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
Research into personalised gestures for user interfaces carried out by Miguel Nacenta, Per Ola Kristensson and two of our recent MSc students, Yemliha Kamber and Yizhou Qiang featured in the University News last week. You can read more about their research in the MIT Technology Review, and Fast Company’s Co.DESIGN. Their results question whether pre-programmed … Gesture-based Natural User Interfaces
MIT Technology Review has written a comprehensive article about Jakub Dostal’s Diff Displays that track visual changes on unattended displays. Jakub presented the work two weeks ago at the 18th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Santa Monica, California, USA. The Diff Displays project is part of Jakub’s PhD thesis on proximity-aware user interfaces. His … MIT Technology Review – Jakub Dostal
Congratulations to Per Ola Kristensson who has been appointed a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. You can read more about the appointments announced yesterday in RSE News.
CHI is the premier international conference on human computer interaction, and this year’s event is looking to be the most exciting yet for the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction (SACHI) research group in the School of Computer Science. Seven members of SACHI will attend CHI in Paris this April to present three full papers, one … SACHI Conference: Changing Perspectives at CHI 2013
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