Research highlights

• Development of scalable real-time data matching techniques to combat identity crimes
• Gesture based tools to control complex visualisations of social networks
• Development of scalable, automatic and accurate privacy-preserving record linkage techniques
• Development of novel algorithms for preference elicitation for social recommendation
• Development of a fuzzy logic technique to efficiently handle complex structured data
• Evaluating the effect of web spam on result quality and outlining the ideal properties of effective spam nullification
• Subjective logic approaches to real time extraction of semantic information from documents
• A study of textual annotations and their use in improving retrieval effectiveness
• Automatic evaluation of the quality of health websites
• An approach for recognizing unconstrained video events in large visual semantic space
• A semantic approach for extracting facial expression data automatically from video
• Novel methods to track visual remix on large social media collections
• Experimental disambiguation of the psychological aspects of immersion and involvement in a measure of presence in a virtual world experience
• Global crowd-sourcing as part of a semi-formal HCI experiment "in the wild"
• Algorithms for eye gaze and physiological inference in interaction tasks particularly reading
• Verification that a new head-interaction technique leads to enhanced player enjoyment in a first-person-shooter game
• Generating art using indirect interaction
• Development of an iPhone musical ensemble
• Development of a programming language and system for live musical composition and improvisation
• Efficient bio-inspired algorithms

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