Publications

Journal Papers

1. Brown, J. N. A., J. Oliveira, S. Bakker. (2015) “I Am Calm”: Towards a Psychoneurological Evaluation of ABC Ringtones. In Bakker, Hausen, van den Hoven and Selker (Eds) Special issue of IXD&A Journal on Designing for Peripheral Interaction: Seamlessly Integrating Interactive Technology in Everyday Life.

2. Brown, J. N. A. (2015) “Once More, With Feeling”: Using Haptics to Preserve Tactile Memories. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 31(1), 65-71.

3. Leitner, G., M. Hitz, A. J. Fercher and John N. A. Brown. (2013). Aspekte der Human Computer Interaction im Smart Home. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 50(6), 37-47.

4. Brown, J. N. A., W.J. Albert, & J. Croll (2007). A New Input Device: Comparison to Three Commercially Available Mouses. Ergonomics, 50(2), 208-227.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

1. Esterle, L., & Brown, J.N.A. (2020). I Think Therefore You Are: Models for Interaction in Collectives of Self-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 4(4), [39] 1-25.

2. Brown, J.N.A. and Esterle, L. (2020). I’m Already Optimal: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Sociogenesis, and Self-Integration. International Workshop on Self-Improving Systems Integration. IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C).

3. Esterle, L. and Brown, J. N. A. (2020). The Competence Awareness Window: Knowing What I Can and Cannot Do. International Workshop on Self-Improving Systems Integration. IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems Companion (ACSOS-C).

4. Brown, J.N.A. and Esterle, L. (2019). The Computer’s Conception of the World: Using the Psychology of Piaget and Vygotsky to Prevent Sociopathy in AIs. Workshop on Self-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems (SelPhyS 2019).

5. Barnes, C. M., Esterle, L., & Brown, J.N.A. (2019). "When You Believe in Things that You Don't Understand": the Effect of Cross-Generational Habits on Self-Improving System Integration. In 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* W) (pp. 28-31). IEEE.

6. Esterle, L., and Brown, J.N.A. (2018) Levels of Networked Self-Awareness. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASOW 2018).

7. Brown, J. N. A., G. Leitner, M. Hitz and A. Català Mallofré. (2014, April). A Model of Calm HCI. In S Bakker, D Hausen, T Selker, E van den Hoven, A Butz, B Eggen (Editors) Peripheral Interaction: Shaping the Research and Design Space. Workshop at CHI2014, Toronto, Canada. ISSN: 1862-5207.

8. Brown, J. N. A., P. S. Bayerl, A. Fercher, G. Leitner, A. Català Mallofré, and M. Hitz. (2014, April). A Measure of Calm. In S Bakker, D Hausen, T Selker, E van den Hoven, A Butz, B Eggen (Editors) Peripheral Interaction: Shaping the Research and Design Space. Workshop at CHI2014, Toronto, Canada. ISSN: 1862-5207.

9. Brown, J.N.A., B. Kaufmann, F. J. Huber, K.-H. Pirolt,& M. Hitz. “… Language in Their Very Gesture” First Steps towards Calm Smart Home Input. In Holzinger and Pasi (Eds) “Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data” (pp. 256-264). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

10. Brown, J.N.A., B. Kaufmann, F. Bacher, C. Sourisse, & M. Hitz (2013). "Oh, I Say, Jeeves!” A Calm Approach to Smart Home Input. In Holzinger and Pasi (Eds) Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data (pp. 265-274). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

11. Brown, J.N.A., Kaufmann, B., Huber, F.J., Pirolt, K.-H., and Hitz, M. (2013). “…Language in Their Very Gesture:” First Steps towards Calm Smart Home Input. In Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data, pp. 256-264. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

12. Brown, J.N.A., Kaufmann, B., Bacher, F., Sourisse, C., and Hitz, M. (2013). "Oh, I Say, Jeeves!” A Calm Approach to Smart Home Input. In Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data, pp. 265-274. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

13. B. Kaufmann, P. Kozeny, S. Schaller, J. N. A. Brown, M. Hitz. (2012). May Cause Dizziness: Applying the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire to Handheld Projector Interaction. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, pp. 257-261. British Computer Society.

14. Brown, J. N. A. (2012). Expert Talk for Time Machine Session: Designing Calm Technology “… as Refreshing as Taking a Walk in the Woods” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, vol. 1, pp. 423.

15. Brown, J. N. A., Wrigley, A., Sutherland, C. and Albert W. J. (2003). “Calculating Strain in Repetitive Lifting” AUTO21 National Conference on the Future of the Automobile, Windsor, Canada.

16. Brown, J. N. A., Wrigley, A., Sutherland, C. and Albert W. J. (2003). "The Constraints of Using an Optoelectric System in Multimodal Analysis" Atlantic Provinces Exercise Scientists Conference.

17. Wrigley, A., Sutherland, C, Albert, W.J., and Brown, J.N.A.. (2003). "Biomechanical Comparison of Dynamic and Static Motion Analysis: A Case Study" Atlantic Provinces Exercise Scientists Conference.

18. Brown, J. N. A., Wrigley, A. and Albert W. J. (2003). "A 3D Occupational Upper Body Model: Considerations For Manual Material Handling Tasks" 5th Annual Association of Canadian Ergonomists – Atlantic Region Conference.

19. Sutherland, C. Albert, W.J. and Brown, J.N.A. (2003). "Comparison of 3D Human Motion Analysis: Techniques in Occupational Biomechanics" Wrigley, 5th Annual Association of Canadian Ergonomists – Atlantic Region Conference.

20. Brown, J.N.A. (2003). "That’s Gotta Hurt!! Using Motion Capture in Video Games" Skating Into the Future: 1st Annual National Hockey Conference.

21. Brown, John NA (2003). “The Use of Motion Capture in Workplace Ergonomics.” The Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS) National Conference, Ottawa, Canada.

22. Brown, John NA and Albert, W. J. (2003). "Computer Use CAN Be Comfortable.” The Association of Canadian Ergonomists Annual Conference, Banff, Canada.

23. Brown, John NA and Albert, W. J. (2002). “A Human-Centered Approach to Computer Mouse Design” Joint Conference of The Institute of Industrial Engineers (Applied Ergonomics) & The Association of Canadian Ergonomists.

24. Brown, J.N.A. and Albert, W.J. (2002). "Towards an Ergonomic Replacement for the Computer Mouse" 4th Annual Association of Canadian Ergonomists – Atlantic Region Conference.

Books

1. Rabitsch, S., Gabriel, M., Elmenreich, W., Brown, J.N.A., Eds (2018). Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching. Springer, Cham.

2. Brown, J. N.A., Fercher, A. J., & Leitner, G. (2017). Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home-Hunting the SNARK. Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, 1-78.

3. Brown, J.N.A. (2016) Anthropology-Based Computing: Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction, Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series, XXVII, 243.

Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries

1. Brown, J.N.A. (2020) Save Gamer. In Bektic, et al., (Eds) Mixed Reality and Games: Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Game Studies and Education (pp. 209-236).

2. Brown, J.N.A. (2018) "With A Wondrous Leap of the Imagination": Star Trek as Beacon and Compass, Introduction to Rabitsch et al. (Eds) Set Phasers to Teach! Star Trek in Research and Teaching (pp. ix-xiv). Springer, Cham.

3. Lux, M. and Brown, J.N.A. (2018) Playing Captain Kirk: Designing a Video Game Based on Star Trek, in Rabitsch et al. (Eds) Set Phasers to Teach! (pp. 125-135) Springer. Cham.

4. Leitner, G. and Brown, J.N.A. (2018) The Computer of the Twenty-Third Century: Real-World HCI Based on Star Trek, in Rabitsch et al. (Eds) Set Phasers to Teach! (pp. 51-61) Springer. Cham.

5. Brown, J.N.A. (2018) “Logic is the beginning of wisdom … not the end”: Using Star Trek to Teach Scientific Thinking, in Set Phasers to Teach! (pp. 161-172) Springer. Cham.

6. Brown, J.N.A. (2016) "...Unseen, Yet Crescive..." The Unrecognised History of Peripheral Interaction. In Bakker, Hausen, and Selker (Eds) “Peripheral Interaction: Challenges and opportunities for HCI in the periphery of attention” Springer.

7. Brown, J.N.A. (2015) Making Sense of the Noise: an ABC Approach to Big Data and Security. In Akhgar, et al. (Eds) “Application of Big Data for National Security, 1st Edition. A Practitioner’s Guide to Emerging Technologies”.

8. Brown, J. N. A., (2015). Non-Intentional Design, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

9. Brown, J. N. A.(2015), The Von Restorff Effect, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

10. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Safety Design, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

11. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Health and Safety Design, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

12. Brown, J. N. A.(2015), Expectation Effect, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

13. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Operant Conditioning, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

14. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Ethnographic Methods, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

15. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Hazard Analysis, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

16. Brown, J. N. A. (2015), Animation, in C Edwards, (Editor), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

17. Brown, J. N. A., Animation and Comic Strips, in Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society Ed. SJ Greenwald and JE Thomley, Hackensack, NJ, Salem Press pp 49-51, 218-219, 582-584, 2011.

18. Brown, J. N. A. CGI, in Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society Ed. SJ Greenwald and JE Thomley, Hackensack, NJ, Salem Press pp 49-51, 218-219, 582-584, 2011.

19. Brown, J. N. A. Martial Arts, in Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society Ed. SJ Greenwald and JE Thomley, Hackensack, NJ, Salem Press pp 49-51, 218-219, 582-584, 2011.

Keynotes and Plenary Lectures

1. Brown, John N. A. "Save Gamer" Keynote Address at the Future and Reality of Games conference (FROG), during the “Vienna, City of Games” event in Vienna, Austria, October 2019.

2. Brown, John N. A. “‘Bigger On the Inside:’ A Timey-Wimey Talk About How & Why Our Brains Enjoy Doctor Who” Keynote lecture at the Portugal Timelord Academy conference hosted by the Faculty of Science, at the Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon), 2014.

3. Brown, John N. A., “Introducing Anthropology-Based Computing.” Keynote Address to the International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN), Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, June, 2013.

4. Brown, John N. A., “Designing Calm Technology “…as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods.” Time Machine Plenary Session Lecture at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2012.

5. Brown, John N. A., “Calm Down or Calm Up: How Should We Measure Calm Technology?” Keynote lecture at IEEE Region 8 Anniversary Member Event, hosted at the Malta Council for Science and Technology, Kalkara, Malta, October, 2012.

6. Brown, John N. A.,"A Lying Cheating, Egomaniac: Why Your Brain Doesn't Want You to Build a Better Website" Plenary presentation at UXCamp 2010, the first Canadian conference on UX, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 2010.

Invited Talks, Panels, and Guest Lectures (Not Peer-reviewed)

1. Roundtable discussion: “Star Trek as Interdisciplinary Practice; or How To Put the ‘A’ and an Additional ‘M’ in STE(A)M(M),” hosted at the Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture international conference, organised by the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies, November 16th, 2021.

2. Brown, John N. A. "Anxiety and Grief in the Spring of 2020" A series of 8 on-line lectures and discussions to help staff cope with the pandemic, presented at the request of the CEO of Evolv AI, San Francisco, April, 2020.

3. Brown, John N. A. “With A Wondrous Leap of the Imagination”: Star Trek as Beacon and Compass for Discovery" at Destination Star Trek Birmingham, October, 2019.

4. Rabitsch, Steve, Horáková, Erin K., and Brown, John N. A. "Set Phasers To Teach" panel discussion at Destination Star Trek Birmingham, October, 2019.

5. Esterle, Lukas and Brown, John N. A. "Building the Empathy Chip: A Guide to Our Cutting-Edge Work, Teaching Empathy to AIs" at Destination Star Trek Birmingham, October, 2019.

6. Rabitsch, Steve, Mittermeier, Sabrina, and Brown, John N. A. "Set Phasers To Teach" panel discussion in the “Teaching with Trek” lecture series at Star Trek Las Vegas, August, 201

7. Brown, John N. A. “My Ignorance Is Just As Good As Your Knowledge”: The intersection between Moore’s Law and the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Invited seminar at the Aston Lab for Intelligent Collectives Engineering (ALICE) at Aston University in Birmingham, England, 26 March, 2019.

8. Brown, John N. A. “Fun Isn’t Easy”: A few insights into making a game people will enjoy, Invited lecture at the opening of the 2nd Winter Game Jam, in Klagenfurt, Austria, December 14, 2018.

9. Brown, John N. A., "Not TV As We Know It”: Star Trek Had To Fit In Before It Could Break New Ground" Presentation on James Forsher’s panel: “Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek and the Integration of American Television,” at the Broadcast Education Association’s conference (BEA) in Las Vegas, April 24, 2017.

8. Brown, John N. A., “'Success is a Lousy Teacher': The Dangerous Seductions of Self-Deception in Management" Guest lecture in Professor P.S. Bayerl’s graduate course in Cross-Cultural Management (RSMME062), for the Faculty of Management at Erasmus University, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2015.

9. Brown, John N. A. “‘Big Data is Too Big:’ False Assumptions Involved in Collection, Processing and Application” Invited lecture at the COPELABS Technical Retreat, X-Factory, Lisbon, 2014.

10. Brown, John N. A. “Anthropology-Based Computing: Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction” Invited lecture in the C-BRAIN Lecture series, Universidade Lusòfona, Lisbon, 2014.

11. Brown, John N. A. “My Computer Is So @!!# Stupid” - Recruitment lecture on behalf of the Faculty of Engineering of the Alpen-Adria Universitat Klagenfurt, offered to secondary school students at “Info-Tag der HTL-Lastenstraße” (Open House Day for Secondary School Students) 2013.

12. Brown, John N. A. “My Computer is So @!!# Stupid” - Recruitment lecture on behalf of the Faculty of Engineering of the Alpen-Adria Universitat Klagenfurt, offered to students from technical universities on “Tag der offenen Tür” (The Day of Open Doors for students from technical schools) 2013.

13. Brown, John N. A., “It’s as Easy as A.B.C.” Invited talk at Martha Larsen’s Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab, Delft University of Technology. Delft, Netherlands, July 11 2013.

14. Freitag, Daniela, Karmasin, Mathias, Pechriggl, Alice, and Brown, John N. A. "Karriere(n)" in der Wissenschaft? (Careers in Research?)” Podium discussion at “Tagung der Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler (Day for Young Scientists)” - a plenary session panel to discuss career paths at the end of a day of presentations for and by graduands and recent graduates of the doctoral programmes at Alpen-Adria Universität-Klagenfurt, 30 September, 2013.

15. Bown, John N. A. “Keep Calm OR Carry On: Building Human-Centred Machines or Machine-Centred Humans” Closing lecture of the 2012 Telefonica Digital Inspirations Lecture Series, Barcelona, Spain 2012.

16. Brown, John N. A., “Be Calm and Carry On: Calm Technology as a Means of Mitigating Accidents and Errors.” Australia’s Information Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence (NICTA), Sydney, Australia, July, 2012.

17. Brown, John N. A. “John NA Brown on Calm Technology” Invited talk at Dian Tjondronegoro’s Mobile Innovation Lab at the Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, 2012.

18. Brown, John N. A., “Cross-Generational Habit” Pecha Kucha presentation at Vienna Design Week, Vienna, Austria, November, 2011.

19. Brown, John N. A., "Werewolves, Giant Robots and Little Lost Children: Transformation IS Scary", invited presentation at the Vice-President's Retreat, People Branch, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Ottawa, 2010.

20. Brown, John N. A., "For Whom Do You Design?" Brown: Guest Lecture to Professor Lina Bonapace’s second year undergraduate class in Industrial Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2010.

21. Brown:John N. A., "interDISTRaction: The VERY DANGEROUS TRUTH about multitasking" Presented at the third Pecha Kucha Night, Arts Court, Ottawa, 2010.

22. Brown:John N. A., "For Whom Do You Design?" Guest Lecture to second year undergraduate class in Industrial Design, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2010.

23. Brown:John N. A., "Creatures of Cross-Generational Habit" Presented at the first Ottawa Pecha Kucha Night, Arts Court, Ottawa, 2010.

24. Brown:John N. A., "Introduction to Human Factors in Civil Aviation" Presented as part of the Delegated Officers Official Training Program for Transport Canada, Civil Aviation, 2009 (Q&A in French and English).

25. Brown:John N. A., "Good Grief! Storytelling in Still and Moving Pictures" Presented to the National Research Council of Canada, 2004.

26. Brown, John N. A., "My Computer is SO Demanding: Rethinking the Physical Requirements of Human Computer Interaction" Presented to the National Research Council of Canada, 2003.

27. Brown, John N. A., "An Historic and Linguistic Examination of the French Language in Canada" Public Lecture at the School of Graduate Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 1986.