Human Computer Interaction (GIST)
The Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST) focuses on ubiquitous computing, mobility, multimodal interaction, visualisation and modelling. Key HCI research sub-groups are:
- Multimodal Interaction Group (Stephen Brewster)
- Social Ubiquitous Mobile Group (Matthew Chalmers)
- Interactive Teaching and Technology (Quintin Cutts)
- Technology for Learning and Teaching (Steve Draper)
- Software, Technology, Tools and Methods (Phil Gray)
- Glasgow Accident Analysis Group (Chris Johnson)
- Dynamics and Interaction (Rod Murray-Smith)
- Diagram Evaluation (Helen Purchase)
- Graphical Authentification and Email Usage (Karen Renaud)
Our research has a strong focus on users as well as computing science, therefore the group is multi-disciplinary with members drawn from the Departments of Computing Science, Psychology, Community Health and Music. We also have strong links with other universities and companies, such as the Universities of Strathclyde, Nottingham, The Hamilton Institute, Grenoble and Toulouse, Nokia, NASA and IBM.
Academic Staff: Prof Stephen A Brewster, Dr Matthew J Chalmers, Prof Chris W Johnson, Prof Roderick Murray-Smith, Dr Helen C Purchase, Dr Karen V Renaud, Dr. Alessandro Vinciarelli.
Research Assistants and Research Students: Dr. Marek Bell, Mr. Owain Brown, Dr Andrew Crossan, Mr Tilman Dingler, Mr John Ferguson, Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Dr David McGookin, Mr Donald McMillan, Dr Alistair Morrison, Mr Ciaran Owens, Mr Stefan Raue, Miss Julie Rico, Dr Scott Sherwood, Mr David Warnock, Dr John Williamson
- Accident analysis and human error
- design and evaluation of human computer interfaces to mobile devices
- multi-modal interaction
- gesture recognition
- machine learning
- use of sound in interfaces
- applications of haptic (force feedback) and mobile technology
- adaptive user interfaces
'Can we work this out?: an evaluation of remote collaborative interaction in a mobile shared environment
Trendafilov, D., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y.
Shaking the dead: multimodal location based experiences for un-stewarded archaeological sites
McGookin, D.
Password cueing with cue(ink)blots
Renaud, K.V.
Categorised ethical guidelines for large scale mobile HCI
McMillan, D., Morrison, A., and Chalmers, M.
Information-theoretic characterization of uncertainty in manual control
Trendafilovv, D., and Murray-Smith, R.
A P300-based image browser with automatic stimulation optimization
Williamson, J.
Optimized stimulation events for a visual ERP BCI
Tangermann, M., Schreuder, M., Dähne , J., Regler, S., Ramsay, A.
Data driven neuroergonomic optimization of BCI stimuli
Tangermann, M., Höhne , J., Schreuder, M., Sagebaum, M., Blankertz, B., Ramsay, A.
End user performance in a novel social BCI application: the photobrowser
Schreuder, M., Riccio, A., Ramsay, A.
A BCI-controlled photobrowser for social integration: perspectives of friends and family
Quek, M.
Inferring Music Selections for Casual Music Interaction
Boland, D., McLachlan, R.
Finding My Beat: Personalised Rhythmic Filtering for Mobile Music Interaction
Boland, D., and Murray-Smith, R.
A framework for continuous, transparent mobile device authentication
Crawford, H., Renaud, K.
Encouraging second thoughts: obstructive user interfaces for raising security awareness
Storer, T.
From speech to personality: mapping voice quality and intonation into personality differences
Mohammadi, G., Origlia, A., Filippone, M.
Predicting the conflict level in television political debates: an approach based on crowdsourcing, nonverbal communication and Gaussian processes
Kim, S., Filippone, M.
Graph builder: constructing non-visual visualizations
McGookin, D.K.
Multimodal interaction and proactive computing
Brewster, S.
PULSE: an auditory display to provide a social vibe
McGookin, D.
Chalk sounds: the effects of dynamic synthesized audio on workspace awareness in distributed groupware
Gutwin, C., Schneider, O., Xio, R., and Brewster, S.A.
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GIST Seminar: : Understanding Visualization: A Formal Approach using Category Theory and Semiotics (31 January, 2013)
Speaker: Dr Paul Vickers
We combine the vocabulary of semiotics and category theory to provide general framework for understanding visualization in practice, including: relationships between systems, data collected from those systems, renderings of those data in the form of representations, the reading of those representations to create visualizations, and the use of those visualizations to create knowledge and understanding of the system under inspection. The resulting framework is validated by demonstrating how familiar information visualization concepts (such as literalness, sensitivity, redundancy, ambiguity, generalizability, and chart junk) arise naturally from it and can be defined formally and precisely. Further work will explore how the framework may be used to compare visualizations, especially those of different modalities. This may offer predictive potential before expensive user studies are carried out.
MultiMemoHome Project Showcase (19 February, 2013)
Speaker: various
This event is the final showcase of research and prototypes developed during the MultiMemoHome Project (funded by EPSRC).
GIST Seminar: A Study of Information Management Processes across the Patient Surgical Pathway in NHS Scotland (14 March, 2013)
Speaker: Matt-Mouley Bouamrane
Preoperative assessment is a routine medical screening process to assess a patient's fitness for surgery. Systematic reviews of the evidence have suggested that existing practices are not underpinned by a strong evidence-base and may be sub-optimal.
We conducted a study of information management processes across the patient surgical pathway in NHS Scotland, using the Medical Research Council Complex Intervention Framework and mixed-methods.
Most preoperative services were created in the last 10 years to reduce late theatre cancelations and increase the ratio of day-case surgery. 2 health-boards have set up electronic preoperative information systems and stakeholders at these services reported overall improvements in processes. General Practitioners' (GPs) referrals are now done electronically and GPs considered electronic referrals as a substantial improvement. GPs reported minimal interaction with preoperative services. Post- operative discharge information was often considered unsatisfactory.
Conclusion: Although some substantial progress have been made in recent years towards improving information transfer and sharing among care providers within the NHS surgical pathway, there remains considerable scope for improvements at the interface between services.
[GIST] Talk -- Shape-changing Displays: The next revolution in display technology? (28 March, 2013)
Speaker: Dr Jason Alexander
Shape-changing interfaces physically mutate their visual display surface
to better represent on-screen content, provide an additional information
channel, and facilitate tangible interaction with digital content. This
talk will preview the current state-of-the art in shape-changing
displays, discuss our current work in this area, and explore the grand
challenges in this field. The talk will include a hardware demonstration
of one such shape-changing device, a Tilt Display.
Bio:
Jason is a lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications at
Lancaster University. His primary research interests are in
Human-Computer Interaction, with a particular interest in developing the
next generation of interaction techniques. His recent research is
hardware-driven, combining tangible interaction and future display
technologies. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher in the
Bristol Interaction and Graphics (BIG) group at the University of
Bristol. Before that he was a Ph.D. student in the HCI and Multimedia
Lab at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. More information can
be found at http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/~jason/.
Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (13 June, 2013)
Speaker: Professor Ben Schneiderman, University of Maryland - College Park
This talk reviews the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com, and www.smartmoney.com/marketmap, plus emerging products such as www.hivegroup.com will be covered.
Full information on the talk is available on the University events listings.
[GIST] Talk -- The Value of Visualization for Exploring and Understanding Data (11 July, 2013)
Speaker: Prof John Stasko
Investigators have an ever-growing suite of tools available for analyzing and understanding their data. While techniques such as statistical analysis, machine learning, and data mining all have benefits, visualization provides an additional unique set of capabilities. In this talk I will identify the particular advantages that visualization brings to data analysis beyond other techniques, and I will describe the situations when it can be most beneficial. To help support these arguments, I'll present a number of provocative examples from my own work and others'. One particular system will demonstrate how visualization can facilitate exploration and knowledge acquisition from a collection of thousands of narrative text documents, in this case, reviews of wines from Tuscany.