Mr Andrew Ramsay
- Research Associate (School of Computing Science)
telephone:
0141 330 1626
email:
Andrew.Ramsay@glasgow.ac.uk
Room SAW320, Computing Science, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1451-8973Biography
I'm a research associate in the Inference, Dynamics and Interaction group led by Professor Rod Murray-Smith, part of the wider Information, Data & Analysis section.
I've been part of the group for several years and my work typically fits the role of a "research software engineer", assisting other researchers with a wide range of software development tasks in a variety of previous and current research projects.
I help to administer the IDA GPU cluster hosted within the School, and I am also responsible for updating and maintaining an events system which is now used by multiple schools and colleges across the university.
I obtained a M.Sci in Computing Science from the University of Glasgow in 2005.
Research interests
The projects I've been part of touch on many different research areas, including:
- brain-computer interaction (BCI) and BCI as part of a multimodal interface
- interface development
- mobile apps to drive physical activity (1, 2)
- bioinformatics
I've also developed or help to develop drivers for several pieces of research hardware, including:
- the SHAKE SK6/SK7 and JAKE Bluetooth sensor packs
- the newer SHAKE SK8 Bluetooth Low Energy Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs), including the device firmware
- custom capacitive sensing pads on a Nokia N9
Publications
2024
Joko, H., Chatterjee, S., Ramsay, A. , de Vries, A. P., Dalton, J. and Hasibi, F. (2024) Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search. In: SIGIR '24: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024, pp. 796-806. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657815)
2023
Mitchell, K. , Kassem, K., Kaul, C., Kapitany, V., Binner, P., Ramsay, A. , Faccio, D. and Murray-Smith, R. (2023) mmSense: Detecting Concealed Weapons with a Miniature Radar Sensor. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes, Greece, 4-10 June 2023, ISBN 9781728163277 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095884)
2021
Müller-Putz, G. et al. (2021) Non-invasive brain–computer interfaces for control of grasp neuroprosthesis: The European MoreGrasp initiative. In: Müller-Putz, G. and Rupp, R. (eds.) Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces in Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Clinicians and End Users. Springer: Cham, pp. 307-352. ISBN 9783030685447 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68545-4_13)
Soldatou, S., Eldjárn, G. H., Ramsay, A. , Van Der Hooft, J. J.J. , Hughes, A. H., Rogers, S. and Duncan, K. R. (2021) Comparative metabologenomics analysis of polar actinomycetes. Marine Drugs, 19(2), 103. (doi: 10.3390/md19020103) (PMID:33578887) (PMCID:PMC7916644)
Hjorleifsson Eldjarn, G., Ramsay, A. , Van Der Hooft, J. , Duncan, K. R., Soldatou, S., Rousu, J., Daly, R. , Wandy, J. and Rogers, S. (2021) Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(5), e1008920. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008920) (PMID:33945539) (PMCID:PMC8130963)
2020
Williamson, J. H. , Quek, M., Popescu, I., Ramsay, A. and Murray-Smith, R. (2020) Efficient human-machine control with asymmetric marginal reliability input devices. PLoS ONE, 15(6), e0233603. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233603) (PMID:32479507) (PMCID:PMC7263597)
2018
Paul, L., Campbell, E. , Gray, C. , Brewster, S. , Ramsay, A. , Gill, J. M.R. , McFadyen, A. and Dybus, A. (2018) Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive smartphone application: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Technology and Disability, 30(1-2), pp. 77-82. (doi: 10.3233/tad-180196)
2017
Dybus, A., Paul, L., Wyke, S. , Brewster, S. , Gill, J. M.R. , Ramsay, A. and Campbell, E. (2017) Validation of smartphone step count algorithm used in STARFISH smartphone application. Technology and Health Care, 25(6), pp. 1157-1162. (doi: 10.3233/thc-170970) (PMID:28946599)
Feng, S., Murray-Smith, R. and Ramsay, A. (2017) Position stabilisation and lag reduction with Gaussian processes in sensor fusion system for user performance improvement. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 8(4), pp. 1167-1184. (doi: 10.1007/s13042-015-0488-5)
2016
Paul, L., Wyke, S. , Brewster, S. , Sattar, N. , Gill, J. M.R. , Alexander, G., Rafferty, D., McFadyen, A. K., Ramsay, A. and Dybus, A. (2016) Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive mobile phone application: a pilot study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 23(3), pp. 170-177. (doi: 10.1080/10749357.2015.1122266) (PMID:27077973)
Gray, C., Higgs, M., Ramsay, A. and Lennon, M. (2016) MyCity: Glasgow – How Can a Mobile App Based Game Increase Physical Activity in the Context of a Mass Spectator Sporting Event? 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing, London, UK, 24-25 Feb 2016. (doi: 10.3389/conf.FPUBH.2016.01.00118) (Unpublished)
Sollfrank, T., Ramsay, A. , Perdikis, S., Williamson, J. , Murray-Smith, R. , Leeb, R., Millán, J.d.R. and Kübler, A. (2016) The effect of multimodal and enriched feedback on SMR-BCI performance. Clinical Neurophysiology, 127(1), pp. 490-498. (doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.06.004) (PMID:26138148)
2014
Perdikis, S., Leeb, R., Williamson, J. , Ramsay, A. , Tavella, M., Desideri, L., Hoogerwerf, E.-J., Al-Khodairy, A., Murray-Smith, R. and Millán, J.d.R. (2014) Clinical evaluation of BrainTree, a motor imagery hybrid BCI speller. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(3), 036003. (doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/036003)
Noor, M. F. M., Ramsay, A. , Hughes, S., Rogers, S. , Williamson, J. and Murray-Smith, R. (2014) 28 frames later: predicting screen touches from back-of-device grip changes. In: CHI 2014: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, 26 April - 1 May 2014, pp. 2005-2008. ISBN 9781450324731 (doi: 10.1145/2556288.2557148)
2013
Schreuder, M., Riccio, A., Risetti, M., Dähne, S., Ramsay, A. , Williamson, J. , Mattia, D. and Tangermann, M. (2013) User-centered design in brain–computer interfaces — a case study. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 59(2), pp. 71-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2013.07.005)
2012
Quek, M., Ramsay, A. , Crossan, A., Riccio, A., Schreuder, M., Höhne, S., Mattia, D., Tangermann, M. and Murray-Smith, R. (2012) A BCI-controlled photobrowser for social integration: perspectives of friends and family. In: TOBI Workshop III: Bringing BCIs to End-Users: Facing the Challenge Evaluation, User Perspectives, User Needs, and Ethical Questions, Würzburg, Germany, 20-22 Mar 2012, pp. 87-88.
Schreuder, M., Riccio, A., Ramsay, A. , Dähne, J., Quek, M., Crossan, A., Mattia, D., Murray-Smith, R. and Tangermann, M. (2012) End user performance in a novel social BCI application: the photobrowser. In: TOBI Workshop III: Bringing BCIs to End-Users: Facing the Challenge Evaluation, User Perspectives, User Needs, and Ethical Questions, Würzburg, Germany, 20-22 Mar 2012,
2011
Tangermann, M., Schreuder, M., Dähne, J., Regler, S., Ramsay, A. , Quek, M., Williamson, J. and Murray-Smith, R. (2011) Optimized stimulation events for a visual ERP BCI. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 13(3), pp. 119-120.
Mueller-Putz, G.R. et al. (2011) Frontiers: tools for brain-computer interaction: a general concept for a hybrid BCI (hBCI). Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 5(30), (doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00030)
Tangermann, M., Höhne, J., Schreuder, M., Sagebaum, M., Blankertz, B., Ramsay, A. and Murray-Smith, R. (2011) Data driven neuroergonomic optimization of BCI stimuli. In: 5th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2011, Graz, Austria, 22-24 Sep 2011,
2010
Ramsay, A. , McGee-Lennon, M., Wilson, G.A., Gray, S.J., Gray, P. and Turenne, F. (2010) Tilt and go: exploring multimodal mobile maps in the field. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 3(3), pp. 167-177. (doi: 10.1007/s12193-010-0037-1)
Williamson, J. , Ramsay, A. , Quek, M., Tangermann, M., Schreuder, M., Viduarre, C. and Murray-Smith, R. (2010) A P300-based image browser with automatic stimulation optimization. In: TOBI Workshop II: Translational Issues in BCI Development: User Needs, Ethics, and Technology Transfer, Rome, Italy, 2-3 Dec 2010,
2009
McGee-Lennon, M.R., Ramsay, A. , McGookin, D. and Gray, P. (2009) User evaluation of OIDE: a rapid prototyping platform for multimodal interaction. In: Calvary, G., Graham, T.C.N. and Gray, P. (eds.) EICS '09 : Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems : July 15-17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, pp. 237-242. ISBN 9781605586007
2008
Serrano, M., Nigay, L., Lawson, J.- Y., Ramsay, A. , Murray-Smith, R. and Denef, S. (2008) The open interface framework: a tool for multimodal interaction. In: Czerwinski, M. and Lund, A. (eds.) CHI 2008 Art, Science, Balance: Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts: The 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008 in Florence, Italy. Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA, pp. 3501-3506. ISBN 9781605580876
2007
Gray, P., Ramsay, A. and Serrano, M. (2007) A Demonstration of the OpenInterface Interaction Development Environment. In: UIST’07, Rhode Island, USA, 7-10 Oct 2007, ISBN 9781595936792
Dubois, E., Gray, P. and Ramsay, A. (2007) A Model-based Approach to Describing and Reasoning About the Physicality of Interaction. In: 2nd International Workshop on Physicality, Lancashire, UK, 2-3 Sept 2007, ISBN 9781905617609
Murray-Smith, R. , Ramsay, A. , Garrod, S. , Jackson, M. and Musizza, B. (2007) Gait alignment in mobile phone conversations. In: MobileHCI '07 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services : 9th-12th September 2007, Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium, Singapore. Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA, pp. 214-221. ISBN 9781595938626
Articles
Soldatou, S., Eldjárn, G. H., Ramsay, A. , Van Der Hooft, J. J.J. , Hughes, A. H., Rogers, S. and Duncan, K. R. (2021) Comparative metabologenomics analysis of polar actinomycetes. Marine Drugs, 19(2), 103. (doi: 10.3390/md19020103) (PMID:33578887) (PMCID:PMC7916644)
Hjorleifsson Eldjarn, G., Ramsay, A. , Van Der Hooft, J. , Duncan, K. R., Soldatou, S., Rousu, J., Daly, R. , Wandy, J. and Rogers, S. (2021) Ranking microbial metabolomic and genomic links in the NPLinker framework using complementary scoring functions. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(5), e1008920. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008920) (PMID:33945539) (PMCID:PMC8130963)
Williamson, J. H. , Quek, M., Popescu, I., Ramsay, A. and Murray-Smith, R. (2020) Efficient human-machine control with asymmetric marginal reliability input devices. PLoS ONE, 15(6), e0233603. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233603) (PMID:32479507) (PMCID:PMC7263597)
Paul, L., Campbell, E. , Gray, C. , Brewster, S. , Ramsay, A. , Gill, J. M.R. , McFadyen, A. and Dybus, A. (2018) Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive smartphone application: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Technology and Disability, 30(1-2), pp. 77-82. (doi: 10.3233/tad-180196)
Dybus, A., Paul, L., Wyke, S. , Brewster, S. , Gill, J. M.R. , Ramsay, A. and Campbell, E. (2017) Validation of smartphone step count algorithm used in STARFISH smartphone application. Technology and Health Care, 25(6), pp. 1157-1162. (doi: 10.3233/thc-170970) (PMID:28946599)
Feng, S., Murray-Smith, R. and Ramsay, A. (2017) Position stabilisation and lag reduction with Gaussian processes in sensor fusion system for user performance improvement. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 8(4), pp. 1167-1184. (doi: 10.1007/s13042-015-0488-5)
Paul, L., Wyke, S. , Brewster, S. , Sattar, N. , Gill, J. M.R. , Alexander, G., Rafferty, D., McFadyen, A. K., Ramsay, A. and Dybus, A. (2016) Increasing physical activity in stroke survivors using STARFISH, an interactive mobile phone application: a pilot study. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 23(3), pp. 170-177. (doi: 10.1080/10749357.2015.1122266) (PMID:27077973)
Sollfrank, T., Ramsay, A. , Perdikis, S., Williamson, J. , Murray-Smith, R. , Leeb, R., Millán, J.d.R. and Kübler, A. (2016) The effect of multimodal and enriched feedback on SMR-BCI performance. Clinical Neurophysiology, 127(1), pp. 490-498. (doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.06.004) (PMID:26138148)
Perdikis, S., Leeb, R., Williamson, J. , Ramsay, A. , Tavella, M., Desideri, L., Hoogerwerf, E.-J., Al-Khodairy, A., Murray-Smith, R. and Millán, J.d.R. (2014) Clinical evaluation of BrainTree, a motor imagery hybrid BCI speller. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(3), 036003. (doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/11/3/036003)
Schreuder, M., Riccio, A., Risetti, M., Dähne, S., Ramsay, A. , Williamson, J. , Mattia, D. and Tangermann, M. (2013) User-centered design in brain–computer interfaces — a case study. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 59(2), pp. 71-80. (doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2013.07.005)
Tangermann, M., Schreuder, M., Dähne, J., Regler, S., Ramsay, A. , Quek, M., Williamson, J. and Murray-Smith, R. (2011) Optimized stimulation events for a visual ERP BCI. International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 13(3), pp. 119-120.
Mueller-Putz, G.R. et al. (2011) Frontiers: tools for brain-computer interaction: a general concept for a hybrid BCI (hBCI). Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 5(30), (doi: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00030)
Ramsay, A. , McGee-Lennon, M., Wilson, G.A., Gray, S.J., Gray, P. and Turenne, F. (2010) Tilt and go: exploring multimodal mobile maps in the field. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, 3(3), pp. 167-177. (doi: 10.1007/s12193-010-0037-1)
Book Sections
Müller-Putz, G. et al. (2021) Non-invasive brain–computer interfaces for control of grasp neuroprosthesis: The European MoreGrasp initiative. In: Müller-Putz, G. and Rupp, R. (eds.) Neuroprosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces in Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Clinicians and End Users. Springer: Cham, pp. 307-352. ISBN 9783030685447 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68545-4_13)
McGee-Lennon, M.R., Ramsay, A. , McGookin, D. and Gray, P. (2009) User evaluation of OIDE: a rapid prototyping platform for multimodal interaction. In: Calvary, G., Graham, T.C.N. and Gray, P. (eds.) EICS '09 : Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems : July 15-17, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, pp. 237-242. ISBN 9781605586007
Serrano, M., Nigay, L., Lawson, J.- Y., Ramsay, A. , Murray-Smith, R. and Denef, S. (2008) The open interface framework: a tool for multimodal interaction. In: Czerwinski, M. and Lund, A. (eds.) CHI 2008 Art, Science, Balance: Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts: The 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008 in Florence, Italy. Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA, pp. 3501-3506. ISBN 9781605580876
Murray-Smith, R. , Ramsay, A. , Garrod, S. , Jackson, M. and Musizza, B. (2007) Gait alignment in mobile phone conversations. In: MobileHCI '07 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services : 9th-12th September 2007, Singapore Polytechnic Auditorium, Singapore. Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, USA, pp. 214-221. ISBN 9781595938626
Conference or Workshop Item
Gray, C., Higgs, M., Ramsay, A. and Lennon, M. (2016) MyCity: Glasgow – How Can a Mobile App Based Game Increase Physical Activity in the Context of a Mass Spectator Sporting Event? 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing, London, UK, 24-25 Feb 2016. (doi: 10.3389/conf.FPUBH.2016.01.00118) (Unpublished)
Conference Proceedings
Joko, H., Chatterjee, S., Ramsay, A. , de Vries, A. P., Dalton, J. and Hasibi, F. (2024) Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search. In: SIGIR '24: 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 Jul 2024, pp. 796-806. ISBN 9798400704314 (doi: 10.1145/3626772.3657815)
Mitchell, K. , Kassem, K., Kaul, C., Kapitany, V., Binner, P., Ramsay, A. , Faccio, D. and Murray-Smith, R. (2023) mmSense: Detecting Concealed Weapons with a Miniature Radar Sensor. In: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes, Greece, 4-10 June 2023, ISBN 9781728163277 (doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095884)
Noor, M. F. M., Ramsay, A. , Hughes, S., Rogers, S. , Williamson, J. and Murray-Smith, R. (2014) 28 frames later: predicting screen touches from back-of-device grip changes. In: CHI 2014: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, 26 April - 1 May 2014, pp. 2005-2008. ISBN 9781450324731 (doi: 10.1145/2556288.2557148)
Quek, M., Ramsay, A. , Crossan, A., Riccio, A., Schreuder, M., Höhne, S., Mattia, D., Tangermann, M. and Murray-Smith, R. (2012) A BCI-controlled photobrowser for social integration: perspectives of friends and family. In: TOBI Workshop III: Bringing BCIs to End-Users: Facing the Challenge Evaluation, User Perspectives, User Needs, and Ethical Questions, Würzburg, Germany, 20-22 Mar 2012, pp. 87-88.
Schreuder, M., Riccio, A., Ramsay, A. , Dähne, J., Quek, M., Crossan, A., Mattia, D., Murray-Smith, R. and Tangermann, M. (2012) End user performance in a novel social BCI application: the photobrowser. In: TOBI Workshop III: Bringing BCIs to End-Users: Facing the Challenge Evaluation, User Perspectives, User Needs, and Ethical Questions, Würzburg, Germany, 20-22 Mar 2012,
Tangermann, M., Höhne, J., Schreuder, M., Sagebaum, M., Blankertz, B., Ramsay, A. and Murray-Smith, R. (2011) Data driven neuroergonomic optimization of BCI stimuli. In: 5th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2011, Graz, Austria, 22-24 Sep 2011,
Williamson, J. , Ramsay, A. , Quek, M., Tangermann, M., Schreuder, M., Viduarre, C. and Murray-Smith, R. (2010) A P300-based image browser with automatic stimulation optimization. In: TOBI Workshop II: Translational Issues in BCI Development: User Needs, Ethics, and Technology Transfer, Rome, Italy, 2-3 Dec 2010,
Gray, P., Ramsay, A. and Serrano, M. (2007) A Demonstration of the OpenInterface Interaction Development Environment. In: UIST’07, Rhode Island, USA, 7-10 Oct 2007, ISBN 9781595936792
Dubois, E., Gray, P. and Ramsay, A. (2007) A Model-based Approach to Describing and Reasoning About the Physicality of Interaction. In: 2nd International Workshop on Physicality, Lancashire, UK, 2-3 Sept 2007, ISBN 9781905617609
Research datasets
2020
Williamson, J., Quek, M., Popescu, I., Ramsay, A. and Murray-Smith, R. (2020) Efficient human-machine control with asymmetric marginal reliability input devices. [Data Collection]