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Dec 2023 – Some new books for your shelf - These are three of the books I've been enjoying this year and have provided inspiration for talks, research, new strategies and longer term plans for how to have impact from the research and developments we… 
Dec 2023 – IFIP and ACM at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 - I was delighted to be able to arrange and join a meeting on the Presidents of IFIP and the ACM this week at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 here in my hometown of Sydney Australia.The International Federation… 
SIGGRAPH Asia Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair 2023 - The SIGGRAPH Asia Doctoral Consortium is a forum for PhD students to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced SIGGRAPH Asia researchers in an informal and interactive setting. Ideal… 
SIGGRAPH Asia Birds of a Feather Session: R&D at Scale - Stories from industry and applied research at scale. How is applied R&D undertaken to achieve impact at scale for use by millions or billions? Discuss lessons on how R&D is put into production with stories… 
Dec 12 – CSIRO’s $3.6m for quantum PhDs to boost skills pipelineDec - Australian quantum students will participate in four cutting-edge research projects as part of the Next Generation Quantum Graduates Program, administered by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. These projects could help us understand the sub-atomic make… 
Nov 11 – $18m Tech4HSE Program - This $18m Tech4HSE Program Unites Leading Researchers In Emerging Technologies. The $18 million Tech4HSE program unites leading researchers in emerging technologies such as generative and immersive artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality and cybersecurity, to develop… 
NOV 10 – Trillion Parameter Consortium CSIRO - New international consortium formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science I'm the CSIRO contact for a new international consortium formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science. The press release… 
Nov 5 – Dagstuhl Seminar 23452 – Human-AI Interaction for Work - I was honoured to be invited to participate in this Dagstuhl Seminar on Human - AI interaction. Following the event I've written to the SFI, ARC and NSF where I've mentioned this event along with… 
Nov 2 – UIST 2023 - This week I had the pleasure to attend UIST 2023 as a sponsor and co-author of the work Don Samitha Elvitigala, Yunfan Wang, Yongquan Hu, and Aaron J Quigley. 2023. RadarFoot: Fine-grain Ground Surface Context… 
Oct 2023 – SunSwift Top Cruiser - I was delighted to meet the SunSwift team as it crossed the finishing line. In the CSIRO Cruiser Class field, Sunswift Racing claimed its first Cruiser Cup victory. 
Oct 18th – Why is XR still so hard to use? @ ISMAR 2023 - I was delighted to join a panel to discuss Why is XR still so hard to use at ISMAR 2023. https://ismar23.org/program-panels/ 
October – SxSW – Australia’s Next Giant Leap - I joined a panel to discuss music, technology and the arts at SxSW Sydney this week. Australians have a talent for ingenuity and creative thinking. From ancient times, Australians have used the materials around them… 
Oct 16 – ISMAR 2023 - ISMAR 2023, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Virtual Reality (VR), collectively referred to as eXtended Reality (XR), was held in Sydney from October 16-20, 2023 where I served as… 
Oct 16 – SunSwift - After working with the SunSwift team from 2020 - 2023 I delighted to return to visit the Spacecube setup which monitored the car from Sydney as it raced from Darwin to Adelaide. 
Oct 10 – The Underground @ K17 UNSW - In my role as Head of School in UNSW I was pleased to bring in the redevelopment of the lower ground floor into our plans for a more entrepreneurial school and campus. With an Underground,… 
Oct 9 – ACM VRST 2023 - User engagement in Virtual Reality (VR) games is crucial for creating immersive and captivating gaming experiences that meet the expectations of players. However, understanding and measuring these levels in VR games presents a challenge for… 
Oct 4 – Stories of Connecting Research & Development at Scale - Along with Bhautik Joshi of Canva we submitted a Birds of a Feather session on stories of connecting R&D at Scale. Stories from industry and applied research at scale. How is applied R&D undertaken to… 
Oct 3 – John Lion Distinguished Lectures - It was my great pleasure to return to UNSW to attend the next in the annual series of John Lions Distinguished Lectures. 
Sept 29 – SydCHI for ACM VRST, ACM UIST and ACM UbiComp (IMWUT) paper presentations - On this day we welcomed the ACM SIGCHI Chapter - SydCHI here in Data61 for a series of practice talks from Rukshani, Owen, Jieshan and Don. The following are the details of these talks. Rukshani… 
Sept 2023 – CSIRO – Boeing Steering Committee - Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes, and defence, space and security systems. The company supplies aircraft and information platform systems to Australia’s airlines and the Australian Department of… 
Sept 1 – Bruce Thomas @ Data61 - Professor Thomas is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia and he kindly agreed to our invitation to work with us a day a week to help us develop our Immersive AI and University… 
August 23 – Eureka Prize - I was honoured to join Professor Toby Walsh who received the Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science. I was Toby's head of school while I worked in UNSW so I was able to… 
August 22 – Wear It Purple day - I was able to interview Eleanor Huntington, our executive director for Wear it Putple day and what is means for CSIRO! Wear it Purple Day is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people,… 
Aug 14 – CSIRO’s Data61 Executive Team in Adelaide - This week we spent a few days meeting our colleagues and University collaborators in Adelaide! 
Aug 1 – Tech Council Showcase at the Australian Parliament - On August 1st I joined CSIRO at a Parliamentary Tech Showcase in Mural Halls A & B, Australian Parliament House (APH). The evening before we presented a series of CSIRO’s Data61demos at a TCA &… July 2023 Next Generation Quantum Graduates Program - The Next Generation Quantum Graduates Program (NGQGP) is an Australian Government supported program set to fund nationally competitive scholarships to attract and train Australia's next generation of quantum technology specialists. The scholarships will be funded… 
2023 – July – 50 years gone by… - My 50th year rolled around quite quickly and we celebrated! Here you can see my grandparents (top right) and my mother and aunt (bottom left) with younger versions of me. 
2023 Women in AI Awards - A/Prof Yang Song and Aaron Quigley Congratulations to all the finalists and winners from last evening’s Women in AI Awards 2023 (Asia Pacific). I was delighted to join my new colleagues from across CSIRO and CSIRO's Data61 to celebrate… 
June 2023 – CHI 2025 planning - Great to meet up with Naomi Yamashita in Kyoto to discuss the plans for CHI 2025 in Yokohama. I'm the CHI Steering Committee liaison to the upcoming CHI conference general chairs. 
May 2023 Brigham Young University - Thanks to my colleagues from across Data61 for helping with a visit from BYU. In this we showcased Responsible AI, Ocean Explorer, Agriculture/Agronomy & Spatial prototypes, Prof. Tom Meservy visited us with 46 faculty staff… 
Australian Government Department of Education, Data Week 2023, Keynote - The Department of Education held its annual Data Week from 15-19 May 2023. This one-week event aimed to build a data-driven culture and build an appreciation for the potential uses of data across the department through a… 
May 2023 CSIRO’s Data61 Science Discovery - As Science Director of Data61, in May 2023 I led the business unit wide discovery and mapping exercise to identify Data61’s research activities and foci, by exploring our Group, Mission and FSP activities and the Science Excellence and… 
CHI 2023 - Hui-Shyong Yeo, Erwin Wu, Daehwa Kim, Juyoung Lee, Hyung-il Kim, Seo Young Oh, Luna Takagi, Woontack Woo, Hideki Koike, and Aaron John Quigley. 2023. OmniSense: Exploring Novel Input Sensing and Interaction Techniques on Mobile Device… 
2023: UCD Discovery, Human Computer Interaction & Global Health - The use of wearable technology, like smartwatches and Fitbits, has more than tripled in the last four years, in tandem with consumers’ increased interest in monitoring their own healthand vital signs. Many of these devices record… 
IUI 2023 Keynote and papers - Xiaozhu Hu, Yanwen Huang, Bo Liu, Ruolan Wu, Yongquan Hu, Aaron J Quigley, Mingming Fan, Chun Yu, and Yuanchun Shi. 2023. SmartRecorder: An IMU-based Video Tutorial Creation by Demonstration System for Smartphone Interaction Tasks. In… 
Exploring the future building: representational effects on projecting oneself into the future office space - Maheshya Weerasinghe, Klen Čopič Pucihar, Julie Ducasse, Aaron Quigley, Alice Toniolo, Angela Miguel, Nicko Caluya, and Matjaž Kljun. 2022. Exploring the future building: representational effects on projecting oneself into the future office space. Virtual Real.… 
Jan 2023 – Farewell UNSW - Thanks to all my students and colleagues in UNSW for your support and hard work. It was my honour to be head of school from 2020 - 2023. https://youtube.com/shorts/G6sMxkm1vcY?feature=share 
Dec 2022 World Record - UNSW Sydney’s Sunswift 7 solar-powered electric car has claimed a Guinness World Record by going 1000km on a single charge in under 12 hours. The car, designed and built by students, posted a verified time of 11… 
SunSwift @ Adelaide 500 - Software Engineering Academic SunSwift 2020-2023 Sunswift Racing is a student led team of innovators working to redefine the future of sustainable transport through the research and development of solar electric vehicle technologies. In December 2022,… 
SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 - Along with Simon See from Nvidia, I’m co-chairing the SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Doctoral Consortium in Sydney in December 2023. The Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity to spend a day with an experienced group of mentors,… 
OzCHI 2022 Keynote: The Impact of HCI - Keynote: OzCHI 2022 The Impact of HCI "Research impact is the contribution that research makes to the economy, society, environment or culture, beyond the contribution to academic research." In the ACRA statement we say "the… 
UIST 2022 - At this year's User Interface Software Technology conference UIST my colleague, Don presented our work on Towards using Involuntary Body Gestures for Measuring the User Engagement in VR Gaming. Don Samitha Elvitigala, Rukshani Somarathna, Yijun… 
ISMAR 2022 Singapore - At this year's international symposium on mixed an augmented reality ISMAR 2022 we had two papers presented in collaboration with our colleagues in Slovenia and Germany. M. Weerasinghe et al., "VocabulARy: Learning Vocabulary in AR Supported… 
ISMAR 2023 - For ISMAR 2023 myself and my colleague Tomasz Bednarz (Director of Strategic Researcher Engagement APAC and EMEA at NVIDIA) are members of the conference advisory group supporting our local chairs who are bringing this conference to… 
Working on updating the blog - Adding new posts Prof Aaron Quigley Head of School Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW Level 3, Building K17, UNSW, Sydney 2052, Australia cse.ea www: www.cse.unsw.edu.au 
EICS 2022 - This year was a technical program chair for the engineering interactive computer systems conference 2022 which was held in Antibes, France, Juan E. Garrido, Philippe Palanque, Aaron Quigley, and Marco Winckler. 2022. Engineering Awareness in… 
Discovery to Down Under - Turning 18th century shipping records - written in cursive pen on faded paper - into modern data sets is understandably tricky. (read more) “Today most of the bigger questions require that type of transdisciplinary approach… 
Text entry for the Blind on Smartwatches [Journal Paper] - The interaction challenges presented by touch-screen enabled devices for blind and visually impaired people has been addressed extensively in the literature. However, the emergence of wrist-worn devices with small screens, the so-called smartwatches, exacerbates such… 
Joint Statement on Rankings in Computer Science - Feb 2022 ACRA is an informal alliance of The Australian National University (ANU) School of Computing, The University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems, University of New South Wales School of Computer Science… 
June 2021: closing of the 1st John Lions Distinguished Lectures - https://youtu.be/13_5ahXt4vM Aaron Quigley delivering the closing remarks to the 1st annual John Lions distinguished lectures 
June 2021: ACM EICS 2022 - I have been appointed the technical program chair (TPC) for the ACM EICS conference on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems 2022, which is devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems. 
May 2021: CHI 2021 - ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors for which I was General Co-Chair, had over 5100 delegates making it the largest conference ever held in the field of HCI.– https://chi2021.acm.org 
March 2021: Mardi Gras - This year I was delighted to join the UNSW crew who joined the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival parade. 
Feb 2021: Google Search in Australia (in the news) - I went three days without Google search. This is what happened (Canberra Times)"There are thousands of jobs here in Google. Will Google then divest from Australia? What about other big players, will they see Australia… Feb 2021: ACM SIGCHI recognition of excellent service - I received an ACM SIGCHI Recognition of Excellent Service that I gave to the UIST - ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. 
Jan 2021: ACM Distinguished Member - I was recently inducted as a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). As one of 64 members elevated this year, this nomination recognised "outstanding scientific contribution to the computing field" The ACM… 
Dec 2020: Talk at SIGGRAPH Asia - Today I presented at a session on Computer Graphics in Japan, The destination of SIGGRAPH Asia 2021. This session featured talks by invited academics and industry professionals on the latest trends, projects, and events happening in Japan… Dec 2020: UX4MDE 2021 @ CHI 2021 - Our Workshop on User Experience for Multi-Device Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities was accepted to CHI 2021. Smart devices have pervaded every aspect of humans’ daily lives, with an increasing number of personal devices such as… Nov 2020: The Future of Displays - Thanks to all the panel members and those who attended our SIGGRAPH Asia Frontiers Workshop today on the future of displays. Today, the nature of human-computer interaction is changing what it means to experience computing.… Oct 2020: Thriving as LGBTQIA+ in STEMM - As part of Diversity Fest 2020 I attended and presented at this session on "What does Thriving as LGBTQIA+ in STEMM look like?" "How far has diversity and inclusion come in STEMM, and what needs… 
Oct 2020: Congrats to Hui Shyong Yeo - Congratulations to Hui Shyong Yeo who has been shortlisted for the SICSA PhD Award for Best Dissertation 2020. His thesis is entitled “Single-Handed Interaction Techniques for Mobile and Wearable Computing”. Yeo submitted his PhD based… 
Sept 2020: Virtual Reality Society of Japan - This week I was invited speaker at the 25th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan Sept 2020: Future of Meetings - This week I was an invited speaker and panellist at the CSIRO Symposium: The Future of Meetings 
Aug 2020: New Role - I started my new role as Head of School in Computer Science and Engineering in UNSW today. I'm looking forward to working with my new colleagues and the opportunities ahead. Aug 2020: Welcome to the School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW - I am honoured to be leading Australia’s most prestigious and established School of Computer Science and Engineering. The School was founded over two decades ago and today is known for its vibrant and nurturing community… July 2020: Building better teams: Harnessing the power of diversity - This week I was a panellist at a UNSW session on Building better teams: Harnessing the power of diversity as part of the 2020 Engineering the Future series presented by UNSW Alumni and Engagement. We… July 2020: CHI 2021 Courses - Courses have developed as an essential part of the annual CHI conference. Indeed, the "Core to CHI" policy document says that "Courses, in some form, are expected to occur during the conference, as a means… June 2020: Advice for organizers of a SIGCHI Sponsored or co-Sponsored Conference - This blog post relates to the ACM SIGCHI Guide on organising an ACM SIGCHI Sponsored conference and has an associated video introduction. 
Future of Work: It’s always breakfast time somewhere on Earth - Panelists: Mashhuda Glencross, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and Jon Whittle (with moderator Aaron Quigley) The distribution of the human species across the globe means that today there are people living in every single time zone on Earth. Some… June 2020: Introduction to a series of posts on CHI 2021 - https://youtu.be/tFTL7Pb8Agg I’m going to write a series of short blog posts and videos about the policies, process, terms, bylaws, best practice guides and procedures relating to organising CHI 2021. The general chairs sit and report… 
Farewell SICSA - SICSA is saying farewell to its Director, Professor Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews who has been appointed to the position of Head of School of Computing Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Aaron has… Apr 2020: Website CHI 2021 - After many weeks and months of work, the website for the ACM CHI Conference 2021 went live. CHI is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI – pronounced ‘kai’ – is a place where… 
UCD Discovery Alumni Story - Alumni Stories: Discovery to Down Under Pictured: Professor Aaron Quigley, Chair of Human Computer Interaction [HCI], School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland - and incoming Head of School of Computer Science and Engineering,… March 2020: SICSA Funding Calls - We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Funding Council has awarded us further funding to continue the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) research pool until July 2021. We now have a new series… Feb 2020: Moving to Australia - I’m honoured to have been appointed as Computer Science and Engineering’s next Head of School in UNSW, Sydney Australia. I'm excited to join the faculty of Engineering in Australia’s Global University and such a renowned School.… 
Jan 2020: Helsinki DSP Tour - In January 2020 I was invited to the University of Helsinki and Aalto University in Finland to deliver an ACM Distinguished Speaker Tour delivering a lecture on Immersive Analytics and Global HCI. The second talk… 
Jan 2020: Welcome CHI - In January 2020 I was invited to deliver the closing seminar at the RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction - Welcome CHI 2021, thinking of the future of HCI together at the Research Institute of… 
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. 
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. 
2017 Media Coverage of SpeCam - The SACHI website has all the details on the recent media coverage of SpeCam. 
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. 
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… 
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… 
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. 
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… 
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… 
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… 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…
Call for MobileHCI 2012 Tutorials - MobileHCI 2012 continues to build on the tradition of previous conferences with a high quality tutorial program. We invite proposals for 1, 2 or 3 hour tutorials on emerging and established areas of research and…
Pervasive 2012 – Doctoral Consortium - The Pervasive 2012 doctoral consortium provides a collegial and supportive forum in which PhD students can present and defend their doctoral research-in-progress for constructive feedback and discussion. The consortium is guided by a panel of…
Short Papers HCI 2012 - Myself and Dr. Per Ola Kristensson are the Short Papers chairs for the BCS HCI 2012 conference. HCI 2012 is the 26th Annual Conference of the Specialist HCI group of the BCS and the short papers track…
UMUAI Journal - Aaron Quigley, Judy Kay and Tsvi Kuflik are guest editors for a UMUAI special issue on Ubiquitous and Pervasive User Modelling. You can see the full call for papers for this special issue here.
November 2011 – Editorial: Welcome to Computers––A New Open Access Journal for Computer Science - Aaron Quigley Editorial: Welcome to Computers––A New Open Access Journal for Computer Science Computers 2011, 1(1), 1-2; doi:10.3390/computers1010001 - published online 10 November 2011 For the past seven decades, computers have radically changed the world we live in. From…
October 2011 – Challenges in Information Visualisation - I gave a seminar in the School of Informatics in the Univeristy of Edinburgh on October 7th 2011 on the topic of the Challenges in Information Visualisation. Information Visualisation is a research area that focuses…
August 2011 Papers – UMAP 2011, MobileHCI 2011 and ASONAM 2011 - I recently presented a paper co-authored with Mike Bennett at Stanford University entitled “Creating Personalized Digital Human Models Of Perception For Visual Analytics” at UMAP 2011 in Girona, Spain, on Thursday July 14th. You can see see a…
My Civil Partnership Speech - I would like to thank you, our friends and family for being with us here today on this next great stage in our journey through life together. I love Bradley so very much and I'm very thankful you were…
July 2011 Professional Activities - This year and next I will be, a program committee member for the 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT’11, which will which will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany from Sept 26th to 30th, 2011…
June 2011 – Upcoming Summer School - Some of the equipment for Summer School You can see some of the Arduino and Kinect equipment we have for the summer school here starting on June 26th with an Arduino workshop. The focus of this…
Graduation address – Aaron Quigley Thursday 23 June 2011 - https://youtu.be/d1l2DDI_Sz8 Aaron Quigley delivering a graduation address Graduation address - Aaron Quigley Thursday 23 June 2011 Chancellor, honoured guests, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. Firstly, I would like to offer my heartfelt or congratulations to all…
Apr 2011: Applications open for Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism - Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism SICSA Summer School St Andrews, Scotland, June 27th - July 1, 2011 Summer School Website: www.sachi.org.uk/mmi-dt The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers…
Mar 2011: £600,000 Smart Tourism Grant - Professor Jon Oberlander at Smart Tourism launch event March 29th Along with colleagues from across SICSA we have been awarded a grant valued at up to £600,000 from the Horizon Fund by the Scottish Funding…
Feb 2011: Workshop calls for position papers published - SACHI (http://sachi.org.uk/) members are organising two workshops in conjunction with the 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction in Newcastle on July 5th 2011. Aaron and Miguel are co-organisers for the workshop on Coupled Multi-display…
Feb 2011: IDEAS Executive Committee membership - I have been invited to join the IDEAS Executive Committee as the external member, and will contribute to guiding the strategic direction of IDEAS. IDEAS is a new multi-disciplinary research centre encompassing the disciplines of…
Feb 2011: Expert Board Membership: BRAID - Aaron Quigley from the SACHI research group has been appointed an expert board member for the EU FP7 coordinating action called BRAID. Prior to joining the University of St Andrews he was the director for…
Jan 2011: Editor-in-Chief for the Journal Computers - I have been invited to serve as the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Journal Computers. Computers is an international, open access journal which provides an advanced forum for computer sciences. Computers is an online journal, with…
Nov 2010 – Ambient Displays - Last week Umer Rashid, one of my graduates students presented at the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010. Umer recently moved to St. Andrews after completing an internship with Nokia Research.
Dec 2010 – Two Journal Papers: Visualisation and Usability - Along with Julie Doyle and Brian O'Mullane we have had our paper on "Usability by Proxy – Killing 2-N Birds with One Stone?" accepted to the Journal of Usability Studies. A controversial paper we look…
Aug 2010 BCS Interaction Specialist Group - "Founded in 1984, Interaction (or the BCS Interaction Specialist Group) is a specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS). It provides an organisation for all those working on human-computer interaction - the analysis,…
July 2010 – International Workshop on Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality - I'm been invited to serve on the program committee for a very interesting workshop on mobile collaborative augmented reality which is part of ISMAR 2010. I've been interested in AR for a number of years…
July 2010 – First week as a Professor – From Golf to New Jobs and EU funding - So today is the end of the first week in my new role as Professor in the Chair of Human Computer Interaction at the School of Computer Science in St. Andrews University Scotland. While it's been a relatively…
June 2010 – MUM2010 and AutomotiveUI 2010 - I have been invited to serve on the Program Committee for MUM 2010. This is "a leading annual international conference, which provides a forum for presenting the latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The conference brings…
May 2010 – Workshop on coupled display visual interfaces - PPD’10 our workshop on coupled display visual interfaces has been accepted as a workshop of the 10th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2010). This workshop will be on May 25th, immediately preceding…
May 2010 – Keynote Talk – IDEs for Pervasive Computing - I have been invited to give a keynote talk at the First International Workshop on Programming Methods for Mobile and Pervasive Systems (PMMPS 10) which will be held in Helsinki, Finland on May 17, 2010 and…
Apr 2010 – Professor in the Chair of Human Computer Interaction - I will be moving to Scotland in July of 2010 to start my new appointment as Professor in the Chair of Human Computer Interaction at the School of Computer Science in St. Andrews University Scotland.…
Jan 2010 – Six PhD scholarships at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia - The Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HITLab AU) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for 6 fully funded PhD scholarships within the lab starting in 2010. The deadline for applications is Mar…
Dec 2009 ISAmI 2010 - I've been invited to serve on the program committee for the 1st International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence to be held in Guimarães, Portugal on the 16th-18th June, 2010 (isami2010.di.uminho.pt) [ Website ] [ Call for papers ]…
Dec 2009 HITLab Australia Director - I have now started as director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HIT Lab AU). I am also now an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University…
Dec 2009 Chapters in book on Mining and Analysing Social Networks - Along with two of my graduate students we have had two book chapters accepted in the upcoming book entitled "Mining and Analyzing Social Networks" which is part of the book series of studies in Computational…
Nov 2009 UbiComp 2010 - I have been invited and will serve on the Program Committee for the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 26-29 2010. The deadline for Papers and Notes…
Nov 2009 Internet of Things 2010 Conference - I have been invited and will serve on the Program Committee for the 2010 Internet of Things Conference. The Internet of Things (IoT) interlinks our physical and digital worlds hence bridging the digital-physical divide. This…
Sept 2009 Workshop at Pervasive 2010: What can the Internet of Things do for the citizen (CIoT)? - Thanks to Florian and Albrecht for inviting me to join the PC for CIoT. ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ Pervasive 2010 Conference Workshop on What can the Internet of Things do for the citizen? CIoT…
Sept 2009 Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals - I have a chapter on UbiComp User Interfaces in a new book called "Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals" Edited by John Krumm in Microsoft and published by Chapman & Hall/CRC; 1 edition (September 18, 2009) ISBN: 978-1420093605.…
Sept 2009 Proceedings of the 3rd Irish Conference on Human Computer Interaction I-HCI 2009 - Along with my colleague (and former classmate) Dr. Gavin Doherty we are the conference chairs for the 3rd Irish Conference on Human Computer Interaction (I-HCI 2009) held in Trinity College Dublin on the 17th and…
Sept 2009 Congratulations to Dr. Bennett - It is with great pride that I congratulate Mike Bennett on passing his Viva on Wednesday the 2nd of September 2009. Mike or (Dr. Bennett designate, as we should call him) is my second PhD…
Aug 2009 Invited Trinity Long Room Hub Talk - On October 1st 2009 I will give an invited talk at the Trinity Long Room Hub entitled 'Using Information Visualisation as an Analytical Tool' at 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. IIIS Seminar Room, C.6002, 6th…
July 2009 Visualisation … 7 Key Challenges we face - The Digital Humanities Observatory is running a week long series of workshops on TEI, XSLT, Data Modelling and Data Visulisation from Monday the 13th to Friday the 17th of July. As part of this I…
July 2009 Upcoming Conferences of interest. - My upcoming move has me thinking about conferences in areas of interest to the HITLab Australia. The International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2009 will be held in Sept in Linz Austria. I aim to attend…
July 2009 Elevation to BCS Fellow - The British Computer Society has informed me that I am now a Fellow of the BCS, specifically a chartered fellow (FBCS CITP) of the BCS. Thanks to Professor Dobson for being my supporter on this.
June 2009 HITLab Australia Director Designate - I'm very excited to announce that I am going to be the inaugural director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HIT Lab AU) and an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information…
June 2009 TEDxDublin - On June 12th at 7.30pm 2009 I organised TEDxDublin which was hosted by the Science Gallery. While I founded TEDxDublin, it was truly was a team effort. The TEDxDublin series of event, which started small,…
June 2009 Paper Accepted to EMBC 2009 - Congratulations to my co-authors from UCD and TRIL on our recent paper entitled "Objective real-time assessment of walking and turning in elderly adults" which was accepted at the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE…
June 2009 Master Class on Visualisation - I'm giving a Master Classes called "Visualisation as an analytical tool, from networks to data streams" at the DHO Summer School 2009 in July. Thanks to Shawn and Paolo for inviting me. I'm looking forward…
June 2009 Paper Accepted to SNMABA 2009 - Congratulations to Mike Farrugia on having our new paper entitled "Enhancing airline customer relationship management data by inferring ties between passengers” accepted as a regular paper at the International Workshop on Social Networks Mining and…
June 2009 4th ODCSSS Program - This is the 4th year for the ODCSSS program. ODCSSS is a 12 week undergraduate summer research internship program between the University College Dublin (UCD) and Dublin City University (DCU) Ireland which starts on June… May 2009 Paper Accepted to HCII 2009 - "Interaction Techniques for Binding Smartphones" Congratulations to Umer on having his paper on Interaction Techniques for Binding Smartphones published in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Centered Design 2009. This conference is…
May 2009 Workshops Pervasive 2010 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive 2010 The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing Call One: Workshop Proposals Pervasive 2010 Submission Deadline: June 26, 2009 Helsinki, Finland May 17 - 20, 2010 http://pervasive2010.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Call One for Workshop…
May 2009 Pervasive 2009 - Workshop - Papers - Session Chair - Two weeks ago I was at LoCA 2009 where we had a presentation from the CEO of http://www.koozyt.com/ (pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/loca2009/) They have spun out a LBS technology (placeengine)…
May 2009 Paper Accepted to ICSOFT 2009 - Congrats to Emil and Mike my co-authors for our newly accepted paper entitled "A self-adaptive architecture for autonomic systems developed with ASSL" at ICSOFT 2009, the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies. "The…
May 2009 “Haptic Jingle” and Pervasive Advertising 2009 - Earlier this week I attended a Pervasive 2009 workshop on Pervasive Advertising I organized with Jörg Müller, University of Münster, Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen and Bo Begole, PARC. My postgraduate student Ross Shannon presented…
May 2009 Program Co-Chair LoCA, Tokyo Japan - Last week on May 7-8 I attended LOCA 2009 in Tokyo as one of the Program Co-Chairs for the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness. We started the symposium with a very engaging…
April 2009 – CFP 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - I am a member of the Program Committee for the 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. This will be a interesting and exciting event given the rise of new forms…
April 2009 – Aware Home – Aware Care - Last week I presented on our CAPSIL project during a workshop on Opportunities in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Geron-technology. The focus of this 2nd Workshop was on the Users Perspective and how Ireland can…
April 2009 – P2P (papers and conferences) - New Book Chapter and New Paper Daniel Cutting first got me interested in P2P computing with implicit group messaging while in Australia. We recently published a new book chapter together entitled Serendipity reloaded: fair loading…
April 2009 – Proceedings of LoCA 2009 - New Edited Proceedings The Proceedings of LoCA 2009 are now online Location and Context Awareness 4th International Symposium, LoCA 2009 Tokyo, Japan, May 7-8, 2009 Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Subseries: Information Systems…
April 2009 – Face to face collaborative interfaces - New Book Chapter Myself and one of my Masters students Florian Bodea from last year had a chapter on our research on Face to face collaborative interfaces published recently in the book on Human-Centric Interfaces…
April 2009 – Four invited Pervasive 2010 Workshops - [ Download PDF ] [ Visit Workshop Website ] Pervasive 2010, the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing will be held in Helsinki, Finland, 17-20 May. As workshop chairs for 2010 we have decided the…
Mar 2009 Holiday! What holiday? - March 15 - 21st was a week of CAPSIL events in the USA which I've blogged about previously. The week after was intended as a family holiday week. However due to various deadlines and upcoming…
Mar 2009 New Pervasive and Autonomic Research Papers - Congrats to my postgraduate student Ross Shannon and postdoctoral colleague Emil Vassev on their recent success with 3 new papers from our group. Ross is coming towards the end of his doctoral studies. His emerging…
Mar 2009 Hiring a Surface Computing research assistant - (updated March 13th 2009) Research Assistant – Human Computer Interfaces Post Duration 20 Months A Research Assistant is sought for a 20 month period to work on 'Tabletop, Mobile and Interactive Surfaces", a funded research…
Mar 2009 NCOA Panel Las Vegas - [ See Details ] Along with colleagues from around the world we are having a panel on Technologies for Successful Aging at the Aging in America Conference in Las Vegas on March 17th. While my…
Mar 2009 Dviz hiring two more staff – Deadline March 20th! - Detailed advert links Web Developer (n-tier) Ref: : 5/09 Location: : The Digital Hub - Central Dublin Rate: € 47.7 to € 54.6 K (permanent) Front –end Web Application Developer Ref: : 6/09 Location: :…
Mar 2009 Session Chair Pervasive 2009 - I've been asked to be a session chair on Navigation during Pervasive 2009. This is the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. This session includes…
Mar 2009 Keynote talk ruSMART 2009 St.Petersburg, Russia - I've been invited to present a keynote talk at the 2nd Conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2009 to be held from the September 15-16, 2009 in St.Petersburg, Russia. This event is co-located with The 9th…
March 2009 Higher Diploma in Computer Science UCD - My two years as Director of the Higher Diploma in Computer Science in Computer Science and Informatics in UCD are now at an end and my colleague Dr. Eleni Mangina is now taking over this…
March 2009 CAPSIL events in the USA - From March 16th - 20th the CAPSIL consortium comes together in the USA for several leading events we have organised to reach out to the independent living research and development community and the US based…
Mar 2009 Pervasive Advertising. “A sin by any name”? - Myself and my co-chairs Jörg Müller, Albrecht Schmidt and Bo Begole are currently busy reviewing the submissions to our Workshop on Pervasive Advertising in conjunction with Pervasive 2009 to be held on May 11, 2009…
Mar 2009 Dviz hiring two more staff - The Dviz project is a collaborative digital technology research project between Twelve Horses, IADT and UCD, and is funded by the NDRC [ more blog posts ]. This project brings together a diverse skill set… March 2009 Cloud Computing - As part of our applied research project Dviz I've been building up an understanding and appreciation of the incredibly over-hyped area of cloud computing. However, for Dviz it is important as it allows us to…
Feb 2009 – LoCA program chair meeting and decisions - Myself and Tanzeem Choudhury from Dartmouth College are the program chairs for the Fourth International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness to be held in Tokyo Japan from the 7-8 May 2009. LoCA 2009 is colocated…
Feb 2009 Clique Strategic Research Cluster funded: €3.56 million - I am one of the six principal investigators for Clique which was announced by the Irish Tánaiste as an Science Foundation Ireland funded (SFI) Strategic Research Cluster. Our industry partners, in this joint initiative are… 
Feb 2009 CHI Workshop and Surface User Interfaces - I just blogged about Surface User Interfaces on the "Evaluating new interactions in healthcare" blog. We have a paper [1] on "Design Patterns" at this workshop during CHI which this blog is being used to… 
Feb 2009 Just for Ross - Just for Ross, one of my PhD students, I've moved to some proper blogging software. Previously I used Feeder, a mac based software app, which I was very happy with. However, this didn't allow for… 
Feb 2009 Program Committee P2P 2009 - I've been invited to join the PC for the P2P 2009 the Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems from the 8 - 11 September 2009 to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA. I've been to… Feb 2009 Program Committee, Conference on Smart Spaces - I've been invited to join the PC for the 2nd Conference on Smart Spaces ruSMART 2009 to be held in St.Petersburg, Russia from September 15-16, 2009. I like the outline for this event and topics…
Feb 2009 Open posts for Clique Research Cluster - I am one of the principal investigators for the Clique Research Cluster in Graph, Network Analysis and Visualisation based at University College Dublin and the National University of Ireland, Galway.We are inviting applications for the…
Feb 2009 CHI 2009 Work In Progress paper - Congrats to Ross on having his work in progress paper accepted to CHI 2009 to be published as an extended abstract.Shannon R., Quigley A. and Nixon P. (2009). Time Sequences. In CHI '09 Extended Abstracts…
Feb 2009 Chartered IT Professional (CITP) - I'm now a Chartered IT Professional (CITP). Which is a professional certification awarded under a UK Royal Charter to IT professionals by the Council of the British Computer Society.
Jan 2009 Two new Journal papers published - Congrats to two of my students Umer and Ross on our two new journal papers which are soon to appear. Shannon R., Eugene K. and Quigley A., "Using Ambient Social Reminders to Stay in Touch…
Jan 2009 VDA 2009 San Jose - I presented our paper on the Visual data exploration of temporal graph data at the Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis 2009 which was Part of IS&T/SPIE's International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2009. This event…
Jan 2009 New Translational Research Project Dviz & Senior Software Architect post - Representatives of UCD, IADT and Twelve Horses in late December 2008 signed a two year contract with the NDRC for the Dviz digital media technologies project. I am the UCD PI, Hilary Kenna in the…
Dec 2008 Tutorials Co-Chair Clifton Forlines Tabletop 2009 - I'm delighted to announce that Clifton Forlines, a Research Associate and Technical Staff member from Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge MA will be joining me as Co-Chair for the Tabletop 2009 Tutorials program.…
Dec 2008 Two Conference Papers Accepted. - Myself and three of my PhD students have recently had two papers accepted at leading international conferences. Both will be published in upcoming volumes on the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. Firstly, myself…
Dec 2008 AP2PS 2009 Invitation to program committee - "Peer-to-peer systems have considerably evolved since their original conception, in the 90's. The idea of distributing files using the user's terminal as a relay has now been widely extended to embrace virtually any form of…
Dec 2008 TRIL TTP – Tenure Success and Complete! - My tenure as Principal Investigator for the TRIL Technology Platform team is now drawing to a close. It's been my great pleasure to have helped lead this excellent interdisciplinary team over the past 2 year…
Dec 2008 Conference Co-Chair, I-HCI 2009 the third conference of the Irish HCI Community - I am the co-chair for the I-HCI 2009 along with Gavin Doherty from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. I-HCI 2009 is the third conference of the Irish HCI Community. Held in Trinity College Dublin on the…
Dec 2008 Workshop Chair, Pervasive 2010 – The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing - May 2010, Helsinki FinlandI have been invited to be one of the Workshop Chairs for Pervasive 2010, The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing 17-20 May 2010. Our workshops and the main conference will be…
Dec 2008 Tutorials Chair, IEEE Tabletop and Interactive Surfaces 2009 - Nov 2009 in Banff Canada...I have been invited to be chair of the tutorials track for the Symposium on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces 2009 to be held on Nov 23 to 25 in Banff Canada.…
Dec 2008 Program Co-Chair, Pervasive Advertising Workshop @ Pervasive 2009 - Website goes live. May 2009 in Nara Japan….. “The Pervasive Advertising workshop focusses on how Pervasive Technology is shaping the future of advertising. Technologies including digital signage, ambient displays, mobile phones, haptic interfaces and e-newspapers…
Dec 2008 SIGCHI Ireland Launch Sponsorship - Today we had the SIGCHI Ireland Inaugural Lecture by Professor Alan Dix. He gave an inspiring talk on "Human-Computer Interaction in the early 21st century: a stable discipline, a nascent science, and the growth of…
Nov 2008 Two CHI 2009 workshop papers accepted. - Myself and members of my research group have had two of our workshop position papers accepted for CHI 2009. The first paper entitled "Designing for Collaboration: Professional Information Management (PIM) in Research Communities" by Umer…
Nov 2008 ODCSSS 2009 – Theme Announced “Technologies for bridging the digital-physical divide: sensing the environment” - We have announced the theme for ODCSSS 2009 "Technologies for bridging the digital-physical divide: sensing the environment". ODCSSS is 12 week undergraduate summer research internship program between the University College Dublin (UCD) and Dublin City… Nov 2008 Pervasive 2009 Workshop – Pervasive Advertising - Today Jörg Müller from the University of Münster, Albrecht Schmidt from University of Duisburg-Essen, Bo Begole from PARC USA and myself had our workshop on "Pervasive Computing will change the Future of Advertising" (www.pervasiveadvertising.org) accepted…
Nov 2008 Invited Speaker, ICT Lyon 2008 “Health@Home” - I have been invited to speak at the Eurescom’s networking session on “Health@Home – A new paradigm for prevention and chronic disease management”. The session will take place at the Lyon Congress Centre, room Saint…
Nov 2008 Irish Chapter of ACM SIGCHI Launch (Dec 2nd) - Irish Research into Human-Computer InteractionA new Irish Chapter of ACM SIGCHI will be officially launched at Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday 2 December 2008, 4pm, reception to follow.SIGCHI brings together people working on the design,…
Nov 2008 Emil Vassev starts as a postdoctoral fellow - Welcome to Dr. Emil Vassev fromConcordia University in Montreal, Canada to the Systems Research Group. Emil recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and his thesis was on ASSL a "Framework for Specification and Code…
Nov 2008 Two Journal Papers Published - Congrats to two of my students Brendan and Ross on our recent journal papers which have been published in high profile venues with high impact factors. The work on both of these projects continues so…
Oct 2008 TRIL wins Irish Healthcare Award - The Irish Medical Times awarded TRIL the 'Best Use of IT in Healthcare' at the annual Irish Healthcare Awards. The prestigious awards took place on 16th October. The awards began in 2002 and have attracted…
Oct 2008 PhD External Examiner Computing Department, Lancaster University. - In October 2008 I had the pleasure of being the external examiner for Mr. Geoffrey Ellis a PhD student of Professor Alan Dix in the Department of Computing at Lancaster University UK. Over the course…
Oct 2008 PhD-position: Collaborative Tabletop Recommender – CLARITY - University College Dublin as part of the CLARITY research centre is seeking an exceptional candidate to apply for a postgraduate (PhD) research scholarship on a "Collaborative Tabletop Recommender" project.CLARITY, the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies…
Oct 2008 Neil Cowzer start as an IRCSET funded postgrad - Neil Cowzer has joined me this week as a postgraduate in the SRG. Neil recently completed his undergraduate in UCD and achieved a 1:1 in BSc Computer Science for his efforts. An ODCSSS 06 alumni,…
Sept 2008 IEEE TableTop Session Chair - Later this week I will be a session chair for Session 6 on Different Views: Display Techniques for Interactive Surfaces at Tabletop'08 the 3rd IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces Conference in Amsterdam. After being on…
Sept 2008 VAST Challenge committee travel grant to Mike Farrugia - Mike Farrugia won an award for his submission to the IEEE VAST research contest. As part of this he will be presenting in the USA next month.Animating Multivariate Dynamic Social Networks Node-Link Animation (Cell Phone…
Sept 2008 UbiComp 2008 workshops - This week two of my students and some of my collaborators presented three workshop papers we had accepted at the UbiComp 2008 Workshops in Korea. These papers will form the basis for full paper submissions…
Sept 2008 Clique: Graph & Network Analysis Cluster Site Visit - I am one of the six Principal Investigators for the proposed Clique: Graph & Network Analysis Strategic Research Cluster (SRC). I lead the Visulisation workpackage within the Clique cluster. On the 11th of September along…
Aug 2008 International Workshops at EMBC Canada and Intel USA - Along with my industrial co-PI Dr. Michael McGrath on the TRIL technology platform we recently demonstrated our BioMOBIUS research platform internationally. We were joined in these presentations by our colleagues Drs. Karl O'Donovan and Julie…
Aug 2008 Microsoft Techtalk: Social Network Visualisation - On Monday the 25th of August I gave an invited Techtalk on Social Network Visualisation at Microsoft Ireland. I was invited to present by Andrzej after meeting him at AVI 2008 in Naples Italy in…
Aug 2008 Invitation to Speak SENIOR project Brussels - I have been invited to present a talk on Ubicomp User Interfaces at the SENIOR project workshop in Brussels on Ubiquitous Computing on Sept 8th. The SENIOR project is examining issues related to ethics, privacy,…
Aug 2008 VAST 2008 and congrats to Mike Farrugia - Congratulations to Mike Farrugia one of my MSc students as he is one of the VAST 2008 Challenge Award Winners. His node-link animation submission to the contest was given one of these awards due to…
Aug 2008 Three new papers and a poster accepted - Along with students and colleagues we had a series of workshop and poster papers accepted recently. Rashid U. and Quigley A., "Ambient Displays in Academic Settings: Avoiding their Underutilization", Ambient Information Systems Workshop at UbiComp…
Aug 2008 Elevated to IEEE Senior Member - Dr. Aaron Quigley was elevated to the grade of Senior Member in the IEEE.
Aug 2008 CAPSIL Tokyo - Dr. Aaron Quigley the CAPSIL co-ordinator attended the second CAPSIL Workshop, held in Waseda University Tokyo from 30-31, July. He presented a co-ordinator report to the CAPSIL consortium members.CAPSIL (International Support Action of a Common…
July 2008 BioMobius in the News - For now, researchers in University College Dublin, St James’ Hospital and the Technology Research for Independent Living Centre (TRILC) are going to use SHIMMER, but Daly expects it to move into the more commercial field…
July 2008 Pervasive 2009 Program Committee invitation - Today I agreed to serve on the program committee for Pervasive 2009. I was invited to serve by A.J. Brush, Adrian Friday, Yoshito Tobe the program committee co-chairs. This annual conference provides a premier forum…
June 2008 Journal Special Issue Call - Along with colleagues in Microsoft and Bristol we are editing a special issue of a journal to follow on from our PPD workshop last month in Italy. Call for Papers for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing…
June 2008 BioMOBIUS in the news - Myriad of links to news items discussing BioMOBIUS eHealthNews.eu Body Sensor Networks direktbroker.de BenchmarkReviews.com Bnet PC Magazine WikiNews eChannel Line Intel ZDNet Scoop.nz Virtual Medical Worlds UCD CSIBrian O'Mullane head of TTP software team UCD…
June 2008 BioMOBIUS Workshop UCD Sept 2008 - University College Dublin - September 10th, 2008The TRIL Centre is running a one day BioMOBIUS™ Workshop in University College, Dublin on September 10th 2008 for researchers.BioMOBIUS™ platform is a closely integrated collection of hardware and…
June 2008 Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre - Today I am attending the Lero CSET year 2 review dry run in the UCD CASL. Our colleagues from around Ireland have come together today to give an overview ofour research efforts to one another.…
June 2008 BioMOBIUS in the news - Connecting People, Heath and Health Care For nearly 10 years, Intel has focused on people-centered research that leads to innovative technologies to improve the care of aging and chronically ill individuals in the home. Personalized…
June 2008 VGV08 and Congrats to Mike Bennett - Irish Graduate Student Symposium onVision, Graphics and Visualisation(VGV08)June 5thTrinity College DublinOn the back of an IRCSET exploratory Graduate Research Education Program exploratory grant myself and colleagues in Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin organised…
June 2008 PerCom PC 2009 - I was recently invited to serve of the international program committee for PerCom 2009 the Seventh Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. I look forward to taking part in this program committee…
June 2008 UbiComp 2008 PC and MSR Redmond - From September 21 - 24 this year UbiComp 2008 Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing will be held in the COEX, Seoul, South Korea. I'm currently attending the paper review meeting in Microsoft Research Redmond…
June 2008 EMBC Workshop Accepted - Along with colleagues in the TTP in TRIL we had our proposal for a pre-workshop event at EMBC 2008 accepted. Our event is called "Platform Oriented Approaches to Biomedical Application Development for In-lab and In-home…
May 2008 Co-Chair PPD’08 – Naples Italy - AVI is going well but this Saturday I am co-chairing an international workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public and private displays along with Shahram Izadi from Microsoft Research UK and Sriram Subramanian…
May 2008 Session Chair AVI 2008 - I am currently attending AVI 2008 where I am about to chair the session on Surface - Oriented Interaction. AVI 2008 is the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces and is held every 2…
May 2008 Pervasive 2008 comes to an end - Today saw the end of my responsibilities for Pervasive 2008 the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, which was held in Sydney. Congratulations and thanks to all the organisers for their hardwork and dedication in…
May 2008 Pervasive Computing @ Home Workshop - Today I attended and presented at the Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop in Sydney. This workshop was focused on Pervasive Technology as applied specifically to a home environment. What was discussed was what distinguishes the…
May 2008 Tabletop’08 PC – IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces 2008 - I was today invited to serve on the Program Committee for Tabletop'08 the 3rd IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces Conference in Amsterdam in October this year. The use of the tabletop as an input/output device…
May 2008 LoCA 2009 Co-Chair - Along with Tanzeem Choudhury of Dartmouth College, USA I am the program co-chair for LoCA 2009 in Tokyo Japan. 4th International Symposium on Location and Context AwarenessMay 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, JapanThe 2009 Symposium on Location…
May 2008 Paper Accepted IV08: Structural Clustering - Gaudin A. and Quigley A., "Interactive Structural Clustering of Graphs based on Multi-Representations", 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV08, 9 - 11 July 2008 in LSBU, London, UK (to appear)Work based on Marie Curie…
May 2008 Paper Accepted AVI 2008: Perceptual Usability - Bennett M. and Quigley A., "Perceptual Usability: Predicting changes in visual interfaces & designs due to visual acuity differences", 9th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2008) Naples Italy May 2008
Apr 2008 Paper Accepted Pervasive 2008 LBR: DocTrack - Holland T. and Quigley A,, "DocTrack: automatic printed digital document tagging and remote retrieval", Late Breaking Results of the Sixth International Conference in Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2008), Sydney Australia May 2008
Apr 2008 TRIL BioMOBIUS Launch - I am one of the Principal Investigators for the TRIL Centre (Technology Research for Independent Living) on the Technology Platform and today we launched the BioMOBIUS™ Research Platform. This is the combined effort of a…
Apr 2008 SFI Funded CSET: CLARITY - Science Foundation Ireland is to fund a €16.4m technology partnership between UCD, DCU and Tyndall in the CLARITY CSET. I'm one of the collaborators in this centre and other academics in my research group such…
Apr 2008 TRIL TTP – CASL Research Day - TRIL TTP/ CASL joint research dayDate: April 9th 2008Time: 9:00-14:10Location: UCD CASL, Seminar Room (ground floor) http://www.useamap.com/casl9:00 - 9:30 Welcome and coffee9:30 - 10:00 Dr. Joseph Kiniry - A Bit of Rigor Goes a Long…
Apr 2008 EU Coordinating Action: CAPSIL - I have recently become the UCD PI for an EU Support Action CAPSIL we coordinate. CAPSIL is an ‘International Support of a Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living’. Our first…
Apr 2008 Belfast Agreement, 10th Anniversary Event - I've been invited to attend an event early this month in Belfast Agreement to mark the 10th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement. In addition to the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Senator Mitchell, others who will…
Apr 2008 Pervasive 2008 Tutorial - Context-Rich but Keyboard-Free Pervasive Computing - Pervasive Computing User Interfaces - Aaron J Quigley - Pervasive 2008 TutorialsClearly there are classes of computing application which will rely on the classical screen, keyboard and mouse interfaces…
Mar 2008 P2P 2008 PC - I was invited to join the Program Committee for both The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2008)
Mar 2008 Postdoc HCI/Systems Engineering [Closed] - We had over 20 applications for these posts, thanks to all those who applied. Post-Doctoral Fellow in HCI and Systems EngineeringMarch 31st DeadlineFixed-term 1 year post (with a possibility of an extension)Ref: 003291Technology Research for…
Mar 2008 Two Workshop papers at “Pervasive Computing @ Home” - Our group had two papers one in collaboration with IBM and one with TRIL. Adding Convenience to “Cohabitation of Convenience” and Home Deployment for Independent Living workshop papers at Pervasive Computing @ Home, workshop of…
Feb 2008 Lero Postgraduate Posts - The LERO Graduate School in Software Engineering - LGSSE - the main education initiative of LERO- offers a four year PhD Programme jointly provided by the four Irish Universities involved in LERO (The University of…
Feb 2008 Jobs – Interaction Designer [closed] - We had over 20 applications for these posts, thanks to all those who applied. Interaction Designer UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical SciencesFixed-term 1 year post (with a possibility of an extension)Ref: 003292Technology Research…
Jan 2008 Oracle/SFI Grant success and review - Professor Paddy Nixon holds a €2.5m SFI award in Secure and Predictable Pervasive Systems. This core grant has allowed us over the past 3 years to develop the systems research group (SRG) in UCD into…
Jan 2008 TRIL Centre IDA Review - Along with my co-Principal Investigators in the TRIL Centre (Technology Research for Independent Living) we presented to an external review panel on our work to date and plans for 2008 across the 5 strands within…
Jan 2008 Co-Chair PPD’08 (public/private multi-touch displays) - Along with some colleagues I had a workshop proposal for AVI 2008 the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces accepted recently. PPD'08 Call for Papers Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public…
Jan 2008 Multimedia, Graphics and Visualization – Next Steps - Since 2005 I have been teaching a Multimedia, Graphics and Visualization (COMP40340) course in UCD as part of our Higher Diploma/M.Sc. in Ubiquitous and Multimedia Systems. I inherited this course from a colleague and while…
Jan 2008 CLARITY SFI site-visit - I've been involved with the Adaptive Information Cluster in UCD and DCU for a number of years. Primarily through ODCSSS, our undergraduate research internship program which they helped support with funds for the first couple…
Dec 2007 Grant Success: CASL Scientific Computing Sensor Facility - A group of us in the UCD CASL were awarded €620,000 as part of a successful grant application under the 2007 SFI Equipment Call. This is a great success for CASL as the grant involved…
Dec 2007 Co-Chair Pervasive 2008 Late Breaking Results - +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Preliminary Call for Late Breaking Results Papers Pervasive 2008 The Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing Sydney, Australia May 19-22, 2008 http://pervasive2008.org/+-------------------------------------------------------------+Preliminary Call for Late Breaking Results PapersSubmission Deadline: 1st February 2008, 18:00 ESTNotification…
Dec 2007 Umer Rashid starts as IBM/IRCSET funded postgrad - Umer Rashid has joined me this week as a postgrad in the SRG. Umer has a Masters from the U-VR Lab, GIST, Gwangju, South Korea under the supervision of Wontack Woo. He comes to us…
Nov 2007 UbiComp 2008 Program Committee - I was invited to serve on the UbiComp 2008 Program Committee. UbiComp is a top-tier conference. UbiComp 2008 is the Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and will be held in Seoul, South Korea from…
Nov 2007 Appointed PI, TRIL Technology Platform Strand - Myself and Prof. Paddy Nixon are the two new Co-Principal Investigators into the TRIL Technology Platform Strand with a team of about 7 currently based in Engineering. TRIL represents a total investment by Intel and…
Oct 2007 Dagstuhl Seminar Invitation - I have been invited to attend a Dagstuhl Seminar in May of 2008 on Graph Drawing with Applications to Bioinformatics and Social Sciences. This is a very timely event for me, as I am working…
Oct 2007 Three Open Postdoc Posts - 3 postdoctoral research positions available in:* wireless sensor networks* software engineering for autonomic systems* enterprise systems engineeringSystems Research GroupSchool of Computer Science and InformaticsUCD Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, IrelandThe group=========UCD's Systems Research Group conducts world-recognised…
Oct 2007 European Patent Office Invention Filed - As part of my role as an IBM CAS Visiting Scientist I work with Extreme Blue groups during the summer period. Three of my former UCD honours student Keith, Cheryl and Darin have ended up…
Oct 2007 Tom Holland starts as IRCSET funded postgrad - I would like to welcome Tom Holland who recently started his Ph.D. with the Systems Research Group in the UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory under my supervision with Prof. Paddy Nixon. Tom is starting…
Sept 2007 CellTransformer: A Tool to Generate Reaction Networks through Graph Transformation - Brendan Sheehan MSc, one of the PhD scholars I supervise is off to The Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology, Long Beach California Oct 1-6, 2007. He is attending various tutorials and presenting a poster…
Sept 2007 Masterclass in Software Architecture - Next week along with a few invited software architecture leaders and members of UK and Irish academia I am attending an IBM Masterclass. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to learn more about this area…
Aug 2007 ODCSSS research internship - [ ODCSSS Feed ] Over the past 12 weeks we have had 24 students from around the world working on 12 research projects in DCU and 12 projects in UCD. The site involved two directors,… Aug 2007 Session Chair P2P 2007 - Having Daniel Cutting as a PhD student brought me into the area of peer to peer computing. Building on my own background in systems research this exposure brought a new found interest in overlay networks…
Aug 2007 Peer to Peer Journal Papers [Daniel Cutting] - Along with Daniel Cutting and Bjorn Landfeldt we have recently had two Journal papers accepted. Daniel was my first PhD student who submitted his thesis on Implicit Group Messaging on P2P network in June of…
July 2007 Conference Roles IBM CAS 2007, AmI 2007, IOT 2008, Pervasive 2008 - The summer is a busy time for completing research projects ready for publication in the coming year. Along with completing research projects the summer is also a busy time for reviewing papers for conferences coming…
July 2007 New Papers [Ross Shannon] - The students in my group have been publishing a number of a new papers of late. Ross Shannon has had two papers accepted in recent months, one on collecting and reasoning about context data from…
July 2007 Panelist – 20th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training - In early July 2007 I was an invited panelists at the Conference for Software Engineering Education and Training, 2007 (CSEET 2007) on "Preparing Students for Software Engineering Research". Along with these panelists: Dr. Laurie Williams,…
July 2007 Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision (VGV) - In the first week of July 2007 a group of academics from the three Dublin-based universities – Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Dublin City University led by Prof. Carol O'Sullivan submitted a GREP…
July 2007 Grant Evaluation FCT Portugal - In late June I was invited by the Foundation for Science and the Technology Portugal (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) to evaluate a number of grant proposals on a Computer Engineering Panel. This…
June 2007 Expert Panel Visualisation, Graphics and Vision - On June 16, 2007 we had an expert panel review our proposed inter-University graduate program in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision. Academics from the three Dublin-based universities – Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Dublin…
June 2007 InfoVis Symposium Dublin - UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems LaboratoryInformation Visualisation
Mini-Symposium June 15th 2007This Information Visualisation symposium saw people from industry and academia from around Ireland come together for a mini-symposium on Information Visualisation. Aaron Quigley chaired the…
June 2007 TMA EMBO Course and Demo - As part of our ODCSSS 2006 we had a student work on a TableTop tissue microarray visualisation. Following on from this we were part of an application to run an EMBO Practical Course on Tissue…
June 2007 China Research Trip - From May 27th until June 4th I took part in an IRCSET funded GREP research visit with my colleague Marie Redmond from Trinity College Dublin to China. IRCSET funded our exploratory grant which supported this…
June 2007 SRG students attend Software Engineering Research Summer School - As part of the project SPL1 - Visualisation of Software Project Lines, UCD@Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research centre is providing support for Luke O'Malley one of my MSc students to the attend a summer…
June 2007 Hdip and ODCSSS Feeds - The School of Computer Science in UCD has been running a very successful and popular H. Dip. in Computer Science for a number of year. As the new course director I have started to revamp… May 2007 UbiComp 2007 PC - In May of 2007 I attend a two day meeting as a program committee member in Toronto for the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. This will be held on 16-19 September 2007 in Innsbruck,…
May 2007 New Papers and Professional Activities - Dobson S., Bailey E., Knox S., Shannon R. and Quigley A., "A First Approach to the Closed-Form Specification and Analysis of an Autonomic Control System", 12th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems…
May 2007 ODCSSS 24 International Students 2007 - ODCSSS in 2007 has 24 students coming from 11 countries. India, Hong Kong, Austria, Thailand, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Spain, USA and Ireland. Some of Irelandʼs best undergraduates coming from UCD, DCU, TCD, WIT,… Apr 2007 Graduate Research Education: Sweden - On April 18th I took part in an IRCSET funded GREP research visit with my colleague Gavin Doherty from Trinity College Dublin. IRCSET funded an exploratory grant which supported this trip for the development of…
Apr 2007 A digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing - MEMENTO: a digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharingJournal Personal and Ubiquitous ComputingPublisher Springer LondonISSN 1617-4909 (Print) 1617-4917 (Online)Subject Computer ScienceIssue Volume 11, Number 4 / April, 2007Category Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00779-006-0090-7Pages 313-328David West, Aaron Quigley and Judy…
Mar 2007 Visualisation in Software Product Line Engineering - Along with Luke O'Malley in UCD and other colleagues in LERO we have had our workshop at SPLC accepted by international peer-review. We are organising a Workshop on Visualisation in Software Product Line Engineering (ViSPLE…
Mar 2007 IBM CAS Conference CFP - The Preliminary Call for Papers for the IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007 has now been published. This is the third annual IBM Dublin CAS research symposia organised as a multi-track single day…
Mar 2007 ODCSSS News Item in UCD Info Bulletin - ODCSSS in University College Dublin Information Bulletin, Issue 388, 20 March 2007 [PDF] Mar 2007 UbiComp Reviews Start - I am a PC member for UbiComp 2007 and reviewing has now started for the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. [ Watch the UbiComp 2007 Promo Video here ]. This conference is to be…
Mar 2007 ODCSSS News Item DCU - DCU Research News on ODCSSS: An Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School (Odysseus) will run for a period of 12 weeks from June to August in both UCD and DCU. This is a paid internship… Mar 2007 Director of HDip, Higher Diploma in Computing - Aaron Quigley will be taking over from Henry McLoughlin as the Director of the Higher Diploma in Computer Science in Computer Science and Informatics.
Mar 2007 IBM Dublin CAS Symposium Program Chair - Aaron Quigley is the Program Chair for the IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007 (Dublin Ireland). This is the third annual IBM Dublin CAS research symposia organised as a multi-track single day event…
Feb 2007 Move of SRG group to CASL - We have moved to the new Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory along with 22 PIs in the first phase of its development. This lab brings together academics from the schools of Business, Computer Science and…
Nov 2007 Best Paper Award - We won the Best Paper award for "Visualisation Techniques to Support Derivation Tasks in Software Product Line Development" authored by Nestor D., O'Malley L., Healy P., Quigley A., Thiel S., at the IBM CAS Software…
Jan 2007 Awarded SFI UREKA grant - Received a very competitive Undergraduate Research Experience & Knowledge Award (UREKA) from the Science Foundation Ireland for ODCSSS with DCU. This award, worth in excess of €300,000 will fund many undergraduate research projects based on…
Dec 2006 GREP research visit Sydney and Tokyo - VGV Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision research and exploratory visits to NICTA (Australia), University of Sydney and the NII Tokyo Japan. I even got to meet up with one of my former student…
Dec 2006 New Program Committee Memberships - Invited to join the Program Committee for both The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2007) and The Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2007)
Nov 2006 SFI Ureka Grant Submitted - I am one of the lead applicants for a UREKA SFI grant request submitted to the SFI. This grant, if successful, will see me become the UCD director for ODCSSS from 2007 - 2009.
Nov 2006 InfoVis Symposium Poster - Information Visualization Symposium (InfoVis 2006), π-flow (Honorable mention), Benoit Gaudin, Mike Bennett, Brendan Sheehan and Aaron J. Quigley
Nov 2006 InfoVis Symposium Poster - Information Visualization Symposium (InfoVis 2006), π-flow (Honorable mention), Benoit Gaudin, Mike Bennett, Brendan Sheehan and Aaron J. Quigley
Oct 2006 IRCSET GREP Award - IRCSET funded exploratory our grant for Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision with TCD, UCD and DCU under their Graduate Research Education Programme.
Oct 2006 Best Poster Award IBM Dublin CASCON - CASCON 2006 Dublin symposium Best Poster Award, "From Migrations to Population Concentration"
Oct 2006 Best Poster Award IBM Dublin CASCON - CASCON 2006 Dublin symposium Best Poster Award, "From Migrations to Population Concentration"
Oct 2006 CASCON 2006 - I have been the Program Chair for the Dublin CASCON 2006 Dublin Symposium this year
Sept 2006 New Honours Student - Cheryl-Anne Harding has started her honours project on TableTop Information Visualisation and Darin Eagan has started his on 3D MPEG Encoding Visualisation with me.
Sept 2006 Luke O’Malley starts as postgrad - Luke O'Malley, has started with me as a Lero MSc scholar
Sept 2006 International P2P Conference Paper - Daniel Cutting one of my PhD students is nearing the end of his thesis work and presented a great talk at the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing in Cambridge on, "Implicit Group Messaging…
Aug 2006 ODCSSS Final Research Day - The Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School (Odysseus or ODCSSS) 2006 brought together 17 students from around Ireland, Europe and the USA. The grand finale research day was held on Aug 25 2006. This undergraduate… July 2006 Automotive Software – opportunities for Irish graduates, Technology Ireland Article - Quoted in a piece on Automotive Software - opportunities for Irish graduates, Technology Ireland, Issue 3 Vol 37.Automotive software (Automobile Sector) is an expanding area of software engineering and embedded systems research and development. Within…
June 2006 Imaging, Visualisation & Graphics laboratory launch - We held the launch of the Imaging, Visualisation & Graphics laboratory in the School of Computer Science and Informatics with the support of Computer Services UCD. This launch was attended by UCD President, Vice President…
May 2006 Pervasive 2006 State Reception - 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing State Reception hosted by Minister of State Tom Kitt in Dublin Castle who gave this welcoming speech which I helped to write and awarded the best paper prize. Minister…
May 2006 Pervasive 2006 Opens in Dublin - I am the Conference Chair for Pervasive 2006 the 4th International Conference in Pervasive Computing held in Dublin.
Apr 2006 Appointed Program Chair Dublin CASCON 2007 - Appointed as Program Chair for the Dublin CASCON 2006 Symposium.
Apr 2006 Enterprise Ireland, International Collaboration Grant - I have been awarded an Enterprise Ireland, International Collaboration Grant for "Pervasive Visualisation: Off the desktop visualisation".
Apr 2006 CHI 2006 Roadtrip - Myself and Mike Bennett will attended and presented 2 papers (conference and workshop) at the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2006 in Montreal, Canada between April 22-27 2006.
Mar 2006 Enterprise Ireland Technology Roadmap - We reached agreement with Enterprise Ireland to develop a technology roadmap series on Delivering Location Intelligence for a networked mobile world to be hosted in Dublin prior to both LoCA 2006 and Pervasive 2006.
Feb 2006 Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School - We launched Odysseus http://www.odcsss.ie, the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School which has 34 projects on offer for application from undergraduate students in Computer Science or related disciplines. I'm the UCD Director of ODCSSS. These…
Feb 2006 Pervasive 2006 State Reception - The office of the Taoiseach (the Irish prime minister) has agreed to host a state reception in Dublin Castle for Pervasive 2006. Tom Kitt TD Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and…
Jan 2006 SFI Workshop and Conference Grant - Myself and Professor Paddy Nixon were successful in grant application to the SFI for a workshop & conference grant for PERVASIVE 2006, PERVASIVE 2006 - The 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
Dec 2005 CHI 2006 paper accepted - Myself, Trent Apted and Judy Kay had a full conference paper accepted to CHI 2006 on Tabletop Sharing of Digital Photographs for the Elderly.
Sept 2005 Brendan Sheehan starts as postgrad - Brendan Sheehan, has started with me as an Embark/Microsoft Research IRCSET PhD scholar.
Sept 2005 IBM Research Panel - Invited Panalist, RFID & Next Generation Interfaces, Extreme Blue Expo, IBM Dublin Software Lab in the IBM Technology Campus in Mulhuddart.
Sept 2005 New Honours Students - Keith Pilson (Visualisation of sensor data from flight logs) and Wei Zhu (Pervasive Gaming) have started with me as honours students.
Nov 2005 SFI funding for Lero CSET - 9th of November, Minister Micheál Martin announces funding of €11.7million for the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Lero.
Aug 2005 Marie Curie International Return and Reintegration grant - Notified by the EU of my International Return and Reintegration grant success. This will allow me to begin an EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow on CoViAn, Comparative Visual Analytic techniques and their effectiveness in the…
Sept 2005 Graph Drawing Symposium - Mike Bennett was awarded an Honorable Mention for his graph drawing competition submission at the 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, 12 - 14 September 2005, University of Limerick, Limerick Ireland
July 2005 Mike Bennett starts as postgrad - Mike Bennett has started with me as a PhD scholar in the Systems Research Group.
June 2005 Systems Research Group Posts - Our group (SRG) has a number of vacancies:see: http://www.csi.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home/downloads/SRG_flyer.pdf
June 2005 Pervasive 2006 coming to Dublin - We were successful in our bid to host PERVASIVE 2006. I am the Conference Chair for PERVASIVE 2006 - The 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
June 2005 Summer Interns - June 2005: Keith Pilson and Larry O'Neill have started working with me on two visualisation projects SOLE and Triskele.
Mar 2005 PhD Funding - Follow this link if you would like to know about the details of a project I have for a funded PhD studentship.
Feb 2005 MSc Computational Science - Follow this link if you would like to know about the projects I currently have on offer for MSc students (MSc Computational Science).
Jan 2005 PhD Scholarship - I have one PhD scholarship on offer in both Information Visualisation and Ubiquitous Computing.
Jan 2005 Relocation - I relocated to the University College Dublin in Ireland as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science. [old link] My new linked page is here with my photo collection here. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronquigley/ Introduction - I'll think about creating a blog here of overlapping or related research on UbiComp and InfoViz