Dr Dave Cameron
BSc (Sheffield), MSc (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)
Information School
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction


+44 114 222 2644
Full contact details
Information School
Room C228
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Before joining the Information School, I trained and worked as a researcher in psychology at Sheffield. I completed my undergraduate and masters degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology and continued on to complete my PhD, creating a computational model of emotions and their spread across networks. I worked for five years at the Department of Psychology, on a variety of research projects in social, health, and developmental psychology. I started working with Sheffield Robotics in 2014 researching Human-Robot Interaction and developed an interest in people's emotional experiences in their interactions with technology. I joined the Information School as a Lecturer in 2018
University Responsibilities
- Module Coordinator: User Interface Design and Human-Computer Interaction
- Research interests
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My research examines users’ experiences in their interaction with technology, particularly in terms of the user and autonomous systems as two agents in collaborative work towards shared goals.
This work includes exploring children’s understandings of humanoids and social robots, and their beliefs regarding animacy in robots (Expressive Agents Symbiotic Education and Learning project). I also lead the HCI component of the ROBO-GUIDE project. This work includes the designing of a mobile robotic tour guide, understanding users’ responses to robots operating in public spaces, and evaluating users' responses to robots that make errors. I have recently begun evaluating a new graphical language designed to facilitate effective and safe human-robot collaborative working.
My background in psychology includes researching the impact positive emotions can have on health behaviours, online interventions to improve health behaviours. For my PhD, I created a computational model of emotion regulation in a control theory framework, and conducted computer simulations of emotions dissipating through social networks, reflecting real-life spread of emotions.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS® Play with stakeholders for RRI. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, 100055-100055.
- Improving inclusivity in robotics design : an exploration of methods for upstream co-creation. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamic graphical instructions result in improved attitudes and decreased task completion time in human–robot co-working : an experimental manufacturing study. Sustainability, 14(6). View this article in WRRO
- A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution. View this article in WRRO
- The effect of social-cognitive recovery strategies on likability, capability and trust in social robots. Computers in Human Behavior, 114, ---. View this article in WRRO
- Rebooting inclusive education? New technologies and disabled people. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(5), 515-549. View this article in WRRO
- The role of executive functions in socioeconomic attainment gaps : results from a randomized controlled trial. Child Development. View this article in WRRO
- Language-free graphical signage improves human performance and reduces anxiety when working collaboratively with robots. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 100(1-4), 55-73. View this article in WRRO
- The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child-robot interaction in a field study. Connection Science. View this article in WRRO
- A randomized controlled trial of a brief online intervention to reduce alcohol consumption in new university students: Combining self‐affirmation, theory of planned behaviour messages, and implementation intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology, 23(1), 108-127. View this article in WRRO
- Positive affect and physical activity: Testing effects on goal setting, activation, prioritisation, and attainment. Psychology and Health. View this article in WRRO
- The cost-effectiveness of an updated theory-based online health behavior intervention for new university students: U@Uni2. Journal of Public Health & Epidemiology, 8(10), 191-203. View this article in WRRO
- A theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni:LifeGuide): Results from a repeat randomized controlled trial. Trials, 16. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of positive affect on health cognitions and behaviours: a meta-analysis of the experimental evidence. Health Psychology Review, 9(3), 345-365. View this article in WRRO
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Chapters
- An Analysis of Classification Approaches for Hit Song Prediction Using Engineered Metadata Features with Lyrics and Audio Features, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 303-311). Springer Nature Switzerland
- Supporting Museums and Robot Theatre Using Quando - an Event First, Visual Block Toolset, End-User Development (pp. 225-230). Springer International Publishing
- Self-Regulatory Fatigue, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine (pp. 2006-2008). Springer International Publishing
- Self-Regulatory Capacity, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine (pp. 2003-2005). Springer International Publishing
- Self-Monitoring, Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine (pp. 1994-1996). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- LEGO® Serious Play® in HRI research: results of a pilot imagining robotic care. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
- Conducting Information Science research during pandemics: Experience and Reflections of the Information Retrieval Research Group in Sheffield. Information Science Trends - ASIS&T European Chapter Series, 9 June 2021 - 11 June 2021.
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- Integrating FATE/critical data studies into data science curricula : where are we going and how do we get there?. FAT* '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp 425-435). Barcelona, Spain, 27 January 2020 - 27 January 2020.
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- Robots claiming space: Gauging public reaction using computer vision techniques. Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. LNCS, 10965 (pp 468-470), 25 July 2018 - 27 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Intuitive Interfaces in Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 19th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Conference, Vol. LNAI 10965 (pp 462-464), 25 July 2018 - 27 July 2018. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamic Graphical Signage Improves Response Time and Decreases Negative Attitudes towards Robots in Human-Robot Co-working. Human-Friendly Robotics, Vol. 7 (pp 139-149), 6 November 2017 - 7 November 2017. View this article in WRRO
- A ROS-integrated API for the KUKA LBR iiwa collaborative robot. IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 50(1) (pp 15859-15864) View this article in WRRO
- Children's age influences their use of biological and mechanical questions towards a humanoid. Processdings of the 18th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), Vol. 10454 (pp 290-299), 19 July 2017 - 21 July 2017. View this article in WRRO
- You made him be alive: Children’s perceptions of animacy in a humanoid robot. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 10384 (pp 73-85), 25 July 2017 - 28 July 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Safety and Verification for a Mobile Guide Robot. USES
- Assessing Graphical Robot Aids for Interactive Co-working. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (including subseries Advances in Ergonomics of Manufacturing: Managing the Enterprise of the Future), Vol. 490 (pp 229-240), 27 July 2016 - 31 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
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- Don’t Worry, We’ll Get There: Developing Robot Personalities to Maintain User Interaction After Robot Error (pp 409-412) View this article in WRRO
- Designing Robot Personalities for Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction in an Educational Context (pp 413-417) View this article in WRRO
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- Congratulations, It’s a Boy! Bench-Marking Children’s Perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25 (pp 33-39) View this article in WRRO
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- The EASEL Project: Towards Educational Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction (pp 297-306) View this article in WRRO
- Towards a Synthetic Tutor Assistant: The EASEL Project and its Architecture (pp 353-364) View this article in WRRO
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- ROBO-GUIDE: Towards Safe, Reliable, Trustworthy, and Natural Behaviours in Robotic Assistants (pp 149-154) View this article in WRRO
- Floor determination in the operation of a lift by a mobile guide robot. 2015 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2 September 2015 - 4 September 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Help! I Can’t Reach the Buttons: Facilitating Helping Behaviors Towards Robots (pp 354-358) View this article in WRRO
- Children’s Age Influences Their Perceptions of a Humanoid Robot as Being Like a Person or Machine (pp 348-353) View this article in WRRO
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Posters
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- Self-Regulatory Fatigue. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine Springer New York.
- Self-Monitoring. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine Springer New York.
- Self-Regulatory Capacity. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine Springer New York.
- Self-Regulatory Capacity. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine Springer New York.
- Self-Regulatory Fatigue. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine Springer New York.
Preprints
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS® Play with stakeholders for RRI. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, 100055-100055.
- Teaching interests
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My primary area of teaching is Human-Computer Interaction. I use a range of teaching methods to promote student engagement in learning, and aim to connect students' learning with their real-life experiences in HCI.
I have received a number of teaching grants including a £7,000 grant to work collaboratively across the Science and Engineering Faculties leading students in evaluating novel interfaces for mobile robot control.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Journal and conference reviewing
Journal Reviewing:
- International Journal of Social Robotics
- International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- Scientific Reports
- Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Conference Reviewing:
- HRI 2017
- AAATE 2017