Research Statement
Computation has escaped the desktop and spread into the fabric of everyday life. Underlying technological advances are embedding digital processing in new formats, contexts, scenarios and social situations at an accelerating pace. As things start to think, questions of how users can relate, understand, control and interact with them come to the fore. Ian Oakley's research interests lie in the design, development and evaluation of multi-modal human-computer interfaces to meet this emerging need. By tapping into contextual input modalities, such as location, unexplored sensory modalities, such as haptics, and novel theories of the mind, such as embodied cognition, his work seeks to design for the next generation of mobile, wearable and tangible computing devices. Ultimately, the value this approach lies in its incorporation of new forms of input and output in order to harness the full capacity of the human body to create experiences that are seamless, expressive and well matched to our environments and tasks. Overall, Oakley's work rests at the intersection of psychology and interaction design: a broad perspective fuels concept development, while rigorous scientific observation explains and grounds results.
Funded Projects
Predicting Human Movement Patterns to Optimise Environmental Control Systems (SFRH/BD/70428/2010)
Portuguese National Science Foundation PhD Scholarship awarded to Christian Koehler.
Role: Co-supervisor with Anind Dey (Carnegie Mellon University), Budget: 100k Euros, Period: 2011-2015.
Guidelines for Tangible User Interface design based on the framework of Embodied Cognition (SFRH/BD/70203/2010)
Portuguese National Science Foundation PhD Scholarship awarded to Augusto Esteves.
Role: Supervisor, Budget: 60k Euros, Period: 2011-2015.
Human-robot interaction with field robots using augmented reality and interactive mapping (PTDC/EIA-CCO/113257/2009)
Funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation under the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Role: Co-PI, PI: Rodrigo Ventura (ISR/IST), Budget: 130k Euros, Period: 2011-2014.
Usability evaluation techniques for situated privacy (SFRH/BD/65908/2009)
Portuguese National Science Foundation PhD Scholarship awarded to Anastasios Spiliotopoulos.
Role: Supervisor (from 2010 onwards), Budget: 60k Euros, Period: 2010-2014.
SINAIS: Sustainable Interaction with social Networks, context Awareness and Innovative Services (CMU-PT/HuMach/0004/2008)
Funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation under the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Role: Co-PI, PI: Nuno Nunes (UMa), 573k Euros, 2009-2012.
WESP: Web Security and Privacy (CMU-PT/SE/0028/2008)
Funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation under the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.
Role: Co-PI, PI: Vassilis Kostakos (UMa), 382k Euros, 2009-2012.
Madeira Life (MADFDR-01-0190-FEDER-000001)
Funded through support from Zon Multimedia and the Knowledge+ programme (+Conhecimento, part of Intervir+) initated by Regional Government of Madeira.
Role: Co-PI, PI: Jos van Leeuwen (UMa), 648k Euros, 2009-2012.
PhD Students
Internships and visitors
2011
- Hitee Chandra - MobileCare: Mobile Biofeedback for Physiotherapy (MHCI student, 3 month spring independent study).
2010
2009
- Marco Silva and Ana Rafaela Menezes - Intrinsic Motivation:
Avatar Study Development (UMa MHCI students, two 3 month part time internships, SINAIS project)
- Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez - Interaction with audio gardens (3 month visit, PhD student at Unversity of Glasgow studying under Stephen Brewster)
- Augusto Esteves - Integrating sensing of home resource consumption with a social network (stepgreen) (UMa MSc student, 3 month summer internship, SINAIS project)
- Bernardo Reynolds - An investigation of microblogging practices (UMa MSc student, 3 month summer internship, Madeira Life project)
Masters Students
2010-2011
- Alfredo Jesus MobileCare: Bio-feedback Systems for Therapeutic Use - (tenative title)
- Leandro Gouveia Environmental Avatars: A Persuasive Approach to Reducing Electrical Consumption - (tenative title)
- Sergio Freitas Musical Touches: External Representations for Musical Education - (tenative title)
- Ricardo Carvalho Tabletop Authentication - (tenative title)
2009-2010
- Augusto Esteves - Momentos - exploring embodied cognition for the design og tangible user interfaces (18/20)
Winner of 2010 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge
- Paulo Coelho - Sense-able Skin (13/20)
- Catia Sousa - Social Frabics (co-supervised with Valentina Nisi) (17/20)
- Hildegardo Noronha - (co-supervised with Vassilis Kostakos) - Hovercraft Telemanipulation: Virtual Models and Interface Design (18/20)
- Jose Corujeira - (co-supervised with Vassilis Kostakos) - A Situation Awareness Interface for a Bi-Wheeled Industrial Hovercraft: Design, Development and Evaluation (17/20)
- Nuno Santos - w-Contact: Contact Managment in the Cloud (18/20)
2008-2009
- Diego Rodridges - Social Circles: a 3D interface for a
social network (18/20)
- Roberto Sousa (co-supervised with Valentina Nisi) - Glaze:
a visualisation framework for mobile devices (18/20)
- Victor Abreu - BalanceBot: human performance of a dynamic
teleoperation task (14/20)
Undergraduate Students
2009-2010
- Joao Leao - Visualising Home Resource Consumption (13/20)
- Luis Filipe Luis - BalanceBot (18/20)
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