Research

Funded Research Studentships

The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school: http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would … Funded Research Studentships

Personalisation In Mobile Applications

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.

Continued Success For MSc Students

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 … Continued Success For MSc Students

2011 Frontiers in Education Conference

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 … 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference

Beacon Series 2011-2012

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 … Beacon Series 2011-2012

Challenges in Social Network Visualisation

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.

ParaPhrase Project

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.

Twitter: it’s good to talk

Social media can help people without speech communicate more naturally. Work carried out by Per Ola featured in the University News today.

Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica

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 … Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica