School of Computing Science

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

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First published: 30 June 2025