Richard H. R. Harper

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According to Wikipedia, Richard H. R. Harper is a British computer scientist and prolific author. Career He served as Professor in the Department of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University and Co-Director of the Institute for Social Futures. He has published over 160 scientific articles and was elected as Academy in honour of leadership in the field of Human-Computer Interaction by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. He completed his Phd at University of Manchester in 1989. In the late 20th century, he focused on deploying technology in public service and air traffic control. He studied how technology was embedded at the International Monetary Fund. At the turn of the 21st century, he researched remote communication and digital office. One of his publications was the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers award-winning "The Myth of the Paperless Office". His research ranges from the social impact of new technology to the design of a mobile phone. Later, he focused on artificial intelligence.

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Richard H. R. Harper's Published Works

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Dealing with mobility: understanding access anytime, anywhere (2001) (642)
The myth of the paperless office (2001) (626)
Inside the Smart Home (2003) (442)
Fieldwork for Design - Theory and Practice (2007) (380)
The Gift of the Gab?: A Design Oriented Sociology of Young People's Use of Mobiles (2003) (340)
Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users (2002) (299)
Wireless World – Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age, Barry Brown, Nicola Green and Richard Harper (eds.) (2001) (282)
Celebratory technology: new directions for food research in HCI (2008) (274)
Inside the IMF: An Ethnography of Documents, Technology, and Organizational Action (1997) (258)
Everyday dwelling with WhatsApp (2014) (250)
Reflecting human values in the digital age (2009) (217)
Paper as an analytic resource for the design of new technologies (1997) (196)
Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape: attitudes of older adults (2009) (190)
Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use (2013) (187)
Designing for elders: exploring the complexity of relationships in later life (2008) (177)
Homes that make us smart (2007) (153)
Lost in translation: understanding the possession of digital things in the cloud (2012) (142)
Technology heirlooms?: considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials (2012) (135)
Fieldwork for Design: Theory and Practice (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) (2007) (125)
On the naturalness of touchless: Putting the “interaction” back into NUI (2013) (125)
Understanding videowork (2007) (125)
Passing on & putting to rest: understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies (2010) (124)
The Organisation in Ethnography –A Discussion of Ethnographic Fieldwork Programs in CSCW (2000) (119)
HomeNote: supporting situated messaging in the home (2006) (116)
Configuring the Mobile User: Sociological and Industry Views (2001) (109)
Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload (2010) (109)
Instant Places: Using Bluetooth for Situated Interaction in Public Displays (2008) (108)
Mobile phones for the next generation: device designs for teenagers (2003) (107)
The Inside Text: Social, Cultural and Design Perspectives on SMS (The Computer Supported Cooperative Work Series) (2005) (99)
Who's hogging the bandwidth: the consequences of revealing the invisible in the home (2010) (91)
Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020 (2019) (91)
Being Human: HCI in the Year 2020. (2008) (90)
The Connected Home - The Future of Domestic Life (2012) (90)
The whereabouts clock: early testing of a situated awareness device (2006) (86)
The past is a different place: they do things differently there (2008) (79)
Inside the Smart Home: Ideas, Possibilities and Methods (2003) (76)
Designing a technological playground: a field study of the emergence of play in household messaging (2010) (76)
Looking at ourselves: an examination of the social organisation of two research laboratories (1992) (74)
Food for Talk: Phototalk in the Context of Sharing a Meal (2012) (72)
Making place for clutter and other ideas of home (2008) (67)
The relevance of “work-practice” for design (1995) (63)
Scientists and software – surveying the species distribution modelling community (2015) (62)
Tying in comment sections: The production of meaning and sense on Facebook (2015) (56)
The social organization of the IMF’s mission work : An examination of international auditing (2003) (55)
Collaborative tools and the practicalities of professional work at the international monetary fund (1995) (54)
The relevance of ‘work-practice’ for design (2005) (54)
Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective (2000) (53)
The Inside Text (2005) (53)
Questions not answers: a novel mobile search technique (2007) (49)
From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates (2013) (45)
Beyond “yesterday’s tomorrow”: future-focused mobile interaction design by and for emergent users (2017) (45)
Why people do and don't wear active badges: A case study (1995) (45)
"It's simply integral to what I do": enquiries into how the web is weaved into everyday life (2012) (44)
TxtBoard: from text-to-person to text-to-home (2005) (43)
Creating and sharing multi-media packages using large situated public displays and mobile phones (2007) (42)
Switching on to switch off: An analysis of routine TV watching habits and their implications for electronic programme guide design (2002) (41)
SnapAndGrab: accessing and sharing contextual multi-media content using bluetooth enabled camera phones and large situated displays (2008) (41)
Narrative, memory and practice: tensions and choices in the use of a digital artefact (2009) (41)
Switching On to Switch Off (2003) (39)
The mobile interface: old technologies and new arguments (2001) (36)
The Role of HCI in the Age of AI (2019) (36)
People versus Information: The Evolution of Mobile Technology (2003) (35)
Paper-supported Collaborative Work (1995) (34)
The mocking gaze: the social organization of kinect use (2013) (33)
Designing web-connected physical artefacts for the 'aesthetic' of the home (2013) (32)
Thanks for the memory (2007) (32)
"Oh and how things just don't change, the more things stay the same": Reflections on SenseCam images 18 months after capture (2011) (31)
Fixity: Identity, Time and Dur on Facebook (2012) (30)
Making the link - providing mobile media for novice communities in the developing world (2011) (28)
Exploring the potential of audio-tactile messaging for remote interpersonal communication (2009) (28)
Incidental information and mobile search (2007) (24)
The Myth of Convergence (2005) (24)
Talking 'Activity': Young People & Mobile Phones (2001) (24)
Embodiment in brain-computer interaction (2011) (24)
Turning the tables: an interactive surface for vjing (2009) (23)
Taking hold of TV: learning from the literature (2006) (22)
ZZFS: a hybrid device and cloud file system for spontaneous users (2012) (21)
Fieldwork And Ethnography: A Perspective From CSCW (2005) (21)
Paper mail in the home of the 21st century: An analysis of the future of paper mail and implications for the design of electronic alternatives (2002) (20)
Kids will be Kids: The Role of Mobiles in Teenage Life (2005) (20)
Keeping people apart (1993) (20)
Mobile communications: understanding users, adoption, and design (2001) (20)
Fixed in time and "time in motion": mobility of vision through a SenseCam lens (2009) (20)
Not Any Old Numbers: an Examination of Practical Reasoning in an Accountancy Environment (1988) (19)
Reflecting on Oneself and on Others: Multiple Perspectives via SenseCam (2009) (19)
Trafficking: design for the viral exchange of TV content on mobile phones (2007) (19)
The myth of the paperless office mit press (2003) (19)
Nudging towards serendipity: a case with personal digital photos (2011) (18)
The Tyranny of the Everyday in Mobile Video Messaging (2016) (18)
Paper-mail in the Home of the 21st Century (2003) (17)
Resilience in the face of innovation: Household trials with BubbleBoard (2009) (17)
"Real, but Glossy": technology and the practical pursuit of magic in modern weddings (2014) (16)
'Safety in numbers': calculation and document re-use in knowledge work (2001) (16)
Information that Counts: A Sociological View of Information Navigation (2003) (15)
Towards GPU Utilization Prediction for Cloud Deep Learning (2020) (15)
Life through the lens: a qualitative investigation of human behaviour with an urban photography service (2015) (14)
Gatherers of information: the mission process at the international monetary fund (1997) (14)
"We Would Never Write That Down" (2021) (14)
The ‘interrogative gaze’:Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ (2017) (13)
Glancephone: an exploration of human expression (2009) (13)
Dwelling in Software: Aspects of the Felt-Life of Engineers in Large Software Projects (2013) (12)
Celebratory Health Technology (2011) (12)
Video in support of organisational talk (2019) (11)
Domestic design: An introduction to the research issues surrounding the development and design of interactive technologies for the home (2000) (11)
Choice: The Sciences of Reason in the 21st Century: A Critical Assessment (2016) (11)
Why do People Wear Active Badges (1993) (10)
Icon Set Selection via Human Computation (2016) (10)
From tele presence to human absence: the pragmatic construction of the human in communications systems research (2009) (10)
What is a file? (2013) (10)
The social organisation of communication in the home of the twenty-first century: an analysis of the future of paper-mail and implications for the design of electronic alternatives (2003) (10)
Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality:a special issue of pragmatics (2017) (10)
Gift of the Gab (2005) (10)
The Inside Text: Social perspectives on SMS (2005) (9)
Design Research as Conceptual Designing: The Manhattan Design Concept (2016) (8)
Ethnography and How to Do It (2007) (8)
From Smart Home to Connected Home (2012) (8)
Taking as an act of sharing (2012) (8)
The Many Faces of Computational Artifacts (2016) (8)
Analysing work practice and the potential role of new technology at the International Monetary Fund: some remarks on the role of ethnomethodology (2000) (7)
Social NUI: social perspectives in natural user interfaces (2014) (7)
From teenage life to victorian morals and back: Technological change and teenage life (2005) (7)
Designing for Active Place Presence at Home: The Hole in Space Design Experiment (2016) (7)
The Social Organisation of Communication in the Home of the 21st Century (2003) (6)
Horus: An Interference-Aware Resource Manager for Deep Learning Systems (2020) (6)
VideoPlay: Playful and Social Editing of Video using Tangible Objects and Multi-touch Interaction (2007) (6)
Beyond Talk, Beyond Sound: Emotional Expression and the Future of Mobile Connectivity (2006) (6)
Absence and Family Life: Understanding and Supporting Adaption to Change (2012) (6)
From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: a Review Essay (2016) (6)
Better Supporting Workers in ML Workplaces (2019) (6)
A Sense of Body (2011) (5)
Multi-structured Redundancy (2012) (5)
Cloud mouse: a new way to interact with the cloud (2010) (5)
Mobile Phones for the Next Generation (2003) (5)
Sociomateriality and Design (2015) (4)
Optimizing peer review of software code--response. (2013) (4)
The texture of our business (2013) (4)
Containing Family Clutter (2007) (4)
The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology (2019) (4)
Activity Theory, Distributed Cognition, and Actor-Network Theory (2007) (4)
The impact of mobile technologies on everyday life (2001) (3)
Trafficking : Design for the Viral Exchange of Digital Content on Mobile Phones (2006) (3)
Gatherers of Information: Some Remarks on the Mission Process at the International Monetary Fund (1997) (3)
\mathrmCPS^2 : A Contextual Privacy Framework for Social Software (2014) (3)
Toward a New Communications Genre (2005) (3)
Rethinking the "Smart" Home (2006) (3)
Intelligent Artefacts at Home in the 21st Century (2008) (2)
Food for talk: Phototalk and commensality (2012) (2)
A Contextual Privacy Framework for Social Software (2015) (2)
Modelling Digital Habitus: The relationship between the internet and the density and duration of friendship ties (2013) (2)
The Professional Stranger: A collection of papers on the role of the fieldworker in workplace studies for CSCW (1996) (2)
Ethnography, Fieldwork, and Design: Preliminary Remarks (2007) (1)
Trusting oneself:An anthropology of digital things and personal competence (2014) (1)
Getting to grips with information:Using sociological case materials to aid the design of document technologies (1998) (1)
Wittgenstein and Communication Technology – A Conversation between Richard Harper and Constantine Sandis (2018) (1)
Inside Text: an introduction (2005) (1)
Beyond file systems: understanding the nature of places where people store their data (2013) (1)
Ethnography and Its Role in the Design Process - “If You Must Work Together' (2007) (1)
Chapter 9 Beyond Search: A Technology Probe Investigation (2012) (1)
Beyond Search: A Technology Probe Investigation (2012) (1)
Into the Home (2007) (1)
Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality (2019) (1)
Building Bowls for Miscellaneous Media (2006) (1)
The Myth of the 'Martini Solution' (2004) (0)
Organisations and Work (2007) (0)
The Metaphysics of Communications Overload (2010) (0)
Sociological Fact and Discursive Fiction (1994) (0)
Things We've Learnt About Home Life (2019) (0)
Acknowledgement to reviewers (1989) (0)
From I-Awareness to We-Awareness in CSCW: a Review Essay (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Scientific Achievement of the Middle Ages Richard C. Dales (1975) (0)
The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’ (2019) (0)
Celebratory Health Technology for Everyday Life (2011) (0)
"Real, but Glossy" - Technology and the Pursuit of Magic in Modern Weddings (2014) (0)
Selling Social Psychology to the Self-Help Reader (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Not the Last Word (2007) (0)
Common sense and Context (2007) (0)
Exploring cross-cultural pragmatic failure and how to teach cross-cultural pragmatics in the classroom (2013) (0)
Just what you need: Simplifying electronic devices (2005) (0)
HCI in the Wild Mêlée of Office Life - Explorations in Breaching the PC Data Store (2019) (0)
The social organisation of epistemology in macroeconomic policy work: the case of the IMF (2009) (0)
Review of Living in a TechnologicalCulture: Human Tools and Human Values (1999) (0)
Me For You': Lessons About Everyday Video Messaging From Skype Qik (2015) (0)
Inspirations for design (2019) (0)
Things We've Learnt About Search & Web Use (2019) (0)
Book Review: Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values (1999) (0)
Design-oriented Sociology (2003) (0)
Default Thinking : Why consumer products fail (2010) (0)
The computer-mediated living group, Microsoft Research Cambridge (2014) (0)
Inside the Orange-at-home: an ethnography of a smart home (2002) (0)
Being in touch: remarks in honour of Joachim Höflich (2019) (0)
Beyond “yesterday’s tomorrow”: future-focused mobile interaction design by and for emergent users (2016) (0)
Being Mobile: The future of users (2010) (0)
Making the case for an existential perspective on HCI research on death and mortality:Commentary (2016) (0)
Things We've Learnt About Communication (2019) (0)
Domesticating the web (2011) (0)
The importance of place in the mobile age (2006) (0)
The State of Play (2007) (0)
Being Mobile: Location (2010) (0)

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