Electronic Voting System
An electronic voting system, developed by Ross and Stuart, was used to conduct the election for the new Rector. Full results are available in the University News.
Month: October 2011
Personalisation In Mobile Applications
Fehmi and Tristan’s paper, Context-based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing, featured in the PeMA 2011: Personalization in Mobile Applications Workshop. The 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, took place in Chicago, Illinois from the 23rd until the 27th October.
Continued Success For MSc Students
Work carried out by Mary Steele, Titilayo Adegbamiye (both supervised by Gordon) and Shangyi Jiang (supervised by Ishbel), in fulfilment of their MSc, has continued success. Mary’s dissertation focus, promoting public awareness of the links between lifestyle and cancer A controlled study of the usability of health information leaflets, has been accepted for publication in … Continued Success For MSc Students
Information meetings
The School holds monthly information meetings for staff.
Undergraduate Visiting Day
Another successful and well-attended Wednesday visiting day took place yesterday. Prospective undergraduates had the opportunity to meet staff, current students, eat cake and view the School facilities. The familiar but extremely useful events are organised by Tristan, Adam and Saleem with help from volunteer students. Isabel, Jesal, Anastasia and Thomas were the student volunteers undertaking … Undergraduate Visiting Day
Thursday Afternoon In Computer Science
Life in the Comp Sci Labs The MSc lab in the John Honey building was busy with IT students holding initial group work meetings, for their next assignment. The advanced network students were networking, in a virtual sense, using WI-FI island. Yemliha and Umer looked occupied in the HCI lab. A number of 3rd and … Thursday Afternoon In Computer Science
2011 Frontiers in Education Conference
Colin and Alan’s paper, The Third Dimension in Open Learning will feature in the T2E Technical Session Engineering Frontiers of Instructional Technologies, today. The Frontiers in Education Conference taking place in South Dakota has become the premiere conference for innovative curricula made possible by three sponsoring professional societies. ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division, IEEE … 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference
Sword Ciboodle presentation
Sword Ciboodle will be visiting the University of St. Andrews on Tuesday 1st November between 1pm and 2pm. Come and join us in Jack Cole 1.33A to gain an insight into the Company and for information about graduate opportunities within the Research & Development and Professional Services teams. Opportunities exist for summer placements and full … Sword Ciboodle presentation
Beacon Series 2011-2012
A series of talks by Post-doctoral researchers from a number of academic schools across the University begin on the 20th October. The first lecture by Edwin Brady from Computer Science, will be introduced by Al. Chris Jefferson will be giving a talk in early March. The talks will take place on Thursday evenings from 6 … Beacon Series 2011-2012
Augmentative and Alternative Communication across the Lifespan of Individuals with Complex Communication Needs
Speaker: Annalu Waller, University of Dundee Abstract: Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) attempts to augment natural speech, or to provide alternative ways to communicate for people with limited or no speech. Technology has played an increasing role in AAC. At the most simplest level, people with complex communication needs (CCN) can cause a prestored message … Augmentative and Alternative Communication across the Lifespan of Individuals with Complex Communication Needs