We contributed a book chapter to the recently published Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces. Our chapter (link) presents an overview of haptic and non-speech audio feedback, discusses examples and benefits of multimodal feedback, and looks at application areas where multimodal feedback can improve usability.
Recent News
3/2/17 CHI 2017 30s Preview Videos
We had five papers accepted to CHI 2017. Here are the 30-second preview videos for three of them.
3/2/17 ABBI Project Completed
This week saw the conclusion of our EU-funded ABBI project, a three-year collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Lund University, University of Hamburg, and the Chiossone Institute. You can read more about the ABBI project here.
The primary aim of the project was to develop and evaluate an audio bracelet to assist in the rehabilitation of young visually impaired children, to help them develop spatial understanding and movement skills. Our recent research on the project investigated how the capabilities of the ABBI audio bracelet could be used in other ways, to assist visually impaired children. This culminated in our CHI 2017 paper about audible beacons and how sound from such devices could be used to support independent play and movement. The following video gives a summary of this work.
26/1/17 PhD Opportunity on the Levitate Project
We are looking for a PhD student to work with us on the Levitate Project. For more information, please see https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=82975
10/1/17 CHI 2017 Papers
We are pleased to announce that we have had five full papers accepted to CHI 2017:
- Audible Beacons and Wearables in Schools: Helping Young Visually Impaired Children Play and Move Independently.
- Euan Freeman, Graham Wilson, Stephen Brewster, Gabriel Baud-Bovy, Charlotte Magnusson, and Hector Caltenco
- From the ABBI project
- Multi-moji: Combining Thermal, Vibrotactile & Visual Stimuli to Expand the Affective Range of Feedback.
- Graham Wilson and Stephen Brewster
- An Evaluation of Input Controls for In-Car Interactions.
- Alexander Ng, Stephen Brewster, Frank Beruscha, and Wolfgang Krautter
- From the HAPPINESS project
- I Am The Passenger: How Visual Motion Cues Can Influence Sickness For In-Car VR.
- Mark McGill, Alexander Ng, and Stephen Brewster
- ForgetMeNot: Active Reminder Entry Support for Adults with Acquired Brain Injury.
- Matthew Jamieson, Brian O’Neill, Breda Cullen, Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Stephen Brewster, and Jonathan Evans
Mark McGill will also be presenting an ACM TOCHI article at CHI. More details about this will be added soon.
Videos
9/1/17 Introducing Levitate
Our new year is off to an exciting start – this month we are kicking off Levitate, a four-year EU project. We are going to be working with the University of Sussex, Chalmers University of Technology, Aarhus University and UltraHaptics, to develop a radical new display based on levitating particles.
Levitate envisions a new form of human-computer interaction where users can reach out and interact with physical objects in mid-air. Our technology aims to allow users to see, feel and hear the effects of their interactions with the levitating objects. Be sure to check back shortly for more information about this exciting new project as it develops.
6/1/17 Two new PhD students
Two new PhD students joined us in October 2016 – welcome Paddy and Jamie! Paddy’s research is funded by a studentship from Jaguar-Land Rover and is going to be about in-car haptic interactions. Jamie’s research is investigating the sonification of astronomical and astrophysical data.
4/10/16 ICMI and NordiCHI
We’re going to be at ICMI in Tokyo and NordiCHI in Gothenburg later in the year, presenting research from the ABBI Project. Look our for our posters and demos and come and say hello!
At NordiCHI we’ll be presenting a poster:
- Automatically Adapting Home Lighting to Assist Visually Impaired Children
- Euan Freeman, Graham Wilson, and Stephen Brewster
And at ICMI we are presenting two demos:
- Towards a Multimodal Adaptive Lighting System for Visually Impaired Children
- Euan Freeman, Graham Wilson, and Stephen Brewster
- Multimodal Affective Feedback: Combining Thermal, Vibrotactile, Audio and Visual Signals
- Graham Wilson, Euan Freeman, and Stephen Brewster
12/7/16 PhD opportunity in MIG
We have a great PhD opportunity in MIG which investigates novel uses of haptic interaction in cars. For more information and to apply, please click on the following link: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=75831&LID=2252
Applications end on 1st August.
11/5/16 CHI ’16
We are in sunny San Jose! If you see the Glasgow Interactive Systems Group logo then come and say hi! We still have a couple of talks this afternoon and we’ll be near two posters in the Extending User Capabilities section.
