Simon Robinson

Senior Research Assistant & PhD Student, FIT Lab

Research Interests

  • Multimodal, negotiated interaction in mobile scenarios (EPSRC-funded research; see the project website)
  • Engaged mobile human-computer interaction
  • Sensory interfaces for mobile devices
  • Location-aware systems, geo-web
  • Low-attention, engaging, heads-up interaction

Publications

Journal articles

  1. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, Exploring Casual Point-and-Tilt Interactions for Mobile Geo-Blogging. In press, to appear in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Conference papers

  1. J. Williamson, S. Robinson, C. Stewart, R. Murray-Smith, M. Jones, S. Brewster, Social Gravity: A Virtual Elastic Tether for Casual, Privacy-Preserving Pedestrian Rendezvous. Accepted, to appear in Proceedings of CHI 2010, Atlanta, April 2010.
  2. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, Sweep-Shake: Finding Digital Resources in Physical Environments. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2009, Bonn, Sept. 2009. Awarded best paper.
  3. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, Evaluating Haptics for Information Discovery While Walking. In Proceedings of BCS HCI 2009, Cambridge, Sept. 2009.
  4. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, Point-to-GeoBlog: Gestures and Sensors to Support User Generated Content Creation. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2008, Amsterdam, Sept. 2008.

Other

  1. S. Robinson, Heads-up Engagement with the Real World: Multimodal Techniques for Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide. Accepted into CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Atlanta, April 2010.
  2. M. L. Wilson, S. Robinson, D. Craggs, K. Brimble, M. Jones, Pico-ing into the Future of Mobile Projector Phones. Accepted, to appear in CHI 2010 Works-in-Progress, Atlanta, April 2010.
  3. S. Robinson, Fusing the Physical and Digital: Making Maps using Gestures and Sensors. M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Wales, Swansea, Oct. 2009.

Presentations, Demos and Other Work

In addition to presenting the conference papers listed above, and several talks and demonstrations in undergraduate lectures and at the Visible Lunch and the FIT Lab Reading Group:

Other Interests

Contact

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  • Office: Future Interaction Technology Lab, Faraday Tower room 503
  • Address: Future Interaction Technology Lab, Computer Science Department, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
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