Fehmi and Tristan’s paper, Context-based Personalised Settings for Mobile Location Sharing, featured in the PeMA 2011: Personalization in Mobile Applications Workshop.
The 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, took place in Chicago, Illinois from the 23rd until the 27th October.
Work carried out by Mary Steele, Titilayo Adegbamiye (both supervised by Gordon) and Shangyi Jiang (supervised by Ishbel), in fulfilment of their MSc, has continued success.
Mary’s dissertation focus, promoting public awareness of the links between lifestyle and cancer A controlled study of the usability of health information leaflets, has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Titilayo’s disssertation focus, evaluating the Usability of Home Blood Pressure Monitors, featured in Workshop Proceedings at INTERACT 2011. Final proceedings are now available.
Charlie’s (Shangyi Jiang) focus on virtual worlds contributed to Ishbel’s Paper, A taxonomy of virtual worlds usage in education, recently accepted by the British Journal of Educational Technology.
Colin and Alan’s paper, The Third Dimension in Open Learning will feature in the T2E Technical Session Engineering Frontiers of Instructional Technologies, today.
The Frontiers in Education Conference taking place in South Dakota has become the premiere conference for innovative curricula made possible by three sponsoring professional societies. ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division, IEEE Education Society and IEEE Computer Society.
A series of talks by Post-doctoral researchers from a number of academic schools across the University begin on the 20th October. The first lecture by Edwin Brady from Computer Science, will be introduced by Al. Chris Jefferson will be giving a talk in early March.
The talks will take place on Thursday evenings from 6 pm to 7 pm, starting on 20th October in Lecture Theatre C in Physics.
More information about the Beacon Series and the Open Association can be located on their website.
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.
The ParaPhrase Project, supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for Research and Technological Development combining expertise from academia and industry featured in the University news today. The project commencing in October and set to last 3 years will be co-ordinated by the School of Computer Science.
Social media can help people without speech communicate more naturally. Work carried out by Per Ola featured in the University News today.
The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog
A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place.
The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011.
Technical support was available in regular laboratory sessions; in addition students had input from experts in the history and architecture of the cathedral and direct access to the physical site.
A key innovative aspect of this project was to situate the reconstruction within the immersive 3D virtual world OpenSim. This allows visitors to explore the reconstruction through the proxy of an avatar.
Research by Ian Gent and Lars Kotthoff into the suitability of virtualised hardware for computational experiments is featured in a recent article of the HPC in the cloud site. The article contains a description of the research and an interview with Lars Kotthoff.
Read more at HPC in the cloud.
Calculator that returns chances of a live birth for a planned IVF cycle.
IVF-Predict Support.
IVFpredict was developed by Professor Scott Nelson and Professor Debbie Lawlor and published in PLOS Medicine.
In conjunction with Dr Tom Kelsey they have transformed this complex formula into a simple online and smartphone based calculator.
