GIST news update - June 2025
Published: 30 June 2025
News from the Glasgow Interactive Systems (GIST) research section
Robot system demonstration
Mary Ellen Foster presented a poster last week at the International Symposium on Paediatric Pain at the SEC, where she also demonstrated the robot system developed as part of her recent project, which drew considerable interest from attendees!

Mary Ellen Foster demonstrating a robot in front of an audience
Lecture at MinXR, Berlin
Mathieu Chollet delivered an invited lecture at the MindXR conference in Berlin and did a seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany.

Mathieu Chollet next to a screen giving a talk
Innovate UK Immersive Tech Award
Cristina Fiani won first place for the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Award for her work on Child Safety in the metaverse. Find out more on LinkedIn.
Promotions
Lots of promotions for GIST members:
- Dr. Mohamed Khamis to Professor!
- Dr Julie R Williamson to Professor!
- Mathieu Chollet to Senior Lecturer!
- Marwa Mahmoud Anis to Senior Lecturer!
- Dr. Patrizia Di Campli San Vito to Grade 8!
Publications
Lots of new publications from GIST:
- International Symposium on Paediatric Pain (ISPP 2025) · 17-20 June 2025
A Socially Assistive Robot with Emotional and Cognitive-Based Coping Strategies for Children During Distressing Medical Procedures
Mary Ellen Foster, Alan Lindsay, Andres Ramirez-Duque, Ronald P.A. Petrick - 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2025) · 23-27 June 2025
Engineering Safe and Trustworthy AI: The Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM) Project
Simone Stumpf, Patrizia Di Campli San Vito, Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, Gefion Thuermer, Elena Simperl, Ayah Soufan, Yashar Moshfeghi, Eva Fringi, Penny Johnston, Yunhyong Kim - 24th annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2025) · 23-26 Jun 2025
“Abracadabra, Block the Bullies!”: Child Perceptions of Manual, Semi-Automated and Automated Interventions against Group Harassment in Social VR
Cristina Fiani, Robin Bretin, Mark McGill, Mohamed Khamis - EvalLLM2025 : Atelier sur l'évaluation des modèles génératifs (LLM) et challenge · 30 June 2025
Décoder le pouvoir de persuasion dans les concours d’éloquence : une étude sur la capacité des modèles de langues à évaluer la prise de parole en public
Alisa Barkar, Mathieu Chollet, Matthieu Labeau, Beatrice Biancardi, Chloe Clavel - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2025 · 30 June-4 July 2025
Interact with Me: Joint Egocentric Forecasting of Intent to Interact, Attitude and Social Actions
Tongfei Bian, Yiming Ma, Mathieu Chollet, Victor Sanchez, Tanaya Guha
First published: 30 June 2025
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