IoT Mashups with the WoTKit. Michael Blackstock and Rodger Lea. In Internet of Things 2012, Wuxi, China, October 2012. (BIB)

MANTICORE: a Framework for Partitioning Software Services for Hybrid Cloud. Nima Kaviani, Eric Wohlstadter and Rodger Lea. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Science, Taipei, Taiwan, 2012. (BIB)

Expression of nonconscious knowledge via ideomotor actions. H. L. Gauchou, Ronald A. Rensink and Sidney Fels. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(2):976 - 982, 2012. (Standing on the Verge: Lessons and Limits from the Empirical Study of Consciousness). (URL) (BIB)

Bringing Information and Communication Technologies to Transform a Paper Based Process to a Natural User Interfaces Process in a Chronic Care Hospital. Anacleto, J., Fels, S., Silvestre, R., Britto, T., Guardia, H., and LucrŽdio, D.. In Proceedings of the DSAI, (in press), July 19-22 2012. (BIB)

Zombies, Ouija, and the Ideomotor Effect: When Implicit Cognition Turns Explicit. Gauchou, H, Rensink, R., and Fels, S.. In Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC16) (in press). (BIB)

Determining the Determinants of Health Behaviour Change Through an Online Social Network. Kamal, N. and Fels, S.. In Proceedings of Persuasive 2012. (BIB)

Investigation of Gesture Controlled Articulatory Vocal Synthesizer using a Bio-Mechanical Mapping Layer. Johnty Wang, Nicolas d'Alessandro, Sidney Fels and Robert Pritchard. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 21-23 2012. (BIB)

WoTKit: A Lightweight Toolkit for the Web of Things. Michael Blackstock and Rodger Lea. In Web of Things (WoT) workshop at Pervasive 2012, June 2012. (BIB)

Transforming online teaching practice: A critical analysis of the online teaching literature. E. Baran, A. Correia and A. Thompson. Teachers College Record, 115(3), 2012. (BIB)

Investigating a Design Space for Multi-Device Environments. Nima Kaviani, Matthias Finke, Rodger Lea and Sidney Fels. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Special Issue on Distributed User Interfaces, to appear, 2012. (BIB)

DreamThrower: An audio/visual display for influencing dreams. Noreen Kamal, Abir Al Hajri and Sidney Fels. Entertainment Computing, 2011. (URL) (BIB)

Profiling-as-a-Service: Adaptive Scalable Resource Profiling for the Cloud in the Cloud. Nima Kaviani, Eric Wohlstadter and Rodger Lea. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Dec 2011. (BIB)

Tracing succesful online teaching in higher education: Voices of exemplary online teachers. E. Baran, A. Correia and A. Thompson. Distance Education, 32(3):421-439, 2011. (BIB)

Analysis-by-Performance : Gesturally-Controlled Voice Synthesis as an Input for Modelling of Vibrato in Singing. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Christophe Ooge, Thierry Dutoit and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2011. (BIB)

Bringing Bio-Mechanical Modelling of the OPAL Complex as a Mapping Layer for Performative Speech Synthesis. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Johnty Wang, Bob Pritchard and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 2011. (BIB)

ROOM#81 - Agent-Based Instrument for Experiencing Architectural and Vocal Cues. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Roberto Calderon and Stefanie Mueller. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2011. (BIB)

SQUEEZY: Extending a Multi-touch Screen with Force Sensing Objects for Controlling Articulatory Synthesis. Johnty Wang, Nicolas d'Alessandro and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), 2011. (BIB)

Ubiquitous Voice Synthesis : Interactive Manipulation of Speech and Singing on Mobile Distributed Platforms. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Bob Pritchard, Johnty Wang and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI EA'11), 2011. (BIB)

A Design Space for Gesture to Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis. Nicolas d'Alessandro, Bob Pritchard and Sidney Fels. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis (p3s), 2011. (BIB)

The Electric Scribbler: a Singing Notebook. Johnty Wang, Nicolas d'Alessandro and Bob Pritchard. In West Coast Composers' Symposium, 2011. (BIB)

An End-to-End Framework for Multi-View Video Content: Creating Multiple-Perspective Hypervideo to View on Mobile Platforms. Miller, G., Fels, S., Ilich, M., Finke, M., Bauer, T., Wong K. and Mueller, S.. In Proc. of the International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC2011). (BIB)

Personal Health Informatics: What is the role for online social networks?. Noreen Kamal, Sidney Fels and Michael Blackstock. In Personal Informatics and HCI: Design, Theory, and Social Implications workshop at CHI 2011, 2011. (BIB)

The Distributed Model of Music Cognition: Annotation and Layering in Western Art Music Performance. Kaastra, Linda T.. In International Symposium on Performance Science 2011, 2011. (BIB)

Dual Displays: towards an interaction model and associated design guidelines. Nima Kaviani, Matthias Finke, Rodger Lea and Sidney Fels. In Distributed User Interfaces workshop - collocated with CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7-12, 2011. (BIB)

Uniting Online Social Networks with Places and Things. Blackstock, Michael, Lea, Rodger and Friday, Adrian. In Web of Things (WoT) workshop at Pervasive 2011, June 2011. (BIB)

Capturing Reasoning Processes in Collaborative Visual Analytics. Richard Arias-Hernandez, Linda Kaastra, Tera Green and Brian Fisher. poster at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 44, 2011. (BIB)

Pair Analysis and Joint Action Theory: A Research Protocol to Study Cognition and Interaction in Visual Analytics. Richard Arias-Hernandez, Linda Kaastra and Brian Fisher. poster at CogSci 2010, Cognition in Flux, 2010. (BIB)

The Body as Object: From Body Image to Meta-Body. Pritchard, Robert. Critical Studies, Performative Body Spaces Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts, 33(1):203-215, 2010. (BIB)

MAGIC Broker 2: An open and extensible platform for the Internet of Things. Blackstock, Michael, Kaviani, Nima, Lea, Rodger and Friday, Adrian. In Internet of Things (IOT), 2010, pages 1-8, Nov 2010. (URL) (BIB)

Online social networks for personal informatics to promote positive health behavior. Kamal, Noreen, Fels, Sidney and Ho, Kendall. In Proceedings of second ACM SIGMM workshop on Social media, pages 47-52, New York, NY, USA, 2010. (URL) (BIB)

DreamThrower: Creating, Throwing and Catching Dreams for Collaborative Dream Sharing. Kamal, Noreen, Tsou, Ling, Al Hajri, Abir and Fels, Sidney. In Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2010, 20-31.Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, , 2010. (10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0_3). (URL) (BIB)

Healthy shelf: interactive nutritional labels. Bedi, Sapna, Diaz Ruvalcaba, Javier, Foley-Fisher, Zoltan, Kamal, Noreen and Tsao, Vincent. In CHI EA '10: Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pages 4405-4410, New York, NY, USA, 2010. (URL) (BIB)

ReCoIn: A Framework for Dynamic Integration of Remote Services in a Service-Oriented Component Model. Nima Kaviani and Bardia Mohabbati and Rodger Lea and Dragan Gasevic and Marek Hatala and Michael Blackstock. In "Proceeding of 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009), 2009. (BIB)

What goes where? Designing interactive large public display applications for mobile device interaction. Nima Kaviani and Matthias Finke and Sidney Fels and Rodger Lea and Hua Wang. In Proceeding of The First International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, 2009. (BIB)

Encouraging Crowd Interaction with Large Displays using Handheld Devices. Nima Kaviani and Matthias Finke and Rodger Lea. In in Crowd Computer Interaction Workshop at CHI 2009, 2009. (URL) (BIB)

ForTouch: A Wearable Digital Ventriloquized Actor. Sidney Fels and Bod Pritchard and A Lenters. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME09)., pages 274-275, 2009. (BIB)

Performance Inquiry and Cognitive Science: A Search for Common Ground. Kaastra, Linda T.. College Music Symposium, 48:pp. 131-156, 2008. (URL) (BIB)

Evaluation and Analysis of a Common Model for Ubiquitous Systems Interoperability. Michael Blackstock and Rodger Lea and Charles Krasic. In Proceedings of Pervasive Computing 6th International Conference(Pervasive 2008) Australia May 19-22 2008, pages 180-196, 2008. (BIB)

Designing for bystanders: reflections on building a public digital forum. Anthony Tang and Matthias Finke and Michael Blackstock and Rock Leung and Meghan Deutscher and Rodger Lea. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008)., pages 879-882, 2008. (BIB)

Anthony Tang, Mattias Finke, Michael Blackstock, Rock Leung, Meghan Deutscher, Rodger Lea Designing for Bystanders: Reflections on Building a Public Digital Forum.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008). (April 5-10, Florence, Italy). ACM Press.

Aiman Erbad, Michael Blackstock, Adrian Friday, Rodger Lea, Jalal Al-Muhtadi, MAGIC Broker: A Middleware Toolkit for Interactive Public Displays in Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing Workshop (PerWare 2008) at IEEE PerCom 2008 in Hong Kong, March 21, 2008

Matthias Finke, Michael Blackstock, and Rodger Lea, Deployment Experience Toward Core Abstractions for Context Aware Applications. In the 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Oct 23-25, 2007 in Kendal, UK.

Wei You, Hao Jiang. Combining Face and Color for Realtime Multiple Object Tracking in Smart Rooms. Technical Report for the Smart Room project in collaboration with Panasonic San Jose Lab. June 2007.

Aiman Erbad, Michael Blackstock, Adrian Friday, Rodger Lea, and Jalal Al-Muhtadi. MAGIC Broker: A Middleware Toolkit for Interactive Public Displays. Technical Report (TR-2007-22), Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2007.

Aiman Erbad and Charles Krasic. A Hybrid framework to Program Smart Environments. In Proc. Fourth International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’07), Dubai, UAE, Nov 2007.

Aiman Erbad, Michael Blackstock, and Rodger Lea, REST Broker: Middleware Support for Interactive Public Large Screen Display Applications. Poster accepted at 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Oct 23-25, 2007 in Kendal, UK.

Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea, and Charles Krasic, Adapting Ubicomp Systems to a Common Model, discussed at Common Models and Patterns for Pervasive Computing Workshop (CMPPC) 2007, at Pervasive 2007, Toronto Canada, May 2007 PDF

Phillip Jeffrey, Mike Blackstock, Matthias Finke, Anthony Tang, Rodger Lea, Meghan Deutscher, Kento Miyaoku, Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play. Loading… Journal 1(1), Selected Papers from special Issue of Canadian Games Studies Association (CGSA) Workshop, September 21-24, 2006, York University, Toronto, Canada. May 2007 PDF JOURNAL

Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea, and Charles Krasic, Managing an Integrated Ubicomp Environment using Ontologies and Reasoning. presented at Context Management and Reasoning (CoMoRea) 2007, at PerCom'07, White Plains, NY, March 2007

Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea, and Charles Krasic, Toward Wide Area Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments. 1st European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, Enchede, The Netherlands, October 2006.

Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea, and Charles Krasic, Toward a Shared Model for Wide Area Interoperability of Ubiquitous Computing Environments, System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop (UBISYS) 2006 at Ubicomp 2006, Orange County, CA, September 2006. PDF

Bob Pritchard and Sidney Fels, The GRASSP Environment: Gesturally Realized Audio Speech and Song Performance. Presented at New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2006, at NIME'06, Paris, France 2006

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Michael Ma, Sid Fels, Bob Pritchard: A Parallel Formant Speech Synthesizer in Max/MSP. International Computer Music Conference 2006, New Orleans, USA.

It's a dog eat dog world! Selfish VS altruistic co-located play and their effect on Third Place trust. Calderon, R., Fels, S, Lea., R., Alexandre, M., Anacleto, J.. In GRAND AGM, May 2-4 2012. (BIB)

N. Kamal, S. Fels, K. Ho. (2010). Framework for personal health management using social networks. MITACS Workshop on Social Networks (Aug 9-13, 2010) Vancouver, BC. (Presentation Slides)

Phillip Jeffrey, Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play, Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA) Workshop, September 21-24, 2006, York University, Toronto, Canada. Slides

Bob Pritchard, GRASSP: Gesturally Realized Audio Speech and Song Performance. Arts Anima, June 22, 2006, Peter Wall Centre, UBC, Canada.