Here is a list of my peer reviewed publications

Journal Articles

• Creed, C., Beale, R., & Cowan, B.R. (Accepted). The Impact of Embodied Agent Emotional Expressions Over Multiple Interactions. Interacting with Computers.
• Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2014). The effect of identity on anxiety towards wiki editing. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. [pdf].
• Bowers, C.P, Creed, C., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2013). Touching Annotations: A Visual Metaphor for Navigation of Annotation in Digital Documents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.[pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2013). Measuring anxiety towards wiki editing: Investigating the dimensionality of the Wiki Anxiety Inventory- Editing. Interacting with Computers.
• Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2011).Exploring the wiki user experience: The effects of training spaces on novice user usability and anxiety towards wiki editing. Interacting with Computers. 117-128. [pdf]

Conference Papers

• Bowers, C.P., Cowan. B.R., Harkvoort, G., & Beale, R. (Under Review). Challenges of touch interactive stereoscopic displays. Submitted to CHI 2014
• Cowan, B.R., Branigan, H.P., & Beale, R. (Under Review). Interlocutor Design and Lexical Alignment in Spoken Human-Computer Dialogue: Does Voice Anthropomorphism affect Lexical Choice? Submitted to CHI 2014
• Bowers, C.P., Cowan, B.R., Creed, C., & Beale, R. (Under Review). Supporting Zooming of Multiple Images on Touch Tables. Submitted to CHI 2014
• Cowan, B.R., Avramides, K., & Beale, R. (2013). Should cool be a design goal? BCS HCI 2013 Short Papers.
• Guo, Y., Jones, M., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2013). Take It Personally: Personal Accountability and Energy Consumption in Domestic Households. CHI 2013 EA, p.1467-1472. [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., Bowers, C.P., Beale, R, & Pinder, C. (2013). The Stroppy Kettle: An Intervention to Break Energy Consumption Habits. CHI 2013 EA, p.1485-1490. [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., Branigan, H.P., & Beale, R. (2012). Investigating the impact of interlocutor voice on syntactic alignment in human-computer dialogue. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012, Birmingham, UK, 39-48. [pdf]
• Hurter, C., Cowan, B.R., Girouard, A., & Riche, N. (2012). Active Progress Bar: Aiding the switch to temporary activities. Proceedings of BCS HCI 2012, Birmingham, UK, 99-108. [pdf]
• Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Hendley, R. (2011). Choosing your moment: Interruptions in multimedia annotation. Proceedings of Interact 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, 438-453. [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Branigan, H.P. (2011). Investigating syntactic alignment in spoken natural language human-computer communication. CHI 2011 EA, Vancouver, Canada, 2331-2336. [pdf].
• Read, J.C., Fitton, D., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., Guo, Y., & Horton, M. (2011). Understanding and designing cool technologies for teenagers. CHI 2011 EA, Vancouver, Canada, 1567-1572. [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., & Jack, M.A. (2010). Now you see it, now you don't- the effect of wiki flexibility on anxiety during wiki editing. Proceedings of the 4th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (IHCI 2010). [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., Vigentini, L., & Jack, M.A. (2009).Exploring the effects of experience on wiki anxiety and usability- an online study. Proceedings of the 23rd BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009). ACM. [pdf]
• Cowan, B.R., Vigentini, L., & Jack, M. A. (2008).Exploring the relationship between anxiety and usability evaluation- An online study of Internet and wiki anxiety. In Proceedings of IADIS International Conference; Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Workshop Papers

• Bowers, C.P., Cowan. B.R., Harkvoort, G., & Beale, R. (Accepted). Challenges of touch interactive stereoscopic displays, Touching the Third Dimension (T3D) Workshop, ITS 2013.
• Cowan, B.R., Bowers, C.P., Pinder, C., & Beale, R. (2013). Habits in Human-Computer Interaction. 1st Habits in Human Computer Interaction Workshop, BCS HCI 2013.
• Bowers, C.P., Byrne, W., Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2012). Multi-touch multi-user interfaces to support learning and teaching. Surface Learning Workshop '12
• Fitton, D., Read, J.C., Cowan, B.R., Beale, R., & Guo, Y. (2011) . Creating ‘Cool’ Mobile Technologies To Reduce Teen Energy Use. In Persuasion, Influence, Nudge, and Coersion (PINC) Workshop, CHI 2011.
• Cowan, B.R., & Beale, R. (2011) . Cooler by numbers: Should we design for and influence people using cool? Design for Cool Workshop, BCS HCI 2011.

Book Chapters & Thesis

• Vigentini, L., & Cowan, B.R. (2012). The psychological dimension of using wikis: pedagogy, anxiety and usability. In Wiki supporting formal and informal learning .Bocconi , S. & Trentin, G. (Eds.). Nova Publishers.[pdf]
• Cowan, B.R. (2011). Causal effects of wiki site design on anxiety and usability. Doctoral Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.