Lecturer
East Building East Building 3.2-4-6 Desk 14
Dept of Computer Science
Email: l.watts@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 3166
Dr Leon Watts
Profile
Research interests
Topics
Technological design factors influencing participation in collective activity, identity and conflict through information and communication technologies (e.g. videoconferencing, email), individual and collective experience of interacting through communication technologies, presence in computer-mediated interactions (communication and collaborative environments).
Fields
Human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-mediated communication (CMC), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW).
Projects
The Technology and Social Action AHRB-EPSRC Design for the 21st Century Research Cluster.
EPSRC funded investigation into the use of personal and group identity as a central design concept for CMC systems. The Identity-Based Design project page sets out the aims of this work, the progress we have made, and related resources.
Publications
Gooch, D. and Watts, L., 2013. Forthcoming. Social Presence and the void in distant relationships : How do people use communication technologies to turn absence into fondness of the heart, rather than drifting out of mind? AI and Society
Gooch, D. and Watts, L., 2012. It's neat to feel the heat : How can we hold hands at a distance? In: CHI'12: The 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012-05-05 - 2012-05-10, Austin, Texas.
Gooch, D. and Watts, L., 2012. SleepyWhispers : Sharing goodnights within distant relationships. In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'12. ACM, pp. 61-62.
Gooch, D. and Watts, L. A., 2012. YourGloves, hothands and hotmits: devices to hold hands at a distance. In: UIST '12 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. Proceedings. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 157-166.
Dove, J. A., Eubanks, D. L., Panteli, N., Watts, L. A. and Joinson, A. N., 2011. Making an entrance 2.0: the linguistics of introductory success in virtual communities. In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-44 2010. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society.
Gooch, D. and Watts, L., 2011. The Magic Sock Drawer project. In: CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 243-252.
Gooch, D. and Watts, L. A., 2011. Up close and personal: social presence in mediated personal relationships. In: 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011 Health, Wealth and Happiness), 2011-07-04 - 2011-07-08, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Billings, M. and Watts, L. A., 2010. Understanding dispute resolution online: using text to reflect personal and substantive issues in conflict. In: CHI '10 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1447-1456.
Gooch, D. and Watts, L. A., 2010. Understanding social presence. In: International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference (ISPR 2011), 2011-10-26 - 2011-10-28, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Collomosse, J. P., McNeill, G. and Watts, L., 2008. Free-hand sketch grouping for video retrieval. In: 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2008, 2008-12-08 - 2008-12-11, Tampa, FL.
