Do you have a discerning eye for video? If so, we need your help as a volunteer in our study! Volunteers will be asked to watch 7 video clips of 10 seconds each. Each clip will be viewed 3 times, and then again at a different distance. After each video clip, you will choose which clip (if any) you perceived … Spot the difference?
“Closure Experiences in Digital Product Design. The loss of the resolution in the shop of abundance” Abstract Most experiences in life are punctuated by a closure experience. In the past these were profound; however, over generations we have distanced ourselves from meaningful closure experiences thanks to our lifestyles increasing in comfort, the church weakening and … School Seminar ‘Closure Experiences in Digital Product Design’ by Joe Macleod
We now launched our new Alumni webpage for the School of Computer Science in the University of St Andrews. This page is designed for our alumni to stay in touch with us and each other. We have a series of alumni profiles from across the last 40 years, recent news items from alumni events and … Launch of new St Andrews CS Alumni webpage
The School of Computer Science in the University of St Andrews is pleased to announce the next set of Distinguished Lectures (DLS) leading up to the 50th anniversary of the series in 2019. The next DLS will be delivered by Maria Klawe the president of Harvey Mudd College and former president of the ACM (Association … School of Computer Science: Distinguished Lecture Series
Congratulations to the Open Virtual Worlds Group on reaching the final of a digital competition launched by VisitScotland, Scotland’s national tourism organisation. They presented their final product idea ‘Taste From Afar’ a collection of immersive tours, to a panel of judges in the final stages.
Alex Voss has completed a January Dryathlon for Cancer Research UK. Read about his recent exploration of mocktails and smoothies, and help him reach his target through justgiving. https://www.justgiving.com/Alexander-Voss-dryathlete2016 Alex Bain will be running the London Marathon this year, for wordwide cancer research and has been busy fundraising with a car wash, calendars and a … Computer Science fundraisers: Dryathlons and Marathons
Abstract: One of the limitations of semantic parsing approaches to open-domain question answering is the lexicosyntactic gap between natural language questions and knowledge base entries — there are many ways to ask a question, all with the same answer. In this paper we propose to bridge this gap by generating paraphrases to the input question … School Seminar ‘Paraphrase Generation from Latent-Variable PCFGs for Semantic Parsing’ by Shashi Narayan
Congratulations to Jakub Dostal, who successfully defended his thesis today. He is pictured below celebrating with supervisor Professor Aaron Quigley, internal examiner Dr Miguel Nacenta and external examiner Dr Keith Cheverst from the University of Lancaster.
The 2015 PhD Reading Party was held at the Burn, a Georgian Mansion at the foot of Glenesk in the North East of Scotland in December last year. It was an opportunity for research students to network, brainstorm and talk about their research and interests with colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere. There were twenty-two (22) … PhD Reading Party 2015
The School of Computer Science are delighted to welcome Dr Oana Andrei, from the University of Glasgow, to give her talk on Probabilistic Formal Analysis of App Usage to Inform Redesign. Abstract: Good design of mobile apps is challenging because users are seldom homogeneous or predictable in the ways they navigate around and use the … School Seminar: ‘Probabilistic Formal Analysis of App Usage to Inform Redesign’ by Oana Andrei