The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance in association with ScotlandIS hosted their 5th annual DEMOfest, a technology showcase of Scottish Universities Informatics and Computer Science on the 6th November. The school had three posters at the DEMOfest. Derek and Gordon were promoting their work on the SFC funded Horizon Project “Services to the Cloud”, … SICSA DEMOfest 2012
Room 1.33a at 2:00 pm on Friday 7th September 2012 Introduction to Grammatical Formalisms for Natural Language Parsing Giorgio Satta, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy Abstract: In the field of natural language parsing, the syntax of natural languages is modeled by means of formal grammars and automata. Sometimes these formalisms are borrowed … Forthcoming talk by SICSA Distinguished Visitor
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
Congratulations to Lei Fang, one of our SICSA postgrads, on winning the best student poster award at the recent International Workshop on Self-Organising Systems (IWSOS) in Delft NL. The poster (PDF), entitled “Towards self-management in WSNs by exploiting a spatio-temporal model”, presents early work on using statistical methods to find and exploit correlations between the … Best student poster award at IWSOS
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.
A talk on “Proactive contextual information retrieval” by Samuel Kaski of Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland. Abstract: In proactive information retrieval the ultimate goal is to seamlessly access relevant multimodal information in a context-sensitive way. Usually explicit queries are not available or are insufficient, and the alternative is to try to infer users’ … Proactive contextual information retrieval by Samuel Kaski
Dr Steve Marsh. Regret, the emotion arising from counterfactual reasoning about action and inaction, is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trust-reasoning and enabling technologies. One aspect of the tool, Regret Management, is the enforcement of a view of System Trust in technological approaches in order to preserve and encourage respect for concerns such … The use of regret and forgiveness
The School will hold an all day Arduino workshop on Sunday the 26th of June hosted by Dr David McKeown from UCD in Ireland. Thanks also to Ben Arent, an interaction designer based in Dublin for his help in supporting this. The Arduino workshop preceeds the Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism that … Arduino workshop
The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed … Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism