Cameron Steer

My key areas are Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX), and Physical Computing. I am particularly interested in projects that seek to understand and/or create novel interaction techniques using tangible user interfaces (TUIs), shape-changing technologies and non-ridged surfaces. I am curious about their potential applications to enhance digital art and design tools and/or game controllers.

My PhD thesis focused on enhancing digital art and design technology with new tangible augmentations such as mobiles that feel like paint or module screens for colour exploration.

news

Sep 18, 2023	New role as Lecturer at the University of West England (UWE)
Apr 19, 2023	Feel the Force, See the Force publiched at CHI 2023
Jun 21, 2021	New role as Research Associate at the University of Bath on ERC FORCE-UI
Mar 18, 2021	Started Research Assistant position at Swansea University working for the Cherish Digital Economy Centre
Jun 30, 2020	Graduated with a PhD from Swansea University 🎓 (Minus the ceremony due to COVID-19)

selected publications

Feel the Force, See the Force: Exploring Visual-tactile Associations of Deformable Surfaces with Colours and Shapes

Steer, Cameron, Dinca, Teodora, Jicol, Crescent, Proulx, Michael J, and Alexander, Jason

In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023

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Deformable interfaces provide unique interaction potential for force input, for example, when users physically push into a soft display surface. However, there remains limited understanding of which visual-tactile design elements signify the presence and stiffness of such deformable force-input components. In this paper, we explore how people correspond surface stiffness to colours, graphical shapes, and physical shapes. We conducted a cross-modal correspondence (CC) study, where 30 participants associated different surface stiffnesses with colours and shapes. Our findings evidence the CCs between stiffness levels for a subset of the 2D/3D shapes and colours used in the study. We distil our findings in three design recommendations: (1) lighter colours should be used to indicate soft surfaces, and darker colours should indicate stiff surfaces; (2) rounded shapes should be used to indicate soft surfaces, while less-curved shapes should be used to indicate stiffer surfaces, and; (3) longer 2D drop-shadows should be used to indicate softer surfaces, while shorter drop-shadows should be used to indicate stiffer surfaces.
PickCells: A Physically Reconfigurable Cell-composed Touchscreen

Goguey, Alix, Steer, Cameron, Lucero, Andrés, Nigay, Laurence, Sahoo, Deepak, Coutrix, Céline, Roudaut, Anne, Subramanian, Sriram, Tokuda, Yutaka, Neate, Timothy, Pearson, Jennifer, Robinson, Simon, and Jones, Matt

In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings 2019
A Liquid Tangible Display for Mobile Colour Mixing

Steer, Cameron, Robinson, Simon, Pearson, Jen, Sahoo, Deepak, Mabbett, Ian, and Jones, Matt

In To appear in the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2018