactions. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW‘15). [28% acceptance rate].
• Akpan, I., Marshall, P., Bird, J., and Harrison, D. (2013). Exploring the effects of space and place on engagement with an interactive installation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13), 2212-2222. [20% acceptance rate].
• Kontaris, D., Harrison, D., Patsoule, EE., Zhuang, S., and Slade. A. (2012). Feelybean: communicating touch over distance. In CHI ’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’12), 1273-1278. [23% acceptance rate].

Work in Progress/Late-Breaking Work Papers

• Pateman, M., Harrison, D., Marshall, P. and Cecchinato, M. E. (2018). The Role of Aesthetics and Design: Wearables in Situ. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’18). [20% acceptance rate].
• Renfree, I., Harrison, D., Marshall, P., Stawarz, K., Cox, A.L. (2016). Don’t Kick the Habit: The Role of Dependency in Habit Formation Apps. In CHI ’16 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’16), 2932-2939. [43.4% acceptance rate].
• Harrison, D. and Cecchinato, ME. (2015). “Give Me Five Minutes!” Feeling Time Slip By. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication. [23% acceptance rate]

Magazine Articles 

• Harrison, D., Banks, R., Regan, T. and Grayson, M. (2017). How was it made? Thinga.Me. interactions, 24(6), 14-15.
• Harrison, D., Banks, R., Regan, T. and Grayson, M. (2017). Demo hour (Thinga.Me). interactions 24(5), 8-11.
• Harrison, D. and Rogers, Y. (2013). UCLIC. interactions, 20(6), 84-87.

Organised Workshops

• Cecchinato, M. E., Rooksby, J., Hiniker, A., Munson, S., Lukoff, K., Ciolfi, L., Thieme, A. and Harrison, D. (2019). Designing for Digital Wellbeing: A Research & Practice Agenda. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19).
• Gallacher, S., Golsteijn, C., Kalnikaite, V., Houben, S., Johnson, R., Harrison, D., & Marquardt, N. (2015). SenCity 2: visualizing the hidden pulse of a city. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 1391-1394).

Workshop Papers

• Daniel Harrison. 2024. Cycling for Fun, Not Fitness: Sports Tracking Is Not All About Performance. In CyclingHCI: Learning from Cycling, Discovering Lessons Learned from CyclingHCI. A CHI 2024 Workshop, May 11th, 2024. 5 pages.
• Daniel Harrison and Faye Green. 2024. Skipping a Beat: Inclusion in Sports Technology, The Case of Heart Rate Monitoring. In CyclingHCI: Learning from Cycling, Discovering Lessons Learned from CyclingHCI. A CHI 2024 Workshop, May 12th, 2024. 4 pages.
• De La Vega, J. C. A., Cecchinato, M. E., Lambton-Howard, D., & Harrison, D. (2021). Active and Passive Research through Social Media: The Case for Repurposing Reddit, Instagram and WhatsApp Features in HCI Research Practices.
• Cecchinato, M.E. and Harrison, D. (2017). Degrees of Agency in Owners & Users of Home IoT devices. CHI’17 workshop on Making Home: Asserting Agency in the Age of IoT.
• Fleck, R. and Harrison, D. (2015). Shared PI: Sharing Personal Data to Support Reflection and Behaviour Change. CHI ’15 workshop on Beyond Personal Informatics: Designing for Experiences with Data.
• Harrison, D., Marshall, P., Berthouze, N., and Bird, J. (2014). Tracking physical activity: problems related to running longitudinal studies with commercial devices. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication, 699-702.
• Collins, E. I., Bird, J., Cox, A. L., and Harrison, D. (2014). Social networking use and RescueTime: the issue of engagement. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication, 687-690.
• Bird, J., Fozzati, D., Harrison, D., and Marshall, P. (2013). Healthy shopping: a longitudinal study of a mobile app to encourage a balanced diet. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication, 1047-1054.
• Harrison, D., Bird, J., Marshall, P., and Berthouze, N. (2013). Looking for bright spots: a bottom-up approach to encouraging urban exercise. British HCI Workshop on Habits in HCI.
• Bird, J., Harrison, D., and Marshall, P. (2013). The Challenge of Maintaining Interest in a Large-Scale Public Floor Display. CHI’13 Workshop on Experiencing Interactivity in Public Spaces.

Other Publications

• Harrison, D., Bianchi-Berthouze, N. and Marshall, P.  (2017). A review of physical‐activity tracking technologies and how to assess their effectiveness. White paper published by EPSRC Get a Move On  (GAMO) Network+.

Thesis

• Harrison, D. (2020). The Self-Tracker’s Journey: situated engagement and non-engagement with personal informatics systems over time. PhD Thesis. University College London.
• Harrison, D. (2012). FloorPlay: Design and evaluation of a system to motivate physical activity in office workers. UCLIC Masters Thesis. University College London.