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I'm so excited to share that I have been awarded my very first grant from UFAW to study behavioural welfare of red-ruffed lemurs! 🥳🐒 I will be joining Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and Animal-Computer Interaction Group at GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems as a Research Assistant!

TEDx Talk done! 🥳🎉

Rébecca Kleinberger and my research on optimising screens for parrots' tongue touches, published at CHI (shameless promoting dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…) is being featured in Highlights for Children's BrainPLAY Magazine

Had a great time at Utrecht University today, catching up with colleagues and friends at the interaction division and lots of exciting conversations with the audience about AI for animal behaviour analysis #AnimalWelfare UofG Computing Science

I had a great time discussing my research on enhancing user privacy within augmented reality at the launch of the new centre for Realities and Immersion Glasgow at UofGARC today. Exciting conversations about the future of immersive technology. #AR #Privacy

Insights from a new study focused on widening the use of eye-tracking as a control method for mobile devices could offer a sharper view of the smartphones of the future. Read more about the research, led by Omar and Mohamed Khamis of UofG Computing Science, here: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

Check out this article about our #CHI2025 paper Omar Namnakani, Yasmeen Abdrabou, PhD , Jonathan Grizou , Mohamed Khamis. Stretch Gaze Targets Out: Experimenting with Target Sizes for Gaze-Enabled Interfaces on Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of CHI 2025 mkhamis.com/data/papers/na…

Our paper "Animals' Entanglement with Technology: A Scoping Review" has been accepted to CHI 2025. Our comprehensive literature review analyses 795 works on animal-tech interaction across diverse contexts. Explore our dataset at findapaper.interactanimallab.com 📰

I am excited to be an invited speaker at the BCSWomen Lovelace colloquium today about my research in Animal-Computer Interaction. I'll share how animals, from zoo-housed lemurs to pet dogs, use technology to control their environments and even video call each other

New technology developed by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas of UofG Computing Science in partnership with Blair Drummond SP which allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both. Read more here: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

New research at ACM CHI Conference: How can interactive technology benefit both zoo animals and visitors? We developed a device allowing red-ruffed lemurs to trigger smell, sound & visual stimuli. Result: 4021 interactions over 63 days, with lemurs preferring multimodal to unimodal stimuli

GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems has contributed significantly to #CHI2025 with 13 papers (3 with awards), 2 journal papers, and several late breaking works. Our own Sharon Ding co-led the technical program, managing 5k paper submissions (more in other tracks) & coordinating a whopping 18k reviews!

My #CHI presentation of my TOCHI is today! 🌸 Come find out about my on the participatory prototyping of haptic comfort objects with socially anxious users 🌸 G301 16:20 :)

Jiaqi Wang presenting our paper today at CHI looking at how to support zoo animals and people in zoos. You can read more on the paper here dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… University of Glasgow Multimodal HCI Group

Omar has just presented our #CHI2025 paper on Gaze Interaction on Handheld Mobile Devices. The paper reports on how the distance between the user and the device impacts the ideal target size and shape. Download the paper here: doi.org/10.1145/370659…

Excited to present on "Future of interactive pet tech: giving animals choice & control" at Busan Content Market this month. Thanks to Busan Content Market, the city of Busan, and the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism for the invitation ibcm.tv/sub/market/bcm…

I took part at the weekend with Falkirk Council 's Wild Science event falkirkherald.co.uk/news/people/fa… Children imagined the future of zoos learning about animals and technology. See my publication for info on the methods used dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… GIST - Glasgow Interactive Systems

Just wrapped up a productive research visit to University of Tokyo! submitted a ~£3M #EPSRC/#JST proposal and spoke at an ASPIRE workshop on our work on human-centred privacy, security, and safety in #XR & the #Metaverse. Grateful to Yusuke Sugano for inviting me and hosting me!