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Recent news, talks, press, awards and events
- 2021:
- June: The Orígenes open source heritage recovery platform was featured as a Swansea University research highlight in Towards Interculturality
- May: Our work was submitted as one of the Computer Science department's REF Impact Case Studies
- April/May: Our research was highlighted and featured in events and panels over several days of the CHERISH-DE Festival of Ideas
- Jan.:
- Our work on smart speakers in public places and robots that print with everyday material was featured as a Swansea University research highlight, video and feature on human-centred technology
- Invited talk at King’s College London: Smart Speakers in Slum Settings: Combining Machine and Human Speech Assistance in Public Spaces
- 2020:
- Nov.: Lookout, our interactive public space "future binoculars" about Swansea city centre developments was launched, inspired by the Telescopr project. Also covered by WalesOnline
- Sept.: Awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
- Mar.: Two articles (English and Spanish) about our work on restoring indigenous peoples' access to historical documentation and memories published in The Conversation: 500 years after Ferdinand Magellan landed in Patagonia, there’s nothing to celebrate for its indigenous peoples
- Feb.: Awarded EPSRC grant UnMute: Opening Spoken Language Interaction to the Currently Unheard (Co-Investigator and Swansea PI)
- Jan.: Gave an invited demonstration of our Not Designed in California research and open-source toolkits over three days of TechFest 2020 in Mumbai, India. Featured in Hindustan Times and Loksatta
Teaching and supervision
- Current:
- Director of the MSc year of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems and linked 1-year MSc Human-Centred Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Centred Perspectives and Methods (CSCM69)
- Human-Centred Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Dissertation (CSPM40)
- Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (CS-200)
- Gregynog undergraduate project colloquium (part of CSP301 and CSP354)
- Previous:
- 2014–2019: Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (CS-200)
- 2014–2016: Mobile Interaction Design (CS-349/CS-M29)
- Research students, current and previous:
Grants and funding
- Ongoing:
- EPSRC grant “UnMute: Opening Spoken Language Interaction to the Currently Unheard” (2020–2022, Swansea PI)
- EPSRC/Microsoft iCASE PhD studentship “Disability-First Dataset Creation in Low-Resource Communities” (2021–2025, Co-Supervisor)
- Swansea University GCRF grant Human Centred AI and Big Data for A Better Life (2020–2022, Co-PI)
- EPSRC grant “PV-Interfaces: Self-Powered Interfaces and Interactions via Photovoltaic Surfaces” (2018–2021, Co-Investigator)
- EPSRC grant “Breaking the Glass: Multimodal, Malleable Interactive Mobile surfaces for Hands-In Interactions.” (2016–2020, Collaborator)
- Not-Equal Network+ grant for work on Smart Small Farms (Co-Investigator)
- MASI Summer of Hope funding to run events in Swansea and Lancaster
- CHERISH-DE Escalator grant to create interactive VR installations in public places (Co-applicant)
- 2020:
- CHERISH-DE secondment for a collaboration with Admiral Group
- CHERISH-DE secondment for further work around advanced sensors (Co-applicant)
- 2019:
- Research Impact Fund grant to create public space speech installations (Co-applicant)
- CHERISH-DE Escalator grant to support public space speech installations (Co-applicant)
- International Visitor Scheme grant to support a collaboration with Jessica Cauchard around human-robot interaction
- Research Impact Fund grant to support a secondment around advanced sensors (Co-applicant)
- CHERISH-DE secondment around advanced sensors (Co-applicant)
- 2018:
- EPSRC Capital Award in Support of Early Career Researchers (Co-Investigator)
- CHERISH-DE Escalator grant to support an indigenous digital histories platform (Co-applicant)
- REF Impact grant to support public space speech installation research (Co-applicant)
- 2017:
- CHERISH-DE Escalator grant to create an interactive VR installation in the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks (Co-applicant)
- Impact Acceleration Award to fund multi-device mobile work (Co-applicant)
- Global Challenges Research Fund Award: Empowering Base of Pyramid Users through the Physical Web (Co-applicant)
- 2016:
- CHERISH-DE International Mobility grant to support continued work with IIT-Bombay, Mumbai (Co-applicant)
- Research Enabling Fund grant for continued partnership with Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (Co-applicant)
- Google IoT Technology Research Award for Physical Web research (Co-applicant).
- 2015:
- EPSRC grant “Re-shaping the Expected Future: Novel Interaction Techniques for Base of the Pyramid Users and Challenges to the Orthodoxy for the Rest of the World.” (2015–2019, Researcher Co-Investigator)
- Strategic Impact Partnership with Rowanvale Books (Co-applicant)
- 2014:
- Bridging the Gaps grant for prospective partnership with Grenoble universities (Co-applicant)
Patents
- US9041562B2 & US9047059B2: Controlling a Voice Site Using Non Standard Haptic Commands. S. Robinson, A. Jain, N. Rajput
Community, committees, reviewing, service
- Co-organiser of:
- Where Art Meets Technology workshop at CHI 2020 (DOI; PDF)
- A ‘Live’ Document for Emergent User Research workshop at IndiaHCI 2019 (PDF)
- NatureCHI workshop series. The workshop has been held at MobileHCI 2017 (DOI; PDF) and CHI 2016 (DOI; PDF). See also the IJMHCI review article (DOI; PDF)
- Mobile Collocated Interactions with Wearables workshop at MobileHCI 2015 (DOI; PDF)
- Mobile Collocated Interactions workshop at CHI 2015 (DOI; PDF)
- Co-instructor for:
- Mobile UX – The Next Ten Years? at CHI 2018 (DOI; PDF)
- Itinerative Design: A Hands-On Course at IndiaHCI 2016
- Mobile UX: Breaking the Glass to Richer User Experiences course at CHI 2016 (DOI; PDF)
- Mobile UX: Breaking the Glass to Richer User Experiences tutorial at MobileHCI 2015 (DOI; PDF)
- Interaction Design for Reading Devices and Apps course at CHI 2015 (DOI; PDF)
- Chair / Co-chair of:
- Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Julie R. Williamson) of mUX: The Journal of Mobile User Experience (2015–2017)
- Program Committee member for:
- CHI 2021 and 2018
- CUI 2020
- MobileHCI 2017
- AfriCHI 2016
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM) 2015–2017
- DE Sustainable Society Network+ Symposium and Hackathon in Social Media and Interaction
- MobileHCI 2014 Doctoral Consortium (panel member)
- NordiCHI 2014 workshop Personal or Social? Designing Mobile Interactions for Co-located Interaction
- ECSCW 2013 workshop Designing Mobile Face-to-Face Group Interactions
- ECIR 2011 workshop Information Management and Retrieval in Mobile Adhoc Societies
- Reviewing for CHI, CSCW, UIST, Ubicomp, MobileHCI, INTERACT, DIS, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, NordiCHI, IUI, MUM, APCHI, SICDC, IndiaHCI, CUI, Computers in Human Behavior
- Internal:
- Member of Swansea University Computer Science Department's Ethics and Risk Assessment Committee
- Member of the Computational Foundry Athena SWAN team
- CHERISH-DE Escalator fund and Crucible panel member
- Innovation and R&D theme co-lead for Swansea University's Digital Strategy
- Change Champion as part of the Science Together working group for the College's Science 2020 vision
- Co-organiser of the Gregynog undergraduate colloquium and College of Science maker competition
- Co-organiser of the Computational Foundry's Knowledge Exchange Forum
- Member of the EPSRC Associate Peer Review College
Theses and related items
- S. Robinson, Eyes-Off Physically Grounded Mobile Interaction. PhD Thesis, Swansea University, October 2012.
- S. Robinson, Heads-up Engagement with the Real World: Multimodal Techniques for Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide. In CHI 2010 Doctoral Consortium (pages 2895–2898), Atlanta, April 2010.
- S. Robinson, Fusing the Physical and Digital: Making Maps using Gestures and Sensors. MSc Dissertation, FIT Lab, University of Wales, Swansea, July 2008.
- S. Robinson, A Pen-Based Interactive Graphing Tool. BSc Dissertation, Computer Science Department, University of Wales, Swansea, May 2006.
Selected design and development work
Android apps, all of which are open source (see all apps):
- Com-Phone Story Maker – Digital storytelling creation and sharing with a simple but powerful interface
- Better Together – Flexible separation and sharing of a system's interface over multiple devices
- BookMark – Better navigation around Swansea University Library (Park Campus)
- APPropriate – Easily pick-up-and-use any other Android device with your own data
- CHI Bingo – A lighthearted and fun game to play while meeting new people at conferences
- There's Not an App for That – To (ironically) accompany our book
Other open source projects:
- Email OAuth 2.0 proxy – Add OAuth 2.0 authentication transparently for IMAP/SMTP clients that don't support it
- ATP link cleaner – Chrome extension to filter O365 ATP links and prompt before navigating to them
- WWA shortcuts – Chrome extension to help add your own custom keyboard shortcuts to Word Web App
- Back button disabler – simple Chrome extension to disable the back button on selected websites
Various websites and toolkits, such as: