Mixed Reality Laboratory

BSc, PhD (Nottingham).

Lecturer.

Current projects

Research interests

• Human-computer interaction.
• Ubiquitous computing.
• Mixed reality approaches.
• Physical and tangible interfaces.
• Computer-supported cooperative work.

Publications, conference papers

Ng, Kher Hui, Koleva, B, Benford, S,

“The Iterative Development of a Tangible Pin-Board to Symmetrically Link Physical and Digital Documents”, accepted for publication in the Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer.

Schnadelbach, H, Koleva, B, Benford, S, Paxton, M, Twidale, M, Anastasi, R (2006),

“The Augurscope: refining its design”, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 15, No. 3, June 2006, MIT Press, pp. 278–293.

Tallyn E, Koleva B, Logan B, Benford S, Gelmini G, Madden N (2005),

“Embodied reporting agents as an approach to creating narratives from live virtual worlds”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, proceedings of International Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2005, Strasbourg, Nov. 2005.

Ng, Kher Hui, Benford, S, Koleva, B (2005),

“PINS push in and POUTS pop out: creating a tangible pin-board that ejects physical documents”, in Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, pp. 1981–1984.

Benford, S, Schnadelbach, H, Koleva, B, Gaver, B, Schmidt, A, Boucher, A, Steed, A, Anastasi, R, Greenhalgh, C, Rodden, T, Gellersen, H (2005),

“Expected, sensed, and desired: A framework for designing sensing-based interaction”,ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2005, ACM Press, pp. 3-30.

Schnädelbach, H, Koleva, B, Twidale, M, Benford, S (2004),

“The Iterative Design Process of a Location-aware Device for Group Use”, in Proc. 6th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2004), September 7-10, Nottingham, Springer, pp. 329-346.

Rodden, T, Crabtree, A, Hemmings, T, Koleva, B, Humble, J, Åkesson, K-P, Hansson, P (2004),

“Configuring the ubiquitous home”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, May 11th-14th, French Riviera: IOS Press.

Rodden, T, Crabtree, A, Hemmings, T, Koleva, B, Humble, J, Åkesson, K-P, and Hansson, P (2004),

“Between the dazzle of a new building and its eventual corpse: assembling the ubiquitous home”, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, August 1st-4th, Boston, Massachusetts: ACM Press.

Capra, M, Aquino, M, Dodson, A, Benford, Koleva, B (2003),

“Civil Engineering Application for Virtual Collaborative Environment”, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2003), December 3-5, Tokyo

Dix, A, Friday, A, Koleva, B, Rodden, T, Muller, H, Randell, C, Steed, A (2003),

“Managing multiple spaces”, in Workshop on Space, Spatiality and Technologies, 12-13 December 2003, Napier University, Edinburgh.

Humble, J, Hemmings, T, Crabtree, A, Koleva, B, Rodden, T,

“‘Playing with the bits’: use-composition of ubiquitous domestic environments”, Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003), October 12-15, Seattle, Springer.

Koleva, B, Benford, S, Kher Hui Ng, Rodden, T,

“A Framework for Tangible User Interfaces”, Physical Interaction (PI03) - Workshop on Real World User Interfaces”, a workshop at the Mobile HCI Conference 2003 in Udine (Italy), September 8, 2003.

Benford, S, Fraser, M, Reynard, G, Koleva, B, Drozd, A,

“Public performance as an approach to CVE research”, in Proc. ACM conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) 2002 , Bonn, Germany, ACM Press, pp. 80-87.

Schnädelbach, H, Koleva, B, Flintham, M, Fraser M, Izadi, S, Chandler, P, Foster, M, Benford, S, Greenhalgh, C, Rodden, T,

“The Augurscope: A Mixed Reality Interface for Outdoors”, in Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002), 20–25 April 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ACM Press, pp. 9-16.

Green, J,Schnädelbach, H, Koleva, B, Benford, S, Pridmore, T, Medina, K,

“Camping in the Digital wilderness: tents and flashlights as interfaces to virtual worlds”, in Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002), 20–25 April 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ACM Press, pp. 780-781.

Koleva, B, Taylor, I, Benford, S, Fraser, M, Greenhalgh, G, Schnädelbach, H, vom Lehn, D, Heath, C, Row-Farr, J, Adams, M,

“Orchestrating a Mixed Reality Performance”, in Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001), 31 March–5 April 2001, ACM Press, pp. 38-45.

Koleva, B, Schnädelbach, H, Benford, S, Greenhalgh, C,

“Experiencing a Presentation though a Mixed Reality Boundary”, in Proc. ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'01), Boulder, Colorado, USA, ACM Press, pp. 71-80.

Koleva, B N, Schnädelbach, H M, Benford, S D, Greenhalgh, C M,

“Traversable interfaces between real and virtual worlds”, in Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000), Hague, Netherlands, April 2000, ACM Press, pp. 233-240.

Koleva, B N, Schnadelbach, H M, Benford, S D, Greenhalgh, C M,

“Developing Mixed Reality Boundaries”, in Proc. Designing Augmented Reality Environments (DARE 2000), Elsinore, Denmark, April 2000, pp. 155-157.

Koleva, B N, Benford, S D, Greenhalgh, C M,

“The Properties of Mixed Reality Boundaries”, in Proc. 6th European Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative Work (ECSCW 1999), Copenhagen, September, 1999, Kluwer, pp. 119-137.

Koleva, B,

“Linking the Real and the Virtual with Mixed Reality Boundaries”, in Proc. PROGRESS'99, Nottingham, UK, April 1999.

Benford, S, Taylor, I, Brailsford, D, Koleva, B, Craven, M, Fraser, M, Reynard G, Greenhalgh, C,

“Three Dimensional Visualization of the World Wide Web”, in ACM Computing Surveys, December 1999.

Koleva, B, Benford, S,

“Theory and Application of Mixed Reality Boundaries”, in Proc. 5th conference of the UK-VRSIG (UKVRSIG'98), Exeter, UK, September 1998.

Benford, S, Greenhalgh, C, Reynard, G, Brown, C, Koleva, B,

“Understanding and Constructing Shared Spaces with Mixed Reality Boundaries”, ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), 5 (3), September 1998, ACM Press, pp. 185-223.

Other activities

EPRSC College Member.

Member of EC Experts Group on Collaborative Working Environments.

Ubicomp 2006 Program Committee Member.

ACM CHI 2006 Associate Chair for Papers.

ACM CHI 2007 Associate Chair for Papers.

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