Dr Euan Freeman

  • Lecturer (School of Computing Science)

telephone: 01413302333
email: Euan.Freeman@glasgow.ac.uk

220A, School of Computing Science, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951

Biography

I am a Lecturer in the Glasgow Interactive Systems Section.

My research explores new haptic interaction techniques, to create new digital experiences that take full advantage of our sense of touch and our physical capabilities. My work covers several aspects of haptic interaction, including mid-air gestures, vibrotactile feedback and ultrasound haptic interaction. I also have expertise in acoustic levitation and tangible interaction.

I have worked alongside Huawei, Nokia, and Ultraleap. Read more about my work at my personal website: euanfreeman.co.uk

Research interests

My vision is of computing devices that take advantage of our haptic perceptual capabilities, so that we experience the digital world with the same richness of experience as the physical world. Current computing devices have high definition audio and visual output, but fail to take advantage of our sense of touch. My work addresses this gap. I am generally interested in all areas of haptics, but have expertise in ultrasound haptic feedback and mid-air gesture interaction.

Previous projects:

Publications

Selected publications

Khan, Saiful, Nguyen, Phong H., Abdul-Rahman, Alfie, Bach, Benjamin, Chen, Min, Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 and Turkay, Cagatay (2022) Propagating Visual Designs to Numerous Plots and Dashboards. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), pp. 86-95. (doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114828) (PMID:34587060)

Rakkolainen, Ismo, Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951, Sand, Antti, Raisamo, Roope and Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 (2021) A survey of mid-air ultrasound haptics and its applications. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(1), pp. 2-19. (doi: 10.1109/TOH.2020.3018754)

Mcgill, Mark, Kehoe, Aidan, Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 and Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 (2020) Expanding the bounds of seated virtual workspaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(3), 13. (doi: 10.1145/3380959)

Dhandapani, Gloria, Ferguson, Jamie and Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 (2021) HapticLock: Eyes-Free Authentication for Mobile Devices. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 195-202. ISBN 978145038481-0 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3481001)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951, Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 and Lantz, Vuokko (2016) Do That, There: An Interaction Technique for Addressing In-Air Gesture Systems. In: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, (doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858308)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 (2021) Enhancing Ultrasound Haptics with Parametric Audio Effects. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 692-696. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479951)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951, Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 and Lantz, Vuokko (2014) Tactile Feedback for Above-Device Gesture Interfaces. In: 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 12-16 2014, pp. 419-426. ISBN 9781450328852 (doi: 10.1145/2663204.2663280)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 and Wilson, Graham (2021) Perception of Ultrasound Haptic Focal Point Motion. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 697-701. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479950)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951, Wilson, Graham, Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899, Baud-Bovy, Gabriel, Magnusson, Charlotte and Caltenco, Hector (2017) Audible Beacons and Wearables in Schools: Helping Young Visually Impaired Children Play and Move Independently. In: CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, USA, 6-11 May 2017, pp. 4146-4157. ISBN 9781450346559 (doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025518)

Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951, Williamson, Julie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-1393, Subramanian, Sriram and Brewster, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 (2018) Point-and-Shake: Selecting from Levitating Object Displays. In: 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, QC, Canada, 21-26 Apr 2018, p. 18. ISBN 9781450356206 (doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173592)

Cronin, Sean, Freeman, Euan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6586-6951 and Doherty, Gavin (2022) Investigating Clutching Interactions for Touchless Medical Imaging Systems. In: 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 351. ISBN 9781450391573 (doi: 10.1145/3491102.3517512)

All publications

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Number of items: 45.

2025

Al-Taie, A. , Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. A. (2025) evARything, evARywhere, all at once: Exploring Scalable Holistic Autonomous Vehicle-Cyclist Interfaces. In: ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, p. 82. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713412)

Waugh, K. , McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2025) Everything to Gain: Combining Area Cursors with Increased Control-Display Gain for Fast and Accurate Touchless Input. In: ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, p. 726. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3714021)

Wilson, G., McCready, J., Freeman, E. , Mathis, F., Russell, H. and McGill, M. (2025) InterFACE: Establishing a Facial Action Unit Input Vocabulary for Hands-Free Extended Reality Interactions, From VR Gaming to AR Web Browsing. In: ACM CHI 2025, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April - 1 May 2025, p. 607. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713694)

2024

Macdonald, S. , Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. (2024) Prototyping and evaluation of emotionally resonant vibrotactile comfort objects as a calming social anxiety intervention. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(4), pp. 1-48. 46. (doi: 10.1145/3648615)

Al Taie, A. J. S. , Wilson, G., Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. (2024) Light it Up: Evaluating Versatile Autonomous Vehicle-Cyclist External Human-Machine Interfaces. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, 11-16 May 2024, ISBN 9798400703300 (doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642019)

2023

Waugh, K., McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2023) Proxemic Cursor Interactions for Touchless Widget Control. In: SUI '23: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction Sydney NSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 13-15 Oct 2023, ISBN 9798400702815 (doi: 10.1145/3607822.3614525)

Bach, B., Freeman, E. , Abdul-Rahman, A., Turkay, C., Khan, S., Fan, Y. and Chen, M. (2023) Dashboard design patterns. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1), pp. 342-352. (doi: 10.1109/tvcg.2022.3209448)

2022

Waugh, K., McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2022) Push or Pinch? Exploring Slider Control Gestures for Touchless User Interfaces. In: NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-12 October 2022, p. 37. ISBN 9781450396998 (doi: 10.1145/3546155.3546702)

Dykes, J. et al. (2022) Visualization for epidemiological modelling: challenges, solutions, reflections and recommendations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380(2233), 20210299. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0299) (PMID:35965467) (PMCID:PMC9376715)

Khan, S., Nguyen, P. H., Abdul-Rahman, A., Freeman, E. , Turkay, C. and Chen, M. (2022) Rapid development of a data visualization service in an emergency response. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15(3), pp. 1251-1264. (doi: 10.1109/TSC.2022.3164146)

Cronin, S., Freeman, E. and Doherty, G. (2022) Investigating Clutching Interactions for Touchless Medical Imaging Systems. In: 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 351. ISBN 9781450391573 (doi: 10.1145/3491102.3517512)

Khan, S., Nguyen, P. H., Abdul-Rahman, A., Bach, B., Chen, M., Freeman, E. and Turkay, C. (2022) Propagating Visual Designs to Numerous Plots and Dashboards. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), pp. 86-95. (doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114828) (PMID:34587060)

2021

Freeman, E. and Wilson, G. (2021) Perception of Ultrasound Haptic Focal Point Motion. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 697-701. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479950)

Freeman, E. (2021) Enhancing Ultrasound Haptics with Parametric Audio Effects. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 692-696. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479951)

Macdonald, S. A. , Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Pollick, F. (2021) User Preferences for Calming Affective Haptic Stimuli in Social Settings. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 387-396. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479903)

Morales González, R., Marzo, A., Freeman, E. , Frier, W. and Georgiou, O. (2021) UltraPower: Powering Tangible and Wearable Devices with Focused Ultrasound. In: Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’21), Salzburg, Austria, 14-17 Feb 2021, ISBN 9781450382137 (doi: 10.1145/3430524.3440620)

Rakkolainen, I., Freeman, E. , Sand, A., Raisamo, R. and Brewster, S. (2021) A survey of mid-air ultrasound haptics and its applications. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(1), pp. 2-19. (doi: 10.1109/TOH.2020.3018754)

Dhandapani, G., Ferguson, J. and Freeman, E. (2021) HapticLock: Eyes-Free Authentication for Mobile Devices. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 195-202. ISBN 978145038481-0 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3481001)

Ferguson, J., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2021) Investigating the Effect of Polarity in Auditory and Vibrotactile Displays Under Cognitive Load. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 379-386. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479911)

2020

McGill, M., Gugenheimer, J. and Freeman, E. (2020) A Quest for Co-Located Mixed Reality: Aligning and Assessing SLAM Tracking for Same-Space Multi-User Experiences. In: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality, Software and Technology (VRST 2020), 1-4 Nov 2020, ISBN 9781450376198 (doi: 10.1145/3385956.3418968)

Mcgill, M., Kehoe, A., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2020) Expanding the bounds of seated virtual workspaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(3), 13. (doi: 10.1145/3380959)

Reynal, M. , Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2020) Avoiding Collisions when Interacting with Levitating Particle Displays. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI' 20 Extended Abstracts), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 April 2020, ISBN 9781450368193 (doi: 10.1145/3334480.3382965)

2019

Freeman, E. , Vo, D.-B. and Brewster, S. (2019) HaptiGlow: Helping Users Position their Hands for Better Mid-Air Gestures and Ultrasound Haptic Feedback. In: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019, the 8th Joint Eurohaptics Conference and the IEEE Haptics Symposium (WHC 2019), Tokyo, Japan, 9-12 July 2019, ISBN 9781538694619 (doi: 10.1109/WHC.2019.8816092)

Freeman, E. , Marzo, A., Kourtelos, P. B., Williamson, J. R. and Brewster, S. (2019) Enhancing Physical Objects with Actuated Levitating Particles. In: 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis ’19), Palermo, Italy, 12-14 Jun 2019, ISBN 9781450367516 (doi: 10.1145/3321335.3324939)

2018

Freeman, E. , Williamson, J. R. , Kourtelos, P. and Brewster, S. (2018) Levitating Particle Displays with Interactive Voxels. In: 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis ’18), Munich, Germany, 06-08 Jun 2018, p. 15. ISBN 9781450357654 (doi: 10.1145/3205873.3205878)

Freeman, E. , Williamson, J. , Subramanian, S. and Brewster, S. (2018) Point-and-Shake: Selecting from Levitating Object Displays. In: 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, QC, Canada, 21-26 Apr 2018, p. 18. ISBN 9781450356206 (doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173592)

2017

Williamson, J. , Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2017) Levitate: Interaction with Floating Particle Displays. In: 6th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, Lugano, Switzerland, 7-9 June 2017, Article 24. ISBN 9781450350457 (doi: 10.1145/3078810.3084347)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G., Brewster, S. , Baud-Bovy, G., Magnusson, C. and Caltenco, H. (2017) Audible Beacons and Wearables in Schools: Helping Young Visually Impaired Children Play and Move Independently. In: CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, USA, 6-11 May 2017, pp. 4146-4157. ISBN 9781450346559 (doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025518)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G., Vo, D.-B. , Ng, A., Politis, I. and Brewster, S. (2017) Multimodal feedback in HCI: haptics, non-speech audio and their applications. In: Oviatt, Sharon (ed.) Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces. ACM Books, Morgan-Claypool, pp. 277-317. ISBN 9781970001679 (doi: 10.1145/3015783.3015792)

Freeman, E. , Anderson, R., Andersson, C., Williamson, J. and Brewster, S. (2017) Floating Widgets: Interaction with Acoustically-Levitated Widgets. In: 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '17), Brighton, UK, 17-20 Oct 2017, pp. 417-420. ISBN 9781450346917 (doi: 10.1145/3132272.3132294)

Freeman, E. , Anderson, R., Williamson, J. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. A. (2017) Textured Surfaces for Ultrasound Haptic Displays. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 491-492. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3143020)

Freeman, E. , Griffiths, G. and Brewster, S. (2017) Rhythmic Micro-Gestures: Discreet Interaction On-the-Go. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 115-119. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3136815)

2016

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2016) Do That, There: An Interaction Technique for Addressing In-Air Gesture Systems. In: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, (doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858308)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. (2016) Automatically Adapting Home Lighting to Assist Visually Impaired Children. In: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI '16, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 Oct 2016, ISBN 9781450347631 (doi: 10.1145/2971485.2996742)

Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2016) Using Sound to Help Visually Impaired Children Play Independently. In: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, ISBN 9781450340823 (doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892534)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. (2016) Towards a Multimodal Adaptive Lighting System for Visually Impaired Children. In: 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, 12-16 Nov 2016, pp. 398-399. ISBN 9781450345569 (doi: 10.1145/2993148.2998521)

Wilson, G., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2016) Multimodal Affective Feedback: Combining Thermal, Vibrotactile, Audio and Visual Signals. In: 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, 12-16 Nov 2016, pp. 400-401. ISBN 9781450345569 (doi: 10.1145/2993148.2998522)

2015

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2015) Interactive Light Feedback: Illuminating Above-Device Gesture Interfaces. In: INTERACT 2015, Bamberg,Germany, 14-18 Sep 2015, pp. 478-481. ISBN 9783319227221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_42)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2015) Towards In-Air Gesture Control of Household Appliances with Limited Displays. In: INTERACT 2015, Bamberg,Germany, 14-18 Sep 2015, pp. 611-615. ISBN 9783319227221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_73)

2014

Freeman, E. (2014) Effective Multimodal Feedback For Around-device interfaces. In: MobileHCI '14: 16th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services, Toronto, Canada, 23-26 Sep 2014, pp. 399-400. ISBN 9781450330046 (doi: 10.1145/2628363.2634264)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2014) Tactile Feedback for Above-Device Gesture Interfaces. In: 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 12-16 2014, pp. 419-426. ISBN 9781450328852 (doi: 10.1145/2663204.2663280)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2014) Towards Usable and Acceptable Above-Device Interactions. In: MobileHCI '14: 16th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services, Toronto, Canada, 23-26 Sep 2014, pp. 459-464. ISBN 9781450330046 (doi: 10.1145/2628363.2634215)

2013

Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2013) Messy Tabletops: Clearing Up The Occlusion Problem. In: CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, 27 Apr - 2 May 2013, pp. 1515-1520. ISBN 9781450319522

2012

Purchase, H.C. , Freeman, E. and Hamer, J. (2012) Predicting Visual Complexity. In: Predicting Perceptions. The 3rd International Conference on Appearance, Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-19 April 2012, pp. 62-65.

Purchase, H.C. , Freeman, E. and Hamer, J. (2012) An Exploration of Visual Complexity. In: Theory and Application of Diagrams, Canterbury, England, 2-6 July 2012, pp. 200-213.

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Articles

Macdonald, S. , Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. (2024) Prototyping and evaluation of emotionally resonant vibrotactile comfort objects as a calming social anxiety intervention. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(4), pp. 1-48. 46. (doi: 10.1145/3648615)

Bach, B., Freeman, E. , Abdul-Rahman, A., Turkay, C., Khan, S., Fan, Y. and Chen, M. (2023) Dashboard design patterns. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1), pp. 342-352. (doi: 10.1109/tvcg.2022.3209448)

Dykes, J. et al. (2022) Visualization for epidemiological modelling: challenges, solutions, reflections and recommendations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 380(2233), 20210299. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0299) (PMID:35965467) (PMCID:PMC9376715)

Khan, S., Nguyen, P. H., Abdul-Rahman, A., Freeman, E. , Turkay, C. and Chen, M. (2022) Rapid development of a data visualization service in an emergency response. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15(3), pp. 1251-1264. (doi: 10.1109/TSC.2022.3164146)

Khan, S., Nguyen, P. H., Abdul-Rahman, A., Bach, B., Chen, M., Freeman, E. and Turkay, C. (2022) Propagating Visual Designs to Numerous Plots and Dashboards. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(1), pp. 86-95. (doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2021.3114828) (PMID:34587060)

Rakkolainen, I., Freeman, E. , Sand, A., Raisamo, R. and Brewster, S. (2021) A survey of mid-air ultrasound haptics and its applications. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(1), pp. 2-19. (doi: 10.1109/TOH.2020.3018754)

Mcgill, M., Kehoe, A., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2020) Expanding the bounds of seated virtual workspaces. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(3), 13. (doi: 10.1145/3380959)

Book Sections

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G., Vo, D.-B. , Ng, A., Politis, I. and Brewster, S. (2017) Multimodal feedback in HCI: haptics, non-speech audio and their applications. In: Oviatt, Sharon (ed.) Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces. ACM Books, Morgan-Claypool, pp. 277-317. ISBN 9781970001679 (doi: 10.1145/3015783.3015792)

Conference Proceedings

Al-Taie, A. , Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. A. (2025) evARything, evARywhere, all at once: Exploring Scalable Holistic Autonomous Vehicle-Cyclist Interfaces. In: ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, p. 82. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713412)

Waugh, K. , McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2025) Everything to Gain: Combining Area Cursors with Increased Control-Display Gain for Fast and Accurate Touchless Input. In: ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), Yokohama, Japan, 26 Apr - 01 May 2025, p. 726. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3714021)

Wilson, G., McCready, J., Freeman, E. , Mathis, F., Russell, H. and McGill, M. (2025) InterFACE: Establishing a Facial Action Unit Input Vocabulary for Hands-Free Extended Reality Interactions, From VR Gaming to AR Web Browsing. In: ACM CHI 2025, Yokohama, Japan, 26 April - 1 May 2025, p. 607. ISBN 9798400713941 (doi: 10.1145/3706598.3713694)

Al Taie, A. J. S. , Wilson, G., Freeman, E. , Pollick, F. and Brewster, S. (2024) Light it Up: Evaluating Versatile Autonomous Vehicle-Cyclist External Human-Machine Interfaces. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, 11-16 May 2024, ISBN 9798400703300 (doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642019)

Waugh, K., McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2023) Proxemic Cursor Interactions for Touchless Widget Control. In: SUI '23: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction Sydney NSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 13-15 Oct 2023, ISBN 9798400702815 (doi: 10.1145/3607822.3614525)

Waugh, K., McGill, M. and Freeman, E. (2022) Push or Pinch? Exploring Slider Control Gestures for Touchless User Interfaces. In: NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-12 October 2022, p. 37. ISBN 9781450396998 (doi: 10.1145/3546155.3546702)

Cronin, S., Freeman, E. and Doherty, G. (2022) Investigating Clutching Interactions for Touchless Medical Imaging Systems. In: 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22), New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 Apr - 05 May 2022, p. 351. ISBN 9781450391573 (doi: 10.1145/3491102.3517512)

Freeman, E. and Wilson, G. (2021) Perception of Ultrasound Haptic Focal Point Motion. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 697-701. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479950)

Freeman, E. (2021) Enhancing Ultrasound Haptics with Parametric Audio Effects. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 692-696. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479951)

Macdonald, S. A. , Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Pollick, F. (2021) User Preferences for Calming Affective Haptic Stimuli in Social Settings. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 387-396. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479903)

Morales González, R., Marzo, A., Freeman, E. , Frier, W. and Georgiou, O. (2021) UltraPower: Powering Tangible and Wearable Devices with Focused Ultrasound. In: Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’21), Salzburg, Austria, 14-17 Feb 2021, ISBN 9781450382137 (doi: 10.1145/3430524.3440620)

Dhandapani, G., Ferguson, J. and Freeman, E. (2021) HapticLock: Eyes-Free Authentication for Mobile Devices. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 195-202. ISBN 978145038481-0 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3481001)

Ferguson, J., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2021) Investigating the Effect of Polarity in Auditory and Vibrotactile Displays Under Cognitive Load. In: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’21), Montréal, QC, Canada, 18-22 Oct 2021, pp. 379-386. ISBN 9781450384810 (doi: 10.1145/3462244.3479911)

McGill, M., Gugenheimer, J. and Freeman, E. (2020) A Quest for Co-Located Mixed Reality: Aligning and Assessing SLAM Tracking for Same-Space Multi-User Experiences. In: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality, Software and Technology (VRST 2020), 1-4 Nov 2020, ISBN 9781450376198 (doi: 10.1145/3385956.3418968)

Reynal, M. , Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2020) Avoiding Collisions when Interacting with Levitating Particle Displays. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI' 20 Extended Abstracts), Honolulu, HI, USA, 25-30 April 2020, ISBN 9781450368193 (doi: 10.1145/3334480.3382965)

Freeman, E. , Vo, D.-B. and Brewster, S. (2019) HaptiGlow: Helping Users Position their Hands for Better Mid-Air Gestures and Ultrasound Haptic Feedback. In: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019, the 8th Joint Eurohaptics Conference and the IEEE Haptics Symposium (WHC 2019), Tokyo, Japan, 9-12 July 2019, ISBN 9781538694619 (doi: 10.1109/WHC.2019.8816092)

Freeman, E. , Marzo, A., Kourtelos, P. B., Williamson, J. R. and Brewster, S. (2019) Enhancing Physical Objects with Actuated Levitating Particles. In: 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis ’19), Palermo, Italy, 12-14 Jun 2019, ISBN 9781450367516 (doi: 10.1145/3321335.3324939)

Freeman, E. , Williamson, J. R. , Kourtelos, P. and Brewster, S. (2018) Levitating Particle Displays with Interactive Voxels. In: 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis ’18), Munich, Germany, 06-08 Jun 2018, p. 15. ISBN 9781450357654 (doi: 10.1145/3205873.3205878)

Freeman, E. , Williamson, J. , Subramanian, S. and Brewster, S. (2018) Point-and-Shake: Selecting from Levitating Object Displays. In: 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montréal, QC, Canada, 21-26 Apr 2018, p. 18. ISBN 9781450356206 (doi: 10.1145/3173574.3173592)

Williamson, J. , Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2017) Levitate: Interaction with Floating Particle Displays. In: 6th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, Lugano, Switzerland, 7-9 June 2017, Article 24. ISBN 9781450350457 (doi: 10.1145/3078810.3084347)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G., Brewster, S. , Baud-Bovy, G., Magnusson, C. and Caltenco, H. (2017) Audible Beacons and Wearables in Schools: Helping Young Visually Impaired Children Play and Move Independently. In: CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO, USA, 6-11 May 2017, pp. 4146-4157. ISBN 9781450346559 (doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025518)

Freeman, E. , Anderson, R., Andersson, C., Williamson, J. and Brewster, S. (2017) Floating Widgets: Interaction with Acoustically-Levitated Widgets. In: 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS '17), Brighton, UK, 17-20 Oct 2017, pp. 417-420. ISBN 9781450346917 (doi: 10.1145/3132272.3132294)

Freeman, E. , Anderson, R., Williamson, J. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. A. (2017) Textured Surfaces for Ultrasound Haptic Displays. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 491-492. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3143020)

Freeman, E. , Griffiths, G. and Brewster, S. (2017) Rhythmic Micro-Gestures: Discreet Interaction On-the-Go. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 115-119. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3136815)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2016) Do That, There: An Interaction Technique for Addressing In-Air Gesture Systems. In: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, (doi: 10.1145/2858036.2858308)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. (2016) Automatically Adapting Home Lighting to Assist Visually Impaired Children. In: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI '16, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 Oct 2016, ISBN 9781450347631 (doi: 10.1145/2971485.2996742)

Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2016) Using Sound to Help Visually Impaired Children Play Independently. In: CHI 2016, San Jose, CA, USA, 7-12 May 2016, ISBN 9781450340823 (doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892534)

Freeman, E. , Wilson, G. and Brewster, S. (2016) Towards a Multimodal Adaptive Lighting System for Visually Impaired Children. In: 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, 12-16 Nov 2016, pp. 398-399. ISBN 9781450345569 (doi: 10.1145/2993148.2998521)

Wilson, G., Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2016) Multimodal Affective Feedback: Combining Thermal, Vibrotactile, Audio and Visual Signals. In: 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, 12-16 Nov 2016, pp. 400-401. ISBN 9781450345569 (doi: 10.1145/2993148.2998522)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2015) Interactive Light Feedback: Illuminating Above-Device Gesture Interfaces. In: INTERACT 2015, Bamberg,Germany, 14-18 Sep 2015, pp. 478-481. ISBN 9783319227221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_42)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2015) Towards In-Air Gesture Control of Household Appliances with Limited Displays. In: INTERACT 2015, Bamberg,Germany, 14-18 Sep 2015, pp. 611-615. ISBN 9783319227221 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_73)

Freeman, E. (2014) Effective Multimodal Feedback For Around-device interfaces. In: MobileHCI '14: 16th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services, Toronto, Canada, 23-26 Sep 2014, pp. 399-400. ISBN 9781450330046 (doi: 10.1145/2628363.2634264)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2014) Tactile Feedback for Above-Device Gesture Interfaces. In: 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 12-16 2014, pp. 419-426. ISBN 9781450328852 (doi: 10.1145/2663204.2663280)

Freeman, E. , Brewster, S. and Lantz, V. (2014) Towards Usable and Acceptable Above-Device Interactions. In: MobileHCI '14: 16th International Conference On Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services, Toronto, Canada, 23-26 Sep 2014, pp. 459-464. ISBN 9781450330046 (doi: 10.1145/2628363.2634215)

Freeman, E. and Brewster, S. (2013) Messy Tabletops: Clearing Up The Occlusion Problem. In: CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, 27 Apr - 2 May 2013, pp. 1515-1520. ISBN 9781450319522

Purchase, H.C. , Freeman, E. and Hamer, J. (2012) Predicting Visual Complexity. In: Predicting Perceptions. The 3rd International Conference on Appearance, Edinburgh, Scotland, 17-19 April 2012, pp. 62-65.

Purchase, H.C. , Freeman, E. and Hamer, J. (2012) An Exploration of Visual Complexity. In: Theory and Application of Diagrams, Canterbury, England, 2-6 July 2012, pp. 200-213.

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Grants

  • €60,000 from Huawei. Co-Investigator on a project investigating mid-air interaction with mobile devices. Started summer 2019.
  • €35,500 donation from Nokia. Co-Investigator on "Haptic Feedback for Immersive Interaction with Virtual Environments". Started late 2016.
  • PhD studentship and donation from Nokia to fund my PhD research.

Supervision

I am interested in supervising PhD candidates on topics related to haptic interaction. Including (but not limited to) novel interaction techniques, mid-air gestures, new haptic devices, ultrasound haptics and tangible interaction. Please email to chat with me if you're interested!

  • Ross, James
    Technology-Enhanced Skateboarding
  • Waugh, Kieran
    Improving the Usability of Contactless User Interfaces for Public Kiosks

I have supervised several PGT and UG projects in recent years, typically investigating new ways of interacting with mobile and wearable devices.

Teaching

  • MSc CS+ and MSc IT+ Deputy Programme Director: 2020/2021 - Present
  • Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (H/M): 2018/2019 - Present
  • Research Methods & Techniques (MSci): 2019/2020 - Present
  • Human-Computer Interaction: Design & Evaluation (M): 2017/2018

Research datasets

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Number of items: 1.

2023

McGill, M., Waugh, K. and Freeman, E. (2023) User Study Data for "Proxemic Cursor Interactions for Touchless Widget Control". [Data Collection]

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