Publications
Papers in Refereed Journals
- Huguet, A., Stinson, J., MacKay, B., Watters, C., Tougas, M., White, M., McGrath, PJ., (2014). Bringing Psychological Support to headache sufferers using information and communication technology: Lessons learned from asking potential users what they want. In The Journal of the Canadian Pain Society, January/February 2014, 19(8).
- 2. MacKay, B., Watters, C. (2012). An Examination of Multi-session Tasks. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). 63(6): 1183-1197.
- Reilly, D., MacKay, B., Watters, C., and Inkpen, K. (2009). Planners, Navigators, and Pragmatists: how pairs wayfind using a single mobile phone.
Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: Special Issue on Mobile Spatial Interaction. (doi: 10.1007/s00779-008-0207-2)
- Kellar, M., MacKay, B., Zhang, R., Watters, C., Kaufman, D., and Borwein, J. (2003).
Dynamic Composition of Math Lessons .
Educational Technology & Society (2003), 6 (4): 100-111.
- MacKay, B. & Watters, C.
The Impact of Migration of Data to Small Screens on Navigation , IT&Society. (2003), 1(3): 90-10.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Reilly, D., Edrah, A., Zhou, H., MacKay, B., Swinden, B. (2014). Block Party: an examination of mobile applications support for neighbourhood expeditions, Submitted to MobileHCI 2014.
- Reilly, D., Mathiasen, N., Salimian, M., Edwards, W.K., Franz, J. and MacKay, B. (2014). SecSpace: Prototyping Usable Privacy and Security for Mixed Reality Collaborative Environments. To Appear in the 6th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2014).
- Reilly, D., and MacKay, B. (2013). Annotating Ecology: Looking to Biological Fieldwork for Mobile Spatial Annotation Workflows. In proceedings of 15th International Conference on HCI with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI ’13), Munich, Germany.
- MacKay, B. and Watters, C. (2009). Providing Support for Multi-session Tasks. Submitted to American Society for Information Science and Technology Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 2009. (Notif. Apr. 09)
- MacKay, B. and Watters, C. (2009). Building Support for Multi-session Web Tasks. Accepted to Proc. Of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CH 2009). Boston, MA., April 2009. (Work in Progress)
- Reilly, D., MacKay, B., Watters, C. and Inkpen, K. (2008). Small details: using one device to navigate together. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '08), San Diego, CA, USA, November 2008, 253-255.
- MacKay, B., and Watters, C. (2008). Understanding and Supporting Multi-session Web Tasks. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science and Technology Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 2008.
- MacKay, B., and Watters, C. (2008). Exploring Multi-session Web Tasks. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, Apr. 2008, 1187-1196.
- MacKay, B., Dearman, D., Inkpen, K., and Watters, C. (2005). Walk 'n scroll: a comparison of software-based navigation techniques for different levels of mobility. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services, Salzburg Austria, Sept. 2005, 183 - 190.
- MacKay, B., Kellar, M. and Watters, C. (2005). An Evaluation of Landmarks for Re-finding Information on the Web. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), Portland, Oregon, Apr. 2005, 1609 - 1612.
- Kellar, M., Reilly, D., Hawkey, K., Rodgers, M., MacKay, B., Dearman, D., Ha, V., MacInnes, J., Nunes, M., Parker, K., Whalen, T., and Inkpen, K. (2005). Itís a Jungle out There: Practical Considerations for Evaluation in the City. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005), Portland, Oregon, Apr. 2005, 1533 - 1536.
- MacKay, B., Watters, C., and Duffy, J. (2004). Web Page Transformation when Switching Devices. MobileHCI '04 . Glasgow, Scotland, Sept. 2004: ): In S. Brewster and M. Dunlop (Eds.). Mobile Human-Computer-Interaction ñ MobileHCI 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3160 (pp. 228-239), Berlin: Springer.
- Hawkey, K., Kellar, M., MacKay, B., Paker, K., Reilly, D. (2004).
From Cookies to Puppies to Athletes: Designing a Visual Audience Voting System. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004) (Student Competition), Vienna, Austria (Apr. 2004), 1641 - 1645.
- Watters, C. & MacKay, B. (2004).
Transformation Volatility and the Gateway Model for Web Page Migration to Small Screen Devices . In Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Big Island, Hawaii, Jan. 2004, 97 - 107.
- MacKay, B. (2003).
The Gateway: A Navigation Technique for Migrating to Small Screens.
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003) Doctorial Consortium Session), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Apr. 2003, 684-685.
- Kellar, M., MacKay, B., Zhang, R., Watters, C., Kaufmann, D., and Borwein, L. (2003).
Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Math Lesson Plans . In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Melbourne, Florida, March 2003, 569-574.
Book Chapter (Refereed)
- Reilly, D., MacKay, B., and Inkpen, K. (2008). How mobile maps cooperate with existing navigational infrastructure.
Book chapter in Mobile Map-based Services: Interactivity and Usability. Meng, L., Zipf, A., Winter, S. (Eds.)
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer-Verlag, Feb. 2008: 267-292.
Refereed Papers/Posters and Workshop Papers Presented at Conferences
- Salimian, M., Reilly, D., Brooks, S., MacKay, B. (2014). Bridging physical and virtual privacy mechanisms during mixed-presence collaboration implications for inconspicuous privacy. Accepted to Workshop on Inconspicuous Interaction, CHI 2014
- Yeloglu, O., Mosquera, G., MacKay, B., Hawkey, K. (2012). To Pin or to Tweet: Investigating the Impact of User Characteristics on the Adoption of Social Computing Applications. Accepted to Grace Hopper Conference, Baltimore Maryland, October 2012. (Poster)
- MacKay, B., Watters, C., Hawkey, K. (2011). Using Mobile Devices to improve Work Efficiency on the Factory Floor. Workshop at the ACM Conference on Mobile HCI. Sweden, Stockholm, August 2011.
- Huguet, A., Stinson, J., McGrath, P., MacKay, B., Watters, C., Tougas, M., MacLean, C., Miró, J. (2011). The initial steps for the development of a smartphone-based headache diary for youth and young adults. Canadian Pain Society Conference. Niagara Falls, April 2011. (Poster)
- McGrath, P., Huguet, A., MacKay, B., Tougas, M., Stinson, J., Watters, C., MacLean, C., Miró, J., Wheaton, M., Howse, J. (2011). Development of a computer and smartphone-based headache diary. International Forum on Health Care and Information Communication Technology, Barcelona Spain, March 2011. (Poster)
- MacKay, B., Watters, C. (2009). Helping Users Make and Keep Sense of Multi-session Web Tasks. Sensemaking Workshop at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2009), Boston, Massachusetts, April 2009.
- MacKay, B., and Watters, C. (2007). An Examination of Multi-Session Web Tasks. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oct. 2007. (Poster)
- MacKay, B., and Watters, C. (2006). Exploring Multiple Browser Session Behavior. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, Nov. 2006. (Poster)
- MacKay, B., Watters, C. and Duffy, J. (2004). Approaches to Migration of Information for Use on Small Screens. In Proceedings of American Society for Information Science and Technology, Providence, Rhode Island, Nov. 2004. (Poster)
Non-refereed Contributions:
- Chung, H., Dearman, D., Ha, V., Hawkey, K., Inkpen, K., Kellar, M., MacKay, B., Nunes, M., Parker, K., Reilly, D., Rodgers, M., and Whalen, T. (2004). Shared Annotations for Collaboration on Handheld Computers. In Proceedings of Dalhousie Computer Science In-house Conference, Halifax, N.S., Sept. 2004.
- MacKay, B. (2003). Displaying Web Pages on Small Screen Devices. Invited Talk for the NRC Colloquium Series, National Research Council (NRC), Fredericton, N.B., Nov. 2003.
- MacKay, B. (2003). Web Page Displays on Small Screens. Symposium on Intelligent Interfaces and Machine Learning, Dalhousie University, Halifax N.S., June 2003.
Juried/Curated Art Installations and Competitions
Reilly, D., Tawakol, M., Mahajan, S., Alnusayri, M., Hawkey, K., MacKay, B., Patel, J., Sampangi, R., Michels, S. et al. (2013) Operation:Citadel (curated exhibit). Nocturne:Art at Night festival, Halifax NS.
Technical Reports
- Dearman, D., MacKay, B., Inkpen, K., and Watters, C. (2005). Touch-n-Go: Supporting Screen Navigation on Handheld Computers. Technical Report,
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (CS-2005-08)
- Kellar, M., Inkpen, K., Dearman, D., Hawkey, K., Ha, V., MacInnes, J., MacKay, B., Nunes, N., Parker, K., Reilly, D., Rodgers, M., and Whalen, T. (2004). Evaluation of Mobile Collaboration: Learning from our Mistakes.
Technical Report, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (CS-2004-13)