Roderick Murray-Smith

Dynamics and Interaction group.

SHAKE Users Group webpage

Researchers:

• Dr. John Williamson (his Ph.D. thesis)
• Andrew Ramsay.
• Craig Stewart (sup Steve Brewster)
• Dr. Andrew Crossan (Glasgow University)
• Dari Trendafilov (Nokia/GU)
• Melissa Quek
• Dominik Gotojuch
• Richard Donaldson

Previous group members & visitors:

• Stephen Hughes (GU, now SAMH Engineering Services).
• Dr. Steven Strachan (HI, his Ph.D. thesis, now at FT/Orange labs in Grenoble)
• Josip Music (Univ. Split, Croatia)
• Dr. Parisa Eslambolchilar (HI, her Ph.D. thesis)
• Dr Kristjan Ažman (IJS, Slovenia)
• Sommer Gentry, Ph.D. (M.I.T., now U.S. Naval Academy)
• Dr. Agathe Girard (HSBC, her PhD thesis)
• Jostein Bakkeheim (nee Hansen) (NTNU)
• Dr. Thomas Hermann (University of Bielefeld)
• Dr Vuokko Lantz (Nokia Research Centre, Helsinki)
• Dr Morten Proschowsky (DTU)
• 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. GAIME: Gestural and Auditory Interactions for Mobile Environments, Stephen Brewster(PI), Roderick Murray-Smith and Andrew Crossan, EPSRC funded project. 2007-2010.
3. Multimodal, Negotiated Interaction in Mobile Scenarios, EPSRC funded project (£638k), Roderick Murray-Smith (PI), with Matt Jones (Swansea), Stephen Brewster, 2007-2010.
4. EC-COST action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design.
5. OpenInterface. EC funded Research network. 2006-2009.
6. Social Interaction: A Cognitive-Neurosciences Approach, ESRC funded project (£3.7 million) , Simon Garrod (PI), 2008-2012.
7. PASCAL network member, EC-funded network in Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning.
   

Completed funded projects

1. A dynamic systems approach to Negotiated Interaction on mobile devices, (€164k), Science Foundation Ireland Research Frontier grant, Sept. 2006-08.
2. 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.
3. Dynamics and Interaction in BCI and Music Spaces, (€68k), J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, funded within the PASCAL network 2005-2007.
4. Intelligent Sound Project - supported by the Danish Technical Research Council, and led by Lars Kai Hansen.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. Continuous Gestural Interaction with Mobile devices (€77K), with Stephen Brewster and Doug Leith, based at the Hamilton Institute. Sept. 2003-Sept 2006.
8. 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.
9. The Glasgow Computing Science Research Festival 2005-06, Muffy Calder and Simon Gay and Roderick Murray-Smith (£19K), EPSRC.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Early recognition of rollover in large lorries, Industrially funded project (joint work with K. Hunt in Mechanical Engineering as Principal Investigator)
13. Portable Robotic Laboratories, EPSRC funded Public Understanding Award (Prof. Muffy Calder as Principal Investigator). See the legolab page for related information.
14. Design of controllers based on pattern recognition (Fondecyt Project 700397), (Principal Investigator Daniel Sbarbaro-Hofer, Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
15. 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)

• J. Williamson and 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. Accepted, in press. 2009
• 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).
• P. Eslambolchilar, R. Murray-Smith, A Model-Based Approach to Analysis and Calibration of Sensor-Based Human Interaction Loops, International Journal of Mobile HCI, Vol. 1, No. 4, 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, International Journal of Mobile HCI, Vol. 1, Issue 3, 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
• D.J. Leith, W.E. Leithead and R. Murray-Smith, Inference of disjoint linear and nonlinear sub-domains of a nonlinear mapping, Automatica, Volume 42, Issue 5, pages 849-858, May 2006. pdf
• J. Hansen, R. Murray-Smith, T. A. Johansen, Nonparametric Identification of Linearizations and Uncertainty using Gaussian Process Models - Application to Robust Wheel Slip Control, Joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC'05), Seville, Spain, 2005. pdf
• S. Strachan, P. Eslambolchilar, R. Murray-Smith, S. Hughes, S. O'Modhrain, gpsTunes - controlling navigation via audio feedback, Mobile HCI 2005. pdf
• S. Gentry, E. Feron, R. Murray-Smith, Human-human haptic collaboration in cyclical Fitts' tasks, to appear in IROS'05. pdf
• R. Murray-Smith, B. A. Pearlmutter, Transformations of Gaussian Process priors, in J. Winkler, N. Lawrence, M. Niranjan (Eds.): Deterministic and Statistical Methods in Machine Learning, LNAI 3635, Springer-Verlag, pp. 110–123, 2005. pdf
• A. Crossan, R. Murray-Smith, S. Brewster, J. Kelly, B. Musizza, Gait Phase Effects in Mobile Interaction, CHI 2005, Portland. pdf
• R. Kamnik, T. Bajd, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, Rehabilitation Robot Cell for Multimodal Standing-Up Motion Augmentation, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005), Barcelona, 2005. pdf
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, Sonification of Probabilistic Feedback through Granular Synthesis, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 12, No. 2, p45-52, April/June, 2005. pdf
• J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, Dynamics and probabilistic text entry, In: Proceedings of the Hamilton Summer School on Switching and Learning in Feedback systems, Ed. R. Murray-Smith, R. Shorten, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, Vol. 3355, p333-342, 2005. pdf Springerlink pdf video (11Mb)
• R. Kamnik, J. Q. Shi, R. Murray-Smith and T. Bajd, Nonlinear modelling of FES-supported standing up in paraplegia for selection of feedback sensors, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, p40-52, March, 2005. pdf
• J.Q Shi, R. Murray-Smith, D. M. Titterington, Hierarchical Gaussian process mixtures for regression, Statistics and Computing, vol. 15, pp31-41, 2005. pdf
• A. Girard, R. Murray-Smith, Gaussian Processes: Prediction at a noisy input and application to iterative multiple-step ahead forecasting of time-series, In: Proceedings of the Hamilton Summer School on Switching and Learning in Feedback systems, Ed. R. Murray-Smith, R. Shorten, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, Vol. 3355, p158-184, 2005. pdf
• D. Sbarbaro, R. Murray-Smith, Self-tuning control of non-linear systems using Gaussian process prior models, In: Proceedings of the Hamilton Summer School on Switching and Learning in Feedback systems, Ed. R. Murray-Smith, R. Shorten, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, Vol. 3355, p140-157, 2005. Springerlink pdf pdf
• J.Q. Shi, R. Murray-Smith, and D.M. Titterington, B. Pearlmutter, Learning with large data sets using filtered Gaussian Process priors, In: Proceedings of the Hamilton Summer School on Switching and Learning in Feedback systems, Ed. R. Murray-Smith, R. Shorten, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computing Science, Vol. 3355, p128-139, 2005. Springerlink pdf pdf

  Switching and Learning in Feedback Systems European Summer School on Multi-Agent Control, Maynooth, Ireland, September 8-10, 2003, Revised Lectures and Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3355 R. Murray-Smith, R. Shorten, (Eds), Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp343 ISBN: 3-540-24457-3

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