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2017 – Gala Malbasic wins Young Software Engineer of the Year award - My congratulations to Gala Malbasic who won the Young Software Engineering of the Year Award this year for her thesis entitled "Leap Up: The Keyboard Renaissance" which I supervised. The SACHI website has more details.
SpeCam teaser image 2017 Media Coverage of SpeCam - The SACHI website has all the details on the recent media coverage of SpeCam.
MobileHCI logo 2017 SACHI @ MobileHCI in Vienna - Members of SACHI will be at the upcoming MobileHCI’17 Conference in Vienna Austria. The SACHI website has more details.
Tilt gesture keyboard 2017 Media Coverage of SWIM - And "evolution in one-handed texting" and "Tilt gesture keyboard" recently developed and published has been covered in the Media. The SACHI website has more details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BuXIlQ7_XM&feature=youtu.be
2017 SACHI @ CHI in Denver - Members of SACHI will be at the upcoming CHI’17 conference. The SACHI website has all these details and more.
2016 in Review - Microsoft Surface Hub arrives and is unboxed SACHI @ IUI 2016  Object Recognition with the Project Soli in St Andrews SACHI @ CHI 2016 WatchMI won honorable mention award at MobileHCI 2016 (Florence, Italy) Media…
2016 Media Coverage of RadarCat - The SACHI website has more details on the recent Media Coverage for RadarCat.
2016 Sidetap and Slingshot at UIST (Tokyo Japan) - Congratulations to Hui-Shyong Yeo who won a best poster at UIST2016. More details can be found on the SACHI website.
2016 RadarCat at UIST in Tokyo, Japan - 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…
Juyong Lee, Aaron Quigley and Hui-Shyong Yeo: MobileHCI Honourable Mention 2016 Media Coverage for WatchMI - The SACHI website has lots of link on the media coverage for our latest work on WatchMI.
2016 – Object Recognition with the Project Soli in St Andrews - 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…
CHI 2016 logo 2016 – SACHI @ CHI - SACHI will have a great presence at the upcoming CHI’16 conference . You can find more details about this on the SACHI website.
IUI 2016 logo 2016 – SACHI @ IUI - ACM IUI is an annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community, i.e. where HCI meets AI. The research community focuses on using AI techniques to improve interfaces. I attended as the ACM SIGCHI Adjunct Chair…
Julian, Gonzalo and Uta with the Surface Hub 2016 – Intelligent Canvas for Data Analysis and Exploration - Last week we were pleased to receive our Microsoft Surface hub which was awarded to us by Microsoft Research and Microsoft based on our Academic Research Request Proposal for the “Intelligent Canvas for Data Analysis…
Aaron delivering a graduation address June 2015: Graduation address: Professor Aaron Quigley - Vice-Chancellor, ladies and gentlemen and to all of our new graduates, congratulations! Your time invested here has been rewarded with the degrees you now hold. On behalf of my colleagues, I would like to thank…
Vision videos of interest to Computer Scientists - A couple of years ago I organised with others a CHI SIG on Visions and Visioning. To support this we built a Wiki to collect all the videos (which you can see here). I've been…
Mar: Stealers Wheel and HCI - Public-displays to the left of me, head-mounted displays to the right, Here I am, stuck with the mobile phone that is you! Helsinki Seminar Details 
Mar: LitLong Launch - The Palimpsest project involving the University of St Andrews’ SACHI team, collaborating with the University of Edinburgh’s English literature and text-mining group, has now completed its LitLong Edinburgh application and website, which are launched today (30th March 2015).…
Books for new and old Computer Scientists - Here I am collecting up some references to books from colleagues and others which are suggested reading for computer science students. Some suggestions are from others on twitter so these just have their @ handle.…
Apr: SACHI at CHI 2015: What to see - Members of SACHI are presenting a number of papers and other works at this year’s CHI in Seoul, South Korea. See all the details here!
Feb: Winter Augmented Reality Meeting 2015 - I have been invited to the Winter Augmented Reality Meeting 2015 as a Keynote Speaker. WARM is an interdisciplinary meeting of experts in AR and related domains running its tenth installment. WARM2015 continues the success…