Towel manipulation is a crucial stepstone towards more general cloth manipulation, but it remains a challenge to fold a towel from any crumple state and recover from a failed folding step. In this work, we develop a…
The majority of apps out there for language learning are aimed at beginners. It follows the same textbook structure, boring grammar and none of the content seems applicable to you. It’s time for a new era of language…
Collecting students’ perspectives on learning analytics to inform guidelines and create mock-up designs for the university to implement. Q: What are learning analytics? A: Data on the learner that is analysed and…
The Internet wasn’t designed for mobile devices — moving around breaks things! Fortunately, we can hide this behind layers and layers of patched together solutions. Unfortunately, these solutions face performance…
Modern smartphones offer endless features, applications and upgrades, often leading to heightened distractions. “Minimalist phones” deliberately restrict features to just essential utilities like calls and maps. This…
Welcome to the St Andrews class of 2044! Based on your recent search history, we think you’d benefit from a talk given by one of our ambassadors. Like you, participants will also be from communities who opted out of…
“Digraphs” is a package for the computational algebra system GAP that has been in development and use here in St Andrews since 2014. It provides usable tools and algorithms for directed graphs, a concept that arises in…
Sketching is a universal, accessible and quick medium for representation, brainstorming, communicating ideas, and can aid understanding. However, sketching can also be a tool for making sense of complex topics,…
In this age of rapid digitalisation, heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a digital divide between older adults and wider society. Increasingly, accessing essential services requires use of digital technology.…
Functional programming is a programming paradigm which comprises equations between functions operating on “abstract data”. It is a very neat and concise style that focuses on the core logic rather than catering to the…