Future Interaction Technology Lab, Swansea University

Welcome to the FIT Lab!

• What is the FIT Lab?

  FIT means Future Interaction Technologies — it’s about the complex devices that change our lives, for better or worse — whether in our homes, cars, mobile phones or medical devices.
  
  Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can be a creative and exciting field of research, but in collaboration with companies like Microsoft Research, Nokia, and the NHS, the FIT Lab likes to focus on Grand Challenges
  
  The FIT Lab was opened in 2006 by Professor Harold Thimbleby and has since grown to include a range of world-leading HCI experts.
  
  As well as performing world-class HCI research, the FIT Lab runs PhD, MSc and MRes programs.

• Where is the FIT Lab?

  The FIT Lab is part of the Computer Science Department of Swansea University in Wales, UK.

• Conferences

  The FIT Lab team regularly submit, review and attend many world leading international conferences, including:
  • CHI
  • Mobile HCI
  • Ubicomp
  • Pervasive Heath
  • JCDL
  • TPDL
  • ECIS
  • CSCW
  • DIS
  • INTERACT
  

• Social Media

  Join us!
  

FIT Lab News

Important Visitors

15 May 2012

Exciting times are ahead of us next month as we are lucky enough have not just one, but two very influential HCI researchers give talks here at Swansea! On June 11th we will be welcoming Ben Shneiderman to give a distinguished lecture in the Taliesin Arts Centre – Don’t forget to sign up for your free ticket. Then on Wednesday June 13th we will have another fantastic talk from Jenny Preece - author of Interaction Design: Beyond Human Computer Interaction. Both are sure to be great talks so make sure to put them in your diaries!

CHI+MED Summit

10 May 2012

Some exciting news from our largest research project – CHI+MED this week as we prepare to hold the 1st Safe Interaction Summit at Fudan University in Shanghai China. The Summit, which takes place on Thursday 7th June, aims to build up a platform where academic and industrial researchers working in combined fields can come together to review their work and find ways to improve quality and impact in the design of interactive devices in safety critical field. For more information on this event, see the CHI+Med page.

Study Time

04 May 2012

Dan Thomas So it’s that time of year again when our undergraduate students are submitting their dissertations and revising for exams. There is some cause for celebration at this stressful time though as Dan Thomas won the children’s vote for best poster at the 3rd year project fair! Also this week, we have had two papers accepted to Mobile HCI 2012 in San Francisco and have waved off Matt (J) and Matt (W) who are en-route to CHI 2012 in Austin Texas!

New Look for 2012!

23 April 2012

Welcome to FIT Lab’s new website! We have rebranded our logo and updated our research and teaching pages. There are also new ways for you to get involved – via facebook, twitter and you tube. We have been very busy over the last 2 months - Patrick, Andy and Abi have just returned from a 3 week trip travelling around the US as part of the CHI+Med project, Emma and Jen have had papers accepted into DIS 2012 and JCDL 2012 and we said goodbye to our friend Max who has moved on to greener pastures in Nottingham. More exciting events are coming up though – with the department getting ready to welcome the father of HCI Ben Shneiderman for a distinguished lecture on June 11th! More news on this unmissable event can be found on our Seminars page.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! (Happy St David’s Day)

01 March 2012

Marianna Obrist

It’s already March the first – St. David’s day in Wales which seems like a good time to update everyone on the year’s news so far. We have been busy over the last few weeks with several conference deadlines – make sure to check out the notice board in the FIT lab for new submissions. Simon and Matt have travelled to Seattle to present the fabulous PicoTales at CSCW and we have also been lucky enough welcome several visitors to the lab. Including Dame Wendy Hall who gave a distinguished lecture in the department and Marianna Obrist from the Culture Lab in Newcastle!