News – Page 2 – Dr. Oussama Metatla

February 1, 2018

[NEW GRANT] Bots and Tangibles: Modern Inclusive Classrooms of Tomorrow

Exciting new collaboration between the CRITICAL project teams and researchers from the School of Education at the University of Bristol, thanks to seed corn funding from the Brigstow Institute.

November 24, 2017

Workshop on Inclusive Education Technologies Accepted at CHI’2018

Our workshop on Inclusive Education Technologies has been accepted at CHI’2018!

November 23, 2017

Invited talk at SCHI Lab, University of Sussex

I have been invited to visit the SCHI Lab, led by Dr Marianna Obrist at the University of Sussex to talk about my research on participatory design, inclusive technology and visual impairment.

October 3, 2017

Welcome to New PhD Student Taimur Ahmed

Welcome to Taimur Ahmed who joins the CRITICAL team working on the EPSRC project Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning project (CRITICAL).

September 29, 2017

Welcome to New Postdoc Clare Cullen

Welcome to Clare Cullen who joins the CRITICAL team as a postdoctoral researcher working on the EPSRC project Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning project.

August 14, 2017

I am Associate Chair at CHI’2018

I am an Associate Chair for CHI’2018 The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

August 13, 2017

I’m on the Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

I’m on the Program Committee of the 2nd workshop on “Multisensory approaches to human-food interaction” on November 13th, 2017. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Glasgow, Scotland, November 13-17, 2017. After the 1st workshop on “Multi-sensorial approaches to human-food interaction”

July 15, 2017

PhD Studentship available

PhD Studentship available to work as part of the EPSRC research project: “Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning” (EP/N00616X/2). The project aim is to investigate novel multisensory learning and teaching technologies that support inclusive education for visually-impaired and sighted children in mainstream schools. We use an iterative user-centred approach combining participatory design...

March 30, 2017

I am on the Program Committee for Audio Mostly’2017 Conference

I am part of the Program Committee for Audio Mostly’2017, an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound. This year’s conference theme is “Augmented and Participatory Sound/Music Experiences”. The conference will be collocated with the 3rd Web Audio Conference (WAC) “Collaborative Audio” (21-23 August 2017), with one day, Wednesday...

February 23, 2017

HaptiSonic Artefacts: short paper accepted at CHI’2017 workshop

I will be at CHI’2017 conference, presenting a paper on HaptiSonic artefacts as part of the Things of Design workshop. The workshop explores design research, as a growing mode of research within the HCI community, and the role of the artifact in generating knowledge outcomes from research through design (RtD).