Fraser Allison

“Hi! I am the Crowd Tasker” Crowdsourcing through Digital Voice Assistants

Danula Hettiachchi, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Fraser Allison, Niels van Berkel, Tilman Dingler, Gabriele Marini, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

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

Inspired by the increasing prevalence of digital voice assistants, we demonstrate the feasibility of using voice interfaces to dep..

Word Play: A History of Voice Interaction in Digital Games

Fraser Allison, Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2020  |  Games and Culture

The use of voice interaction in digital games has a long and varied history of experimentation but has never achieved sustained, w..

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 - CHI '19

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

Guilt in DayZ

Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison

Book Chapter  |  2019

Death in most games is simply a metaphor for failure (Bartle 2010). Killing another player in a first-person shooter (FPS) game su..

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..

Enabling Creative Crowd Work through Smart Speakers

Danula Hettiachchi, Niels van Berkel, Tilman Dingler, Fraser Allison, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 Extended Abstracts

Digital voice assistants or smart speakers have rapidly changed the landscape of voice user interfaces over the past few years. In..

How Players Speak to an Intelligent Game Character Using Natural Language Messages

Fraser Allison, Ewa Luger, Katja Hofmann

Journal article  |  2018  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association

AI-driven characters that learn directly from human input are rare in digital games, but recent advances in several fields of mach..

Looks can be deceiving: Using gaze visualisation to predict and mislead opponents In strategic gameplay

J Newn, F Allison, E Velloso, F Vetere

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '18

© 2018 ACM. In competitive co-located gameplay, players use their opponents' gaze to make predictions about their plans while simu..

Design Patterns for Voice Interaction in Games

Fraser Allison, Marcus Carter, Martin Gibbs, Wally Smith

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Extended Abstracts - CHI PLAY '18

Fear, loss and meaningful play: Permadeath in DayZ

Marcus Carter, Fraser Allison

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Spontaneous interactions with a virtually embodied intelligent assistant in Minecraft

F Allison, E Luger, K Hofmann

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA '17

Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM). An increasing number of our technological interactions ar..

Evaluating Real-Time Gaze Representations to Infer Intentions in Competitive Turn-Based Strategy Games

Joshua Newn, Eduardo Velloso, Fraser Allison, Yomna Abdelrahman, Frank Vetere

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

A History of Voice Interaction in Games

F Allison, M Carter, M GIBBS

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Whose mind is the signal? Focalization in video game narratives

F Allison

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  DiGRA '15 - Proceedings of the 2015 DiGRA International Conference

In this paper, I explore instances in which video games convey an experience of subjectivity, utilizing an appropriation of Gérard..

Player Identity Dissonance and Voice Interaction in Games

M Carter, F Allison, J Downs, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play - CHI PLAY '15

In the past half-decade, advances in voice recognition technology and the proliferation of consumer devices like the Microsoft Kin..

Good Frustrations: The Paradoxical Pleasure of Fearing Death in DayZ

F Allison, M Carter, M Gibbs

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  OzCHI '15 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction

The design of modern digital games has become increasingly oriented towards providing players with positive experiences such as fu..

Are You Out of Your Mind? Focalization in Digital Games

Fraser Allison

Journal article  |  Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association

This paper demonstrates how the concept of focalization, as defined by Gérard Genette (1980), can be used to analyze experiences o..