Roderick Murray-Smith

Inference, Dynamics and Interaction group.

SHAKE Users Group webpage

Researchers:

• Dr. John Williamson (his Ph.D. thesis)
• Dr. Josip Music (Univ. Split, Croatia)
• Andrew Ramsay.
• Dari Trendafilov
• Melissa Quek
• Dominik Gotojuch
• Lauren Norrie
• Shimin Feng
• Daniel Boland
• Javier Arriero

Previous group members & visitors:

• Dr. Shajahan Shahid
• Daniel Buschek
• Henning Pohl
• Marion Koelle
• Dr. Andrew Crossan
• Craig Stewart
• Katrin Haensel
• Dr Matthias Rath.
• Tilman Dingler.
• Stephen Hughes.
• Dr. Steven Strachan (HI, his Ph.D. thesis, now at FT/Orange labs in Grenoble)
• Dr. Parisa Eslambolchilar (HI, her Ph.D. thesis)
• Dr Kristjan Ažman (IJS, Slovenia)
• Dr. Sommer Gentry (M.I.T., now U.S. Naval Academy)
• Dr. Agathe Girard (HSBC, her PhD thesis)
• Dr. Jostein Bakkeheim (nee Hansen) (NTNU)
• Dr. Thomas Hermann (University of Bielefeld)
• Dr Vuokko Lantz (Nokia Research Centre, Helsinki)
• Dr Morten Proschowsky (Jabra)
• Dr. Jian Qing Shi (Newcastle)

Current Funded Research Projects

1. TOBI: Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction, EC-funded project. Roderick Murray-Smith (Glasgow PI), John Williamson, project coordinator:Prof. José del R. Millán, 2008-2012.
2. Multimodal, Negotiated Interaction in Mobile Scenarios, EPSRC funded project (£638k), Roderick Murray-Smith (PI), with Matt Jones (Swansea), Stephen Brewster, 2007-2010.
3. EC-COST action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design.
4. Social Interaction: A Cognitive-Neurosciences Approach, ESRC funded project (£3.7 million) , Simon Garrod (PI), 2008-2012.
5. PASCAL network member, EC-funded network in Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning.
   

Completed funded projects

1. GAIME: Gestural and Auditory Interactions for Mobile Environments, Stephen Brewster(PI), Roderick Murray-Smith and Andrew Crossan, EPSRC funded project. 2007-2010.
2. OpenInterface. EC funded Research network. 2006-2009.
3. A dynamic systems approach to Negotiated Interaction on mobile devices, (€164k), Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontier grant, Sept. 2006-08.
4. Dynamics, Uncertainty and Interaction, (€66K) PASCAL Pump-priming project (EC-funded), 2005-2006, Roderick Murray-Smith & John Williamson, based in Glasgow, in collaboration with Fraunhofer FIRST, Berlin, and DTU, Denmark.
5. Dynamics and Interaction in BCI and Music Spaces, (€68k), J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, funded within the PASCAL network 2005-2007.
6. Intelligent Sound Project - supported by the Danish Technical Research Council, and led by Lars Kai Hansen.
7. Nonparametric Methods for Curve Fitting and Prediction with Large Data-sets, EPSRC GR/T29253/01 (Jan. 2005—June 2007), Jian Qing Shi (PI), Mike Titterington & Roderick Murray-Smith as Collaborators.
8. Body space: Feedback for Closed-loop control of Gesture input, €136K, based at the Hamilton Institute, collaborating with the Palpable Machines group at Media Lab Europe, started November 2003
9. Continuous Gestural Interaction with Mobile devices (€77K), with Stephen Brewster and Doug Leith, based at the Hamilton Institute. Sept. 2003-Sept 2006.
10. Audioclouds: Three-Dimensional Audio and Gestural Interfaces for Mobile and wearable Computers, Three year EPSRC funded research project (Principal Investigator Stephen Brewster), October 2002-2005. £237K, graded "Outstanding" by EPSRC.
11. The Glasgow Computing Science Research Festival 2005-06, Muffy Calder and Simon Gay and Roderick Murray-Smith (£19K), EPSRC.
12. MAC - Multi-Agent Control: Probabilistic reasoning, optimal co-ordination, stability analysis and controller design for intelligent hybrid systems. (€1.2M) A four year Research Training Network within the European Commission's 5th Framework, April 2000-2004.
13. Modern Statistical Approaches to off-equilibrium modelling for nonlinear system control. A three year EPSRC funded research project 2000-03, graded "tending to outstanding" by EPSRC reviewers.
14. Early recognition of rollover in large lorries, Industrially funded project (joint work with K. Hunt in Mechanical Engineering as Principal Investigator)
15. Portable Robotic Laboratories, EPSRC funded Public Understanding Award (Prof. Muffy Calder as Principal Investigator). See the legolab page for related information.
16. Design of controllers based on pattern recognition (Fondecyt Project 700397), (Principal Investigator Daniel Sbarbaro-Hofer, Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
17. Gesture-Based Interaction with Mobile Devices, (together with coinvestigator Stephen Brewster). Funded by SHEFC RDG85.

Teaching

Most recent Publications (last year): (full list of publications available here)

• H. Pohl, R. Murray-Smith, Focused and Casual Interactions: Allowing Users to Vary Their Level of Engagement ACM SIG CHI 2013 pdf
• Visell, Y., Murray-Smith, R., Brewster, S., and Williamson, J., Continuous auditory and tactile interaction design. In: Franinovic, K. and Serafin, S. (eds.) Sonic Interaction Design. MIT Press, 2013. ISBN 9780262018685
• M. Quek, J. Höhne, R. Murray-Smith and M. Tangermann, Designing Future BCIs: Beyond the Bit Rate, B. Z. Allison et al. (eds.), Towards Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces, Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, SpringerVerlag 2013, Part 2, 173-196, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29746-5_9 pdf
• D. Weir, S. Rogers, M. Löchtefeld and R. Murray-Smith, A user-specific Machine Learning approach for improving touch accuracy on mobile devices, UIST 2012. pdf
• S. Lamont, R. Bowman, J. Williamson, M. Rath, R. Murray-Smith, M. Padgett, Touching the Micron: Tactile Interactions with an Optical Tweezer, MobileHCI 2012 pdf video
• Williamson, J., and Murray-Smith, R., Rewarding the original: explorations in joint user-sensor motion spaces. In: ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 5-10 May 2012, Austin, Texas. pdf video
• S. Robinson, M. Jones, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, P. Eslambolchilar, M. Lindborg, Navigation Your Way: From Spontaneous Independent Exploration to Dynamic Social Journeys, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 pdf
• Norrie, L., Murray-Smith, R., ,Virtual sensors: rapid prototyping of ubiquitous interaction with a mobile phone and a Kinect, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services,25-28,2011.
• Trendafilov, D., Vazquez-Alvarez, Y., Lemmelä, S., Murray-Smith, R., Can we work this out?: an evaluation of remote collaborative interaction in a mobile shared environment,Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services,499-502, 2011.
• J. Williamson, S Rogers, C. Stewart, R. Murray-Smith, AnglePose: robust, precise capacitive touch tracking via 3D orientation estimation, ACM SIG CHI 2011. pdf Video
• M. Quek, D. Boland, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, M. Tavella, S. Perdikis, M. Schreuder, M. Tangermann, Simulating the Feel of Brain-Computer Interfaces for Design, Development and Social Interaction, ACM SIG CHI 2011. pdf
• 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 MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp. 341-344. pdf Video
• J. Williamson, R. Murray Smith, Multimodal Excitatory Interfaces with Automatic Content Classification, Ch. 12 of Engineering Mixed Reality Systems ed. E. Dubois, P. Gray and L. Nigay, p233-250. 2010 pdf
• 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, ACM SIG CHI 2010. pdf Video
• J. Music, R. Murray-Smith, Virtual Hooping: teaching a phone about hula-hooping for Fitness, Fun and Rehabilitation, In MobileHCI '10: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pp.309-313. pdf video
• S. Rogers, J.Williamson, C. Stewart, R. Murray-Smith, FingerCloud: Uncertainty and Autonomy Handover in Capacitive Sensing, ACM SIG CHI 2010. pdf
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, B. Blankertz, M. Krauledat, K.-R. Müller, Designing for uncertain, asymmetric control: Interaction design for brain-computer interfaces, International Journal of Human Computer Studies (available online 17 June 2009).
• S. Strachan, R. Murray-Smith, Nonvisual, distal tracking of mobile remote agents in geosocial interaction, LoCA 2009, Tokyo. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, Empowering people rather than connecting them, to appear in International Journal of Mobile HCI, 2009. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, S. Strachan, GeoPoke: Rotational Mechanical Systems Metaphor for Embodied Geosocial Interaction, NordiCHI 2008: Using Bridges, 18-22 October, Lund, Sweden, 2008. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, S. Strachan, Rotational Dynamics for Design of Bidirectional Feedback during Manual Interaction, Fun and Games, Second International Conference, Markopoulos, P.; Ruyter, B.D.; Ijsselsteijn, W.; Rowland, D. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5294, p1-10, 2008. pdf
• A. Crossan, J. Williamson, S. Brewster, and R. Murray-Smith, Wrist rotation for interaction in mobile contexts. In Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Human Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 02 - 05, 2008). MobileHCI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 435-438. pdf doi
• S. Strachan, R. Murray-Smith, Bearing-based selection in mobile spatial interaction, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2009. doi pdf
• P. Eslambolchilar, R. Murray-Smith, Control Centric Approach in Designing Scrolling and Zooming User Interfaces, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2008. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, J. Williamson, S. Hughes, T. Quaade, Stane: Synthesized Surfaces for Tactile Input, In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, p1299-1302, 2008 . pdf video doi
• R. Murray-Smith, J. Williamson, S. Hughes, T. Quaade and S. Strachan, Rub the Stane, In: Extended abstracts of ACM SIGCHI 2008 , Florence, Italy 2008. pdf . video
• P. Eslambolchilar, A. Crossan, R. Murray-Smith, S. Dalzel-Job, F. Pollick, Model-based Target Sonification in Small Screen Devices: Perception and Action, Handbook of Mobile HCI, 2008. pdf
• A. Crossan, R. Murray-Smith, S. Brewster, B. Musizza, Instrumented Usability Analysis for Mobile Devices, Handbook of Mobile HCI, 2008. pdf
• J. Q. Shi, B. Wang, R.Murray-Smith, D. M. Titterington, Gaussian process functional regression modelling for batch data, Biometrics, Volume 63, Issue 3, p714-723, Sept. 2007. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, A. Ramsay, S. Garrod, M. Jackson, B. Musizza, Gait alignment in mobile phone conversations, In Proceedings of the 9th international Conference on Human Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Singapore, September 09 - 12, 2007). MobileHCI '07, vol. 309. ACM, New York, NY, p214-221, 2007. pdf doi
• S. J. Cho, R. Murray-Smith, Y. B. Kim, Multi-Context Photo Browsing on Mobile Devices Based on Tilt Dynamics, MobileHCI 2007, Singapore. pdf video(context) video(tilt-problems) video(basics)-mp4
• B. Blankertz, M. Krauledat, G. Dornhege, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, and K.-R. Müller, A Note on Brain Actuated Spelling with the Berlin Brain-Computer Interface, Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction , p759-768, Volume 4555, Springer-Verlag, 2007. pdf video mp4
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, S. Hughes, Shoogle: Multimodal Excitatory Interaction on Mobile Devices, Proceedings of ACM SIG CHI Conference, San Jose, p121-124, 2007. pdf video-wmv video-mp4
• S. Strachan, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, Show me the way to Monte Carlo: density-based trajectory navigation, Proceedings of ACM SIG CHI Conference, San Jose, p1245-1248, 2007. pdf
• S. Strachan, R. Murray-Smith, S. O’Modhrain, BodySpace: inferring body pose for natural control of a music player, Extended abstracts of ACM SIG CHI Conference, San Jose, p2001-2006, 2007. pdf video
• S. J. Cho, R. Murray-Smith, C. Choi, Y. Sung, K. Lee, Y-B. Kim, Dynamics of Tilt-based Browsing on Mobile Devices, Extended abstracts of ACM SIG CHI Conference, San Jose, p1947-1952, 2007. pdf video-wmv video-mp4
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, S. Hughes, Devices as Interactive Physical Containers: The Shoogle System, Extended abstracts of ACM SIG CHI Conference, p2013-2018, San Jose, 2007. pdf video-mp4 video-wmv
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, S. Hughes, S., Excitatory Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices, DCS Technical Report Series TR-2006-228, Dept of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 2006. pdf , video-avi ,video-mp4
• P. Eslambolchilar, R. Murray-Smith, Model-based, multimodal interaction in document browsing, 3rd Joint Workshop on Multimodal Interaction and Related Machine Learning Algorithms (MLMI'06), Washington DC, 2006. pdf
• B. Blankertz, G. Dornhege, M. Krauledat, M. Schröder, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, K.R. Müller, The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface presents the novel mental typewriter Hex-o-Spell, 3rd International BCI Workshop and Training Course, Graz, 2006. pdf video (38Mb)
• J. Williamson, S. Strachan, R. Murray-Smith, It’s a Long Way to Monte-Carlo: Probabilistic GPS Navigation, Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2006, Helsinki, 2006. pdf video
• A. Crossan, R. Murray-Smith, Rhythmic Interaction for Song Filtering on a Mobile Device, Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, First International Workshop, HAID 2006, Glasgow, UK, August 31 - September 1, p45-55, 2006. pdf video

Interests

Gesture recognition, Dynamics and Interaction, Ambiguous interfaces, Gaussian Process priors, Human Operator Modelling and Cooperative Control systems, Probabilistic Intelligent Interfaces.

• CV
• Publications are available online