Simon Robinson

Research Officer & PhD Researcher, FIT Lab

I'm a PhD researcher in the Future Interaction Technology Lab at Swansea University, supervised by Matt Jones and Parisa Eslambolchilar.

My research focuses on low-attention, engaging, sensor-based interactions with mobile devices – please see the publications below for more details. This research is part of the EPSRC-funded Multimodal, negotiated interaction in mobile scenarios and Community-generated media for the next billion projects.

Publications

Conference papers

  1. S. Robinson, E. Vartiainen, M. Jones, G. Marsden, “PicoTales: Collaborative Authoring of Animated Stories using Handheld Projectors” Accepted, to appear in Proceedings of CSCW 2012, Seattle, February 2012.
  2. S. Robinson, N. Rajput, M. Jones, A. Jain, S. Sahay, A. Nanavati, “TapBack: Towards Richer Mobile Interfaces in Impoverished Contexts” In Proceedings of CHI 2011 (pages 2733–2736), Vancouver, May 2011.
  3. S. Robinson, M. Jones, P. Eslambolchilar, R. Murray-Smith, M. Lindborg, “‘I Did It My Way’: Moving Away from the Tyranny of Turn-by-Turn Pedestrian Navigation” In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2010 (pages 341–344), Lisbon, Sept. 2010. Nominated for best paper.
  4. 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” In Proceedings of CHI 2010 (pages 1485–1494), Atlanta, April 2010.
  5. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, “Sweep-Shake: Finding Digital Resources in Physical Environments” In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2009 (pages 85–94), Bonn, Sept. 2009. Awarded best paper.
  6. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, “Evaluating Haptics for Information Discovery While Walking” In Proceedings of BCS HCI 2009 (pages 93–102), Cambridge, Sept. 2009.
  7. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, “Point-to-GeoBlog: Gestures and Sensors to Support User Generated Content Creation” In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2008 (pages 197–206), Amsterdam, Sept. 2008.

Journal articles

  1. M. L. Wilson, D. Craggs, S. Robinson, M. Jones, K. Brimble, “Pico-ing into the Future of Mobile Projection and Contexts” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 16(1):39–52, 2012.
  2. S. Robinson, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Jones, “Exploring Casual Point-and-Tilt Interactions for Mobile Geo-Blogging” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 14(4):363–379, 2010.

Workshop items & works-in-progress

  1. N. Bidwell, M. Lalmas, G. Marsden, B. Dlutu, S. Ntlangano, A. Manjingolo, W. Tucker, M. Jones, S. Robinson, E. Vartiainen, I. Klampanos, “Designing for ‘Callback’ in Rural Africa” In Proceedings of IWIPS 2011 (pages 117–138), Kuching, July 2011.
  2. S. Robinson, E. Vartiainen, M. Jones, G. Marsden, “Impromptu Collaborative Projection for Storytelling” In MP2 2011: Workshop on Mobile and Personal Projection, Vancouver, May 2011.
  3. S. Robinson, M. Jones, “HaptiProjection: Multimodal Mobile Information Discovery” In Ubiprojection 2010: Workshop on Personal Projection, Helsinki, May 2010.
  4. S. Robinson, “Heads-up Engagement with the Real World: Multimodal Techniques for Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide” In CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium (pages 2895–2898), Atlanta, April 2010.
  5. M. L. Wilson, S. Robinson, D. Craggs, K. Brimble, M. Jones, “Pico-ing into the Future of Mobile Projector Phones” In CHI 2010 Works-in-Progress (pages 3997–4002), Atlanta, April 2010.

Publications and further information are also available from ACM, DBLP or Google Scholar profiles. Details of other work, such as theses, internships, workshops, invited demos and talks are available on the additional work page.

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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