Research Groups

Abstract: In the UK, more than 70% of mobile users now own a smartphone. These increasingly powerful, sensor-rich, and personal devices present an immense opportunity to monitor health-related behaviours and deliver digital behaviour-change interventions at unprecedented scale. However, designing and building systems to measure and intervene on health behaviours presents a number of challenges. These … Emotion Sense: From Design to Deployment by Neal Lathia, Cambridge University.

Abstract: The process of learning to write is both cognitive and motoric. Forming symbols into words and committing them to a surface is a process laden with complexity; creating the meaning that will be represented by these words is even more complex. Digital technologies provide opportunities and insights for the study of writing processes. With … Children, Text Input – and the Writing Process by Professor Janet C Read, University of Central Lancashire

Abstract: This talk outlines David Harris-Birtill’s previous research (at the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London) focusing on applications in detecting and treating cancer. The talk will discuss photoacoustic imaging in the clinic, photothermal therapy with gold nanorods, and the advantages of imaging in a variety of settings and in it’s many forms … Lasers, nanoparticles and cancer: fighting cancer using medical imaging by David Harris-Birtill, University of St Andrews

Title: AwToolkit: Attention-Aware User Interface Widgets Authors: Juan-Enrique Garrido, Victor M. R. Penichet, Maria-Dolores Lozano, Aaron Quigley, Per Ola Kristensson. Abstract: Increasing screen real-estate allows for the development of applications where a single user can manage a large amount of data and related tasks through a distributed user inter- face. However, such users can easily … Practice talks for papers that Aaron and Daniel are presenting at AVI.

Abstract: From buying plane tickets to eGovernment, participation in consumer and civic society is predicated on continuous connectivity and copious computation . And yet for many at the edges of society, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and those in rural areas, poor access to digital technology makes them more marginalised, potentially cut off from … At the Edge by Alan Dix, University of Birmingham

Speaker: Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University Date/Time: 2-3pm April 8th, 2014 Location: Maths Lecture Theatre B, University of St Andrews Title: Highly Deformable Mobile Devices & Future Mobile Phones Abstract: In the talk I will present the concept of highly deformable mobile devices that can be transformed into various special-purpose controls in order to bring physical … Highly Deformable Mobile Devices & Future Mobile Phones by Johannes Schöning, Hasselt University