In addition to rambling about data and video games, I have been known to occasionally write academic papers. Here is a selection.

Mapping the web science curriculum(s)
Coskun, Elisabeth, White, Su and Smith, Ash (2015) ACM Web Science 2015, United Kingdom. 27 - 30 Jun 2015. 1 pp .

Erica the Rhino: a case study in using Raspberry Pi Single Board Computers for interactive art
Basford, Philip, Bragg, Graeme, Hare, Jonathon, Jewell, Mike, Martinez, Kirk, Newman, David, Pau, Reena, Smith, Ash and Ward, Tyler (2016) in special issue: Raspberry Pi Technology ELECTRONICS, 5 (3), 1-18. (doi:10.3390/electronics5030035).

MemoryBook: Generating Narratives from Lifelogs
Packer, Heather S., Smith, Ash and Lewis, Paul (2012) Narrative and Hypertext Workshop 2012, United States.

Visualising the Past: Annotating a Life with Linked Open Data
Smith, Ashley, O’Hara, Kieron and Lewis, Paul (2011) ACM Web Science Conference 2011, Koblenz, Germany. 14 - 17 Jun 2011.

Designing authoring tools for the creation of on-line behavioural interventions
Osmond, Adrian, Hare, Jonathan, Price, Joseph, Smith, Ashley, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, Yang, Yang, Yardley, Lucy and De Roure, David (2009) 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Germany. 24 - 26 Jun 2009. 10 pp .

Who Controls the Past Controls the Future - Life Annotation in Principle and Practice
Smith, Ashley (2008) University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Doctoral Thesis. (Available in mobi format for e-readers.)

Towards Truly Ubiquitous Life Annotation
Smith, A, Hall, W, Glaser, H and Carr, L A (2006) Memories for Life Colloquium 2006, The British Library, London, United Kingdom.

An Opportunistic Approach to Adding Value to a Photograph Collection
Smith, Ashley, Miles-Board, Tim, Carr, Leslie and Hall, Wendy (2005) 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Ireland.