Professor Stephen Brewster
Website - Google Scholar..is Professor of HCI at Glasgow. He leads the research into multimodal interaction within the Glasgow Interactive Systems (GIST) Section. He has a world leading reputation in designing novel forms of multimodal interaction, with a focus on haptics and audio. He is also coordinator of the H2020 FETOpen Levitate project (https://www.levitateproject.org). He has had research funded by many companies including: Nokia, Samsung, HP, Immersion, Freescale, Bang & Olufsen and Microsoft. He has over 400 publications in top international conferences and journals and has 20 best paper awards. His work has ~18,000 citations and he has an H-Index of 70. He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Dr Mark McGill - 7 posts
Website - Google Scholar...is a Lecturer in GIST. With 13 publications and 2 Best Paper awards, he has pioneered research into VR HMD usability, VR for media consumption [9], movement and interaction under gain in VR, virtual work-spaces and passenger VR usage in transportation. He has had three successful EPSRC IAA grants and has also conducted XR research funded by Logitech (under NDA).
Professor Frank Pollick
Website - Google Scholar...is a Professor of Psychology at Glasgow and an international expert in the brain mechanisms underlying human perception and cognition. He is known for his work on motion and the perception of complex, dynamic events as well as the use of brain imaging technology to understand how the brain processes these events. His research has been funded by the EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, EU, British Academy and the US charity Autism Speaks. He is co-author of a Cognitive Psychology textbook published by McGraw-Hill. He has received 3 Best Paper awards, most recently at the prestigious 2016 ACM SIGIR conference. He has over 100 papers in psychology, engineering and neuroscience journals. This work has received ~4,500 citations and he has an H-index of 30 (Google Scholar, July 2018). Pollick has worked on theoretical issues of how the sight and sounds of human actions are processed. This includes work on the visual cues available from movement and the use of fMRI to study brain mechanisms involved in processing this information for both precisely controlled and naturalistic stimuli.
Dr Julie Williamson
Website - Google Scholar...is a Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction in GIST at the University of Glasgow. She has been the PI or Co-I on funded research worth over £750K exploring unusual display technologies, including as PI on the EPSRC SIPS Project (EP/M00 2675/1) and Co-I on the H2020 FET Open Levitate Project (737087). Her PhD work focused on the social acceptability of multimodal interaction, which she tested on the streets of Glasgow and Bangalore. She was the first to study this area and is a world-leader in the topic. She is an inaugural member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Future of Computing Academy, a prestigious group of early career computing professionals from around the world working to address challenges in computing across research, society, and professional practice. She has over 20 peer reviewed publications in high-ranking conferences such as ACM CHI and ACM UbiComp, with over 500 citations and an H-index of 10. She received a Best Paper Award at ACM CHI in 2017 on public evaluation techniques, and has notably researched the social acceptability of passenger VR in-flight.
Gang Li
Website - Google ScholarGang Li is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Viajero Project. He is interested in the neural mechanism of VR-induced motion sickness. He obtained a B. Eng degree in Electronic Engineering from Nanchang Aviation University, China, in 2007, an MSc in Computer Science from Pusan National University, South Korea in 2010 and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Pukyong National University, South Korea in 2016. Following this, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco and an assistant research professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2016-2020. One month before the breakout of COVID-19, he moved to the UK from China for better research life.
Daniel Pires de Sá Medeiros
Website - Google Scholar... is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Viajero Project, University of Glasgow, focusing on the design of novel 3d user interfaces to overcome physical limitations of restricted spaces in different forms of transportation. He obtained his PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa and integrated the VIMMI Group at INESC-ID Lisboa. During his Msc in Informatics at PUC-Rio, Brazil he was part of the Virtual Reality and Digital Entertainment Group at Tecgraf/PUC-Rio, with a focus on the development of VR-based novel interfaces for the Oil and Gas industry. Current research interests include Virtual Reality, Human Computer Interaction and 3D User Interfaces.
Laura Bajorunaite
-A first year PhD Student within the Multimodal Interaction Group at Glasgow University looking at the social acceptability of mixed reality technologies in public transport settings.
Graham Wilson - 2 posts
- Google Scholar...is a Research Fellow in Virtual and Augmented Reality. His is currently researching the design of novel techniques to improve VR/AR interaction for transport passengers in confined spaces. He is more widely interested in the beneficial and problematic uses of VR/AR, particularly in terms of health and wellbeing. He gained his PhD in Human Computer Interaction from the University of Glasgow in 2013.
Katharina Margareta Theresa Pöhlmann
- Google Scholar…is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Viajero Project. Her research in the group focuses on using VR as a tool for motion sickness mitigation during passive self-motion (cars, trains, etc) focusing on multi-sensory cue integration for motion sickness mitigation. She earned her PhD in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln investigating the relationship of cybersickness and vection in VR.
