Work
Beatson Institute for Cancer Research
I work full time at the Beatson Institute in Glasgow within Peter Adams lab. I'm titled as a Computational Biologist which means I'm strictly in silico. You'll find me performing analysis of public and private datasets, Next Gen Sequencing applications, microarrays and a host of other approaches. I try to do a bit of everything really. Keeps me out of trouble.
MATCH
Alongside that I'm currently finishing work on the MATCH project which is a collaborative research project between the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling. The general idea is to develop a research base for technologies which might support social and health care at home.
At Glasgow we have three main research themes; requirements elicitation, multimodal interaction and configuration of dynamic systems. Primarily my work is in the last of these although I do other things as well as required.
My PhD work (almost done!) within the project primarily focuses on generic methods of choosing appropriate interaction techniques within a complex and/or evolving system (such as a typical ubicomp system). That's the third one from the list above.
Other people at Glasgow on the MATCH project are Phil Gray (my supervisor) and Marilyn McGee-Lennon.
Publications
Senescent mouse cells fail to overtly regulate the HIRA histone chaperone and do not form robust Senescence Associated Heterochromatin Foci.
Cell Division, 5:16, 2010
A Framework for Runtime Evaluation, Selection and Creation of Interaction Objects. (Poster)
In ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2009.
Using Activity Awareness as a Run-time Interaction Configuration Testbed. (Poster)
In ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2009.
User Configuration of Activity Awareness.
In Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living, Salamanca, Spain, 2009.
An Integrated Approach to Supporting Interaction Evolution in Home Care Systems.
In 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Athens, Greece, 2008.
A Model-Based Approach to Supporting Configuration in Ubiquitous Systems.
In Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems 2008, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 2008.
Password cueing with cue(ink)blots.
In IADIS Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 (CGV 2008), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008.
Audio Reminders in the Home Environment.
In International Community on Auditory Displays, Montreal, Canada, 2007.
A Scalable Home Care System Infrastructure Supporting Domiciliary Care.
University of Stirling, Technical Report CSM-173, 2007.
A Generic Approach to the Evolution of Interaction in Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Systems.
University of Glasgow, Technical Report TR-2007-260, 2007.