Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeo, Aaron Quigley and colleagues, who won best paper honorable mention award for the paper WatchMI at MobileHCI 2016.
Yeo also attended the Doctoral Consortium and demoed the WatchMI during the demo session.
The “WatchMI: pressure touch, twist and pan gesture input on unmodified smartwatches” paper which appears in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI’16) can be accessed via:

• Directly to the ACM Digital Library page for WatchMI
• The ACM SIGCHI OpenTOC page for the MobileHCI 2016 (search for WatchMI), for free until Sep 2017

The Doctor Consortium and Demo paper can be accessed via:

• Directly to the ACM Digital Library page for Single-handed interaction for mobile and wearable computing
• Directly to the ACM Digital Library page for WatchMI’s applications
• The ACM SIGCHI OpenTOC page for the MobileHCI 2016 (search for WatchMI), for free until Sep 2017

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Press

• Gizmodo: Students Hacked a Chip to Give Your Smartphone a Sense of Touch
• Engadget: Google’s mini radar can identify virtually any object
• TheVerge: Google’s miniature radars can now identify objects
• Fast Co Design: Google’s Project Soli Can Now Identify Any Object

Curated video by Futurism, with more than 1.2 million views!

Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeo, Aaron Quigley and colleagues, who won best poster at UIST2016.
The Sidetap and Slingshot paper which appears in the Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’16) can be accessed via:

• The ACM SIGCHI OpenTOC page for the Adjunct Proceedings for UIST 2016 (search for SideTap), for free until Oct 2017
• Directly to the ACM Digital Library page for Sidetap and Slingshot
• Or via the University of St Andrews Research portal.

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RadarCat (Radar Categorization for Input & Interaction) was presented at UIST 2016 this week in Tokyo, Japan. RadarCat is a small, versatile radar-based system for material and object classification which enables new forms of everyday proximate interaction with digital devices.

The RadarCat paper which appears in the Proceedings of the 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’16) can be accessed via:

• The ACM SIGCHI OpenTOC page for UIST 2016
  (search for RadarCat), for free until Oct 2017
• Directly to the ACM Digital Library page for RadarCat
• Or via the University of St Andrews Research portal.

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This week sees a new member of the group join SACHI.  Chris Norval is a postdoctoral researcher working with Tristan Henderson on a project to predict when social media users consent to having their data used for health research.
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We are happy to report that there has been a wide dissemination of the results of the Deepview Project through a variety of press outlets.
BBC click features excerpts from an interview with one of our researchers about Gazer.
Furthermore a number of press articles have been written and circulated. The following shows a selection of articles and the venues that publicised each article.

• “New discoveries and enhanced visual experiences through gaze-contingent displays”. cordis.europa.eu, sigchi-technews.acm.org, phys.org, ecnmag.com

• “St Andrews Team ’Revolutionise’ 3D Image Viewing”. king-domfm.co.uk

• “Soon we’ll be able to watch 3D images without the big specs, thanks to St Andrews researchers”. thenational.scot

• “Diseñan una pantalla que reacciona a la mirada del espectador”. referion.com

• “La résolution des écrans pilotées par le regard”. techno-science.net

Our lab (SACHI) in the University of St. Andrews last year applied for, and was selected to receive the Project Soli alpha developer kit along with 60 other groups around the world. Project Soli is a Radar based sensor that can sense micro and subtle motion of human fingers. You can see more about this project here: https://atap.google.com/soli/
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SACHI will have a great presence at the upcoming CHI’16 conference .
We welcome the opportunity to meet students interested in studying with us, colleagues interested in visiting or collaborating, or companies interested in our work. You can find us helping and involved throughout CHI 2016 with the presentation of 5 full papers, 1 note, 1 workshop, 1 workshop paper and other activities.
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In March of 2016 Yuchen Zhao and Aaron Quigley from St Andrews attended the ACM SIGCHI Intelligent User Interfaces Conference in California. Yuchen was attending to present a long paper on a user study about location-privacy recommenders and a student consortium paper while Aaron was attending as the ACM SIGCHI Adjunct Chair for Specialised Conferences.

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