Matthew Chalmers
Research Interests: Summary
I am a Reader in Computer Science and a principal investigator for Equator. My work aims to take account of social and perceptual issues in the design and theory of computer systems. The primary focus is on ubiquitous computing (including mobile multiplayer games, health and fitness, and cultural tourism) and developing an infrastructure to support this. My theoretical work borrows/steals from semiology and philosophy in order to feed into design, seamful design, treating the history of use as part of systems’ working context, and design for appropriation of computation into everyday life. My background is in Computer Science: a BSc (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh, then a PhD at the University of East Anglia in ray tracing and object-oriented toolkits for distributed memory multiprocessors. I was an intern at Xerox PARC before becoming a researcher at Xerox EuroPARC, where I worked on early ubicomp systems, e.g. the first Active Badge system at EuroPARC, and on information visualisation. I left Xerox to start up an information visualisation group at UBS Ubilab, in Zurich. I then had a brief fellowship at the University of Hokkaido, Japan, before starting at the University of Glasgow. I'm on the editorial board for the Information Visualization book series from Springer Verlag, and I'm an associate editor for J. Information Visualization. I am and/or was an Associate Chair for CHI, and I've been workshop chair for ECSCW, demo/poster chair for UIST, doctoral colloquium chair for Pervasive, and panels chair for Ubicomp. I'm on, or have been on, the paper committees of ACM UIST, ACM CSCW, ECSCW, IEEE Information Visualization, Ubicomp, Pervasive, ECIR, CKIM, PerCom and... others. I've delivered keynotes at the British National Conference of Databases (BNCOD); Ubimob, the francophone conference on ubicomp; IHM, the francophone conference on HCI; and two of the Japanese 21COE Symposia on Ubiquitous Knowledge Networks. I have also reviewed papers and books for ACM SIGGRAPH and TOCHI, Ubicomp, IEEE Visualization, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, IEEE Trans. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, J. CSCW, J. Documentation, the Conference on Spatial Information Theory, the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, the European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, the Intl. Symp. on Wearable Computing, SAICSIT, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Pattern Recognition Letters, Parallel and Distributed Computing, the BCS Computer Journal, Cultural Anthropology, Virtual Reality... and others. I was one of the authors of the UK BCS/UKCRC Grand Challenge on ubiquitous computing. I'm in the EPSRC Peer Review College, was the external examiner for the MSc course on ubicomp/multimedia at University College Dublin, and have reviewed research grant proposals for funding bodies in Austria, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA. I was an external referee for the 'Intuitive Human Interface for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets’ project based at the Meme Media Laboratory of U. Hokkaido in Japan. I was a Projektleiter in the Swiss Perform Space project, exploring the theory and practice of performance art, city spaces and new media, and was a judge at VIPER Basel 2003, an international festival for film, video and new media. I've done some seminars and panels in the area of contemporary art and new media, for example at Architecture Parallax in Barcelona. |