Professor Russell Beale

School of Computer Science
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction

Contact details

Address
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Wicaksono, A, Hendley, R & Beale, R 2019, 'Investigating the impact of adding plan reminders on implementation intentions to support behaviour change', Interacting with Computers, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwz012

Pinder, C, Vermeulen, J, Cowan, B & Beale, R 2018, 'Digital Behaviour Change Interventions to Break and Form Habits', ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 25, no. 3, 15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196830

Conference contribution

Beale, R & Williams, O 2025, Am I Productive? Exploring the Experience of Remote Workers with Task Management Tools. in CHItaly '25: Proceedings of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter., 1, Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3750069.3750107

Beale, R & Rutter, D 2025, Investigating the Ways in Which Mobile Phone Images with Open-Source Data Can Be Used to Create an Augmented Virtual Environment (AVE). in Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2025. Eurographics Digital Library, Computer Graphics & Visual Computing 2025, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 11/09/25. https://doi.org/10.2312/cgvc.20251219

Beale, R 2025, Large Language Models Will Change The Way Children Think About Technology And Impact Every Interaction Paradigm. in IDC '25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1103-1107, IDC '25, Reykjavik, Iceland, 23/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3731538

Wicaksono, A, Hendley, RJ & Beale, R 2019, Using reinforced implementation intentions to support habit formation. in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI’19 Extended Abstracts)., 3312985, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312985

Wicaksono, A, Hendley, RJ & Beale, R 2018, Does adding reinforcement of implementation intentions support behaviour change? in R Bond, M Mulvenna, J Wallace & M Black (eds), Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)., 38, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2018, Belfast, United Kingdom, 4/07/18. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.38

Pinder, C, Vermeulen, J, Cowan, BR, Beale, R & Hendley, RJ 2017, Exploring the feasibility of subliminal priming on smartphones. in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017., 21, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2017, Vienna, Austria, 4/09/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3098531

Stylianidis, A, Vermeulen, J, Houben, S, MacDonald, L & Beale, R 2017, SenseBelt: a belt-worn sensor to support cross-device interaction. in CHI EA '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 2123-2131. <http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/85599/1/lbw0338_stylianidisA.pdf>

Preprint

Beale, R & Sergueeva, E 2025 '5 Days, 5 Stories: Using technology to promote empathy in the workplace' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.19495

Beale, R 2025 'Adapting university policies for generative AI: Opportunities, challenges, and policy solutions in Higher Education' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.22231

Beale, R 2025 'Computer science education in the Age of Generative AI' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.02183

Beale, R 2025 'Dialogic pedagogy for Large Language Models: Aligning conversational AI with proven theories of learning' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.19484

Beale, R 2025 'The revolution has arrived: What the current state of Large Language Models in education implies for the future' arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.02180

Review article

Thomson, C & Beale, R 2021, 'Is blockchain ready for orthopaedics? A systematic review', Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma, vol. 23, 101615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcot.2021.101615

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Expertise

Modern computer and communications technology and society; how people use and appropriate technology; how we can design it to be better; the impact of the Internet, mobile technologies; usability; human-computer interaction and ethical issues (e.g. privacy and security)

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