Portrait of Siân Lindley

Siân Lindley

Senior Principal Research Manager

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Invited Talks and Panels

  • Lindley, S. Actions and their consequences: Implicit interactions with machine learned knowledge bases. Open University ‘Maven of the Month’ series. 23rd June 2022. Online.
  • Lindley, S. Building enduring value: Temporal models and experiences of Timecard (keynote). 3rd International Conference on Time Perspective. Copenhagen, Denmark, 16th September 2016.
  • Lindley, S. Rethinking ownership in the digital age. TEDxEastEnd 2015. The Oval, Bethnal Green, 24th January 2015.
  • Lindley, S. Data and its street life (keynote). Producing Data: Practices, materialities, values ¦ An interdisciplinary workshop. University of Edinburgh, 3th September 2014.
  • Lindley, S. The timeline as a framework for meaning making (keynote). Temporal Design: An interdisciplinary workshop. University of Edinburgh, 28th May 2014.
  • Lindley, S. The timeline as a framework for meaning making. Time and Design Research Symposium. Royal College of Art, 19th March 2014.
  • Lindley, S. Representing family (keynote). See Talk Think Family. Manchester Metropolitan University, 20th February 2014.
  • Lindley, S., Regan, T. and Saunders, J. Taking data to the street (panel). Computers, Privacy and Data Protection 2014. Brussels, 23rd January 2014.
  • Panelist on ‘Science and Tech’ at the BBC’s 100 Women Conference, hosted by Lucy Hockings and shown on the BBC World Service. BBC Studios, London, 31st October 2013.

Selected Events

  • Lead organiser of the Microsoft Research Summit workshop on Metaphors in Human-AI interaction. URL: http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/event/metaphors-for-human-ai-interaction-workshop/
  • Co-organiser of the CHI 2022 Workshop on ‘Engaging with Automation: Understanding and Designing for Operation, Appropriation, and Behaviour Change’. Ref: Baldauf, M. et al. (2022). Engaging with Automation: Understanding and Designing for Operation, Appropriation, and Behaviour Change. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’22), Article 73. New York: ACM Press.
  • Lead organiser of the CHI 2019 workshop on ‘The Future of Work’. Ref: Lindley, S., Raval, N., Alavi, H.S., Lindtner, S. and Wang, D. (2019). The Future of Work. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’19), Paper W28. New York: ACM Press.
  • Organiser of ‘CHI Lites Montréal’ and co-organiser of ‘CHI Lites Glasgow’, a series of bite-sized talks exploring the future of life with technology that was open to the public.
  • Co-organiser of the DIS 2018 workshop on ‘Time, Temporality, and Slowness: Future Directions for Design Research’. Ref: Odom, W., Lindley, S., Pschetz, L., Tsaknaki, V., Vallgårda, A., Wiberg, M. and Yoo, Y. (2018). Time, Temporality, and Slowness: Future Directions for Design Research. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’18 Companion), 383–386. New York: ACM Press.
  • Lead organiser of the CHI 2013 workshop on ‘Changing perspectives of time in HCI’. Ref: Lindley, S., Corish, R., Kosmack Vaara, E., Ferreira, P. and Simbelis, V. (2013). Changing perspectives of time in HCI. In CHI ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’13), 3211–3214. New York: ACM Press.

Patents

  • Douglas Lane Milvaney, Benjamin Gustav Wilde, Abigail Jane Sellen, Nina Rhodes Williams, Sian Elizabeth Lindley, Kelsey Ann Vaughn, Paul Anthony Scudieri. “Document status management system”. US Patent Application no. 11,244,284, filed May 31, 2018. Granted February 8, 2022.
  • Siân Elizabeth Lindley, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Samuel Gavin Smyth, Richard Malcolm Banks, Darren Keith Edge, Advait Sarkar, Olivia Evelyn Mary Fletcher Vane, Michael William Armstrong, Ewa Luger. “Managing electronic slide decks”. US Patent Application no. 11,372,873, filed June 30, 2017. Granted June 28, 2022.
  • Samuel Gavin Smyth, Richard Malcolm Banks, Siân Elizabeth Lindley, Michael William Armstrong. “Managing electronic slide decks”. US Patent Application no. 10,698,917, filed June 30, 2017. Granted June 30, 2020.
  • Samuel Gavin Smyth, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Siân Elizabeth Lindley, Richard Malcolm Banks, Darren Keith Edge, Advait Sarkar, Olivia Evelyn Mary Fletcher Vane, Michael William Armstrong, Ewa Luger. “Managing electronic documents”. US Patent Application no. 10,845,945, filed June 30, 2017. Granted June November 24, 2020.
  • Siân Elizabeth Lindley, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Samuel Gavin Smyth, Richard Malcolm Banks, Darren Keith Edge, Advait Sarkar, Olivia Evelyn Mary FLETCHER VANE, Michael William Armstrong, Ewa Luger. “Managing electronic documents”. US Patent Application no. 10,656,814, filed June 30, 2017. Granted May 19, 2020.
  • Yibing Zhu, Theresa Estrada, Derik B Stenerson, II Keith Fournier, Victor Poznanski, Sian Lindley. “Fidelity management and transformation of notecard items”. US Patent Application no. 10,606,467, filed March 23, 2018. Granted March 31, 2020.
  • II Keith Fournier, Derik B Stenerson, Yibing Zhu, Victor Poznanski, Theresa Estrada, Sian Lindley. “Creation of notecard items and association with digital documents”. US Patent Application no. 10,402,487, filed March 23, 2018. Granted September 3, 2019.
  • Golembewski, M., Lindley, S., Smyth, G., Corish, B., Luger, E. and Kustikova, M. “Content Item State Retrieval System”. US Patent Application no. 15/399,709, filed 1 May 2017. Granted July 5, 2018.
  • Monroy-Hernández, A., Jentz, H.H., Regan, T., Edelman Pelton, A.M., Rodenhouse, J.L., Lahav, M. and Lindley, S.E. “Tangibilization of geocoded data”. US Patent Application no. 14/152,983, filed 1 September 2014. Granted July 16, 2015.
  • Cao, X., Helmes, J., Sellen, A. and Lindley, S.E. “Creating Animations”. US Patent Application no. 13/692747, filed September 7, 2009. Patent no. 8,325,192, granted December 4, 2012.
  • Brown, L., Durrant, A., Frohlich, D., Lindley, S., Oleksik, G., Robson, D., Rumsey, F., Sellen, A. and Williamson, J. “Sound Playback and Editing through Physical Interaction”. US Patent Application no. 11/952,820, filed December 7, 2007. Patent no. 8,238,582, granted August 7, 2012.
  • Frohlich, D., Brown, L., Durrant, A., Lindley, S., Oleksik, G., Robson, D., Rumsey, F., Sellen, A. and Williamson, J. “Communication Devices”. US Patent Application no. 11/972,283, filed January 10, 2008. Patent no. 8,259,957, granted September 4, 2012.
  • Lindley, S., Brown, L., Durrant, A., Frohlich, D., Oleksik, G., Robson, D., Rumsey, F., Sellen, A. and Williamson, J. “Sound Display Devices”. US Patent Application no. 11/972,326, filed January 10, 2008. Pending.
  • Sellen, A., Brown, L., Durrant, A., Frohlich, D., Lindley, S., Oleksik, G., Robson, D., Rumsey, F. and Williamson, J. “Monitoring and Notification Apparatus”. US Patent Application no. 11/952,773, filed December 7, 2007. Patent no. 7,671,737, granted March 2, 2010.

Theses

  • Lindley, S.E. (2006). The effect of the affordances offered by shared interfaces on the social behaviour of collocated groups. PhD Thesis, University of York.
  • Lindley, S.E. (2001). A study of how the orientation of a shared interactive display affects collaboration in groups. MSc Thesis, University of Sussex.