Abstract: We are increasingly living in our digital bubbles. Even when physically together – as families and friends in our living rooms, outdoors and public places – we have our eyes glued to our own phones, tablets and laptops. The new generation of ‘all about me’ health and fitness gadgets, that is becoming more mainstream, … Should Technology be more mindful? by Yvonne Rogers, UCL.
Abstract: Dialogue is a dynamic social activity. Research has consistently shown that our dialogue partners impact our speech choices whereby we converge (or align) on aspects such as lexical choice and syntax. With the development of more natural computer dialogue partners and the increase of speech as an interaction modality in many devices and applications, … How human-human dialogue research can lead us to understand speech behaviours in human-computer dialogue: The case of lexical alignment by Benjamin Cowan, University of Birmingham.
Abstract: Touch input and two-handed interaction were intensively studied in the mid 80′s but it’s taken 20 years for these ideas to emerge in the mainstream, with the advent of multi-touch interfaces. Gaze has been studied for almost as long as interaction modality and appears on the brink of wider use. This talk will present … Ubicomp, Touch and Gaze by Hans Gellersen
Congratulations to our very own Per Ola Kristensson. Earlier this year he was named as one of the people most likely to change the world by the prestigious MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators under 35. Described as visionary he appears, today at number 11 in IMPACT 100, he is a lecturer in Human Computer … Dr Per Ola Kristensson: A visionary that will shape the future
Professor John Stasko and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science. This appointment comes following a SICSA distinguished visiting fellowship John was awarded. This fellowship allowed John to participate in the SACHI/Big … Honorary Professor John Stasko
These are words used by the Co-Chair of UIST 2013, Dr Shahram Izadi of Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK), to describe one of the prestigious conferences taking place in St Andrews this week. “UIST is the leading conference on new user interface trends and technologies. Some of the most influential and ground breaking work on graphical … ITS & UIST 2013: “Influential and Ground Breaking”
Dr Per Ola Kristensson is one of 35 top young innovators named today by the prestigious MIT Technology Review. For over a decade, the global media company has recognised a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work has great potential to “transform the world.” Dr Kristensson (34) joins a stellar list of technological talent. Previous … Dr Per Ola Kristensson tipped to change the world
SACHI seminar Title: Team-buddy: investigating a long-lived robot companion Speaker: Ruth Aylett, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Abstract: In the EU-funded LIREC project, finishing last year, Heriot-Watt University investigated how a long-lived multi-embodied (robot, graphical) companion might be incorporated into a work-environment as a team buddy, running a final continuous three-week study. This talk gives an overview of the … SACHI Seminar: Team-buddy: investigating a long-lived robot companion
Abstract: Large text document collections are increasingly important in a variety of domains; examples of such collections include news articles, streaming social media, scientific research papers, and digitized literary documents. Existing methods for searching and exploring these collections focus on surface-level matches to user queries, ignoring higher-level thematic structure. Probabilistic topic models are a machine … Jacob Eisenstein: Interactive Topic Visualization for Exploratory Text Analysis
ACM Computing Reviews has selected a recent survey paper written by Per Ola Kristensson and colleagues as one of the Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012. The list consists of nominations from Computing Reviews reviewers, Computing Reviews category editors, the editors in chief of journals covered by Computing Reviews, and others in the computing … Computing Reviews’ Notable Books and Articles 2012