2010 – 2020: During this time Professor Aaron Quigley was the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, and co-founder of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group. While in Scotland he served as director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), board member for ScotlandIS and the DataLab. While working in the University of St Andrews he served as deputy head of school, director of research, director of SACHI, teaching and research ethics committee member, knowledge exchange group committee member, Brexit preparedness group committee member, St Andrews Business Ventures group committee member and on the Science/Medicine promotions panel.
From 2019 – 2020 he was director of SICSA and from 2012 – 2014, he was the deputy director and director for knowledge exchange for SICSA. During his time as director of knowledge exchange in SICSA he developed a program of funding mechanisms for early career researchers and with industry submitted the Scottish Data Science Innovation Centre consortium registration. This led to the successful submission and funding of the DataLab. The DataLab is an £11.3 million innovation centre funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and with support from Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Aaron served on the board of the DataLab in 2014 and from 2012 – 2014 chaired the AspeKT board a project funded by SFC and Scottish Enterprise. AspeKT is the knowledge transfer program for the SICSA research pool supporting Scotland’s technology innovators and entrepreneurs. In late 2014 Aaron was elected to serve on the ScotlandIS board which is the trade body for the digital technologies industry in Scotland. Aaron was the inaugural editor-in-chief for the journal Computers from 2011 – 2015.
During his time in St Andrews he held the following conference organisation roles:
- ACM CHI 2021 General Co-Chair
- ACM MobileHCI Steering Committee Chair and member
- ACM IUI 2018 Program Co-Chair
- ACM MobileHCI 2016 Panels Co-Chair
- ACM UIST 2015 Keynote Chair
- ACM MobileHCI 2014 General Co-Chair
- ACM PerDis 2014 Program Chair
- ACM UIST 2013 General Co-Chair
- ACM ITS 2013 General Co-Chair
- ACM MobileHCI 2012 Tutorials Co-Chair
- HCI 2012 Short Papers Co-Chair
- Pervasive 2012 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair
- Grid and Pervasive Computing 2011 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair
- Dagstuhl Seminar 13452 Co-Organiser
- Dagstuhl Seminar 15052 Co-Organiser
His appointment in 2010 was part of SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. Within SICSA he served as a theme leader for Multimodal Interaction (2011 to 2012), Deputy Director and Director of Knowledge Exchange from 2012 to 2014 and Director 2019 – 2020.
Some of his external service has including serving as program co-chair for ACM IUI in Tokyo Japan in 2018. Program chair for PerDis in 2014 and general co-chair for MobileHCI. In 2013 he was the general co-chair of the 26th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2013) and a general co-chair of the ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS 2013). He has served as an associate chair for the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) on five occasions.
Aaron was the Doctoral Colloquium Co Chair of Pervasive 2012, the Short Paper Co Chair of HCI 2012 and an Associate Chair of the ACM MobileHCI 2012 and 2013 Program Committees along with tutorials co-chair for the ACM MobileHCI 2012 conference. He has had chairing roles in thirty international conferences and has served on over ninety international conference and workshop program committees. He served in various capacities in first the Pervasive and then joint UbiComp and Pervasive steering committees, 2006-2009 (member Pervasive), 2009-2011 (chair Pervasive) and 2011-2013 (member joint steering committee). He was the inaugural editor-in-chief for the journal “Computers” from 2011 – 2015. He was a member of the University of St Andrews’ Teaching and Research Ethics Committee. From 2011 – 2014 he was an external member of the IDEAS Research Institute Executive Committee in Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, where he holds a visiting Professorship.