Best of CHI

The SIGCHI “Best of CHI” awards honor exceptional submissions to SIGCHI sponsored conferences.

The CHI Associate Chairs nominated 5% of the Paper and Notes submissions. 69 papers and notes received Honorable Mention, designated by a medallion logo.

The separate Best Papers committee selected the top 1% of total submissions. 20 Papers and Notes received a Best Paper award, designated by a trophy logo.

In addition to the Papers & Notes awards, there are four Best Late Breaking Work awards and ten Honorable Mention Late Breaking Work awards, out of 647 submissions, as well as one Best Case Study and two Honorable Mention Case Studies, out of 105 submissions. These are marked with the medallion and trophy icons in the program. Winners of the Student Competitions are announced in the Keynote sessions. We also have two special award categories: Interactive Art Awards and the Golden Mouse. Congratulations to the 2016 award winners and nominees for their outstanding contributions to CHI 2016 and to our field.

CHI 2016 Best Papers

The Effect of Visual Appearance on the Performance of Continuous Sliders and Visual Analogue Scales

Justin Matejka, Michael Glueck, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice

 

Designing Movement-based Play With Young People Using Powered Wheelchairs

Kathrin Gerling, Kieran Hicks, Michael Kalyn, Adam Evans, Conor Linehan

 

Object-Oriented Drawing

Haijun Xia, Bruno Araujo, Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor

 

Enabling Designers to Foresee Which Colors Users Cannot See

Katharina Reinecke, David R Flatla, Christopher Brooks

 

On Looking at the Vagina through Labella

Teresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Gavin Wood, Dean Saraf, Madeline Balaam

 

Project Jacquard: Manufacturing Digital Textiles at Scale

Ivan Poupyrev, Nan-Wei Gong, Shiho Fukuhara, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Carsten Schwesig, Karen Robinson

 

“I don’t want to wear a screen”: Probing perceptions of and possibilities for dynamic displays on clothing

Laura Devendorf, Joanne Lo, Noura Howell, Jung Lin Lee, Nan-Wei Gong, Mustafa Emre Karagozler, Shiho Fukuhara, Ivan Poupyrev, Eric Paulos, Kimiko Ryokai

 

Momentary Pleasure or Lasting Meaning? Distinguishing Eudaimonic and Hedonic User Experiences

Elisa D Mekler, Kasper Hornbæk

 

RapID: A Framework for Fabricating Low-Latency Interactive Objects with RFID Tags

Andrew Spielberg, Alanson P Sample, Scott E Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, James McCann

 

HCI Research as Problem-Solving

Antti Oulasvirta, Kasper Hornbæk

 

Haptic Wave: A Cross-Modal Interface for Visually Impaired Audio Producers

Atau Tanaka, Adam Parkinson

 

FlexCase: Enhancing Mobile Interaction with a Flexible Sensing and Display Cover

Christian Rendl, David Kim, Patrick Parzer, Sean Fanello, Martin Zirkl, Gregor Scheipl, Michael Haller, Shahram Izadi

 

Dear Diary: Teens Reflect on Their Weekly Online Risk Experiences

Pamela J Wisniewski, Heng Xu, Mary Beth Rosson, Daniel F Perkins, John M Carroll

 

Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design Decisions on the Environmental Footprint of Digital Infrastructure

Chris Preist, Daniel Schien, Eli Blevis

 

Enhancing Cross-Device Interaction Scripting with Interactive Illustrations

Pei-Yu (Peggy) Chi, Yang Li, Björn Hartmann

 

Learn Piano with BACh: An Adaptive Learning Interface that Adjusts Task Difficulty Based on Brain State

Beste F Yuksel, Kurt B Oleson, Lane Harrison, Evan M Peck, Daniel A Afergan, Remco Chang, Robert J.K. Jacob

 

Smart Touch: Improving Touch Accuracy for People with Motor Impairments with Template Matching

Martez E Mott, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Shaun K Kane, Jacob O Wobbrock

 

Building a Personalized, Auto-Calibrating Eye Tracker from User Interactions

Michael Xuelin Huang, Tiffany C.K. Kwok, Grace Ngai, Stephen C.F. Chan, Hong Va Leong

 

Developing and Validating the User Burden Scale: A Tool for Assessing User Burden in Computing Systems

Hyewon Suh, Nina Shahriaree, Eric Hekler, Julie A Kientz

 

Foraging among an Overabundance of Similar Variants

Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan, Sandeep Kaur Kuttal, Charles Hill, Anita Sarma, David J Piorkowski, Margaret M Burnett

 

Finding Email in a Multi-Account, Multi-Device World

Marta Elizabeth Cecchinato, Abigail Sellen, Milad Shokouhi, Gavin Smyth

 

Empath: Understanding Topic Signals in Large-Scale Text

Ethan Fast, Binbin Chen, Michael S Bernstein

 

Lock n’ LoL: Group-based Limiting Assistance App to Mitigate Smartphone Distractions in Group Activities

Minsam Ko, Seungwoo Choi, Koji Yatani, Uichin Lee

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CHI 2016 Honorable Mention

TouchTokens: Guiding Touch Patterns with Passive Tokens

Rafael Morales González, Caroline Appert, Gilles Bailly, Emmanuel Pietriga

 

Designing Smart Objects with Autistic Children – Four Design Exposes

Christopher Frauenberger, Julia Makhaeva, Katharina Spiel

 

DualKey: Miniature Screen Text Entry via Finger Identification

Aakar Gupta, Ravin Balakrishnan

 

Continuing the Dialogue: Bringing Research Accounts Back into the Field

Sarah Fox, Daniela K Rosner

 

Physikit: Data Engagement Through Physical Ambient Visualizations in the Home

Steven Houben, Connie Golsteijn, Sarah Gallacher, Rose Johnson, Saskia Bakker, Nicolai Marquardt, Licia Capra, Yvonne Rogers

 

Designing for Domestic Memorialization and Remembrance: A Field Study of Fenestra in Japan

Daisuke Uriu, William Odom

 

Dynamic Stereoscopic 3D Parameter Adjustment for Enhanced Depth Discrimination

Arun Kulshreshth, Joseph J LaViola Jr.

 

The Ins and Outs of HCI for Development

Nicola Dell, Neha Kumar

 

SkinTrack: Using the Body as an Electrical Waveguide for Continuous Finger Tracking on the Skin

Yang Zhang, Junhan Zhou, Gierad Laput, Chris Harrison

 

Emergeables: Deformable Displays for Continuous Eyes-Free Mobile Interaction

Simon Robinson, Celine Coutrix, Jennifer Pearson, Juan Rosso, Matheus Fernandes Torquato, Laurence Nigay, Matt Jones

 

Reflections on Deploying Distributed Consultation Technologies with Community Organisations

Ian G Johnson, John Vines, Nick Taylor, Edward Ian Jenkins, Justin Marshall

 

Scaffolding Community Documentary Film Making using Commissioning Templates

Tom Bartindale, Guy Schofield, Peter Wright

 

Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces

Ken Nakagaki, Luke Alexander Jozef Vink, Jared Counts, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii

 

Incloodle: Evaluating an Interactive Application for Young Children with Mixed Abilities

Kiley Sobel, Kyle Rector, Susan Evans, Julie A. Kientz

 

Finexus: Tracking Precise Motions of Multiple Fingertips Using Magnetic Sensing

Ke-Yu Chen, Shwetak N Patel, Sean Keller

 

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Designing for Patient Participation in Audiological Consultations

Yngve Dahl, Geir Kjetil Hanssen

 

Health Technologies ‘In the Wild’: Experiences of Engagement with Computerised CBT

Stefan J Rennick-Egglestone, Sarah Knowles, Gill Toms, Penny Bee, Karina Lovell, Peter Bower

 

Anchored Customization: Anchoring Settings to the Application Interface to Afford Customization

Antoine Ponsard, Joanna McGrenere

 

An EEG-based Approach for Evaluating Graphic Icons from the Perspective of Semantic Distance

Fu-Yin Cherng, Wen-Chieh Lin, Jung-Tai King, Yi-Chen Lee

 

Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions

Oliver L Haimson, Jed R Brubaker, Lynn S Dombrowski, Gillian R Hayes

 

The Mimesis Effect: The Effect of Roles on Player Choice in Interactive Narrative Role-Playing Games

Ignacio X. Domínguez, Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, James K. Vance, David L. Roberts

 

Staying the Course: System-Driven Lapse Management for Supporting Behavior Change

Elena Agapie, Daniel Avrahami, Jennifer Marlow

 

Curiosity Killed the Cat, but Makes Crowdwork Better

Edith Law, Ming Yin, Joslin Goh, Kevin Chen, Michael A Terry, Krzysztof Z. Gajos

 

Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism

Sunil Rodger, John Vines, Janice McLaughlin

 

Towards Understanding Human Similarity Perception in the Analysis of Large Sets of Scatter Plots

Anshul Vikram Pandey, Josua Krause, Cristian Felix, Jeremy Boy, Enrico Bertini

 

How Disclosing Skill Assistance Affects Play Experience in a Multiplayer First-Person Shooter Game

Ansgar E Depping, Regan L Mandryk, Chengzhao Li, Carl Gutwin, Rodrigo Vicencio-Moreira

 

Changing Family Practices with Assistive Technology: MOBERO Improves Morning and Bedtime Routines for Children with ADHD

Tobias Sonne, Jörg Müller, Paul Marshall, Carsten Obel, Kaj Grønbæk

 

Direct Manipulation in Tactile Displays

Aakar Gupta, Thomas Pietrzak, Nicolas Roussel, Ravin Balakrishnan

 

Metadating: Exploring the Romance and Future of Personal Data

Chris Elsden, Bettina Nissen, Andrew Garbett, David Chatting, David S Kirk, John Vines

 

Human Proxies for Remote University Classroom Attendance

Clarissa Ishak, Carman Neustaedter, Dan Hawkins, Jason Procyk, Michael Massimi

 

Mediating the Undercurrents: Using Social Media to Sustain a Social Movement

Yong Ming Kow, Yubo Kou, Bryan C Semaan, Waikuen Cheng

 

HCI and Intimate Care as an Agenda for Change in Women’s Health

Teresa Almeida, Rob Comber, Madeline Balaam

 

HotFlex: Post-print Customization of 3D Prints Using Embedded State Change

Daniel Groeger, Elena Chong Loo, Jürgen Steimle

 

Discovering Shifts to Suicidal Ideation from Mental Health Content in Social Media

Munmun De Choudhury, Emre Kiciman, Mark Dredze, Glen Coppersmith, Mrinal Kumar

 

Augmenting the Field-of-View of Head-Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral Displays

Robert Xiao, Hrvoje Benko

 

Negative Emotion, Positive Experience? Emotionally Moving Moments in Digital Games

Julia Ayumi Bopp, Elisa D Mekler, Klaus Opwis

 

Fingers of a Hand Oscillate Together: Phase Syncronisation of Tremor in Hover Touch Sensing

John Williamson

 

Chain Reactions: The Impact of Order on Microtask Chains

Carrie J. Cai, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Jaime Teevan

 

I Always Wanted to See the Night Sky”: Blind User Preferences for Sensory Substitution Devices”

Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Marianna Obrist, Phil Watten, Michele Mengucci, Jamie Ward

 

COGCAM: Contact-free Measurement of Cognitive Stress During Computer Tasks with a Digital Camera

Daniel McDuff, Javier Hernandez Rivera, Sarah Gontarek, Rosalind Picard

 

Technological Caregiving: Supporting Online Activity for Adults with Cognitive Impairments

Anne Marie Piper, Raymundo Cornejo, Lisa B. Hurwitz, Caitlin E Unumb

 

Living In A Prototype: A Reconfigured Space

Audrey Desjardins, Ron Wakkary

 

Behavior Ever Follows Intention? A Validation of the Security Behavior Intentions Scale (SeBIS)

Serge Egelman, Marian Harbach, Eyal Peer

 

The Anatomy of Smartphone Unlocking: A Field Study of Android Lock Screens

Marian Harbach, Alexander De Luca, Serge Egelman

 

I know where you live: Inferring details of people’s lives by visualizing publicly shared location data

Ilaria Liccardi, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Min Chen

 

Keep on Lockin’ in the Free World: A Multi-National Comparison of Smartphone Locking

Marian Harbach, Alexander De Luca, Nathan Malkin, Serge Egelman

 

Finding Gender-Inclusiveness Software Issues with GenderMag: A Field Investigation

Margaret M Burnett, Anicia N Peters, Charles Hill, Noha Elarief

 

Screen Time Tantrums: How Families Manage Screen Media Experiences for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Alexis Hiniker, Hyewon Suh, Sabina Cao, Julie A. Kientz

 

Accountable Artefacts: the Case of the Carolan Guitar

Steve Benford, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Kevin Glover, Chris Greenhalgh, Liming Xu, Michaela Hoare, Dimitrios Darzentas

 

LGBT Parents and Social Media: Advocacy, Privacy, and Disclosure during Shifting Social Movements

Lindsay Blackwell, Jean Hardy, Tawfiq Ammari, Tiffany Veinot, Cliff Lampe, Sarita Schoenebeck

 

Forget-me-not: History-less Mobile Messaging

Mattias Rost, Christos Kitsos, Alexander Morgan, Martin Podlubny, Pietro Romeo, Edoardo Russo, Matthew Chalmers

 

Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalous Facts

Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Anne Hsu, Bernd Huber, Juho Kim

 

The Knowledge Accelerator: Big Picture Thinking in Small Pieces

Nathan Hahn, Joseph Chee Chang, Ji Eun Kim, Aniket Kittur

 

Investigating the Heart Pump Implant Decision Process: Opportunities for Decision Support Tools to Help

Qian Yang, John Zimmerman, Aaron Steinfeld, Lisa Carey, James Antaki

 

It’s Creepy, But it Doesn’t Bother Me

Chanda Phelan, Cliff Lampe, Paul Resnick

 

Supporting Comment Moderators in Identifying High Quality Online News Comments

Deokgun Park, Simranjit Singh Sachar, Nicholas Diakopoulos, Niklas E. Elmqvist

 

Going Dark: Social Factors in Collective Action Against Platform Operators in the Reddit Blackout

J. Nathan Matias

 

Peer-to-peer in the workplace: A view from the road

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nicola J Bidwell, Himanshu Zade, Srihari H Muralidhar, Anupama M Dhareshwar, Baneen Karachiwala, Cedrick N Tandong, Jacki O’Neill

 

Contextual Autonomy Support in Video Game Play: A Grounded Theory

Sebastian Deterding

 

A Market in Your Social Network: The Effects of Extrinsic Rewards on Friendsourcing and Relationships

Haiyi Zhu, Sauvik Das, Yiqun Cao, Shuang Yu, Aniket Kittur, Robert E Kraut

 

We’re on the Same Page”: A Usability Study of Secure Email Using Pairs of Novice Users”

Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Scott Heidbrink, Mark O’Neill, Justin Wu, Elham Vaziripour, Daniel Zappala, Kent Seamons

 

SpiroCall: Measuring Lung Function over a Phone Call

Mayank Goel, Elliot Saba, Maia Stiber, Eric Whitmire, Josh Fromm, Eric C Larson, Gaetano Borriello, Shwetak N Patel

 

An Archive of Their Own: A Case Study of Feminist HCI and Values in Design

Casey Fiesler, Shannon Morrison, Amy S Bruckman

 

Alloy: Clustering with Crowds and Computation

Joseph Chee Chang, Aniket Kittur, Nathan Hahn

 

Enhancing Lifelogging Privacy by Detecting Screens

Mohammed Korayem, Robert Templeman, Dennis Chen, David J Crandall, Apu Kapadia

 

Peak-End Effects on Player Experience in Casual Games

Carl Gutwin, Christianne Rooke, Andy Cockburn, Regan L Mandryk, Benjamin Lafreniere

 

Breaking Down While Building Up: Design and Decline in Emerging Infrastructures

Stephanie B. Steinhardt

 

Skeletons and Silhouettes: Comparing User Representations at a Gesture-based Large Display

Christopher James Ackad, Martin Tomitsch, Judy Kay

 

Data and the City

Donald McMillan, Arvid Engström, Airi Lampinen, Barry Brown

 

The Quantified Patient in the Doctor’s Office: Challenges & Opportunities

Peter West, Richard Giordano, Max G. Van Kleek, Nigel R Shadbolt

 

The Augmented Climbing Wall: High-Exertion Proximity Interaction on a Wall-Sized Interactive Surface

Raine Kajastila, Leo Holsti, Perttu Hämäläinen

 

Influence of Display Transparency on Background Awareness and Task Performance

David Lindlbauer, Klemen Lilija, Robert Walter, Joerg Mueller

 

Researcher-Centered Design of Statistics: Why Bayesian Statistics Better Fit the Culture and Incentives of HCI

Matthew Kay, Gregory L. Nelson, Eric B. Hekler

 

Mimetic Machines: Collaborative Interventions in Digital Fabrication with Arc

Hidekazu Saegusa, Thomas Tran, Daniela K Rosner

 

Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Prediction of Visual Attention in Graphical User Interfaces

Pingmei Xu, Yusuke Sugano, Andreas Bulling

 

Pointing while Looking Elsewhere: Designing for Varying Degrees of Visual Guidance during Manual Input

Baris Serim, Giulio Jacucci

 

RetroFab: A Design Tool for Retrofitting Physical Interfaces using Actuators, Sensors and 3D Printing

Raf Ramakers, Fraser Anderson, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice

 

Egocentric Analysis of Dynamic Networks with EgoLines

Jian Zhao, Michael Glueck, Fanny Chevalier, Yanhong Wu, Azam Khan

 

Changes in Engagement Before and After Posting to Facebook

Nir Grinberg, Alex Dow, Lada A Adamic, Mor Naaman

 

Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making: HCI After Technosolutionism

Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell

 

“Popcorn Tastes Good”: Participatory Policymaking and Reddit’s “AMAgeddon”

Alissa Centivany, Bobby Glushko

 

Augur: Mining Human Behaviors from Fiction to Power Interactive Systems

Ethan Fast, William McGrath, Pranav Rajpurkar, Michael S Bernstein

 

Body Integrated Programmable Joints Interface

Sang-won Leigh, Pattie Maes

 

One-Dimensional Handwriting: Inputting Letters and Words on Smart Glasses

Chun Yu, Ke Sun, Mingyuan Zhong, Xincheng Li, Peijun Zhao, Yuanchun Shi

 

Do Users’ Perceptions of Password Security Match Reality?

Blase Ur, Jonathan Bees, Sean Segreti, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor

 

Diving in at the Deep End: The Value of Alternative In-Situ Approaches for Systematic Library Search

Uta Hinrichs, Simon Butscher, Jens Müller, Harald Reiterer

 

Pick me! Getting Noticed on Google Play

Aliaksei Miniukovich, Antonella De Angeli

 

Modeling and Understanding Human Routine Behavior

Nikola Banovic, Tofi Buzali, Fanny Chevalier, Jennifer Mankoff, Anind Dey

 

Citizens for Science and Science for Citizens: The View from Participatory Design

Danial Qaurooni, Ali Ghazinejad, Inna Kouper, Hamid Ekbia

 

FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Vikram Iyer, Desney Tan, Shyamnath Gollakota

 

Somaesthetic Appreciation Design

Kristina Höök, Martin P Jonsson, Anna Ståhl, Johanna Mercurio

 

User Elicitation on Single-hand Microgestures

Edwin Chan, Teddy Seyed, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Xing-Dong Yang, Frank Maurer

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CHI 2016 Best Case Study

User Research to Inform Product Design: Turning Failure into Small Successes

Joan DiMicco, Nancy Mann

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CHI 2016 Case Study Honorable Mentions

From Two CSCW Frameworks to User Requirements Definition for a Retail Planning Collaborative Software

Grégory Petit, Justin Soles

 

The Salome Experience: Opera Live Streaming and Beyond

Peter Reichl, Christian Loew, Svenja Schroeder, Thomas Schmidt, Bernhard Schatzl, Valon Lushaj, Oliver Hoedl, Florian Güldenpfennig, Christopher Widauer,

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CHI 2016 Best Late-Breaking Works

Usability of Lightweight Defibrillators for UAV Delivery

Mathias Fleck

 

The Web Is Flat: The Inflation of Uncommon Experiences Online

Danaë Metaxa-Kakavouli, Gili Rusak, Jaime Teevan, Michael Bernstein

 

Drill Sergeant: Supporting Physical Construction Projects through an Ecosystem of Augmented Tools

Eldon Schoop, Michelle Nguyen, Daniel Lim, Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer, Björn Hartmann

 

ReWear: Early Explorations of a Modular Wearable Construction Kit for Young Children

Majeed Kazemitabaar, Liang He, Katie Wang, Chloe Aloimonos, Tony Cheng, Jon Froehlich

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CHI 2016 Late-Breaking Work Honorable Mentions

Using a Mobile Device Fingerprint Sensor as a Gestural Input Device

Anna Ostberg, Mohamed Sheik-Nainar, Nada Matic

 

Endorsement, Prior Action, and Language: Modeling Trusted Advice in Computerized Clinical Alerts

Debaleena Chattopadhyay, Jon Duke, Davide Bolchini

 

InstructableCrowd: Creating IF-THEN Rules via Conversations with the Crowd

Ting-Hao Huang, Amos Azaria, Jeffrey Bingham

 

Crowdsourced Facial Expression Mapping Using a 3D Avatar

Crystal Butler, Lakshmi Subramanian, Stephanie Michalowicz

 

Simplifying Overviews of Temporal Event Sequences

Matthew Louis Mauriello, Ben Shneiderman, Fan Du, Sana Malik, Catherine Plaisant

 

Bridging the Physical Divide: A Design Framework for Embodied Learning Games and Simulations

Edward Melcer, Katherine Isbister

 

Invasion of the Energy Monsters: A Family Board Game about Energy Consumption

Amartya Banerjee, Michael Horn, Pryce Davis

 

Biomechanics of Thumb Touch Gestures on Handheld Devices

Philipp Tiefenbacher, Amir Chouchane, Daniel Merget, Simon Schenk, Gerhard Rigoll

 

Mythologies of Business Intelligence

Nitya Verma, Amy Voida

 

SoundFORMS: Manipulating Sound Through Touch

Aubrey Colter, Patlapa Davivongsa, Donald Derek Haddad, Halla Moore, Brian Tice, Hiroshi Ishii

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CHI 2016 Arts Awards Winner

#Scanners: Exploring the Control of Adaptive Films using Brain-Computer Interaction

Matthew Pike, Richard Ramchurn, Steve Benford, Max L Wilson

 

 

CHI 2016 Arts Awards Honorable Mentions

Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital

Vygandas Simbelis, Pedro Ferreira, Elsa Vaara, Jarmo Laaksolahti,Kristina Höök

 

Accountable Artefacts: The Case of the Carolan Guitar

Steve Benford, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Kevin Glover, Chris Greenhalgh, Liming Xu, Michaela Hoare, Dimitrios Darzentas