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Designing Realities 2019 - Following up on our Blended Reality Summer School in Singapore I was invited to present at a two-day seminar on "Designing for the Future: Virtual, Augmented and Blended Realities" at the National University of Singapore… 
2019: ACM SIGCHI China Chapter’s 15th Anniversary - As part of the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program I delivered a distinguished lecture as part of the ACM SIGCHI China Chapter's 15th Anniversary event this November in Beijing. As the SIGCHI site notes "SIGCHI Local… 
Keynote at Mensch und Computer (MuC) 2019 - Last week I was one of the three keynote speakers at the Mensch und Computer (MuC) conference in Germany. I joined Margaret Urban, Senior Interaction Designer, Google, Mountain View, CA and Mark Billinghurst from the University of Auckland… 
Discreet Computing keynote Hamburg 2019 - Today I was a keynote speaker at the Mensch-und-Computer conference 2019. This blog post contains to links to all the papers I mentioned which are in the ACM digital library. You can click on these links… 
Philippines DSP Tour - In August of 2019 I undertook a distinguished speaker lecture tour to the Philippines hosted by the ACM SIGCHI Chapter in Manila. During this time I undertook a series of research visits to the University… 
ACM Computing Surveys Search Committee - Earlier this year I was invited to serve on the ACM Computing Surveys Search Committee and our call for nominations is now public. ACM Computing Surveys: Editor-in-Chief Call for Nominations The term of the current… 
TVX 2019: Best Student Paper for Deb8: A Tool for Collaborative Analysis of Video - Congratulations to Guilherme, one of my PhD students, for receiving a best student paper award for the work on Deb8: A Tool for Collaborative Analysis of Video. Guilherme Carneiro, Miguel Nacenta, Alice Toniolo, Gonzalo Mendez,… 
2019 SG:D Immersive Analytics @ PIXEL - This talk is for anyone interested in data analysis, data exploration, immersion or using data to solve problem in-situ, in real-time rather than after the event away from the sources of the data. This talk… 
2019 SICSA appoints new Director - SICSA has appointed Professor Aaron Quigley of the University of St Andrews as its new Director. Professor Quigley commences the role on July 4th 2019. Professor Quigley is the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in… 
2019 CHI - As ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences and general co-chair for CHI 2021, this CHI conference in Glasgow will be a busy time. During the weekend before CHI I will serve as a mentor for… 
2019 Seminar: Object recognition in HCI with Radar, Vision and Touch. - In April 2019, I will deliver a new lecture on Object Recognition in HCI with Radar, Vision and Touch in the School of Computing in the National University of Singapore. To access the paper noted… 
2019 Blended Reality Summer School - This May I am helping to organise a Blended Reality Summer School, May 13, 2019 to May 17, 2019 at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, National University of Singapore. You can find more details at http://cutecenter.nus.edu.sg/BRSummerSchool-2019.html at… 
2019 Keynote: Mensch-und-Computer, Hamburg Germany - I 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… 
2019 Keynote: Thai SIGCHI Symposium - This Saturday I delivered a keynote talk on Global Human Computer Interaction at the Thai SIGCHI Symposium in Bangkok. This is the first symposium of the Bangkok ACM SIGCHI Chapter which aims to connect the Thai UX and HCI communities… 
2019 Keynote: 5th International ACM In-Cooperation HCI and UX Conference, Indonesia - I will engage in a lecture tour to three cities in Indonesia in April 2019 as part of the Distinguished Speaker Program (DSP) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The DSP brings together international thought leaders from… 
2019 ACM Distinguished Speaker: Melbourne and Sydney, Australia - I will travel to Melbourne and Sydney Australia as part of the ACM DSP program. First, I will deliver a talk on the Future of Interaction at the Melbourne Knowledge Week followed by a “fireside chat” and… 
2019 Fully funded Joint PhD (co-tutelle) in Computer Science at University of Primorska (Slovenia) and University of St Andrews (UK) – starting Oct - The Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies at the University of Primorska (UP FAMNIT) is offering one fully-unded PhD scholarship for a planned Joint PhD (co-tutelle) in computer science with University of St Andrews (UK).… 
2019 ACM Distinguished Speaker: Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand - As an ACM Distinguished Speaker, I was recently invited to deliver a series of lectures in New Zealand on "Novel Interactions in Augmented Reality" and "Discreet Computing" at the “Magic Leap Workshop” (a.k.a. Augmented Reality… 
2019 Keynote: KAIST Korea - On February 1st, I delivered an invited talk as part of the ACM Distinguished Speaker Program during the HCI@KAIST International Workshop in KAIST, South Korea. 
2019 Seminar: CUTE Centre Singapore - I am currently in Singapore on sabbatical with the CUTE centre. My welcome seminar was on the topic of Discreet Computing and showcased a number of SACHI projects. The Keio-NUS CUTE (Connective Ubiquitous Technology for… 
2018 SACHI @ CHI in Montreal - Members of SACHI will be at the upcoming CHI 2018 conference. You can find more details about this on the SACHI website. 
2018 Keynote: VISSOFT, Madrid Spain - I 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… 
2018 St Andrews – University of Primorska co-tutelle in Computer Science - 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… 
2017 SACHI in the news - Last year there were a number of media articles relating to research, developments and spin-outs from SACHI which you can read about on the SACHI website in more detail.