Quintin Cutts

Room S114
17, Lilybank Gardens
+44 141 330 5619
quintin@dcs.gla.ac.uk

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I'm a lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Other ways to pass my time include:

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Research and Outreach

Curiously, these are combined for me!

Computing Science Inside... - taking Computing Science out to the schools

I have a major grant in theEPSRC's Partnerships for Public Engagement (PPE) programme, taking Computing Science concepts out to school pupils. The project is called Computing Science Inside... - the inside refers our aim of showing the pupils the Computing Science inside the everyday technology they are now surrounded by - such as their mobile phones, the web, gaming machines and so on. Our main website is at http://csi.dcs.gla.ac.uk.

Enhancing teaching and learning with electronic voting systems

My other major research involves the use of technology to enhance face-to-face teaching and learning. This is focussed on the use of Electronic Voting Systems (EVS) in teaching, which enable the kind of Ask The Audience... interaction seen on the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire?" to be used in any group teaching sessions, but most particularly in lectures. These are also known as Group Response Systems (GRS), Personal Response Systems (PRS), handsets, clickers. Such systems are becoming widespread in the public and corporate sectors, and slowly being adopted in education. However, pedagogies surrounding the use of the systems are poorly explored in the current literature.

I have extended personal experience of using the Personal Response System, marketed by GTCO Calcomp Peripherals and extended with software developed by Chris Mitchell and myself, in a wide range of situations. Steve Draper in the Dept of Psychology and I have been identifying a range of general methods of use, each of which has a sound educational underpinning. Further information on work with handsets throughout Glasgow University can be found at the web pages of the Interactive Lectures Interest Group.

Chris Mitchell and I have designed a complete software front end for the PRS, known as QRS, which is available for other PRS users to experiment with. With a design directed by lecturers regularly using the system, QRS has increased flexibility for data presentation and review, and for experimentation with styles of interaction. Go here for more details about QRS.

Selected publications:

Recent Seminars/Paper presentations/Workshops/Invited talks

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Lecture Courses

I'll be running these courses again in session 2004/5.
  1. Level 1: CS-1P
  2. Level 4: Professional Skills and Issues PSI4/M

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Quintin Cutts 01/07/04