Rose Johnson

Please note: I am part-time so am not on site everyday. I am usually at UCL on Wednesdays and Thursdays 7am - 4pm.
I am interested in how people and technology interact in the everyday world. In particular how technology can be applied to new and unexplored domains, such as music learning, political engagement or bringing communities together. My preferred methodological approach is to discover through the process of design, by prototyping systems and then seeing how they are used in the real-world through in-the-wild user studies.
I am a part-time post-doc at UCL. I am working on a project called CodeMe with Venus Shum and Nic Marquardt. This is a toolkit for teaching people of all ages about programming and electronics. We want to find out how best to design the toolkit and accompanying tutorials to promote engagement and inspire people to use the toolkit creatively.
I am also working on a project called Physikit with Connie Golsteijn, Sarah Gallacher, Steven Houben and Saskia Bakker. This is a toolkit to explore how data can be represented physically. We plan to build several modules that grow and move in different ways depending on the data that is sent to them. We will then use them in workshops with the public to enable them to experience data in a different way. This research is part of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute.
Brief biography
I passed my PhD in October 2014. My PhD explores how to use real-time feedback to help violinists learn key aspects of technique such as posture and bowing. To investigate this I designed and built a series of prototypes which sense the movement/posture of players using inertial motion sensors and give feedback either using vibrators positioned on the body or through a visual display. Each of these prototypes was tested in a different setting eventually concluding with a study with members of a high school orchestra who used the prototypes both at in school practices and at home. In every evaluation I aim to study the prototypes in real-world settings with participants who are violin players working on relevant tasks so that people are using the feedback under realistic levels of cognitive and perceptual load and have genuine motivation to learn and improve. From the findings of these user studies I am building a framework for designing real-time multimodal feedback.
I have a masters in theoretical physics from Swansea University in which I won the P.M. Davidson prize for best theoretical project. I then moved to the Open University in 2009 to study for my PhD with Janet van der Linden and Yvonne Rogers. I transferred to UCL after two years.
In 2010 I was an intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge for three months under Kenton O'Hara and Abigail Sellen. Together we carried out an ethnographic study of interventional radiology to understand the potential for touchless interaction in this kind of medical setting. We published our findings at CHI 2012.
Research Publications
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Temitayo Olugbade, Joseph Newbold, Rose Johnson, E Volta, P Alborno, R Niewiadomski, M Dillon, G Volpe, Nadia Berthouze | Automatic Detection of Reflective Thinking in Mathematical Problem Solving based on Unconstrained Bodily Exploration | 2020 | IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Journal article |
Temitayo Olugbade, Joseph Newbold, Rose Johnson, E Volta, P Alborno, G Volpe, Nadia Berthouze | Bodily cues of children’s learning-related experiences during mathematics problem solving | 2018 | Conference abstract/presentation slides |
Yvonne Rogers, Venus Shum, Nicolai Marquardt, ZD Lechelt, Rose Johnson, H Baker, M Davies | From the BBC micro to micro: bit and beyond: a British innovation | 2017 | Journal article |
Yvonne Rogers, Venus Shum, Nicolai Marquardt, Susan Lechelt, Rose Johnson, H Baker, M Davies | From the BBC Micro to micro: Bit and beyond: A British innovation | 2017 | Interactions, Journal article |
Rose Johnson, Venus Shum, Yvonne Rogers, Nicolai Marquardt | Make or Shake: An Empirical Study of the Value of Making in Learning about Computing Technology | 2016 | Conference paper (text) |
Steven Houben, Connie Golsteijn, Sarah Gallacher, Rose Johnson, Saskia Bakker, Nicolai Marquardt, L Capra, Yvonne Rogers | Physikit: Data Engagement Through Physical Ambient Visualizations in the Home | 2016 | Conference paper (text) |
Rose Johnson, N Bianchi-Berthouze, Yvonne Rogers, der Linden J van | Embracing Calibration in Body Sensing: Using Self-Tweaking To Enhance Ownership and Performance | 2013 | Conference paper (text) |
Rose Johnson | Using technology to reveal the politics of the built environment | 2013 | UbiComp 2013 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Journal article |
Rose Johnson, Yvonne Rogers, der Linden J van, N Bianchi-Berthouze | Being in the thick of in-the-wild studies: the challenges and insights or researcher participation. | 2012 | Conference paper (text) |
Rose Johnson, Yvonne Rogers, der Linden J van, N Bianchi-Berthouze | Being in the thick of in-the-wild studies: The challenges and insights of researcher participation | 2012 | Conference paper (text) |
Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox, Rose Johnson, Yvonne Rogers | Embedding the CHI Student Design Competition into Project-Based Learning | 2012 | Conference paper (text), CHI 2012 Workshop: A Contextualised Curriculum for HCI |
der Lindon J van, Rose Johnson, Jon Bird, Yvonne Rogers, E Schoonderwaldt | Buzzing to Play: Lessons learned from an in the wild study of real-time vibrotactile feedback. | 2011 | Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., Conference paper (text), ACM CHI 2011 |
der Linden J van, Rose Johnson, Jon Bird, Yvonne Rogers, E Schoonderwaldt | Buzzing to Play: Lessons learned from an in the wild study of real-time vibrotactile feedback. | 2011 | Conference paper (text) |
Rose Johnson, K O'Hara, Abigail Sellen, C Cousins, C Criminisi | Exploring the Potential for Touchless Interaction in Image-Guided Interventional Radiology. | 2011 | Conference paper (text) |
der Linden J van, E Schoonderwaldt, Jon Bird, Rose Johnson | MusicJacket - combining motion capture and vibrotactile feedback to teach violin bowing. | 2011 | IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Journal article |
Rose Johnson, JVD Linden, Yvonne Rogers | Real-time feedback for learning the violin. | 2011 | Conference paper (text) |
Rose Johnson, der Linden J van, Yvonne Rogers | MusicJacket: The efficacy of real-time vibrotactile feedback for learning to play the violin. | 2010 | Extended Abstracts of CHI 2010 (Work in Progress paper)., Journal article |
Rose Johnson, der Linden J van, Yvonne Rogers | To buzz or not to buzz: Improving awareness of posture through vibrotactile feedback. | 2010 | Whole Body Interaction Workshop at CHI 2010., Journal article |
Rose Johnson | In Touch with the Wild: Exploring Real-time for Learning to Play the Violin | 1900 | Thesis / Dissertation |
Sarah Gallacher, Connie Golsteijn, V Kalnikaite, Steven Houben, Rose Johnson, Danny Harrison, Nicolai Marquardt | SenCity 2: Visualizing the Hidden Pulse of a City | 1900 | Poster |