Author: ousmet

[Note: this position is now closed] How can multisensory and tangible technology help support inclusive social play between autistic and non-autistic children in formal and informal education settings? What are the impacts of cultural differences on these sorts of technological provisions? These are the main research questions that drive an...

Note: This Studentship is no longer available QNRF Funded PhD Studentship: Multisensory Technologies for Inclusive Social Play Between Autistic and Neuro-typically Developing Children Candidate We are seeking a person with an interest in developing new technologies to support social play, learning and inclusion for autistic and neuro-typically developing children in...

Keynote Talk: ACM IMX SensoryX Workshop I will be giving a keynote talk at the ACM IMX SensoryX Workshop Title: On Inclusion and Multisensory Interaction: Insights From Co-designing With/For People With Mixed Visual Abilities Abstract: Multisensory interaction offers great potential for promoting accessibility and developing assistive technologies for people with disabilities....

In this year’s ACM SIGHI Conference, 2021, we will contribute on full paper and one workshop Paper: Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions, Lin, A., Scheller, M., Feng, F., Proulx, M. J., & Metatla, O. Abstract: With increasing interest in multisensory experiences in HCI there...

We are very exited to share a late breaking work at the upcoming 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. The paper: Tangible Multisensory Aids for Collaborative Phonics Learning presents an exploratory study, where we use variants of the bouba/kiki stimuli, which have been shown to have pre-existing shape,...

Very exciting that we are going to have two full papers and organise one workshop at the next Interaction Design and Children conference Papers The first paper is a collaboration with Janet C Read and Matthew Horton from the CHICI group at UCLAN, entitle: Enabling Children to Design for Others...

Note: This studentship is no longer available. Application information: We are seeking a person with an interest in employing human-computer interaction methodologies to evaluate new AI technologies and their impact on children over time. The ideal person would have an undergraduate or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer...