Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
Stephen Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK. His main research interest is Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction, sound and haptics and gestures. Brewster received a PhD in the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of York. He organized the Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) several times and contributed to several scientific books.
 
Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews
Dr. Tristan Henderson has been a Lecturer in Computer Science in the University of St Andrews since December 2006. His research revolves around measuring communications networks and their users. His PhD looked at measuring networked game servers and game players, but more recently he has been investigating new methodologies for measuring mobile, wireless and online social networks and their users. He attempts to use the results of this network measurement to build more usable networks. Specifically networks which support the functionality that users desire. For instance we can use network measurement to improve security and privacy so that people can use pervasive sensor networks. Or we can measure network behaviour and use this to inform the design of future networks. He is one of the Workshop Organisers for Health, Wealth and Identity Theft: Designing and evaluating usable security and privacy mechanisms for online happiness a Workshop at the British HCI 2011 conference, and organised the Privacy and Usability Methods Pow-wow at British HCI 2010.
 
Eva Hornecker, University of Strathclyde
Dr. Eva Hornecker is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. In previous lives, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Pervasive Interaction Lab at the Open University and the University of Sussex (on the Equator project) in the UK, and an Acting Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the TU Vienna in Austria. Dr. Hornecker’s research interests concern multimodal, tangible and embodied interaction, CSCW, user research, design methods, and qualitative research methods for understanding user interaction with ‘beyond the desktop’ technologies. She has conducted several studies investigating user interaction with museum installations, including an evaluation of a museum exhibition on the development of new media technology in the Technical Museum Vienna, and most recently worked with the National Trust Scotland to user test prototypes of touchscreen installations for the Robert Burns Birthplace museum.
 
Antonio Krüger, Saarland University
Antonio Krüger is a professor of computer science at Saarland University where he heads the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab, and is the scientific director of the Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL) at the German Research Center for AI (DFKI). From 2004 to 2009 he was an associate professor for Geoinformatics and Computer Science at Münster University, Germany. From 2005 to 2009 he was the managing director of the institute for Geoinformatics at the same University. From 1999-2003 he was a Senior Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab of Saarland University and in 2000 he co-founded the University spin-off Eyeled GmbH, a company focusing on mobile computing solutions. Antonio’s main research areas are Intelligent User Interfaces and mobile and ubiquitous context-aware Systems. Some recent project include interactive display networks, mobile augmented reality and interactive surface computing. Antonio is co-organising the annual Smart-Graphics Symposium and served on various program committees in the field of intelligent mobile systems, e.g. Intelligent User Interfaces, User Modeling, Ubicomp, Mobisys, and Pervasive Computing.
 
William Mackaness, University of Edinburgh
Dr. William Mackaness is a Senior Lecturer with the School of GeoSciences in the University of Edinburgh and is involved with the EU FP7 project SpaceBook which aims to prototype a speech-driven, hands-free, eyes-free device for pedestrian navigation and exploration. His research is concerned with the application of statistical and visualisation techniques to geographical problem solving (including the use of exploratory data analysis). Beyond application, his interests are focused on theories of scale, and the characterisation of geographic space. There are significant challenges in modeling geographic space at multiple scales, in storing that information in a meaningful way such that it can support intuitive exploration of geographic pattern and process at multiple levels of detail. These ideas have relevance in real and virtual worlds, and present additional challenges when applied to the domain of location based services, and way-finding services – two areas he is particularly interested in researching.
 
Miguel Nacenta, University of Calgary
Dr. Miguel Nacenta will be joining the University of St Andrews as a lecturer in May 2011 from his current position as a post-doctoral fellow at the Interactions Lab, University of Calgary, Canada. He holds an electrical engineering degree from the Technical University of Madrid (Ingeniero Superior, UPM), and a doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Carl Gutwin. Miguel’s research is focused on developing input and output technology that can extend human capabilities. He is interested in applying perceptual and social principles to novel multi-display, haptic, and multi-modal interfaces.
 
Jon Oberlander, University of Edinburgh
Jon Oberlander holds a Chair in Epistemics in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge, UK (1983), and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh (1987), and has been an EPSRC Advanced Fellow at the ESRC Human Communication Research Centre. He was founder-Director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, a £29M initiative bringing together leading researchers in 10 institutions across Scotland. He is now Director of Knowledge Exchange for SICSA, and leads on a new initiative on Smart Tourism. He is also Director of Inspace, a 300m2 instrumented living lab, designed to help explore the cultural significance of informatics and new media practice. His research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics and cognitive science, and aims at getting computers to talk (and write) like individual people. He has a long-standing interest in personalization via natural language generation, particularly in the field of cultural heritage. This has led to work on context-sensitive interpretation and navigation in both virtual and physical museums, and most recently to projects focusing on human-robot interaction.
 
Antti Oulasvirta, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
Dr. Antti Oulasvirta is a Senior Researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT where he co-directs the Ubiquitous Interaction group. His research focus lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, mobile and ubiquitous computing, and cognitive psychology. He received his doctorate in Cognitive Science from the University of Helsinki in 2006, after which he was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Information in UC Berkeley. During his postgraduate studies, he was an exchange student at UC Berkeley’s Neuropsychology Lab and did an internship at T-Labs in Berlin. Dr. Oulasvirta is a docent (adjunct faculty) of computer science at the University of Helsinki and a docent of cognitive science at the University of Jyväskylä.
 
Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, Professor Aaron Quigley is the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is the director of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group and his appointment is part of SICSA the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. His research interests include surface and multi-display computing, human computer interaction, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation. He is the chair of the steering committee for the International Conference series on Pervasive Computing and the Editor-In-Chief for the Journal “Computers”. Aaron has had leading roles in over a dozen international conferences and has served on over sixty international conference and workshops program committees. He has published over 110 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers and holds 3 patents. He is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM and a recipient of a National Institute of Engineers Australia award for excellence in engineering education.
 
Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart
Albrecht Schmidt is a professor for Human Computer Interaction at the University of Stuttgart. Previously he was a Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen, had a joined position between the University of Bonn and the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). He studied computer science in Ulm and Manchester and received in 2003 a PhD from the Lancaster University in the UK. His research interest is in human computer interaction beyond the desktop, including user interfaces for mobile devices and cars. Albrecht published well over 100 refereed archival publications and his work is widely cited. He is co-founder of the ACM conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI) and initiated the conference on Automotive User Interfaces (auto-ui.org). He is an area editor of the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine and edits a column on invisible Computing in the IEEE Computer Magazine. He is currently serving as the Program co-chair for Mobile HCI 2011.
 
Chris Speed is Reader in Digital Spaces across the Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he teaches undergraduate, masters and supervises PhD students.
Chris has sustained a critical enquiry into how digital technology can engage with the field of architecture and human geography through a variety of established international digital art contexts including: International Symposium on Electronic Art, Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth, Ars Electronica, Consciousness Reframed, Sonic Acts, LoveBytes, We Love Technology, Sonic Arts Festival, MELT, Less Remote, FutureSonic, and the Arts Catalyst / Leonardo symposium held alongside The International Astronautical Congress.
Chris is the PI on three significant RCUK funded projects: 1. TOTeM/Talesofthings investigating social memory within the ‘Internet of Things’ funded by the Digital Economy (£1.4mill), the project has gained international attention for its unique ability to allow users to attach memories to personal objects, 2. the JISC funded iPhone app Walking Through Time that overlays contemporary Google maps with historical maps in Edinburgh allowing users to walk roads that no longer exist and inhabit spaces that have since been erased , and 3. Community Web2.0: creative control through hacking’. This £40K feasibility study will explore the extent to which parallels between virtual society (Internet) and actual society (communities) may be extended in such a way that helps make sense of both the opportunities and risks of the Big Society for communities.

Jon Gill, Superfly
Summer school attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a “tourist game” around St Andrews, run by Jon Gill from Superfly.

SuperFly conceive and manage creative and engaging events!
We have two key aims:

1. To provide a platform for creatives (which is free from submission fees)
2. To present their work in spaces not usually associated with exhibitions

In the past two years SuperFly has curated various, unusually situated, outdoor art exhibitions. Then, in November 2010 SuperFly developed a QR Treasure hunt for the NEoN Digital Arts festival, and in March 2011 we ran another QR hunt for the Game To Learn conference run in partnership by JISC and Learning and Teaching Scotland. We are primarily interested in storytelling. With the QR hunts we are interested in the stories which are formed through the experience of participation and how these stories might be captured, documented and shared. We have some great ideas up our sleeves for St Andrews and look forward to putting participants through their paces across this great city.