Professor Patrick Olivier
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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. 

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Olga Pykhtina
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Olga is a PhD student supervised by Sue Pattison (Education, Language and Linguistic Sciences) and Patrick Olivier (Computing Science) at Newcastle University. 

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Sebastian Stein
Sebastian Stein

Sebastian is a PhD student funded by SiDE to research multi-modal activity recognition within the Connected Home and Community activity.

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Dr Abigail Durrant
Abi 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.

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Nils Hammerla
Nils Hammerla

Nils is a PhD student funded by the Newcastle University's School of Computing Science to work within SiDE's Connected Community activity. 

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Thomas Ploetz
Thomas 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. 

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Anja Thieme
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Anja is a PhD student supervised by Thomas Meyer (Institute of Neuroscience), Patrick Olivier (Computing Science) and Peter Wright (Computing Science).

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Paul Dunphy
Paul 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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Jon Hook
Jon Hook

I'm a Research Associate (on the SiDE project) and PhD student at Newcastle University in the School of Computing Science working with Patrick Olivier. For my thesis project I am looking how technology relates to expression in human-computer interaction.

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