Professor Aaron Quigley is currently in Singapore on sabbatical with the CUTE centre. His welcome seminar was on the topic of Discreet Computing and showcased a number of SACHI projects.
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The SICSA HCI theme has an annual all hands meeting and in 2019, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group (SACHI) is organising and hosting this event in St Andrews today.
This year we took the opportunity to create a unique event where we invited all the subcommittee chairs of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) to join us and present an introduction to their research. Today twenty of these chairs will join nearly 100 HCI researchers from across Scotland. We will have presentations from our visitors from around the world and from across SICSA.

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Professor Aaron Quigley will be a keynote speaker at the Mensch-und-Computer conference 2019 in Hamburg Germany in September of 2019. This series of symposia takes place each year in different German-speaking countries. This is one of the largest HCI conferences in Europe each year with over 700 delegates from industry and academia. Usability Professionals and Scientists come together in a multi-track program with long papers, short contributions, demos, tutorials and workshops. Submissions are possible in German and English.

Aaron will be a keynote speaker at the IEEE VISSOFT 2018 conference later this year. “The sixth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2018) builds upon the success of the previous four editions of VISSOFT, which in turn followed after six editions of the IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT) and five editions of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVIS). Software visualization is a broad research area encompassing concepts, methods, tools, and techniques that assist in a range of software engineering and software development activities. Covered aspects include the development and evaluation of approaches for visually analyzing software and software systems, including their structure, execution behavior, and evolution.”

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The University of St Andrews and Primorska are soon to agree to award a joint degree with the title of Doctor of Philosophy (on condition that the joint PhD study programme in Computer Science will gain accreditation of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education). This represents the culmination of many months of effort from Drs Matjaž Kljun, Klen Čopič Pucihar and Professor Aaron Quigley. Aaron and Matjaž first met at the UMAP conference in 2011 in Spain as mentor and mentee in the PhD doctoral program. Since then, Matjaž and Klen who undertook their PhDs in the University of Lancaster have returned to Slovenia to establish and exciting program of HCI research and development in the HICUP lab. In 2017 a program of international support (Slovenian/English) allowed them to invite Aaron to Slovenia for three weeks and this has resulted in a number of join grant submissions and the establishment of this co-tutelle program. We look forward to many years collaborating and we look forward to this new PhD student starting later this year.

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Media articles relating to research, developments and spin-outs from SACHI.

• This smartphone app plays smooth jazz when you put it on the sofa TechRadar 5 Sep 2017
• Scots researchers make phone that uses AI to detect different surfaces  The Scotsman 7 Sep 2017
• 文字入力の方法を再発明。ボールを転がして文字を選んでタップ、片手での操作が簡単に Gizmodo Japan 29 March 2017
• Tilt gesture keyboard could hold promise for typing in VR TechCrunch 17 Mar 2017
• SWiM: an evolution in one-handed texting The Scotsman 17 March
• Why Don’t More UIs Use Accelerometers? Fast Co.Design 11 March 2017

University Press Releases

• New technology could revolutionise smartphone use
• SWiM: an evolution in one-handed texting

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Gala who undertook her honours project in SACHI has been awarded the Young Software Engineer of the Year 2017 by ScotlandIS.

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Please note that this seminar is confirmed for Purdie C on Wednesday October 4th between 14:00 and 15:00
Title: New file metaphors for a networked world
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• This smartphone app plays smooth jazz when you put it on the sofa TechRadar 5 Sep 2017
• New app could make your phone learn its exact location ETTelecom.com 5 Sep 2017
• You might never have to search for your phone again thanks to SpeCam  Android Authority (blog) 7 Sep 2017
• SpeCam Helps Phones To ‘See’ Surfaces & Respond With Actions Android Headlines 6 Sep 2017
• Scots researchers make phone that uses AI to detect different surfaces  The Scotsman 7 Sep 2017
• New technology allows smartphone to recognise surfaces  FutureScot (blog) 6 Sep 2017
• New app could make your phone detect its exact location AZERTAC News 8 Sep 2017
• See: Full Project Page
  Citation:
  SpeCam: sensing surface color and material with the front-facing camera of a mobile device.
  Hui-Shyong Yeo, Juyoung Lee, Andrea Bianchi, David Harris-Birtill, and Aaron Quigley. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3098279.3098541
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Members of SACHI will be at the upcoming MobileHCI’17 Conference in Vienna Austria.
If you are looking to meet members of SACHI to discuss collaborations or research visits you can find us here. Likewise, if you are a company attending MobileHCI and you wish to discuss working with us please get in touch. You can find us helping and involved throughout MobileHCI 2017 with the presentation of 3 papers including 1 paper (honorable mention), 2 workshop papers, organizing a workshop and other activities throughout the conference.
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