Energy-efficient location-awareness on mobile devices

Speaker: Peterri Nurmi,  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Abstract: Contemporary mobile phones readily support different positioning techniques. In addition to integrated GPS receivers, GSM and WiFi can be used for position estimation, and other sensors such as accelerometers and digital compasses can be used to support positioning, e.g., through dead reckoning or the detection of … Energy-efficient location-awareness on mobile devices

Sensing, understanding and modelling people using mobile phones

Speaker: Mirco Musolesi, Computer Science, University of St Andrews Abstract: Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, proximity sensors and cameras, that can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in real-time. Novel user-centered sensing applications can be built by exploiting the availability of such technologies in these devices … Sensing, understanding and modelling people using mobile phones

Dr Tom Kelsey launches iPhone app for IVF-Predict

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. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ivf-predict/id447793863?mt=8

Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology

Speaker: Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen Abstract: Story-telling, (including personal narrative), is a big part of our personal and social communication. This talk will identify challenges and solutions that look at the generation of narrative for social communication. We describe a way to “automatically” generate personal stories. The stories which are mix of natural language … Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology

Greg Bigwood receives the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize

St Andrews Computer Science PhD student Greg Bigwood has won the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize at the 2011 Multi-Service Networks meeting in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Multi-Service Networks (MSN) is an annual meeting of network researchers that mainly revolves around talks from PhD students. The Brendan Murphy Prize is given for the best presentation and … Greg Bigwood receives the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize

The use of regret and forgiveness

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

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Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards

Professor Ian Sommerville has been honoured for his work in software engineering education. The distinguished researcher has received the 2011 SIGSOFT Influential Educator award from the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the 2011 Outstanding Educator award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). The awards recognise Professor Sommerville’s work in developing software … Professor Ian Sommerville receives teaching awards