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I am a Research Fellow at Heriot-Watt University. I completed my PhD (Sept 2011 to Feb 2015) here at HWU. Since then I have worked full-time at HWU as a post doctoral researcher and recently also I am teaching. Below you will find details of my current research and more.

In my current EPSRC/UKRI funded post at the National Robotarium in Edinburgh I am working on three projects: the DeMILO project (EPSRC Developing Machine Learning-empowered Responsive Manufacture of Industrial Laser Systems), EPSRC HUman-machine teaming for Maritime Environments (HUME), and the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Trust.

I was Experimental Lead on the Human Robot Interaction theme of the ORCA Hub project (Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets), funded by EPSRC and industry. (The aims of the hub project can be found in this paper ). The ORCA Hub team included over 40 collaborating researchers; some here at the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics which is a collaboration between Heriot-Watt University and The University of Edinburgh; others at Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and University of Liverpool.

Prior to the Orca Hub, I was working on MIRIAM Multimodal Intelligent inteRactIon for Autonomous systeMs) funded by dstl under the Defence and Security Accelerator theme, Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence , with industry partners SeeByte and Tekever.

My other research areas are:

• promoting research collaboration through CSCW
• user experience when using visualisations of complex data
• image-based feedback.

I created the additional tools deployed on the www.well-sorted.org website to allow live online input from breakout groups during meetings that have been organised using the original well-sorted pre-meeting idea organisation tools. The in-meeting tools allow meeting a ttendees to enter a record of their breakout group discussions live during the meeting while the meeting organiser can monitor progress of all the groups and later use the discussion record to support presentations of the group discussions. One part of the tools is an interactive supported networking session visualisation tool. An example of the output from this tool can be seen here. (Scroll down that page). That tool featured in a CSCW demo paper (ACM Digital Library link). Youtube tutorial videos illustrating these in-meeting tools can be seen here (see the playlist of videos entitled “Well Sorted In-Meeting Tools”).

• User-Centred Experimental Design
• Web Design and Databases

My work and academic citizenship has been recognised in awards including those for prize-winning papers and outstanding reviewing. For example I have recieved the Korea Robotic Society Interdisciplinary Research award in Social Human-Robot Interaction at the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN) two years running, and the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction's top reviewing award (awarded by each conference's program committee) for four years running (ACM ICMI 2021 to 2024). A list of prizes and awards along with details and links can be accessed at this page of my HWU staff profile.