Joshua Newn

Fully-Occluded Target Selection in Virtual Reality.

Difeng Yu, Qiushi Zhou, Joshua Newn, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso, Jorge Goncalves

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

The presence of fully-occluded targets is common within virtual environments, ranging from a virtual object located behind a wall ..

Eyes-free Target Acquisition During Walking in Immersive Mixed Reality

Qiushi Zhou, Difeng Yu, Martin N Reinoso, Joshua Newn, Jorge Goncalves, Eduardo Velloso

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Reaching towards out-of-sight objects during walking is a common task in daily life, however the same task can be challenging when..

Combining gaze and AI planning for online human intention recognition

R Singh, T Miller, J Newn, E Velloso, F Vetere, L Sonenberg

Journal article  |  2020  |  Artificial Intelligence

Intention recognition is the process of using behavioural cues, such as deliberative actions, eye gaze, and gestures, to infer an ..

Faces of Focus: A Study on the Facial Cues of Attentional States

Ebrahim Babaei, Namrata Srivastava, Joshua Newn, Qiushi Zhou, Tilman Dingler, Eduardo Velloso

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Automatically detecting attentional states is a prerequisite for designing interventions to manage attention - knowledge workers' ..

Using Multimodal Sensing to Improve Awareness in Human-AI Interaction

Joshua Newn

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  Proceedings of the CHI 2020 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for HCI: A Modern Approach

In recent years, we have leveraged a broad range of AI techniques to improve our understanding and use of implicit human inputs fo..

Gaze-Based Intention Recognition for Human-Agent Collaboration: Towards Nonverbal Communication in Human-AI Interaction

Joshua Jiun Wei Newn

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

Human-agent collaboration has repeatedly been proposed over the decades as a way forward to leverage the strengths of artificial i..

Classifying Attention Types with Thermal Imaging and Eye Tracking

Yomna Abdelrahman, Anam Ahmad Khan, Joshua Newn, Eduardo Velloso, Sherine Ashraf Safwat, James Bailey, Andreas Bulling, Frank Vetere, Albrecht Schmidt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Despite the importance of attention in user performance, current methods for attention classification do not allow to discriminate..

Biometric Mirror: Exploring Values and Attitudes towards Facial Analysis and Automated Decision-Making

Niels Wouters, Ryan Kelly, Eduardo Velloso, Katrin Wolf, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Joshua Newn, Zaher Joukhadar, Frank Vetere

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Facial analysis applications are increasingly being applied to inform decision-making processes. However, as global reports of unf..

Frame analysis of voice interaction gameplay

F Allison, J Newn, W Smith, M Carter, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Voice control is an increasingly common feature of digital games, but the experience..

Designing Interactions with Intention-Aware Gaze-Enabled Artificial Agents

Joshua Newn, Ronal Singh, Fraser Allison, Prashan Madumal, Eduardo Velloso, Frank Vetere

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

As it becomes more common for humans to work alongside artificial agents on everyday tasks, it is increasingly important to design..