Previous GIST Talks

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

12th

Steve Draper (With Comments From Erica McAteer)
Evaluating computer assisted learning:
what it does and does not have in
common with evaluation in HCI

19th

Steve Brewster
Earcons and user interfaces

26th

Stephane Etienne & Fionnuala Ross
Report on SIGGRAPH and Graphics Interface

27th

Michelle Montgomery (NB Friday 12.30-1.45, conference room)
Planner: A talk and demonstration on the development
of an interactive multimedia tutorial on project planning.

2nd

Gilbert Cockton, Stephen Clarke, Chris Johnson
Open discussion on context in HCI

9th

Tom Melham, Muffy Thomas, Stuart Aitken.
*** NB this is a live MBONE broadcast from 3pm-4pm
User Interface Design For Interactive Theorem Provers

16th

Tom Evans
External speaker on European graphics and multimedia (provisional title)

23rd

Mark Dunlop
A casual requirements capture for graphics retrieval

30th

Stephane Etienne
Making It Move Easily: Evolving Poses and Animations

7th

James R. Logie (plus others????)
On Visual Languages...

14th

Jim Devine and Chris Johnson
Finding The Muse At The Hunterian

Christmas Meal

1996

18th

Edwin Hancock, University of York.
Robust Graph Matching for Computer Vision

25th

Chris Johnson
Why People Forget About Accidents

1st

Steve Draper
Temporal and Situated Aspects of Da ta

8th

Edward Carter, University of Glasgow
Evaluating The Usability Of Automatic ally
Contructed Hypertext.

15th

Michelle Montgomery and Fionnuala Ross, University of Glasgow
It'll Be Alright On The Night (par t 360606660666)
(Michelle and Fionnuala's Home Movies)

22nd

Sheila Rock, University of Glasgow
Understanding and visualising nat ural language about event structure

29th

Mark Dunlop (Chair), Gilbert Cockton, Steve Draper, University of G lasgow
Debate: Inter-disciplinary Research Has Hindered the
Development of HCI and Graphics.

7th

Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
Enhancing Scanning Input With No n-Speech Sounds
(Preview of an ASSETs talk)

12th

Michael Harrison, University of York
Formal Methods And HCI
(organised by the Formal Methods and Theory Group)

14th

Jinhui Yu, University of Glasgow
Norigid Object Deformation Using Qua ternions

Easter Break

18th

Open Session.
Half-baked ideas and research plans...

25th

Roy Stringer, John Moores University.
Architectures for Multimedia Composition

2nd

Alistair Edwards, University of York
The Maths Workstation.

9th

Mark Dunlop, University of Glasgow.
Bring Along An Icon.
N.B. This will be at the earlier time of 3pm - there is a CS staff meeting.

16th

Chris Johnson (debate organiser)
This House Believes That Nothing Has Been Learnt From CAL.

23rd

Peter Robinson, Cambridge University
Video Interfaces.

30th

John Patterson and Jinhui Yu
Report on Eurographics UK

6th

Jane Reid, University of Glasgow.
The fusion of two great acronyms: IR and HCI

13th

Malcolm Atkinson, Susan Spence, University of Glasgow
A Topic On Java

20th

Michelle, Fionnuala and Chris...
GIST Cycle Trip To The Stables

12th

Michelle Montgomery, Glasgow University.
Reviewing 13 CAL packages using Laurillard's model

17th

Chris Johnson and Mark Dunlop (organisers)
BCS HCI/IR Groups Workshop on Information Retrieval and HCI

26th

Steve Draper, Chris Johnson and Adrian Williamson
Debate on Alison Kidd's Concept of Knowledge Work

3rd

Phil Gray and Michelle Montgomery (organising trip)
IMAS Evening Meeting on Cognitive Engineering

10th

Steve Brewster
Making Menus Musical

17th

Lorna Love and Meurig Sage
Accidents with Space Invaders

24th

Chris Johnson
Proving Properties of Accidents
This talk will be followed by a party at Chris and Fionnuala's from 5.30 on.

31st

Steve Brewster and Mark Dunlop
Open discussion on current problems/ideas

7th

Mark Dunlop
Cost of Knowledge, ER Diagrams, and IR: a random list of words or topics worth combining?

14th

Adrian Williamson
Moneypenny: Tales From the Messy Desk

21st

Phil Gray
Incorporating Design Constraints in a Data Visualisation System

28th

Alastair Sutcliffe and Kulwinder Kaur, City University
Interaction modelling for design of Virtual Reality applications

5th

Chris Johnson (chair/pacifier)
Balloon Debate: This house believes that HCI ought to be removed from the Undergraduate syllabus

12th

Tom Omerod, Lancaster University and Anne H. Anderson, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.
Supporting innovative design for education and industry

19th

Michelle Montgomery (organiser)
The GIST Christmas Party (Creme de la Creme)

1997

16th

Terry Mayes, Glasgow Caledonian.
Dialogue With The Vicarious Learner

23rd

Dave Robertson, Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh.
Using Lightweight Formal Methods in Support of System Design

30th

Chris Johnson, Univ. of Glasgow
The Epistemics of Accidents

6th

Richard Cooper, Phil Gray and Jo McKirdy, Univ. of Glasgow
The User Interface to Databases Project (Teallach)

13th

Colin Burns, Univ. of Glasgow.
Accidents Must Happen: Towards the use of Deontics in Accident Analysis

20th

Stephen Brewster, Univ. of Glasgow.
Navigation in telephone-based hierarchies

27th

Everyone (Organised by Chris Johnson)
Bring and tell...

6th

No meeting - Formal Methods and Theory security lecture

13th

Darryn Lavery, Univ. of Glasgow
Comparison of Evaluation Methods Using Structured Usability Problem Reports

20th

Lorna Love, Univ of Glasgow
Evaluating the Usability of Fault-Trees for Accident Analysis This is part of a workshop on Human Error and Systems Development that we are hosting - if you wish to attend contact johnson@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk This is not in the usual slot so please consult the meeting programme.

1st

Lynne Coventry, NCR, Fife.
The Mortgage Machine.

8th

Phil Gray, Steve Draper, Steve Brewster, Mark Dunlop
The MANTCHI Project.

15th

Alan Newell, Dundee University.
GIST Day.

22nd

Adrian Williamson, Dept of CIS, University of Paisley
Safety Critical Integrated Design Support (SCIDS).

29th

Richard Botting, University of Glasgow
Objects and Accidents.

5th

Intaek Kim, University of Glasgow
Extracting Depth Information from Photographs of Face.

12th

Chris Johnson, Glasgow University
Time and value in distributed information retrieval.

19th

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Universite de Paris
The ENO Sound Server.

1st

Tom Carey. University of Waterloo, Canada
Learning About User-Centred Design: A Multimedia Case Study

Friday, 2th (1pm Conference Room)

Helen Parker, Sheffield Hallam University.
Temporal Coherence in Human Computer Interaction

9th

Open meeting
New Term, Business Meeting

16th

Helen Purchase, University of Queensland
Validating Graph Drawing Aesthetics

Friday, 17th (1pm Conference Room)

Matthias Hemmje, GMND-IPSI (Darmstadt) and GLOBIT
Structured management of VRML-Scenes with dynamic embedding of multimedia content

23rd

Joachim Nelz, University of Glasgow
About MPEG

30th

Phil Gray and Steve Draper, University of Glasgow.
MANTCHI Progress report (in room F161)

Friday, 31st (1pm Conference Room)

Steve Draper and Mark Dunlop, University of Glasgow.
Entrance lobbies for web pages

6th

Marie-Odile Bes, University of Glasgow
Cognitive Models and their use in the Formal Analysis of Accident Reports, a First Step

Friday 7th (1pm Conference Room)

Barry Brown, University of Surrey
Why Don't Telephones Have Off Switches?

Thursday 13th

Judy Hammond, University of Technology, Sydney.
HCI Education

20th

Catriona Macaulay, Napier University
`Knowing When Not To Bother': The use of technology in (re-)constructing the news

27th

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.
Comparing the Effectiveness of 2-D and Pseudo 3-D Presentation
Techniques

4th

Gilbert Cockton, University of Sunderland.
Literate Development Two Years On.

11th

Steve Brewster, Univeristy of Glasgow
Sound for tool palettes and rulers

18th

Steve Draper(organiser)
Debate Followed by Drinks:
Why should taxpayers fund HCI research

Friday, 16th, 1pm

Michelle Montgomery, University of Glasgow.
Design Method for Instructional Materials:Creation and Evaluation

22nd

Helen Petrie, University of Hertfordshire
User-centred design in the development of a navigational aid for blind travellers

29th

Shari Trewin, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Edinburgh
See May 7th.

5th

Panos Markopoulos, Queen Mary and Westfield College
Analytical evaluation of interface designs with respect to a task model

12th

Sheila Riddell, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, Univeristy of Glasgow
Chipping Away at the Mountain: Disabled Students' Experiences of Higher Education

19th

Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Breaking the Paper Chains: New Models and Media for Scholarly Publishing

26th

Ray Jones, Glasgow University
Consumer Health Informatics at Glasgow University

Friday, 27th

Paul Cockshott, Glasgow University
The Strathclyde Compression Transform

5th

Charles Woolfson, (Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations), University of Glasgow.
Ten Years After Piper Alpha - Safety and Industrial Relations in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry

12th

Frank Pollick, Dept of Psychology, University of Glasgow.
Visual Inspection of Human Movement

19th

John Patterson, University of Glasgow
From X to Z via Y: A fusion of image processing/analysis and synthetic graphics

23-24

GIST Workshop
Effective Training and Education in Human Computer Interaction

22nd

Erik Hollnagel, Halden Reactor Project in Norway.
This is being organised by David Benyon at Napier but a group of us will be traveling from Glasgow to see the talk, contact d.benyon@dcs.napier.ac.uk.
Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis

23rd

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.
Facts, Empiricism and Inference: On the Use of Argument in Accident reports

30th

No meeting - lectureship interviews

7th

Shari Trewin, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Edinburgh
Users with motor disabilities adapting to ordinary keyboards, and vice versa.

8th (Friday 1pm in the Conference Room)

Meurig Sage, Univ. of Glasgow
How to Use the new Portable Evaluation Laboratory

14th

Mark Dunlop and Phil Gray, University of Glasgow.
Visualisation of sunset and sunrise data: a wee practical session

21-22nd

GIST Workshop
Human-Computer Interaction for Mobile Devices

28th

Phil Gray, University of Glasgow. (F161)
Conference Report Meeting

4th

Nina Webster and Steve Draper, University of Glasgow
People's Navigation Problems on Our Campus

11th

Chris Johnson, Paddy O'Donnel and Steve Draper, University of Glasgow
Fun: Adding Enjoyment to Human Computer Interaction

18th

Richard Young, Psychology Department, University of Hertfordshire
Cognitive and Rational Modelling of Exploratory Search

25th

Michael Fisher, Manchester Metropolitan University
Proof in Combined Temporal and Modal Logics

3rd

HCI'98, Sheffield
No meeting

Friday, 11th

Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson (organisers)
HCI and Information Retrieval II

1st

Chetz Colwell, Sensory Disabilities Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire.
Virtual Reality for blind people: haptic perception of virtual textures and objects

8th

Chris Johnson, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Using ICS to Model Interaction with Computer Games

15th

John Sillince, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London.
A coding scheme for analysing argumentation in transcripts

22nd

Trip to see Don Norman.
The Invisible Computer (being run as part of the BCS AGM)

29th

Murray Crease, University of St. Johnstone, Gregory Leplatre, University of Glasgow
Auditory Progress Bars and Principles for Representing Hierarchical Menus

1-4th

Steve Brewster (conference chair)
International Conference on Auditory Displays (ICAD'98)

12th

Everyone...
A Strategic View of GIST in the Future

19th

Steve Brewster, University of Glasgow.
Sonically-enhanced 'drag and drop' and the use of sound in mobile computing devices

26th

Ashley Walker, University of Glasgow
A Bionic Bug Detector

3rd

Michelle Montgomery Masters and Steve Brewster, University of Glasgow
Haptic Technology for Blind Visualisation and Veterinary Education

10th

Chris Johnson (organiser)
The Annual Christmas Debate and Party:
Fun is an essential aspect of all interface design, and its neglect in most design approaches has been a serious error

17th

Steve Brewster, Michelle Montgomery Masters and Chris Johnson,
Workshop on the Usability of Virtual Environments

14th

Julian Newman, Glasgow Caledonian University
MANTCHI and GIST

21st

Mark Dunlop, University of Glasgow
GIST focus on Design - bring an object

28th

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow
On the Relationship between Managerial Failure and Human Error

4th

Neil Dodgson, University of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Autostereo 3D Display

11th

Phil Gray and Rich Cooper, University of Glasgow
A Lightweight Presentation Model for Teallach

18th

RAPIDS GROUP Room F161
Presentation by Reuters.

25th

Phil Gray and Rich Cooper, University of Glasgow
A Lightweight Presentation Model for Teallach (Cont.)

4th

Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow.
The Path Model: Semiological and Architectural Origins

11th

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.
Visualisation/Sonification Challenge

18th

Finbar Dineen, Glasgow Caledonian University
Reusable Courseware - Towards a Grand Unified Markup for Educational Resources?

Easter Break

15-17th

Workshop on Human Error and Clinical Systems.

22nd

Martin Westhead, Edinburgh University (F161)
Intersim: Viewing the Internet

29th

Jean McKendree, Edinburgh University
Review of Some Tools for Teaching Scientific Argumentation

6th

Peter Wright, University of York
Human Error and the human-system interface

13th

Adrian Williamson, University of Paisley and Robert Ward, University of Huddersfield.
Emotion in interactive systems: applying transactional analysis

20th

Ian Oakley, University of Glasgow
Adding Haptic Effects to Graphical User Interfaces

27th

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.
How to Lie with Statistics

3rd

(** NB Meeting in Room F161 **)

10th

Fergus McInnes Centre for Communication Interface Research, University of Edinburgh
Two Talks on Telephone Topics

2nd

Richard Thomas, University of Western Australia.
Early Warning Methods for Laboratory Teaching

9th

Daniela Busse and Pete Snowdon, University of Glasgow.
Accident and incident reporting work (Tentative title)

16th

Roderick Murray Smith + Christmas Meal
Hidden Markov Models and Interaction Modelling