Research Projects

PhD Position: Using optical devices to enhance user interactions on an interactive surface (filled)

In cooperation with Microsoft Research Cambridge, the Interaction and Graphics group invites applications (from India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing world.) for an open PhD position that is supported by the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate award.

For more details click here.

Network investigating research opportunities with India

This research network aims to unify UK and Indian, academic and commercial, efforts in investigating research on end-user technologies. The goals of the network are

develop an agenda of activities within the context of interactive technologies for the end-user
encourage the development of a sustained research collaboration that is internationally outstanding and economically relevant
be real and meaningful to the vision of a shared digital economy

For more details visit www.ukinit.org

User-interfaces for Mobile Interaction

The broad goals of this project are to investigate various interaction modalities and device ecologies to facilitate new service capabilities through multi-part and multi-device interactions. The project is funded as part of a strategic partnership between MobileVCE and EPSRC .

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate(details here)and a PhD candidate (details on how to apply are here) to carry out research and development within this project.
Application closing date: 9th March 2009

For informal queries please email me.

News

04/05/2009 - 21:57

New PhD Position

Click here for details.

Closing date: June 1st, 2009.

21/02/2009 - 12:37

Visit to UPMC and CEA

I visited ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique which is part of Université Pierre et Marie Curie to see some of their latest research ventures in Haptics.

The center also has a strong interest in investigating the use of haptics in improving user interactions with scanning electron microscopes.

11/02/2009 - 08:36

Times of India article

Times of India a leading newspaper in India covered our recent meeting in Bangalore. A small article is here and we are expecting the journalist to file a larger story soon but hopefully with fewer factual errors.