In recent years, mobile phones have evolved from simple communication devices to sophisticated personal computers enabling anytime, anywhereaccess to a wealth of information. Understanding the types of information needs that occur while mobile and how these needs are addressed is crucial in order to design and develop novel services that are tailored to mobile users. … A large-scale study of information needs by Karen Church
From October to December 2011, the School of Computer Science hosted Dr Alan Frisch from the University of York as a SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow. While here, Dr Frisch kindly agreed to give a seminar entitled “Decade of Progress in Constraint Modelling & Reformulation: The Quest for Abstraction and Automation”, the video of which can … Alan Frisch Seminar Video
Posters from our recent PhD poster session are now available online.
The PhD poster session took place today in the Jack Cole coffee area. Ron Morrison awarded Amazon vouchers to the three best posters. Congratulations to Lakshitha, Yi and Ali. 3rd place to System Deployment Costs in Public Clouds – Ali Khajeh-Hosseini 2nd place to Building Energy Awareness into ICT Systems (complete with magnifying glass) – … PhD Poster Session 2012
UCAS applicants are visiting to experience life in the School of Computer Science.
UCAS applicants are visiting to experience life in the School of Computer Science.
The next SCONE meeting for Scottish networking and communications researchers will be held in St Andrews on 24 February.
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
Alex Voss was part of the team investigating the role of social media during the English Riots. The study was highlighted in the University news today, and the Guardian this morning. Update The results of the study will also be presented at the Reading the Riots conference, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/dec/14/reading-the-riots-conference-live-blog which also features a range of other … Twitter Innocent in English riots
Tom, who is now an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Greg and Vladimir on their recent PhD success. Alan, Colin and Ishbel on their successful FILTA bid for Blended Learning with Open Virtual Environments (BeLove).