Speaker: Mark Shovman, University of Abertay, Dundee Abstract: In natural and social sciences, novel insights are often derived from visual analysis of data. But what principles underpin the extraction of meaningful content from these visualisations? Abstract data visualisation can be traced at least as far back as 1801; but with the increase in the quantity … Measuring the Effectiveness of Abstract Data Visualisations
Speaker: Peterri Nurmi, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Abstract: Contemporary mobile phones readily support different positioning techniques. In addition to integrated GPS receivers, GSM and WiFi can be used for position estimation, and other sensors such as accelerometers and digital compasses can be used to support positioning, e.g., through dead reckoning or the detection of … Energy-efficient location-awareness on mobile devices
Speaker: Mirco Musolesi, Computer Science, University of St Andrews Abstract: Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, proximity sensors and cameras, that can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in real-time. Novel user-centered sensing applications can be built by exploiting the availability of such technologies in these devices … Sensing, understanding and modelling people using mobile phones
Speaker: Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen Abstract: Story-telling, (including personal narrative), is a big part of our personal and social communication. This talk will identify challenges and solutions that look at the generation of narrative for social communication. We describe a way to “automatically” generate personal stories. The stories which are mix of natural language … Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology
The School will hold an all day Arduino workshop on Sunday the 26th of June hosted by Dr David McKeown from UCD in Ireland. Thanks also to Ben Arent, an interaction designer based in Dublin for his help in supporting this. The Arduino workshop preceeds the Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism that … Arduino workshop
The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed … Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism