Informatics Research Workshop 2008

2008 Keynote Speakers

Title: 'Head up' interaction: can we break our addiction to the screen and keyboard?

Abstract:

Mobile user interfaces are commonly based on techniques developed for desktop computers in the 1970s, often including buttons, sliders, windows and progress bars. These can be hard to use on the move which then limits the interactions, applications and services that can be provided on mobile devices. This seminar will look at the possibility of moving away from these kinds of interactions to ones more suited to mobile devices and their dynamic contexts of use where users need to be able to look where they are going, carry shopping bags and hold on to children. I will present a range of multimodal (audio and haptic) interactions that we have developed which can be used eyes and hands free, and allow users to interact in a 'head up' way.

I will present some of the work we have done on input using pressure, and gestures done with fingers, wrist and head, along with work on output using non-speech audio, 3D sound and tactile displays in applications such as text entry, camera phone interfaces and navigation. I will talk about how we designed these for mobile use and the evaluation techniques we have developed to assess whether they are effective or not for users on the move.

Speaker:

Stephen Brewster EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
Professor of Human Computer Interaction Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow

Title: Software Evolution and Software Security

Abstract:

Explosive development of the Internet demands software being evolved ever rapidly and being highly secure. It can be a long term challenge to develop theory, engineering and tools systematically for evolving existing systems to remain dependability and security in an environment full of complexity and malicious attacks. These tasks, in short term, are to dynamically integrate heterogeneous systems with different security mechanism to enable Business to Business collaborations

This session is to discuss how to accommodate software security from the angle of software evolution. Issues may include classification of software evolution and software security, model and abstraction for evolving software systems into secure ones, security analysis of binary code with program transformation,access control and software evolution, evolution process for ensuring security, language support, and case studies in evolution into secure systems.

Speaker: