GIST video
An overview of our GIST Research Section from the previous Section Head, Professor Steve Brewster.
What is GIST?
There is no effective human-computer interaction without a deep understanding of the ever-changing boundary between people and technology. Our approach in GIST starts at the infrastructure level, through perception and action, to social context.
Our research focuses on ensuring the security of human-centred systems, optimising the information flow between technology and human senses, making machines capable of human-like social interactions, and making sense of digital traces left by human communities.
The Human Computer Interaction research section is also known as GIST (Glasgow Interactive SysTems). In our research we create and use novel, interactive systems to better understand, entertain, protect and support humans in their everyday lives. GIST is a research section made up of several research groups, including:
- Animal-Computer Interaction (led by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas)
- Behavioural AI (led by Marwa Mahmoud)
- HIWA: Human Interactions With ArtificIal intelligence (led by Simone Stumpf)
- MIG: Multimodal Interaction Group (led by Stephen Brewster)
- Public and Performative Interaction (led by Julie Williamson)
- Social AI
- SIRIUS: Secure and prIvacy RespectIng Ubiquitous Systems (led by Mohamed Khamis)
- Social Robotics and Social Signal Processing (led by Mary Ellen Foster and Alessandro Vinciarelli)
- SUMgroup: Social, Ubiquitous, Mobile (led by Matthew Chalmers)
A lot of the research we undertake is collaborative and interdisciplinary. We work closely with other groups in Computing Science as well as other schools including Psychology and the Institute of Health and Wellbeing. We also work closely with other world leading Universities and many private and public sector organisations (recently: Facebook, Jaguar Landrover, Logitech, Aldebaran Robotics, Pufferfish, Bang and Olufsen, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Glasgow City Council, Scottish Business Resilience Centre, Dynamically Loaded and Cisco Systems).
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Section members
Academic Staff:
- Dr Simone Stumpf - (Section Leader, Reader in Responsible & Interactive Artificial Intelligence)
- Professor Stephen A Brewster - (Professor of Human-Computer Interactions)
- Professor Matthew J Chalmers - (Professor of Computer Science)
- Professor Fahim Kawsar - (Professor of Mobile Systems)
- Professor Alessandro Vinciarelli - (Professor of Computational Social Intelligence)
- Dr Mohamed Khamis - (Reader in Human-centered Security)
- Dr Xianghua (Sharon) Ding - (Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Technologies)
- Dr Mary Ellen Foster - (Senior Lecturer in Human-Robot Interaction)
- Dr Tanaya Guha - (Senior Lecturer)
- Dr Julie Williamson - (Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction)
- Dr Mathieu Chollet - (Lecturer in Healthcare Technologies)
- Dr Euan Freeman - (Lecturer)
- Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas - (Lecturer)
- Dr Stephen Lindsay - (Lecturer in Healthcare Technologies)
- Dr Marwa Mahmoud Anis - (Lecturer in Socially Intelligent Technologies)
- Dr Mark McGill - (Lecturer)
- Dr Joseph O'Hagan - (Lecturer)
Affiliate Staff:
Research Staff:
- Dr Andres Ramirez-Duque
- Dr Evangelia Fringi
- Dr Evdoxia Taka
- Dr Graham Wilson
- Dr Md Shafiqul Islam
- Dr Patrizia Di Campli San Vito
- Dr Shaun Macdonald
Research Students:
- Amelie Voges
- Ammar Altaie
- Andrei Birladeanu
- Andrew Blair
- Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya
- Basmah Alsenani
- Cristina Fiani
- Diego Drago
- Gordon Rennie
- Habiba Farzand
- Iain Christie
- Jacqueline Borgstedt
- Jake Bhattacharyya
- James Ross
- Jiaqi Wang
- Jingjing Guo
- Jinling Huang
- Jógvan Heindrikur Djurhuus
- Kieran Waugh
- Laura Bajorunaite
- Lin Luo
- Melvin Abraham
- Michael Pelikan
- Monica Duta
- Nesreen Farraj S Alareef
- Noora Alsakar
- Norah Mohsen T Alotaibi
- Omar Namnakani
- Rawan Alsarrani
- Rawan Zreik-Srour
- Robin Bretin
- Sean Westwood
- Shaul Ashkenazi
- Thomas Goodge
- Weiyun Wang
- Xinyu Li
- Zejian Feng
- Zhanyan Qui
- Zoltan Kiss
Projects
Current Projects:
Viajero: The aim of ViAjeRo (Traveller in Spanish) is to radically improve all passenger journeys by facilitating the use of immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality (together called XR) to support entertainment, work and collaboration when on the move (2019 – 2024) – Prof Stephen Brewster (PI). Funded by ERC #835197 (€2,443,657).
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents: The centre will train 50 PhD students in Artificial Social Intelligence, the domain aimed at endowing machines with the ability to understand social interactions like people do (2019-2027) - Prof Alessandro Vinciarelli (PI). Funded by UKRI (£4,902,252).
A toolkit for identification and mitigation of XR dark patterns (2023-2024). Funded by Meta Labs. Mohamed Khamis (PI), Pejman Saeghe (Co-I), Mark McGill (Co-I). ($75,000).
MetaSafeChild: Assessing Child Safety in the Metaverse and Developing Safety-Enhancing Technologies (2023-2024). Funded by REPHRAIN. Mohamed Khamis (PI), Mark McGill (Co-I), Mathieu Chollet (Co-I). (£79,877.82)
Personalised Acceptance and Commitment Therapy through app-based micro- content (PACT-am) – funded by Parkinson’s UK 2022-2024. Dr Simone Stumpf.
RadioMe: Real-time Radio Remixing for people with mild to moderatedementia who live alone, incorporating Agitation Reduction, and Reminders (2019 – 2024) – Prof Stephen Brewster (PI). Funded by EPSRC EP/S026991/1 (£541,362)
FETProact Sonicom: Transforming auditory-based social interaction and communication in AR/VR. Funded by the EU Horizon 2020 program - Prof Alessandro Vinciarelli and Prof Stephen Brewster (€499,876.25)
Horizon digital economy research hub: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/research/ - Prof Matthew Chalmers
Facilitating Parental Insight and Moderation for Safe Social VR (2021-2024) - Dr Mark McGill (Co-I) and Dr Mohamed Khamis (PI). Funded by Facebook Reality Labs ($75,000).
Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences - Dr Mary Ellen Foster (UKRI/Canada joint project).
Horizon: Trusted Data-Driven Products (2020-2025) - Professor Matthew Chalmers (affiiate). Funded by EPSRC EP/T022493/1 (£4M).
Past Projects:
CoDesigning Fair AI (COFAI) – funded by Fujitsu 2019-2021. Dr Simone Stumpf.
PriXR: Protecting Extended Reality (XR) user and bystander privacy by supporting legibility of XR sensing and processing (2022-2023) - Dr Mark McGill (PI), Dr Mohamed Khamis (Co-I). Funded by REPHRAIN (£79,997.14).
Human Data Interaction: Legibility, Agency, Negotiability (2018-2022) - Prof Matthew Chalmers. Funded by EPSRC EP/R045178/1 (£1.04M).
Emergence of Cybersecurity Capability across Critical National Infrastructure (2021-2022) - Dr Mohamed Khamis. Funded by the National Cybersecurity Centre (£140,731 out of which £133,659 for UofG).
EuroFIT: Social innovation to improve physical activity and sedentary behaviour through elite European football (2013-2017) – Prof Matthew Chalmers. Funded by EU FP7.
SoCoRo: Socially Competent Robots (2016 - 2020) - Prof Alessandro Vinciarelli. Funded by the EPSRC (£355,000).
SAM: School Attachment Monitor (2015-2018) - Professor Stephen Brewster. Funded by the EPSRC (£776,875).
MuMMER: MultiModal Mall Entertainment Robot (2016 – 2020) – Dr Mary Ellen Foster. Funded by EU Horizon 2020.
Populations: A Software Populations Approach to UbiComp Systems Design (2011 – 2016) – Prof Matthew Chalmers. Funded by EPSRC (£4M).
EuroFIT: Social innovation to improve physical activity and sedentary behaviour through elite European football (2013-2017) – Prof Matthew Chalmers. Funded by EU FP7 (€5M).
Anyscale Apps (2013 – 2017 - Prof Matthew Chalmers. Funded by EPSRC EP/L000725/1 (£1.1M)
ABBI: Audio Bracelet for Blind Interaction (2014 – 2017) – Prof Stephen Brewster. Funded by EU FP7
HAPPINESS: Haptic Printed Patterned Interfaces for Sensitive Surfaces (2015 – 2018) – Prof Stephen Brewster. Funded by EU Horizon 2020.
Zoo Devices for Animal Welfare and Visitor Education. Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022-2023). Dr Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas (PI). (£65,000).
Effi: End-users fixing fairness issues: Industry-funded investigation into the role and impact of end-user human-in-the-loop tools in ensuring fair Artificial Intelligence (2022-2023) - Dr Simone Stumpf (PI). Funded by Fujitsu Ltd., Japan (£163,000).
A toolkit for identification and mitigation of XR dark patterns - Mohamed Khamis (PI), Pejman Saeghe (Co-I), Mark McGill (Co-I). Funded by Meta Labs ($75,000).
Interaction Design for Trusted Sharing of Personal Health Data to live Well with HIV (INTUIT) – funded by EPSRC 2018-2022. Dr Simone Stumpf.
First RespondXR: Digital vulnerability of immersive training for first responders - Dr Mark McGill. Funded by SPRITE+ (2021-2022)
PT.HEAT: Preventing THErmal ATtacks (2021-2023) - Dr Mohamed Khamis (PI). Funded by PETRAS (£177,075).
TAPS: Assessing, Mitigating and Raising Awareness of the Security and Privacy Risks of Thermal Imaging (2021-2023) - Dr Mohamed Khamis (PI). Funded by EPSRC EP/V008870/1 (£262,119).
Seminar series
We are happy to hear from anyone that would like to visit us to give a talk. The GIST seminar coordinators are Lin Luo
and Dr Mohamed Khamis. Please get in touch with them if you are interested.
You can watch the recordings of the GIST seminar on the GIST Youtube Channel.
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RESEARCH GROUPS IN GIST
Multimodal Interaction Group
The MIG group is led by Stephen Brewster. Find out more about our Multimodal Interaction Group and its research into audio and haptic feedback, gesture and pressure input, accessibility, mobility, in-car and in-home interfaces, and novel interaction techniques.
Performative Interaction
The Performative Interaction group is led by Julie Williamson. Find out more about our research focus on how people use technology in public spaces and how interactive technologies can be designed given the “performative” aspects of using technology in public.
The SIRIUS Lab
The SIRIUS Lab is led by Mohamed Khamis
Behavioural-AI Lab
The Behavioural AI lab is led by Marwa Mahmoud. Find out more about the lab on https://www.behavioural-ai.com/
Mobile Systems
The Mobile Systems group is led by Matthew Chalmers
Human Interactions With ArtificIal intelligence" (HIWA)
The HIWA group is led by Simone Stumpf
Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI)
The ACI group is led by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Find out more about the ACI lab on https://animalcomputerinteraction.com/
Social AI Group
The Social AI group are building the next-generation Artificial Intelligence technologies for detecting, interpreting, and generating human-centric social and emotional phenomena. Find out more on their website