Speaker: Helen Purchase, University of Glasgow Title: An Exploration of Interface Visual Aesthetics Abstract: The visual design of an interface is not merely an ‘add-on’ to the functionality provided by a system: it is well-known that it can affect user preference, engagement and motivation, but does it have any effect on user performance? Can the … Helen Purchase on An Exploration of Interface Visual Aesthetics
FatFonts, a visualisation technique invented by Miguel Nacenta, lecturer at the School is featured in this week’s issue of the New Scientist. You can learn more about the technique here and read the preview of the article here.
Per Ola Kristensson has two recent papers published in top ACM conferences that have received honourable mentions: Kristensson, P.O. and Vertanen, K. 2012. The potential of dwell-free eye-typing for fast assistive gaze communication. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA 2012). ACM Press: 241-244. Coyle, D., Moore, J., Kristensson, … Honourable mentions for two ACM research papers
HCI 2012 will be held between the 12th and the 14th of September 2012 in Birmingham. The Programme Committee includes Aaron and Per Ola as short paper chairs and Miguel in Interactive Demos. Information available online at hci2012 submissions.
The latest issue of the New Scientist magazine writes about Per Ola Kristensson‘s work on using crowdsourcing and online web sources to create better statistical language models for AAC devices: Crowdsourcing improves predictive texting. The research paper was published in the Association for Computational Linguistics’ 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. It … Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
Professor Aaron Quigley’s research on exploratory visualisation allows historians to trace the flow of a wide range of natural resources around the globe. By working with world experts in text mining within the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and domain experts in York University, Canada, we can bridge the research divide and answer historical … Special software to trawl thousands of historic archives to uncover Empire trade boom
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
Aaron Quigley the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School and Director of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group gave a seminar this morning in Edinburgh at the School of Informatics.
Speaker: Aaron Quigley, SACHI University of St Andrews Abstract: Our bodies shape our experience of the world, and our bodies influence what we design. How important are the physical differences between people? Can we model the physiological differences and use the models to adapt and personalize designs, user interfaces and artifacts? Within many disciplines Digital … Creating personalized digital human models of perception for visual analytics
Speaker: Sean Lynch, Innovis group/Interactions lab, University of Calgary, Canada Abstract: Information visualization and new paradigms of interaction are generally applied to productive processes (i.e., at work) or for personal and entertainment purposes. In my work, I have looked instead at how to apply new technologies and visualization techniques to art. I will present mainly … Interaction and Visualization Approaches for Artistic Applications