South West England and De Cymru Human-Computer Interaction Community (SWEDC-HCI)
University of Bath: Jason Alexander, Ollie Hanton
University of Bristol: Elaine Czech (co-PI), Oussama Metatla, Anne Roudaut, Paul Marshall
Cardiff University: Kathy Stawarz, Sandy Gould, Nervo Verdezoto Dias
University of Exeter: Andrew Howes
and including University of the West of England: Cameron Steer (co-PI), Tom Mitchell
Academics studying how humans interact with technology come from a diverse set of disciplines, including computer science, psychology, social science, engineering, and the arts. The SWEDC-HCI community will form a regional network to allow these academics and students to build connections and develop opportunities for exciting, cross-disciplinary funding applications. The community will use the Development Award to fund a flagship South West Pre-CHI event, bringing together academics and PGRs working in Human-Computer Interaction to share their latest research with preview presentations of publications accepted to CHI, the most prestigious conference in the field. This event will serve to build networks and exchange knowledge to generate new collaborative research ideas. This will be the first annual event for the community.
