Postgraduate Research in

               HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, GRAPHICS and MULTIMEDIA

at the University of Glasgow, UK

The Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is seeking
applications for postgraduate study from highly qualified and motivated
candidates. We are one of the best departments in the country, gaining one
of the coveted 5* awards in the last research assessment exercise. We have
a very active programme of research which covers a broad range of topics
including: communications, distributed systems, formal methods, functional
programming, graphics and interactive systems, information retrieval,
operating systems and persistent systems. We have EPSRC studentships and
other funding available in all of these areas for UK and European students
and a limited number of open studentships.

Glasgow Interactive Systems Group (GIST)

GIST is an inter-disciplinary research group based at Glasgow
University investigating all aspects of interactive systems from
graphics, to sounds, from User Interface Management Systems
to the psychology of interaction and formal specifications of
user interfaces. For more information read the GIST web pages at

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/gist/

This year we hope to attract three or four new research students
in the following general areas (but feel free to suggest your own!):

* Stephen Brewster  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/
        Auditory interfaces, earcons and the use of sound
        to improve  human-computer interfaces;  Multimodal
        interaction, touch and force-feedback devices; Telephone-based
        interfaces and the combination of speech and non-speech sounds;
        Interfaces for blind and visually impaired people

* Mark Dunlop http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mark/
        Information retrieval and human-computer interaction, especially
        work with hypertext-IR combinations and multimedia retrieval.
        Interaction with mobile computing devices, e.g. PDAs and HPCs

* Phil Gray  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~pdg/
        User-interface design tools, techniques and methodology; user
        interface management systems, rapid prototyping; learnability and
        usability in object-oriented programming languages; data
        visualisation; information representation

* Chris Johnson  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson/
        Human computer interaction; notations for user interface design;
        temporal properties of  multi-user interfaces; accident analysis;
        requirements analysis; usability of formal methods

* John Patterson  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jwp/
        Computer Graphics: 3-D image synthesis, texture building for
        displacement  mapping.
        Computer Animation: 2-D vectorisation and in-betweening,
        evolutionary models for derivations of motion,
        Image analysis: morphology-based analysis, recovery of the third
        dimension from  2-D images,
        Image synthesis: defeat of compression artefacts, warps and morphs
        Image manipulation: visual languages, data-flow models, spreadsheet
        models, direct manipulation models.


For specific information on postgraduate studies

        http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/phd/

We also have a 1 year advanced MSc. in Advanced Information Systems

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/courses/MScPhD_AIS/

For written information and application forms contact

        Helen McNee
        Department of Computing Science
        University of Glasgow
        Glasgow, G12 8QQ UK

        Phone:  +44 (0)141 330 6047
        Fax:    +44 (0)141 330 4913
        Email:  helen@dcs.gla.ac.uk

or contact one of the above named academic staff direct.
(You can get their contact details from their WWW page. Their
email address is easily derived from their WWW URL; eg stephen brewster is
stephen@dcs.gla.ac.uk.)
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