The iVoLVER system, created by Gonzalo Méndez and Miguel Nacenta from the SACHI group at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, received Best Demo Jury Award at the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS) conference last week. ACM ISS 2017, took place in Brighton, UK and selects a different location each … iVoLVER receives Best Demo Jury Award at ACM ISS
Technology fundamentally shapes our communication, relationships, and access to information. It also evolves through our interaction with it. Dialoguing across disciplines can facilitate an understanding of these complex and reciprocal relationships and fuel reflection and innovation. This hands-on, participant-driven and experimental workshop will start a discussion of what can come from considering technology through a … Workshop on Considering Technology through a Philosophical Lens
Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeo, who has been selected as both an ACM SIGCHI communication ambassador and to represent SIGCHI at the ACM 50 Years of the A.M. Turing Award Celebration. Yeo is a 2nd year PhD student and is particularly interested in exploring and developing novel interaction techniques. Since joining us in SACHI, he has … ACM SIGCHI: Communication Ambassador & Turing Award Celebration News
One of our PhD students Esma Mansouri Benssassi and her supervisor Dr Erica Ye defined a requirement for a wrist worn device to group a number of Haptic feedback elements for an experiment they wished to carry out. The on-board Haptic elements are two eccentric rotating mass micro motors and an linear resonant actuator. Initial … Wrist Worn Haptic Feedback Device
Congratulations to Patrick Schrempf and Billy Brown who have been successful in their applications for a Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship in Research and Leadership for 2017. You can read further details about Billy and Patrick below. Billy Brown: I’m a fourth year Computer Science student from Belgium with too much interest for the subject. I play … Success in the Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership
Congratulations to Anne-Marie Mann, who successfully defended her thesis yesterday. She is pictured with Internal examiner Dr Colin Allison and external examiner Dr Paul Marshall, from UCL.
Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeo, Professor Aaron Quigley and colleagues, who won best poster at UIST2016. Their paper Sidetap and Slingshot Gestures on Unmodified Smartwatches, is available through the ACM digital library.
SACHI research project RadarCat (Radar Categorization for Input & Interaction), highlighted earlier this year in the University news, the Courier and Gizmodo and in a Google I/O ATAP 2016 session, will be presented at UIST2016 this week. RadarCat is a small, versatile radar-based system for material and object classification which enables new forms of everyday … RadarCat presented at UIST2016
Congratulations to Professor Aaron Quigley who has been appointed to the ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee, to serve as the Vice President for Conferences. The ACM Special Interest Group on Human Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) is the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology & human-computer interaction. SIGCHI sponsors or co-sponsors … Aaron Quigley appointed as ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences
Belated congratulations to Michael Mauderer, who successfully defended his thesis earlier this month. Micheal’s thesis, augmenting visual perception with gaze-contigent displays, was supervised by Dr Miguel Nacenta. Professor Aaron Quigley acted as internal examiner and Professor Hans Gellersen, from Lancaster University acted as external examiner.