Multimodal Interaction in Museums by Loraine Clarke, University of Strathclyde
The relationship between multimodal exhibits and museum visitors experience, engaging with a topic, social engagement and engagement with the exhibit itself. More info
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Best Student Paper Award for iSCAN
Congratulations to Per Ola and colleagues Ha Trinh, Annalu Waller, Keith Vertanen and Vicki L. Hanson. Their paper “iSCAN: a phoneme-based predictive communication aid for nonspeaking individuals” received the ACM SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012) earlier this year.
St Andrews Algorithmic Programming Competition
When: Wednesday 12th of September 9:30am – 5pm (with a 1 hour break for lunch) Where: Sub-honours lab in Jack Cole building (0.35) As part of this competition, you may be offered an opportunity to participate in a Human-Computer Interaction study on subtle interaction. Participation in this study is completely voluntary. There will be two … St Andrews Algorithmic Programming Competition
Facing Healthcare’s Future: Designing Facial Expressivity for Robotic Patient Mannequins
SACHI Seminar by Laurel Riek on Facing Healthcare’s Future: Designing Facial Expressivity for Robotic Patient Mannequins
TayViz – The bi-monthly meeting of the Tayside and Fife network for data visualisation
Talks: Information Visualization Research in the SACHI group Speaker: Aaron Quigley Abstract: Aaron will provide a quick overview of the incipient InfoViz research and prospects of the SACHI group. A few examples of visualisation in computational systems biology of anti-inflammatory and anticancer drug actions Speaker: Alexey Goltsov Abstract: Visualization is a key aspect in computational … TayViz – The bi-monthly meeting of the Tayside and Fife network for data visualisation
Helen Purchase on An Exploration of Interface Visual Aesthetics
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
New visualisation technique by STACS lecturer featured in the New Scientist
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.
Honourable mentions for two ACM research papers
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
hci2012 People & Computers XXVI
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.
Crowdsourcing research featured in the New Scientist
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