| 1970 |
Penfield, P., Spence, R. and Duinker, S. (1970) A Generalized Form of Tellegen’s Theorem,
IEEE Trans. on Circuit Theory, CT-17, 3, pp.302-305 Arguably one of the most fundamental theorems concerning electronic circuits, Tellegen’s Theorem was powerfully generalized by the invention of Kirchhoff Operators and found to have extremely wide application. |
| 1977 |
Spence, R. and Apperley, M. (1977) The Interactive-Graphic Man-Computer Dialogue in Computer-Aided Circuit
Design, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, CAS-24, 2, pp.49-61. |
| 1980 |
Soin, R.S. and Spence, R. (1980) Statistical exploration approach to design centering,
Proc.IEE Part G, 127, 6, pp.260-269
Describes a simple and successful
technique for design centering, which is the modification of an engineering
design to achieve the maximum manufacturing yield of a mass-produced artefact.
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| 1982 |
Spence, R. and Apperley, M. (1982) Data base navigation: an office environment for the professional,
Behaviour and Information Technology, 1, 1, pp.43-54
The first description of a Focus+Context
technique, known as the Bifocal Display (aka Fish-eye Lens). |
| 1989 |
Apperley, M.D. and Spence,
R. (1989) Lean Cuisine: a low-fat
notation for menus, Interacting with Computers,1,
1, pp.43-68
The concise Lean Cuisine notation for menu description and
design has the advantage that its complexity only increases linearly with the
number of menu items |
| 1994 |
Tweedie, L., Spence, R.,
Williams, D. and Bhogal, R. (1994) The
Attribute Explorer, Conf. Companion, CHI’94, pp.435-436
The first description of the Attribute
Explorer which allows interactive visualization of the relationships within
multi-attribute data. It introduced a powerful sensitivity encoding
technique.
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| 1995 |
Tweedie, L., Spence, R.,
Dawkes, H. and Su, H. (1995) The
Influence Explorer, Interactive Posters, CHI’95, pp129-130 The Influence Explorer allows an engineering designer to explore, interactively, the influence between the performances and parameters of a designed artefact. |
| 1995 |
Colgan, L., Spence, R. and
Rankin, P (1995) The Cockpit Metaphor, Behaviour and Information Technology, 14, 4,
pp.251-263
Addresses the issue of the human guidance of automated
design, and describes an experimental fully functioning system
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| 1996 |
Tweedie, L., Spence, R.,
Dawkes, H. and Su, H. (1996) Externalising
abstract mathematical models, ACM, Proceedings CHI’96, pp.406-412
Describes two Interactive Visualization Artefacts for
engineering design: The Influence Explorer and the
Prosection Matrix |
| 1996 |
Spence, R. (1996) Summary of The Acquisition of Insight, a thesis submitted for a Higher
Doctorate of the Royal College of Art
Describes the author’s contributions to interaction design
from 1966 to 1996 |
| 1999 |
Spence, R. (1999) The Facilitation of
Insight for Analog Design, IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems II, 46, 5,
pp.540-548 Describes the advantages, for electronic circuit design, of the techniques of information visualization, particularly the interactive tools known as the Influence Explorer and the Prosection Matrix |
| 2002 |
Spence, R. (2002) Rapid, Serial and
Visual: a presentation tool with potential, Information Visualization, 1,
pp.13-19
Describes the recently emerged technique of Rapid Serial
Visual Presentation (RSVP) in which a collection of images is typically
presented in sequence at rates up to about ten per second. The technique has many applications |
| 2004 |
Spence, R. (2004) Sensitivity, Residue
and Scent: concepts to inform interaction design for the support of information
space navigation, Information Design Journal, 2, 3, pp.163-180
Concepts relevant to the navigation of discrete
information spaces are described and illustrated |
| 2006 |
Cooper, K., de Bruijn, O.,
Spence, R., and Witkowski, M. (2006) A Comparison of Static and Moving
Presentation Modes for Image Collections, ACM, Proceedings of Working
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2006, pp. 381-388.
Investigates the effectiveness and
acceptability of two classes of the Rapid Serial Visual Presentation of an
image collection. |
| 2008 |
de Bruijn, O. and Spence,
R. (2008) A new framework for theory-based interaction design, applied to
serendipitous information retrieval, ACM Trans. Computer-human Interaction,
Issue 15 article 5 (43 pp)
Cognitive theory (e.g., human visual perception) relevant
to a specific human activity (e.g., opportunistic browsing) generates Design
Actions that enable an interaction designer to create interfaces without
requiring a knowledge of the cognitive theory. |
| 2008 |
Adams, N., Witkowski, M.
and Spence, R. (2008) The Inspection of Very Large Images by
Eye-gaze Control, ACM, Proceedings of Working Conference on Advanced Visual
Interfaces 2008, pp. 111-118.
Describes and evaluates novel methods in which detected
eye-gaze is used to control the extensive panning and zooming involved in the
inspection of very large images. |