Publications

Here is a list of my peer reviewed publications

Journal Articles

Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Cowan, B. R., & Clark, L. (Under Review). Revolution or Evolution? Speech Interaction and HCI Design Guidelines. IEEE Pervasive Computing.
Clark, L., Doyle, P., Garaialde, D., Gilmartin, E., Schögl, S., Edlund, J., Aylett, M., Munteanu, C., Cabral., J. , & Cowan, B.R., (Under Review). The State of Speech in HCI; Trends, Themes & Challenges. Interacting with Computers Journal.
Gilmartin, E., Vogel, C., Cowan, B.R., & Campbell, N. (Under Review). Explorations in Multiparty Casual Social Talk and its Relevance for Social Human Machine Dialogue. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces.
Pinder, C., Vermeulen, J., Cowan, B.R., Hendley, R., & Beale, R. (2018). Digital Behaviour Change Interventions to Break and Form Habits. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).
Cushing, A.L., & Cowan, B.R. (2017). Walk1916: Exploring non-research user access to and use of digital surrogates via a mobile walking tour app. Journal of Documentation, 73, 917-933. [pdf]
Girard, A., Cowan, B.R., Shankar, K., & Coyle, D. (2017). Using Emotional Attachment as a Lens to Improve User’s E-reading Experience. Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal-IxD&A, 32, 74-83. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Branigan, H. P., Bugis, E., Obregon, M., & Beale, R. (2015). Voice anthropomorphism, interlocutor modelling and alignment effects on syntactic choices in human-computer dialogue. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 83, 27-42. [pdf]
Creed, C., Beale, R., & Cowan, B.R. (2015). The Impact of Embodied Agent Emotional Expressions Over Multiple Interactions. Interacting with Computers, 27 (2), 172-188 [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2014). Measuring anxiety towards wiki editing: Investigating the dimensionality of the Wiki Anxiety Inventory- Editing. Interacting with Computers, 26 (6), 557-571 [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2014). The effect of identity on anxiety towards wiki editing. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 27 (1), 56-65. [pdf].
Bowers, C.P, Creed, C., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2013). Touching Annotations: A Visual Metaphor for Navigation of Annotation in Digital Documents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71 (12), 1103-1111.[pdf]
Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2011).Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing. Interacting with Computers, 23 (2), 117-128. [pdf]

Conference Papers

Clark, L., Cabral, J., & Cowan, B.R. (In Press). The CogSIS Project: Examining the Cognitive Effects of Speech Interface Synthesis. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2018.
Murad, C., Munteanu, C., Clark, L. & Cowan, B. R. (In Press). Design Guidelines for Hands-Free Speech Interaction. Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (Mobile HCI), 2018.
Pinder, C., Vermuelen, J., & Cowan, B.R. (In Press). Subliminal Semantic Number Processing on Smartphones.Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (Mobile HCI), 2018.
Gilmartin, E., O'Reilly,M., Saam, C., Cowan, B.R., Vogel, C., Campbell, N., & Wade, V. (2018). Silence and overlap in chat and chunk phases of multiparty casual conversation. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 379-383.
Gilmartin,E., Collery, M., Su, K., Huang, Y., Elias, C., Cowan, B.R., & Campbell, N.(2017). Social Talk: Making Conversation with People and Machine. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, Glasgow, UK. p.31-32
Spillane, B., Gilmartin, E., Saam, C., Su, K., Cowan, B.R., Lawless, S., & Wade, V. (2017). Introducing ADELE: A Personalized Intelligent Companion. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, Glasgow, UK. p.43-44
Gilmartin, E., Spillane, B., O’Reilly, M., Su, K., Saam, C., Cowan, B.R., Campbell, N. & Wade, V. (2017). Dialog Acts in Greeting and Leavetaking in Social Talk. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents, Glasgow, UK. p.29-30
Cabral, J. P., Cowan, B.R., Zibrek, K., & McDonnell, R. (2017). The influence of synthetic voice on the evaluation of a virtual character. Proceedings of Interspeech '17, Stockholm, Sweden, p.229-233. [pdf]
Gilmartin, E., Cowan, B.R., Vogel, C., & Campbell, N. (2017). Exploring multiparty casual talk for social human-machine dialogue. Proceedings of SPECOM '17, Hatfield, UK [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Branigan, H.P., Begum, H., McKenna, L., & Szekely, E. (2017). They Know as Much as We Do: Knowledge Estimation and Partner Modelling of Artificial Partners. Proceedings of CogSci '17, London, UK, p. 1836-1841. [pdf]
Pinder, C., Vermeulen, J., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Hendley, R. (2017). Exploring the Feasibility of Subliminal Priming on Smartphones. Proceedings of Mobile HCI '17, Vienna, Austria, p.43-52. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Pantidi, N., Coyle, D., Morrissey, K., Clarke, P, Al-Shehri, S., Earley, D., & Bandeira, N. (2017). "What can I help you with?": Infrequent users' experiences of Intelligent Personal Assistants. Proceedings of Mobile HCI '17, Vienna, Austria, p.43-52. [pdf]
Gilmartin, E., Kim, J., Zhao,Y., Ni Chiarain, N., Su, K., Huang, Y., Cowan, B.R., Campbell, N. (2017). CARAMILLA-Speech Mediated Language Learning Modules for Refugee and High School Learners of English and Irish. Proceedings of the 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gilmartin, E., Cowan, B.R., Vogel, C. & Campbell, N. (2017). Chunks in Multiparty Conversation- Building Blocks for Extended Social Talk. Proceedings of IWSDS ’17, p. 6-9. [pdf] Cushing, A.L., & Cowan, B.R. (2017). Walk1916: Exploring how a mobile walking tour app can provide value for LAMs. Proceedings of the 79th ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Creating Knowledge, Enhancing Lives through Information & Technology. p. 147
Huang, Y., Gilmartin, E., Cowan, B.R., & Campbell, N. (2016). A Preliminary Exploration of Group Social Engagement Level Recognition in Multiparty Casual Conversation. Proceedings of SPECOM ’16,Budapest, Hungary, p.75-83. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Gannon, D., Walsh, J., Kinneen, J., O'Keefe, E., & L. Xie (2016). Towards Understanding how Speech Output Affects Navigation System Credibility. Proceedings of CHI 2016, San Jose, California.[pdf]
Cowan, B.R. & Branigan, H. P. (2015). Does voice anthropomorphism affect lexical alignment in speech-based human-computer dialogue? INTERSPEECH 2015, Dresden, Germany.[pdf]
Bowers, C. P., Cowan, B.R. & Harkvoort, G. (2014). Challenges using stereoscopic displays in a touch interaction context. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2014, Southport, UK, p.276-280.[pdf]
Howes, A., Cowan, B.R., Janssen, C.P., Cox, A. L., Cairns, P., Hornof, A.J., Payne, S., & Pirolli, P. (2014). Interaction science SIG: overcoming challenges. Proceedings of CHI 2014, Toronto, Canada. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R. (2014). Commentary: None of a CHInd. Relationship counselling for HCI and speech technology. Proceedings of CHI 2014, Toronto, Canada. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Avramides, K., & Beale, R. (2013). Should cool be a design goal? Proceedings of BCS HCI 2013, London, UK, p.1-5[pdf]
Guo, Y., Jones, M., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2013). Take It Personally: Personal Accountability and Energy Consumption in Domestic Households. Proceedings of CHI 2013 EA, p.1467-1472. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Bowers, C.P., Beale, R, & Pinder, C. (2013). The Stroppy Kettle: An Intervention to Break Energy Consumption Habits. Proceedings of CHI 2013 EA, p.1485-1490. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Branigan, H.P., & Beale, R. (2012). Investigating the impact of interlocutor voice on syntactic alignment in human-computer dialogue. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012, Birmingham, UK, p.39-48. [pdf]
Hurter, C., Cowan, B.R., Girouard, A., & Riche, N. (2012). Active Progress Bar: Aiding the switch to temporary activities. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012, Birmingham, UK, p.99-108. [pdf]
Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Hendley, R. (2011). Choosing your moment: Interruptions in multimedia annotation. Proceedings of Interact 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, p.438-453. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Branigan, H.P. (2011). Investigating syntactic alignment in spoken natural language human-computer communication. Proceedings of CHI 2011 EA, Vancouver, Canada, p.2331-2336. [pdf].
Read, J.C., Fitton, D., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., Guo, Y., & Horton, M. (2011). Understanding and designing cool technologies for teenagers. Proceedings of CHI 2011 EA, Vancouver, Canada, p.1567-1572. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2010). Now you see it, now you don't- the effect of wiki flexibility on anxiety during wiki editing. Proceedings of IHCI 2010. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Vigentini, L., & Jack, M.A. (2009).Exploring the effects of experience on wiki anxiety and usability- an online study. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2009, Cambridge, UK [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Vigentini, L., & Jack, M. A. (2008).Exploring the relationship between anxiety and usability evaluation- An online study of Internet and wiki anxiety. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference; Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Workshop Papers

Gilmartin, E., Spillane, B., O’Reilly, M., Saam, C., Su, K., Levacher, K., Cerrato, L., Cowan, B.R., Clark, L.M.H., Calvo, A., Campbell, N, & Wade, V. (2017). Annotation of Greeting and Leave-taking in Social Text Dialogues Using ISO 24617-2. Proceedings 13th Joint ISO - ACL Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (isa-13), Montpellier, France, p. 51-58.
McEvoy, D., & Cowan, B. (2016). The Importance of Emotional Design to Create Engaging Digital HCI Learning Experiences. AVI’16 HCIEd2016: HCI and the Educational Technology Revolution Workshop.
Gilmartin, E., Su, K., Huang, Y., Elias, C., Cowan, B. R., & Campbell, N. (2016). Collecting a comparative corpus of human-machine, wizard of oz and human-human chat dialogues. LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora. In print.
Cowan, B.R. (2016). Let’s talk about Dialogue: The Case of Alignment and Partner Modelling in Human-Computer Dialogue. ACM CHI 2016 Workshop on Designing Speech and Multimodal Interactions for Mobile, Wearable and Pervasive Applications. In print.
Cowan, B.R. (2014). Understanding speech and language interactions in HCI: The importance of theory-based human-human dialogue research. Designing Speech & Language Interactions Workshop, CHI 2014. [pdf]
Cowan, B.R., Bowers, C.P., Pinder, C., & Beale, R. (2013). Habits in Human-Computer Interaction. 1st Habits in Human Computer Interaction Workshop, BCS HCI 2013.
Bowers, C.P., Byrne, W., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2012). Multi-touch multi-user interfaces to support learning and teaching. Surface Learning Workshop '12
Fitton, D., Read, J.C., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Guo, Y. (2011) . Creating ‘Cool’ Mobile Technologies To Reduce Teen Energy Use. In Persuasion, Influence, Nudge, and Coersion (PINC) Workshop, CHI 2011.
Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2011) . Cooler by numbers: Should we design for and influence people using cool? Design for Cool Workshop, BCS HCI 2011.

Book Chapters & Thesis

Vigentini, L., & Cowan, B.R. (2012). The psychological dimension of using wikis: pedagogy, anxiety and usability. In Wiki supporting formal and informal learning .Bocconi , S. & Trentin, G. (Eds.). Nova Publishers.[pdf]
Cowan, B.R. (2011). Causal effects of wiki site design on anxiety and usability. Doctoral Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.