Research – Dr. Oussama Metatla

February 26, 2018

Bots and Tangibles: Modern Inclusive Classrooms of Tomorrow (2018)

Sponsored by Brigstow Institute/ Role: Principal Investigator Voice User Interfaces, such as Amazon’s Echo devices, have recently opened up an exciting design space to understand aspects of how people interact with and through conversational voice agents. In this project, we intend to explore this design space and its implication within the context...

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...

February 8, 2012

Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration (DePIC) (2012/2015)

Sponsored by EPSRC/ Role: Researcher Co-Investigator DePIC aims to develop new ways for people to interact with each other using different senses, so reducing barriers caused by visual and other sensory impairments. Our interaction with the world around us relies on perception which exploits combinations of the senseswe have available to us,...

February 8, 2011

Collaborative Cross-modal interfaces (CCmI): Accessible Diagrams for Workplace Inclusion (2010/2012)

Sponsored by EPSRC Research in the Wild/ Role: Researcher Co-Investigator Collaboration is a fundamental form of human interaction. However, software tools which support collaboration assume that all collaborators have access to the same sets of modalities. For example, audio-video conferencing systems assume all participants can see and hear the outputs of...

February 8, 2010

Collaborating Through Sounds: Audio-only Interaction with Diagrams (2006/2010)

Sponsored by MESRS PhD Scholarship The research that I conducted during my PhD investigated aspects of diagram accessibility when using sound as the only means of interaction. The research aimed to empirically explore the potential of using auditory display for accessing and manipulating graphically represented information, in both individual and collaborative...

February 8, 2009

Accessible Music Studio (aMuST) (2009)

Sponsored by INNOVATE UK (ex TSB) / Role: Named Researcher Modern sound editors employ multi-function mixing and transport controls that rely heavily on visual displays for multi-track editing and production. This situation imposes severe limitations on the autonomy of visually impaired users within a field that could be a natural one...

February 8, 2008

Web-based Audio-visual Collaboration (2008)

The mismatch between the spatial layout of Web pages and the temporal nature of speech imply a substantially increased cognitive load for Web interactions. This project addressed how Web cognition is experienced by blind users employing screen-readers for Web interaction. Many of the differences in Web interaction between sighted users...

February 8, 2006

Interactive Audio Football (2006)

This project explored basic questions in the design and implementation of an audio-only computer-base football game; such as size of playing area, orientation, awareness of team mates and opponents and basic navigation. The project also explored more advanced design issues, not addressed by previous audio only ball games, involving the provision of...

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