News – Page 2 – Dr. Oussama Metatla

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).

February 23, 2017

Postdoctoral position available in multisensory interaction and education

Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate position in the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG Lab) within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. The role is part of the EPSRC project “Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning”, which aims at investigating novel multisensory learning and teaching...

January 30, 2017

Welcome to New PhD Student Mohammed Alshahrani

Welcome to Mohammed Alshahrani who joins us to start his PhD on examining multimodal and crossmodal interaction to improve the accessibility and usability of mobile technology for the elderly population.

April 13, 2016

Journal Paper Accepted at JMUI

Our journal paper entitled “Audio-Haptic Interfaces for Digital Audio Workstations: A Participatory Design Approach” has been accepted for publication in the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces Abstract: We examine how auditory displays, sonification and haptic interaction design can support visually impaired sound engineers, musicians and audio production specialists access to...

March 1, 2016

Journal paper accepted at PeerJ

Our journal paper entitled “Sonification of reference markers for auditory graphs: Effects on non-visual point estimation tasks” has been accepted for publication in PeerJ Abstract: Research has suggested that adding contextual information such as reference markers to data sonification can improve interaction with auditory graphs. This paper presents results of...

February 13, 2016

Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning (CRITICAL) (2016/2021)

Sponsored by EPSRC Early Career Fellowship Role: Principal Investigator I have been awarded a 5-years Early Career fellowship to research and develop interactive learning tools to make mixed classrooms more inclusive of visually impaired students. I will be exploring answers to questions such as: how do people learn together when they...