Reviewing, committees

• Reviewing for CHI, Ubicomp, MobileHCI, Interact, DIS, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, APCHI, NordiCHI

Patents

• IN920110114US1: Controlling a Voice Site Using Non Standard Haptic Commands. Anupam Jain, Nitendra Rajput, Simon Robinson

Theses & related items

1. 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.
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2. S. Robinson, Fusing the Physical and Digital: Making Maps using Gestures and Sensors. M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Wales, Swansea, July 2008.
3. S. Robinson, A Pen-Based Interactive Graphing Tool. B.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Wales, Swansea, May 2006.

Talks, demonstrations, awards, press

In addition to conference paper presentations, talks and demonstrations in undergraduate and masters lectures, and presentations at the Visible Lunch and the FIT Lab Reading Group:

• 2011
  • May: Invited talk at CHI 2011 course on Interaction Design for Development
  • March: Presentation about our recent work on pico projection as part of the IBM Smarter Planet Comes to You Tour
• 2010
  • Sept.: Featured in New Scientist magazine and nominated for best paper at MobileHCI 2010 for our haptic navigation work
  • June – Aug.: Internship at IBM Research India (New Delhi) working on interactions for the Spoken Web. Chosen as a featured intern project for 2010
  • April: Attended CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium to present thesis research: Heads-up Engagement with the Real World: Multimodal Techniques for Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide
  • March: Invited demo at Museum Interfaces, Spaces, Technologies workshop (summary and programme (PDF)), Cambridge University
• 2009
  • Nov.: Joint talk with Jen Pearson at the annual undergraduate computer science colloquium to present and promote research by members of the FIT Lab
  • Sept.:
    • Winner of best paper at MobileHCI 2009 for our Sweep-Shake work
    • Part of the group organising Telling StoryBank: Stories across the global digital divide at the British Science Festival
    • Presented invited demo Haptics while moving at the BCS HCI 2009 Open House Festival of Interactive Technology
  • June: Member of the working group and presenter at the British Science Association Postgraduate Researchers’ Science Day (summary programme (PDF))
  • April: Figure design featured on the front cover of Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning
• 2008
  • April: Refined and redeveloped the StoryBank system as part of the Rhondda Lives! project for Valleys Kids. Presented the new video kiosk at the public screening event

Web design

Various websites, including:

• Gower Climbing Festival
• Negotiated Interaction project
• The Next Billion project
• Swansea University Mountaineering Club
• Personal profile template, based on the departmental webpage style. Download (ZIP)