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• Joel.Fischer@nottingham.ac.uk
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Biography

I'm Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK, where I am a member of the Mixed Reality Lab. My research takes a human-centred view on AI-infused technologies to understand and support human activities and reasoning. My research is frequently concerned with how interactive technology can be designed to support collocated people interacting face-to-face. My research approach is multidisciplinary, drawing on ethnography, participatory design, prototyping, and studies of technology deployments, often with an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic lens.

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Selected Publications

• FISCHER, JOEL E., GREENHALGH, CHRIS, JIANG, WENCHAO, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., WU, FENG and RODDEN, TOM, 2017. In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. e4082-n/a
• JOEL FISCHER, ANDY CRABTREE, JAMES COLLEY, TOM RODDEN and ENRICO COSTANZA, 2017. Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices. 26(4-6), 597-626
• FISCHER, JOEL E., CRABTREE, ANDY, RODDEN, TOM, COLLEY, JAMES A., COSTANZA, ENRICO, JEWELL, MICHAEL O. and RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., 2016. 'Just Whack It on Until It Gets Hot': Working with IoT Data in the Home In: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5933-5944
• REYES-CRUZ, GISELA, FISCHER, JOEL E and REEVES, STUART, 2020. Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments In: ACM CHI.

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• RADY, AHMED, FISCHER, JOEL, REEVES, STUART, LOGAN, BRIAN and WATSON, NICHOLAS JAMES, 2020. The Effect of Light Intensity, Sensor Height, and Spectral Pre-Processing Methods When Using NIR Spectroscopy to Identify Different Allergen-Containing Powdered Foods SENSORS. 20(1),
• CANDELLO, HELOISA, MUNTEANU, COSMIN, CLARK, LEIGH, SIN, JAISIE, TORRES, MARÍA INÉS, PORCHERON, MARTIN, MYERS, CHELSEA M, COWAN, BENJAMIN, FISCHER, JOEL, SCHLÖGL, STEPHAN and OTHERS, 2020. CUI@ CHI: Mapping Grand Challenges for the Conversational User Interface Community In: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-8
• REYES-CRUZ, GISELA, FISCHER, JOEL E and REEVES, STUART, 2020. Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments In: ACM CHI.
• RADY, AHMED, FISCHER, JOEL, REEVES, STUART, LOGAN, BRIAN and JAMES WATSON, NICHOLAS, 2020. The effect of light intensity, sensor height, and spectral pre-processing methods when using NIR spectroscopy to identify different allergen-containing powdered foods Sensors. 20(1), 230
• NILSSON, TOMMY, FISCHER, JOEL E, CRABTREE, ANDY, GOULDEN, MURRAY, SPENCE, JOCELYN and COSTANZA, ENRICO, 2020. Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08952.
• CAROLINA FUENTES, MARTIN PORCHERON, JOEL E. FISCHER, ENRICO COSTANZA, OBAID MALILK and SARVAPALI D. RAMCHURN, 2019. Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). 639:1-639:13
• NILSSON, TOMMY, CRABTREE, ANDY, FISCHER, JOEL and KOLEVA, BORIANA, 2019. Breaching the future: understanding human challenges of autonomous systems for the home Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 1-21
• NILSSON, TOMMY, CRABTREE, ANDY, FISCHER, JOEL and KOLEVA, BORIANA, 2019. Creating Worlds: Exploring Animated Videos as a Tool for Contextualization in User Research In: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-2
• FUENTES, CAROLINA, PORCHERON, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E, COSTANZA, ENRICO, VERDEZOTO, NERVO, HERSKOVIC, VALERIA, ZUCKERMAN, OREN and TAKAYAMA, LEILA, 2019. New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care In: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-8
• CRABTREE, ANDY, HYLAND, LEWIS, COLLEY, JAMES, FLINTHAM, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E and KWON, HYOSUN, 2019. Probing IoT-based consumer services:'insights' from the connected shower Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 1-17
• FISCHER, JOEL E, REEVES, STUART, PORCHERON, MARTIN and SIKVELAND, REIN OVE, 2019. Progressivity for voice interface design In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. 1-8
• FUENTES, CAROLINA, PORCHERON, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E, COSTANZA, ENRICO, MALILK, OBAID and RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D, 2019. Tracking the consumption of home essentials In: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-13
• MARTIN PORCHERON, JOEL E. FISCHER, STUART REEVES and SARAH SHARPLES, 2018. Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life In: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18).
• KWON, HYOSUN, FISCHER, JOEL E., FLINTHAM, MARTIN and COLLEY, JAMES, 2018. The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.. 2(4), 176:1-176:22
• REEVES, STUART, PORCHERON, MARTIN and FISCHER, JOEL, 2018. 'This is Not What We Wanted': Designing for Conversation with Voice Interfaces Interactions. 26(1), 46-51
• HYLAND, LEWIS, CRABTREE, ANDY, FISCHER, JOEL, COLLEY, JAMES and FUENTES, CAROLINA, 2018. ''What do you want for dinner?'' - need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). 27(3), 917-946
• VERAME, JHIM KIEL M., COSTANZA, ENRICO, FISCHER, JOEL, CRABTREE, ANDY, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., RODDEN, TOM and JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., 2018. Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 447:1-447:13
• HUYNH, TRUNG DONG, EBDEN, MARK, FISCHER, JOEL, ROBERTS, STEPHEN and MOREAU, LUC, 2018. Provenance network analytics Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 32(3), 708-735
• PORCHERON, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E., REEVES, STUART and SHARPLES, SARAH, 2018. Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 640:1-640:12
• MARTIN PORCHERON, JOEL E. FISCHER and SARAH SHARPLES, 2017. “Do Animals Have Accents?”: Talking with Agents in Multi-Party Conversation In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17). 207-219
• JOEL FISCHER, ANDY CRABTREE, JAMES COLLEY, TOM RODDEN and ENRICO COSTANZA, 2017. Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices. 26(4-6), 597-626
• FISCHER, JOEL E., GREENHALGH, CHRIS, JIANG, WENCHAO, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., WU, FENG and RODDEN, TOM, 2017. In-the-loop or on-the-loop? Interactional arrangements to support team coordination with a planning agent Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. e4082-n/a
• PORCHERON, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E., MCGREGOR, MOIRA, BROWN, BARRY, LUGER, EWA, CANDELLO, HELOISA and O'HARA, KENTON, 2017. Talking with Conversational Agents in Collaborative Action In: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. 431-436
• PORCHERON, MARTIN, FISCHER, JOEL E. and SHARPLES, SARAH, 2016. Using Mobile Phones in Pub Talk In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. 1649-1661
• FISCHER, JOEL E., CRABTREE, ANDY, RODDEN, TOM, COLLEY, JAMES A., COSTANZA, ENRICO, JEWELL, MICHAEL O. and RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., 2016. 'Just Whack It on Until It Gets Hot': Working with IoT Data in the Home In: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 5933-5944
• SARVAPALI D RAMCHURN, TRUNG DONG HUYNH, FENG WU, YUKKI IKUNO, JACK FLANN, LUC MOREAU, JOEL E FISCHER, WENCHAO JIANG, TOM RODDEN, EDWIN SIMPSON, STEVEN REECE, STEPHEN ROBERTS and NICHOLAS R JENNINGS, 2016. A Disaster Response System based on Human-Agent Collectives Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). 57, 661-708
• ALAN, ALPER T., COSTANZA, ENRICO, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., FISCHER, JOEL, RODDEN, TOM and JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., 2016. Tariff Agent: Interacting with a Future Smart Energy System at Home ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.. 23(4), 25:1-25:28
• SARVAPALI D. RAMCHURN, JOEL E. FISCHER, YUKI IKUNO, FENG WU, JACK FLANN and ANTONY WALDOCK, 2015. A study of human-agent collaboration for multi-UAV task allocation in dynamic environments In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15). 1184-1192
• RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., HUYNH, TRUNG DONG, IKUNO, YUKI, FLANN, JACK, WU, FENG, MOREAU, LUC, JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., FISCHER, JOEL E., JIANG, WENCHAO, RODDEN, TOM, SIMPSON, EDWIN, REECE, STEVEN and ROBERTS, STEPHEN J., 2015. HAC-ER: A Disaster Response System Based on Human-Agent Collectives In: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. 533-541
• FENG WU, SARVAPALI D. RAMCHURN, WENCHAO JIANG, JOEL E. FISCHER, TOM RODDEN and NICHOLAS R. JENNINGS, 2015. Agile planning for real-world disaster response In: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-15). 132-138
• RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., WU, FENG, JIANG, WENCHAO, FISCHER, JOEL E., REECE, STEVE, ROBERTS, STEPHEN, RODDEN, TOM, GREENHALGH, CHRIS and JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., 2015. Human-agent collaboration for disaster response Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 30(1), 82-111
• LUNDGREN, SUS, FISCHER, JOEL E., REEVES, STUART and TORGERSSON, OLOF, 2015. Designing Mobile Experiences for Collocated Interaction In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. 496-507
• H. AVSAR, J. FISCHER and T. RODDEN, 2015. Target size guidelines for interactive displays on the flight deck In: 2015 IEEE/AIAA 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). 3C4-1-3C4-15
• FISCHER, JOEL E., REEVES, STUART, RODDEN, TOM, REECE, STEVE, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D. and JONES, DAVID, 2015. Building a Birds Eye View: Collaborative Work in Disaster Response In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 4103-4112
• WENCHAO JIANG, FISCHER, J.E., GREENHALGH, C., RAMCHURN, S.D., FENG WU, JENNINGS, N.R. and RODDEN, T., 2014. Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams In: Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on. 310-317
• COSTANZA, ENRICO, FISCHER, JOEL E., COLLEY, JAMES A., RODDEN, TOM, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D. and JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., 2014. Doing the Laundry with Agents: A Field Trial of a Future Smart Energy System in the Home In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 813-822
• FISCHER, JOEL E., COSTANZA, ENRICO, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., COLLEY, JAMES and RODDEN, TOM, 2014. Energy Advisors at Work: Charity Work Practices to Support People in Fuel Poverty In: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. 447-458
• FISCHER, JOELE., JIANG, WENCHAO, KERNE, ANDRUID, GREENHALGH, CHRIS, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALID., REECE, STEVEN, PANTIDI, NADIA and RODDEN, TOM, 2014. Supporting Team Coordination on the Ground: Requirements from a Mixed Reality Game. In: ROSSITTO, CHIARA, CIOLFI, LUIGINA, MARTIN, DAVID and CONEIN, BERNARD, eds., COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France) Springer International Publishing. 49-67
• RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., WU, FENG, JIANG, WENCHAO, FISCHER, JOEL E., REECE, STEVE, GREENHALGH, CHRIS, RODDEN, TOM, JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R. and ROBERTS, STEPHEN, 2014. AtomicOrchid: Human-agent Collectives to the Rescue In: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems. 1693-1694
• JARUSRIBOONCHAI, PRADTHANA, LUNDGREN, SUS, OLSSON, THOMAS, FISCHER, JOEL, MEMAROVIC, NEMANJA, REEVES, STUART, WO'ZNIAK, PAWEL and TORGERSSON, OLOF, 2014. Personal or Social?: Designing Mobile Interactions for Co-located Interaction In: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. 829-832
• WENCHAO JIANG, JOEL E. FISCHER, CHRIS GREENHALGH, SARVAPALI D. RAMCHURN, FENG WU, NICHOLAS R. JENNINGS and TOM RODDEN, 2014. Social implications of agent-based planning support for human teams In: Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on. 310-317
• ALAN, ALPER, COSTANZA, ENRICO, FISCHER, JOEL, RAMCHURN, SARVAPALI D., RODDEN, TOM and JENNINGS, NICHOLAS R., 2014. A Field Study of Human-agent Interaction for Electricity Tariff Switching In: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems. 965-972
• RODDEN, T., FISCHER, J.E., PANTIDI, N., BACHOUR, K. and MORAN, S., 2013. At Home with Agents: Exploring Attitudes Towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13) ACM.
• FISCHER, J.E., RAMCHURN, S.D., OSBORNE, M., PARSON, O., HUYNH, T.D., ALAM, M., PANTIDI, N., MORAN, S., BACHOUR, K., REECE, S., COSTANZA, E., RODDEN, T. and JENNINGS, N.R., 2013. Recommending Energy Tariffs and Load Shifting Based on Smart Household Usage Profiling. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '13) ACM.
• RAMCHURN, S.D., OSBORNE, M., PARSON, O., MALEKI, S., RAHWAN, T., HUYNH, T.D., REECE, S., ALAM, M., FISCHER, J.E., HINES, G., COSTANZA, E., MOREAU, L. and RODDEN, T., 2013. AgentSwitch: Smart Energy Tariff Selection using Agent Technology. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '13) IFAAMAS.
• MORAN, S., PANTIDI, N., BACHOUR, K., FISCHER, J.E., FLINTHAM, M., RODDEN, T., EVANS, S. and JOHNSON, S., 2013. Team Reactions to Voiced Agent Instructions in a Pervasive Game. In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '13). ACM Press.
• JOEL E. FISCHER, STUART REEVES, STUART MORAN, CHRIS GREENHALGH and STEVE BENFORD, 2013. Understanding Mobile Notification Management in Collocated Groups In: European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13).
• JOEL E. FISCHER, STUART REEVES, STEVE BENFORD and CHRIS GREENHALGH, 2013. First International Workshop on Designing Mobile Face-to-Face Group Interactions In: European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW '13).
• J.E. FISCHER, E. COSTANZA, S.D. RAMCHURN, A. ROGERS and T. RODDEN, 2013. Fuel poverty and the work of energy advisors In: Digital Economy 2013.
• CRANWELL, J., GOLIGHTLY, D., FISCHER, J., SHARPLES, S. and O'MALLEY, C., 2012. Using mobile applications that combine self-report micro surveys to enhance GPS tracking data International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment. 11(1), 55-74
• J. FISCHER, M. FLINTHAM, D. PRICE, J. GOULDING, N. PANTIDI and T. RODDEN, 2012. Serious Mixed Reality Games In: Mixed Reality Games Workshop, The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12).
• FISCHER, J.E., JIANG, W. and MORAN, S., 2012. AtomicOrchid: A Mixed Reality Game to Investigate Coordination in Disaster Response. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7522. Springer. 572-577
• COLLEY, J., BEDWELL, B., RENNICK EGGLESTONE, S., FISCHER, J. and PANTIDI, N., 2011. Exploring energy monitoring in the wild In: Digital Engagement 2011.
• FISCHER, J.E., GREENHALGH, C. and BENFORD, S., 2011. Investigating episodes of mobile phone activity as indicators of opportune moments to deliver notifications In: MobileHCI '11: proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. 181-190
• DURRANT, A., ROWLAND, D., KIRK, D., BENFORD, S., FISCHER, J.E. and MCAULEY, D., 2011. Automics: souvenir generating photoware for theme parks In: CHI '11: proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1767-1776
• FISCHER, J.E., YEE, N., BELLOTTI, V., GOOD, N., BENFORD, S. and GREENHALGH, C., 2010. Effects of content and time of delivery on receptivity to mobile interruptions In: MobileHCI '10: proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. 103-112
• FISCHER, J.E., 2010. Studying and Tackling Temporal Challenges of Mobile HCI In: Extended Abstracts of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems.
• FISCHER, J.E., 2010. Interrupting the here and now: implications and opportunities In: Mensch&Computer 2010, Oldenbourg Verlag. 159-168
• FISCHER, J.E. and BENFORD, S., 2009. Inferring player engagement in a pervasive experience In: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
• FISCHER, J.E., 2009. Experience-sampling tools: a critical review In: MobileHCI workshop on Living Labs, Methods and Tools for Evaluation in the Wild.
• FISCHER, J.E., LINDT, I. and STENROS, J., Evaluation of Crossmedia Gaming Experiences in Epidemic Menace. In: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on pervasive games (PerGames '07) Shaker Verlag.