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Matthew Chalmers
Computing Science, University of Glasgow
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matthew
A PhD studentship is available within in a project called Homework:
Shaping Future User Centred Domestic Infrastructures. The project is
about new infrastructure for people's homes, covering networking in
such systems, end-user management, and formal modelling of networks
and use. This project brings together researchers from Glasgow,
Nottingham, Imperial and Georgia Tech, and looks at interactive
techniques that make key features of new management, measurement and
modelling techniques, available to inhabitants. I'm looking to recruit
a student to work on 'seamfully' exposing formal modelling of home
networks, using phones, PDAs or screens set in the home to let people
understand and use what is usually fairly abstract or obscure types of
modelling. He or she would work closely with another new PhD student
in the project, who will drive the formal modelling itself. Perhaps
you can imagine a mobile tool that dynamically displayed the a map
showing the state of the wireless networks at home, and the devices on
the inhabitant's network, as inspected by some of the formal model
checkers. It might be a straight 'management app' or it might be
something more playful and engaging -- a game or competition, perhaps?
The student would also work within the Social Ubiquitous Mobile (SUM)
group at Glasgow. SUM group has a seven-year track record of
innovative research in human-computer interaction (HCI) and ubiquitous
computing (ubicomp). This group was originally founded as part of the
Equator interdisciplinary research collaboration, recently expanding
its size and scope with major EPSRC funded projects on ubicomp systems
for interaction among crowds (Designing the Augmented Stadium) and new
techniques for adaptation and evaluation of ubicomp systems
(Contextual Software). Now involving six RAs and five PhD students,
the group is set within GIST, one of the UK's strongest HCI groups.
The group has pioneered a holistic approach that combines three
distinct areas: theory, studies of users and systems in use. Its
approach to ubicomp systems design has advanced both infrastructure
and interaction issues, and shows adeptness in dealing with technical
challenges at all levels. This reflects the core ubicomp
characteristic of finding a successful and synergistic blend of user
experience, system engineering and theory. A specific focus of the
group's work has been designing new applications for leisure and
entertainment in the mobile environment, spanning application areas
such as cultural tourism, city visiting, pervasive gaming, and fitness
and sport. The group's work has explored these as application areas in
themselves, but also as vehicles for systems research in, for example,
mobile ad hoc networks, peer-to-peer data sharing, recommender systems
and information visualisation. Theoretical work, in the form of design
concepts and critiques of established design principles, has fed into
and been fed by experience and system work. A key research goal of the
group is showing how ubicomp technologies can be designed for and used
in realistic settings. Results from this work have been published at
the highest level, such as the CHI, CSCW, ECSCW, Pervasive and Ubicomp
conferences, and in publications such as the Communications of the
ACM, TOCHI and J. CSCW.
If you're interesting in this studentship, drop me an email and/or
send in an application form available from here:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/phd
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