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Oct: Digital Content Expo (DC EXPO) 2014 - This weekend I was able to attend the Digital Content Expo (DC EXPO) 2014 at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan). As we had so much to see at the Expo we…
Oct: Report on MobileHCI 2014 and UIST 2014 - MobileHCI 2014 MobileHCI 2014 was a single track conference so I saw all the papers presented. I've selected a few to highlight which are of interest to me or those I work with. There…
UIST 2013 St Andrews – the pipers lead the way to the Demo Reception - UIST 2013 St Andrews - the pipers lead the way to the Demo Reception Originally uploaded by Aaron Quigley
Edinburgh Apps - I was a judge for the Edinburgh apps today. "The event offered teams the opportunity, working with Council and partner data, to provide fresh ideas and solutions to help improve the lives of those living,…
NodeXL Twitter Ubicomp - 20100930-NodeXL-Twitter-Ubicomp Originally uploaded by Marc_Smith Always interesting to see the NodeXL view of the social media interactions at a conference.
Next generation technology and the next 600 years - "On the morning of Saturday 14 September, the University hosted three open forum discussions (Masterminds) to debate pressing contemporary issues and concerns for the future. Contributors came from a range of disciplines, representing both the…
UIST 2013 and ITS 2013 in October - The St Andrews Human Computer Interaction research group is involved in the organisation of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2013, UIST 2013 and ITS 2013, the ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces…
PerDis 2014 - I will be the program chair for PerDis 2014, the Third International Symposium on Pervasive Displays in Copenhagen in June 2014.
PerDis 2013 - This week I was attending the Second International Symposium on Pervasive Displays at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. I am attending to present a paper co-authored with Jakub Dostal and Per Ola Kristensson…
CHI 2014 - I'm currently serving as an Associate Chair for the Interaction Using Specific Capabilities or Modalities subcommittee at the 32nd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) and on the CHI 2014 Workshops…
600th Anniversary | University of St Andrews – 1413-2013 - 600th Anniversary | University of St Andrews - 1413-2013, a set on Flickr.
Links from my talk on the Digital Tourist, March 12th Edinburgh - This post contains links to systems and technologies I mentioned during my talk on the "Digital Tourist" on March 12th in the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh. I have linked from bit.ly/stasmart to this page for…
Lots of activity at CHI 2013 - CHI is the premier international conference on human computer interaction, and this year’s event is looking to be the most exciting yet for the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction (SACHI) research group. See more details…
MobileHCI 2014 - Dr. Sara Diamond the President of the Ontario College of Art and Design University and I are the general co-chairs for MobileHCI 2014 the 16th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction in Toronto, Canada.
MobileHCI 2013 - I am one on the Associate Chairs for MobileHCI 2013, the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2013) which will be held in Munich, Germany August 27 – 30,…
UbiComp 2013 - I am joining the Technical Program Committee of the 2013 ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013). The UbiComp 2013 Program Chairs are Marc Langheinrich, John Canny, and Jun Rekimoto and they…
2012 Talk in the University of Konstanz - Next week I presenting a seminar in the University of Konstanz, Germany as an invited speaker by Professor Harald Reiterer Abstract: The computational and contextual edifice around which we will build our ubicomp user interfaces…
Big Data InfoVis summer school - SACHI along with other colleagues in Computer Science and across St Andrews are organising a SICSA supported “Big Data Information Visualisation” summer school in July of 2013. We are working on developing the program for…
CHI 2013 Workshop - We are organizing with other colleagues a workshop at the CHI 2013 the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Paris in April 2013 called Blended Interaction: Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Space.
Later this month my Inaugural Lecture - Research@StAndrews blog: Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Aaron Quigley: "Human Computer Interaction: Bridging the Digital-Physical Divide"
SICSA Knowledge Exchange - As the SICSA Deputy Director and Director of Knowledge Exchange I'm been learning more about the Knowledge Exchange we undertake in SICSA with industry. SICSA includes all staff and students in Informatics and Computer Science… I am, you are, we are SICSA! - SICSA is the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. I've been the deputy director and director for knowledge exchange with SICSA for a little over a month now. Yesterday I attended my first meeting of…
Aug 2012, Inaugural Lecture St Andrews - So, the time for my Inaugural Lecture has rolled around. Not the nine year wait I'd feared but not the month after I started as I've been here two years now. At the end of…
Aug 2012, Associate Chair CHI 2013 - I've been asked to be an Associate Chair for the he 31st ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013). I'm looking forward to serving in this role.
July 2012, SICSA Deputy Director/Director Knowledge Exchange - From the 1st of August 2012 I will be the SICSA Deputy Director/Director of Knowledge Exchange in Scotland. SICSA is the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and is a collaboration of Scottish Universities whose…
June 2012, InfoVis for UbiComp data summer school reflections - In late May of 2012 I organised and delivered a week long workshop on Information Visualisation for UbiComp Data, as part of the UbiOulu summer school. On a scale from worst (1) to best (5)…
ITS 2013 website goes live - Along with Professor Giulio Jacucci of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT I'm a general chair for ITS 2013. This post is version of our introductory message on that site. "We wanted like to thank our…
Social TV and Second Screen Apps - Social television is “a general term for technology that supports communication and social interaction in either the context of watching television, or related to TV content” [1]. Each day millions of Facebook updates, Tweets or…
Trading Consequences blog post - As part of the launch of the Trading Consequences project site I have written the first blog post in which I emphasise that the question is key in this project. "To understand the consequences of…
Jan 2012 – New Grants, Research Fellow and PhD Scholarships - Along with colleagues in the Univeristies of Edinburgh and York we have achieved grant success with JISC. Our project “Trading Consequences” (Universities of Edinburgh, York and St Andrews) will examine the economic and environmental consequences…