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WORK & PROGRESS 2009
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MY INTERNAL SITE
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My research area is Interaction Design for Multimedia and Sensor Web Technologies.
I apply the methods and tools from the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction to
emerging technologies that are not yet mature enough to become mainstream applications.
My role in the Centre is to connect these developing technologies to novel yet feasible, usable front-end user applications, so that we could envisage a (near) future
where these would be commonly used in some specific places for some specific tasks by some specific group of users.
I use scenario, sketching and prototyping to do this activity; I conduct user study with usability engineering methods to assess
and refine the systems we developed.
The novel applications I designed include Object-based interaction leveraging automatic object detection and
tracking tools, Photo-blogging service that incorporates face detection to reduce manual annotation burden,
Online VCR applications incorporating shot/scene detection and colaborative filtering,
SenseCam photo browser called 'My Visual Diary' allowing an efficient browsing of large number of
LifeLogging photos that leverage automatic event grouping and novelty (uniqueness) identification, and many more.
Have a look at
Some examples of novel applications within the centre. These include
fully deployed systems with a large number of users, as well as in-lab systems.
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Centre for Digital Video Processing
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CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
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I design interaction strategies as well as widget-level user-interfaces for various
novel application
scenarios that incorporate emerging Multimedia technologies, in a variety of media platforms:
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Web platform -
I have been designing novel Web applications that leverage Multimedia techniques since 1998. Most significant
work I did is Físchlár family of Web applications which I designed its interface and
refined over 5-year period, deployed to campus labs (1999-2005),
and conducted a longitudinal user study, published in:
Lee H, Smeaton A.F, O'Connor N and Smyth B. User Evaluation of Físchlár-News: An Automatic Broadcast News Delivery System.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems,
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Mobile - Having witnessed the usability crisis(?) of mobile UIs in the early 2000's,
I have designed mobile applications that take advantage of automatic processing of information to reduce
the interaction burden from the users (e.g. collaborative filtering to selectively show the most useful
information first). My most recent publication on this is the following book chapter:
Lee H,
Gurrin C, Jones G and Smeaton A.F. Interaction Design for Personal Photo Management on a Mobile Device. Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile
Technology, IGI Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-59904-871-0, 2008, pp69-85.
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Interactive TableTop - TableTop interaction brings in a few very interesting dimensions
because it should support co-located collaboration among multiple users: division of labour,
workspace awareness and usage coordination (or conflict resolution) need to be designed in, which
a single user desktop PC interaction never had. I identified these dimensions and possible design options
and designed variations of DiamondTouch TableTop application, published in (among others):
Smeaton A.F, Lee H, Foley C and Mc Givney
S. Collaborative Video Searching on a Tabletop. Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2006,
pp375-391.
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Interactive TV - iTV interaction requires a good understanding of yet another set of parameters,
most notably the 'lean-back' nature of the use and the input device of remote control. I surveyed all
available design wisdom in iTV field and through a long 4-month sketching period came up with
strategies that resulted in representing potentially sophisticated Multimedia techniques in a super-simple,
lean-back, and attractive TV interface, summarised in:
Lee H, Ferguson P, Gurrin C, Smeaton A.F, O'Connor N and Park H. Balancing the Power of Multimedia Information Retrieval and Usability in Designing
Interactive TV. uxTV 2008 - International Conference
on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video, Mountain View, CA, 22-24 October, 2008.
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LifeLogging - LifeLogging may not be considered as a 'platform' per se, but designing an interaction
for supporting access (searching and browsing) to typically huge LifeLogging data brings in distinctive design issues in itself.
I designed a highly novel interaction strategy that allows a user to browse large amount of SenseCam photos,
leveraging our group's automatic indexing techniques. Its interface is summarised in:
Lee H, Smeaton A.F, O'Connor N, Jones G, Blighe M, Byrne D, Doherty A
and Gurrin C. Constructing a SenseCam Visual Diary as a Media Process. Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue
on Canonical Processes of Media Production, Vol. 14, No. 6, 2008, pp341-349.
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