Overview - What is GIST?
There is no effective human-computer interaction without a deep understanding of the ever-changing boundary between people and technology. Our approach in GIST starts at the infrastructure level, through perception and action, to social context.
Our research focuses on ensuring the security of human-centred systems, optimising the information flow between technology and human senses, making machines capable of human-like social interactions, and making sense of digital traces left by human communities.
The Human Computer Interaction research section is also known as GIST (Glasgow Interactive SysTems). In our research we create and use novel, interactive systems to better understand, entertain, protect and support humans in their everyday lives. GIST is a research section made up of several research groups, including:
- Animal-Computer Interaction (led by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas)
- Behavioural AI (led by Marwa Mahmoud)
- HIWA: Human Interactions With ArtificIal intelligence (led by Simone Stumpf)
- MIG: Multimodal Interaction Group (led by Stephen Brewster)
- Public and Performative Interaction (led by Julie Williamson)
- Social AI
- SIRIUS: Secure and prIvacy RespectIng Ubiquitous Systems (led by Mohamed Khamis)
- Social Robotics and Social Signal Processing (led by Mary Ellen Foster and Alessandro Vinciarelli)
- SUMgroup: Social, Ubiquitous, Mobile (led by Matthew Chalmers)
A lot of the research we undertake is collaborative and interdisciplinary. We work closely with other groups in Computing Science as well as other schools including Psychology and the Institute of Health and Wellbeing. We also work closely with other world leading Universities and many private and public sector organisations (recently: Facebook, Jaguar Landrover, Logitech, Aldebaran Robotics, Pufferfish, Bang and Olufsen, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Glasgow City Council, Scottish Business Resilience Centre, Dynamically Loaded and Cisco Systems).