Previous GIST Talks

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

Summer Break

September

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

October

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

November

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

December

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)

Christmas Break

1997

January

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

February

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...

March

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.

April

24th: Open session...
What we all did in the holidays...

May97

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.

June97

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.

October97

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

November97

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

December97

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

January

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.

February

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

March

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

Easter Break

April

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

May

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

June

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

Summer Vacation

September

3rd: HCI'98, Sheffield
No meeting
Friday, 11th: Mark Dunlop and Chris Johnson (organisers)
HCI and Information Retrieval II

October

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

November

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

December

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

January

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

February

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.)

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

3rd: (** NB Meeting in Room F161 **)
10th: Fergus McInnes Centre for Communication Interface Research, University of Edinburgh
Two Talks on Telephone Topics

September

7th

GIST Visiting Researchers' Afternoon

2pm - William Wong (william.wong@stonebow.otago.ac.nz)
If Time Did Not Matter: Integrated Decision Making Model

3pm - Nick Graham (Nicholas.Graham@imag.fr)
Rosetta; The human factors of Computer Aided Software Engineering tools

4pm - Richard Thomas (rct@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Towards a research agenda for long term HCI

16th
Steve Brewster, Phil Gray and others...
What we did over the Summer ...

23rd
Matthew Chalmers, Univ. of Glasgow.
Overview of Projects and Conferences
(UIDIS, VLDB, the Equator meeting and ECSCW)

October

7th
Evangelos Mitsopoulos, University of York.
A Methodology for Auditory Interaction

14th
Chris Baber, University of Birmingham
The Design and Application of Wearable Computer Technology

November

4th
Daniela Busse, Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow
The Collection and Analysis of Data about Human `Error' Through Incident Reporting Schemes

11th
Anne H. Anderson, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.
Understanding Multiparty Multimedia Interactions

18th
Keith Cheverst, University of Lancaster.
Interacting with Context-aware Personal Mobile Devices

Tuesday 23rd
Mark Dunlop, Risoe National Laboratory, Andrew Crossan, University of Glasgow
Predictive text entry methods for mobile phones

25th
Steve Brewster, University of Glasgow
Enhancing the display of a mobile device with non-speech audio

December

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

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