Students undertaking CS5042 User Centred Interaction Design were pictured prototyping their design ideas during creative thinking, and hands-on sessions earlier this month. UCID provides experience with modern design methodologies, introduces the philosophy of interaction design and involves working with actual clients. The module delivered by Miguel Nacenta is a compulsory element for students studying on … User-Centred Interaction Design
Our talented Senior Honours students are pictured presenting posters and software artefacts to second markers, interested staff and students last week. The impressive range of year-long projects included, plagiarism detection tools, augmented books with AR Visualsiation, Network science in GPUs, evaluating Full coverage display, a Blockchain construction toolkit, Intrusion detection systems evaluation and many more … Senior Honours Poster and Demo Sessions
Earlier today our hard working Junior Honours students presented their Team Projects. The projects involve substantial team based software engineering and rely heavily on collective development. There are many aspects of software and professional development along with considerable inter-team and intra-team collaborations. This year the students were asked to develop a software product intended for … Junior Honours: Software Team Project 2017
Congratulations to School Manager Alex Bain, who completed the London Marathon for the third time earlier this month. Alex, runner no 32993, is pictured below with his finisher’s medal. Alex also completed the London Marathon in 2017 and 2016 raising funds for Guide dogs and worldwide cancer research.
This week members of the SACHI research group are in Canada for the annual CHI conference where they are presenting 8 papers and other research work. Their research papers have been attracting media interest this week. The Times has covered their paper on Change blindness in proximity-aware mobile interfaces quoting Professor Quigley. App … SACHI research group in Canada for the annual CHI conference
Peter Cushley (MSci) brilliantly sang the part of Hilarion in the Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s Princess Ida performance at the Byre on the 20th and 21st April. Two other Computer Scientists were in the cast; Joanna Moreland and Simon Cadge, both in 2nd year. The performances were well received with great applause. Some of the … Students perform in G&S’s Princess Ida
Congratulations to Percy Perez, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday. He is pictured with supervisor Dr Alex Voss, Internal examiner, Dr Marwan Fayed and external examiner Dr Gareth Tyson, from Queen Mary University of London. Image courtesy of Ryo Yanagida
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human-computer interaction. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. CHI has been held annually since 1982 and attracts thousands of international attendees. Next week members … SACHI at CHI 2018 in Montreal next week
Steven Drost (CodeBase Chief Strategy Officer) and Jamie Coleman (CodeBase CoFounder and Chair) will talk about the topics that are rarely discussed in an academic environment around startups, product management, jobs to be done and disruption. Discussing aspects of UX, HCI, AI and systems development this is the stuff that they wish every computer scientist … War Stories: Building new tech products in an uncertain world
Abstract In this talk, I will talk about the possibility of using Bayesian nonparametric clustering, or Dirichlet Process Mixture model to solve human activity recognition problem. In particular, I will discuss how the technique can be useful when the activity labels are not annotated and/or the activity evolves over the time. This initial study is … SRG Seminar: “Application of Bayesian Nonparametric in household human activity recognition” by Lei Fang