Professor Patrick Olivier
Patrick leads the Connected Home & Community activity on SiDE. His research ranges from the development and deployment of experience-centered and participatory design methods to the development of tangible and embedded interaction techniques and technologies and pervasive computing applications.
Read MoreOlga Pykhtina
Olga is a PhD student supervised by Sue Pattison (Education, Language and Linguistic Sciences) and Patrick Olivier (Computing Science) at Newcastle University.
Read MoreSebastian Stein
Sebastian is a PhD student funded by SiDE to research multi-modal activity recognition within the Connected Home and Community activity.
Read MoreDr Abigail Durrant
I'm currently working as a Senior Research Associate at Newcastle University, for SiDE. Current work includes exploring the potential of photography at school to support children with additional needs in interpersonal communication, and how the design of photographic equipment could enhance this.
Read MoreNils Hammerla
Nils is a PhD student funded by the Newcastle University's School of Computing Science to work within SiDE's Connected Community activity.
Read MoreThomas Ploetz
Thomas is an expert and post-doctoral researcher in machine learning and applied statistical pattern recognition. On SiDE he takes responsibility for activity recognition research within the Connected Home and Community activity. Thomas is currently funded the DFG (German Science Foundation) to work with Gregory Abowd at Georgia Tech, USA.
Read MoreAnja Thieme
Anja is a PhD student supervised by Thomas Meyer (Institute of Neuroscience), Patrick Olivier (Computing Science) and Peter Wright (Computing Science).
Read MorePaul Dunphy
My research interests centre around usable privacy and security mechanisms & with particular focus on security, usability, deployability and user experience
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