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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…