Multimodal mobile interaction – making the most of our users’ capabilities by Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow

Title: Multimodal mobile interaction – making the most of our users’ capabilities Mobile user interfaces are commonly based on techniques developed for desktop computers in the 1970s, often including buttons, sliders, windows and progress bars. These can be hard to use on the move which then limits the way we use our devices and the … Multimodal mobile interaction – making the most of our users’ capabilities by Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow

Baby Fish Fry

Why has there been so much activity and excitement around the fish tank this week? Baby Cichlids have been spotted hiding amongst the rocks. Let’s hope they grow large enough, not be eaten, when they make a bid for freedom. Photographing the camera shy proved rather tricky. Masih finally succeeded this morning.

Proof engineering, from the Four Color to the Odd Order Theorem by Dr Georges Gonthier

Thirty five years ago computers made a dramatic debut in mathematics with the famous proof of the Four Color Theorem by Appel and Haken. Their role has been expanding recently, from computational devices to tools that can tackle deduction and proofs too complex for (most) human minds, such as the Kepler conjecture or the Classification … Proof engineering, from the Four Color to the Odd Order Theorem by Dr Georges Gonthier

Electronic Voting System

An electronic voting system, developed by Ross and Stuart, was used to conduct the election for the new Rector. Full results are available in the University News.

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