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I'm a Human-Computer Interaction researcher with a background in applied experimental Psychology and Computer Science. My research interests include mobile / pervasive computing, social robotics, UI design, virtual / augmented reality & cybersecurity.
I'm a Research Associate at the University of Bristol's Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and an honorary research fellow at the University of Bath CREATE laboratory.
When not pushing the envelope of caffeine consumption in the name of science, I design, develop and tinker with interactive systems across numerous platforms.
Contact
Dr Chris Bevan
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University of Bristol, UK
chris.bevan {at} bristol.ac.uk
Work
An Interactive Mediography of Virtual Reality Nonfiction
Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters Project
Shaking Hands And Cooperation In Tele-Present Human-Robot Negotiation
What can we know about a person based on the way they interact with their phone?
Bluefish: A Visualisation of local Bluetooth activity
An Interactive Mediography of Virtual Reality Nonfiction
The Mediography of Virtual Reality Nonfiction is an interactive history of documentary VR content released between 2012 and 2018. This project was created in Django for the Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters project (2017-2019).
Virtual Realities: Immersive Documentary Encounters Project
Project website for Virtual Realities - Immersive Documentary Encounters, a collaborative research project examining the production and user experience of nonfiction virtual reality content.
Shaking Hands And Cooperation In Tele-Present Human-Robot Negotiation
In this work, I considered how the power of touch through shaking of hand affects outcomes in a negotiation. Between humans, the pro-social effects of touch are well known, but in this experiment one party is represented by a robotic proxy... This work was awarded best paper at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2015).
This research was conducted as part of the EPSRC funded research project "Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Spaces" (EP/L00416X/1).
What can we know about a person based on the way they interact with their phone?
Can touchscreen swipe gestures serve as a soft biometric? In this work for the EPSRC project "Super Identity", I confirmed the feasibility of linking behavioural touchscreen interaction characteristics with the physical characteristics of their creators.
Bluefish: A Visualisation of local Bluetooth activity
"Bluefish" was an experimental privacy probe built for the EPSRC Cityware project. The Bluefish system captured and visualised local bluetooth activity. As in interactive installation, Blufish was exhibited at "Digital Cities: London's Future" (Building Centre, London 2009).
Publications
2019
Behind the Curtain of the “Ultimate Empathy Machine": On the Composition of Virtual Reality Nonfiction Experiences
Bevan, C., Green, D.P., Farmer, H., Rose, M., Cater, K., Stanton Fraser, D., Brown, H. To appear: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 24%. **Honourable Mention Award**.
Use of a non-human robot audience to induce stress reactivity in human participants
Turner-Cobb, J., Asif, M., Turner, J., Bevan, C., Stanton Fraser, D. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.019
2018
A Mediography of Virtual Reality Non-Fiction: Insights and Future Directions
Bevan, C. & Green, D. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '18). DOI: 10.1145/3210825.3213557
Designing Games for Vision Screening: Lessons Learned from Observing Preschool Video Game Play
Gray, S., Campbell, S., Cater, K., Bevan, C. & Gilchrist, I. In Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (pp. 439-445). ACM.. DOI: 10.1145/3270316.3271540
2017
Investigating Social Evaluative Threat (SET) Using a Robotic Stress Testing Panel
Turner-Cobb, J.M., Asif, M., Bevan, C., Stanton Fraser, D., Turner, J.E. 75th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Sevilla, Spain.
2016
Evaluating a Mobile Spontaneous Eye Blink Tracker for Use in Tele-Presence HRI As a Low Bandwidth Social Communicative Cue
Bevan, C., Stanton Fraser, D. Proc. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016). DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745182
Different Strokes for Different Folks? Revealing the Physical Characteristics of Smartphone Users from their Swipe Gestures
Bevan, C. & Stanton Fraser, D. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.01.001
Predicting Sex as a Soft-biometric from Device Interaction Swipe Gestures
Miguel, O, Stevenage, S.V., Bevan, C. Guest, R. Pattern Recognition Letters. DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2016.04.024
2015
Why you should always shake hands with a robot
Bevan, C. The Conversation, 15th May 2015.
Shaking Hands and Cooperation in Tele-present Human-Robot Negotiation
Bevan, C. & Stanton Fraser, D. Proc. of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2015). Acceptance rate: 25% **Awarded Best Paper for Enabling Experimental Studies**. DOI: 10.1145/2696454.2696490
2014
Who Am I? Representing The Self Offline And In Different Online Contexts
Emanuel, L., Neil, G.J., Bevan, C., Stanton Fraser, D., Stevenage, S.V., Whitty, M.T., Jamison-Powell, S. Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.09.018
2013
What Does Your Profile Really Say About You?: Privacy Warning Systems and Self-disclosure in Online Social Network Spaces
Emanuel, L., Bevan, C., Hodges, D. CHI 2013 Extended Abstracts. DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468499
Factors In The Emergence And Sustainability Of Self-Regulation
Bevan, C., Emanuel, L., Padget, J., Swart, J., Powell, J., Basurra, S. Proc. Social Coordination: Principles, Artefacts and Theories (SOCIAL.PATH). AISB Convention, 2013.
Being There: Humans And Robots In Public Spaces
Bremner, P., Trigoni, N., Brown, I., Gunes, H., Bevan, C., Stanton Fraser, D., Levine, M. Proc. 2013 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013). 27-29 October 2013.
2011
Influence Of User Choice On Perception Of Wireless Connection Genuineness And Security
Bevan, C., Mitchell, J., Kindberg, T., O''Neill, E., Grimmett, J., Stanton Fraser, D., Woodgate, D. Proc. First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, San Francisco, June 12-15 2011.
Plug Back Into Science
Bevan, C. Engineering and Technology Education (E&Te).
2010
Human to Computer Trust in Urban Pervasive Computing
Bevan, C. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Bath U.K..
2009
Authenticating Public Wireless Networks with Physical Evidence
Kindberg, T., Mitchell, J., Grimmett, J., Bevan, C., O''Neill, E. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2009. DOI: 10.1109/WiMob.2009.73
Authenticating Ubiquitous Services: A Study Of Wireless Hotspot Access
Kindberg, T., Bevan, C., O''Neill, E., Mitchell, J., Grimmett, J., Woodgate, D. Proc. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1620545.1620565
2008
Mobile Service Audio Notifications: Intuitive Semantics And Noises
Garzonis, S., Bevan, C., O''Neill, E. Proc. OZCHI 08, the CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. DOI: 10.1145/1517744.1517793
Measuring Trust In Wi-Fi Hotspots
Kindberg, T., O''Neill, E., Bevan, C., Kostakos, V., Stanton Fraser, D., Jay, T. Proc. ACM 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy. DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357084
2007
Breaking The Campus Bubble: Informed, Engaged, Connected
Day, N., Sas, C., Dix, A.J., Toma, M., Bevan, C., Clare, D. Proc. HCI07 Conference on People and Computers.
2006
Walking The GPS Line: Insights On The Use Of Shape Walking As A Game Mechanic
Reid, J., Bevan, C. Proc. DIME-ARTS, 2006.