Publications

ACCEPTED / PUBLISHED PAPERS


2013

Wölfel, C., Merritt, T., Method Card Design Dimensions: A Survey of Card-Based Design Tools.  In P. Kotz, et al. (Eds.): INTERACT 2013, Part I, LNCS 8117, pp. 479--486. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (2013).

Norgaard, M. Merritt, T., Rasmussen, M., Graves, M., Exploring the Design Space of Shape-Changing Objects: Imagined Physics.  In Proceedings of the DPPI 2013 conference. (2013).


2012

Merritt, T and McGee,K. Protecting artificial team-mates: more seems like less. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2012. 2793-2802.


Kevin McGee, Timothy Merritt, and Christopher Ong. Understanding differences in enjoyment: playing games with human or AI team-mates. To appear in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics 2012.


2011

Kevin McGee, Tim Merritt, and Christopher Ong. What we have here is a failure of companionship: communication in goal-oriented team-mate games. In Proceedings of OZCHI 2011, the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design, 28 November - 2 December, 2011.

Merritt, T.,  Ong, C., Chuah,T. L., and McGee,K.  Did you notice? Artificial team-mates take risks for players.  In the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2011). Springer, September 15-17, 2011.

Merritt, T., McGee, K., Chuah, T. L., Ong, C. 2011. Choosing human team-mates: perceived identity as a moderator of player preference and enjoyment. In the proceedings of the 2011 Foundations of Digital Games Conference (FDG2011). June 28-July 1, 2011.

Tim R. Merritt, Kian B. Tan, Christopher Ong, Aswin Thomas, Teong L. Chuah, Kevin McGee. Are artificial team-mates scapegoats in computer games? In Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW2011), March 19-23, 2011. pp. 685-688.



2010

Tim Merritt, Weiman Kow, Christopher Ng, Kevin McGee and Lonce Wyse. Who Makes What Sound? Supporting real-time musical improvisations of electro-acoustic ensembles. In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI2010), November 22-26, 2010. pp. 112-119.


2009

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, Tim Merritt, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Inosha Wickrama, Kasun Karunanayaka (2009): Babbage Cabbage: Biological Empathetic Media, VRIC Laval Virtual Proceedings, April 22-26, 2009, Laval, France. pp. 363-366.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Kening Zhu, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Michelle Narangoda, Isuru Sawubhagya Godage, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, James Keng Soon Teh, Chamari Priyange Edirisinghe, Kasun Karunanayaka, Timothy Merritt, Dilrukshi Abeyrathne, Yukihiro Morisawa, Miyuru Dayarathna, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, Makoto Danjo, Junsong Hou, Wei Wang Thang 2009. Petimo: Safe Social Networking Robot for children. 8th International Conference on Interaction design and children (Como, Italy, June 3 - 5, 2009). IDC '09. (Accepted for publication)

Merritt, T., Cheok, A.D., O.N.N. Fernando, Peiris, R.L., Fernando, C.L., Empathetic Biological Media. Workshop "Programming reality: from transitive materials to organic user interfaces". The 27th Annual CHI Conference, Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2009 (Boston, MA, USA, April 4 - 5, 2009). http://ambient.media.mit.edu/transitive/chi2009papers/merritt09.pdf

Khoo, Eng T., Merritt, Tim, and Cheok, Adrian D. Designing a Mixed Reality Intergenerational Entertainment System, (book chapter) in The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems, pages 121-141. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, 1 edition, 2009. Google books version

Khoo, E.T., Merritt, T., Cheok, A.D., Designing Physical and Social Intergeneration Family Entertainment. Interacting with Computers. Special Issue: Enactive Interfaces, volume 21, issue 1-2, pages 76-87, January 2009.


2008

Merritt, T., Cheok, A.D., 2008. Cute Engineering. In the proceedings of the 2008 Young Investigators's Forum on Culture Technology (KAIST, Korea August 22-23, 2008). YCT2008, KAIST, Korea 81-87.

Khoo, E., Merritt, T., Fei, L.F., Liu, W., Rahaman, H., Prasad, J., Marsh, T. 2008. Body Music: Physical Exploration of Music Theory. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Videogames (Los Angeles, California, August 10, 2008). Sandbox '08. ACM, New York, NY, 35-42.

A.D. Cheok, R.T.K.C. Tan, T. Merritt, O.N.N. Fernando, Y.P. Sen and D.T.K. Nguyen. 2008. Empathetic Living Media. ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2008, February 2008, Cape Town, South Africa, pp. 465-473.

Adrian David Cheok, Masa Inakage, Masahiko Inami, Michiko Ohkura, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Tim Merritt, "Designing Cute Interactive Media," Workshop at DIS2008: Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa, February 25th, 2008.


2007

Cheok, A. D., Inami, M., Fernando, O. N., Inakage, M., and Merritt, T. R. 2007. Explorations on interactive interfaces using cuteness. In Proceedings of the 2nd international Conference on Digital interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (Perth, Australia, September 19 - 21, 2007). DIMEA '07, vol. 274. ACM, New York, NY, 3-3.

Khoo, E.T., Merritt, T., Cheok, A.D., Lian, M., and Yeo, K., Age Invaders: User Studies of Intergenerational Computer Entertainment. Entertainment Computing ICEC 2007, 6th International Conference, Shanghai, China, September 15-17, 2007, Springer, Volume 4740, 231-242.

Merritt, T., Sullivan, H.T., Hackney, M.T., 2007. Accessibility Issues in Mobile Spatial Audio Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Singapore, September 9 - 12, 2007). MobileHCI '07. pp. 37-39.

Häkkinen, M.T., Sullivan, H.T., Merritt, T., 2007. Mobile Interfaces for Preparedness and Warning Information: Design Issues for People with Disabilities . In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Singapore, September 9 - 12, 2007). Mobile '07. pp. 21.




AWARDS

Laval Revolution 2009 - Babbage Cabbage

Laval Virtual Award 2009 - Babbage Cabbage

Mindtrek 2008 Nokia Ubimedia Award. Third Place. Babbage Cabbage: Empathetic Biological Media

2nd Best Paper - Body Music: Physical Exploration of Music Theory. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Videogames (Los Angeles, California, August 10, 2008). Sandbox '08. ACM, New York, NY, 35-42.
Best Master's Thesis 2008 University of Jyväskylä, Department of Humanities.


INVITED TALKS / PANELS

Merritt, T. Bio-Gifts: How Will We Accept and Respond to the Materials of Synthetic Biology? blinkBL-NK #9, November 15th, 2010.

Merritt, T., Cheok, A.D., Shared Browser: When the web browser becomes a shared lens. 4th International Conference on Multimodality (Singapore, July 30, 2008). ICOM-4 2008.

Merritt, T., Panel Discussion Speaker. Ludic Times: The Art of Gaming. The 6th Asia-Europe Art Camp. Singapore, 22 - 29 July 2008. Art Camp Website

Babbage Cabbage: Empathetic Biological Media. Techno Dreams Session. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 10 October 2008.

“Cute Interactive Media” Presentation as a panel speaker in the workshop “ICAT Workshop on Technologies for Entertainment, Art, and Culture.”
17th annual Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence
Esbjerg, Denmark, 30 November 2007


ACM DL Author-ize serviceWhat we have here is a failure of companionship: communication in goal-oriented team-mate games
Kevin McGee, Tim Merritt, Christopher Ong
OzCHI '11 Proceedings of the 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2011


ACM DL Author-ize serviceAre artificial team-mates scapegoats in computer games
Tim R. Merritt, Kian Boon Tan, Christopher Ong, Aswin Thomas, Teong Leong Chuah, Kevin McGee
CSCW '11 Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 2011


ACM DL Author-ize serviceWho makes what sound?: supporting real-time musical improvisations of electroacoustic ensembles
Tim Merritt, Weiman Kow, Christopher Ng, Kevin McGee, Lonce Wyse
OZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, 2010


ACM DL Author-ize serviceBody music: physical exploration of music theory
Eng Tat Khoo, Timothy Merritt, Victor Lim Fei, Wei Liu, Hafizur Rahaman, Janaka Prasad, Timothy Marsh
Sandbox '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Video games, 2008


ACM DL Author-ize serviceEmpathetic living media
Adrian David Cheok, Roger Thomas Kok, Chuen Tan, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tim Merritt, Janyn Yen Ping Sen
DIS '08 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems, 2008


ACM DL Author-ize serviceExplorations on interactive interfaces using cuteness
Adrian David Cheok, Masahiko Inami, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Masa Inakage, Tim Robert Merritt
DIMEA '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Digital interactive media in entertainment and arts, 2007


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