Opinions expressed on these pages are personal and do not represent
any official position of the University of Edinburgh, the School
of Engineering and Electronics, or the Centre for Communication
Interface Research.
Recent and current work
Since 2000 my work has been mostly on dialogue design, experimental
design and statistics for applied human-computer interface projects in CCIR
- in particular the
Spotlight project (2000-2) on
spoken dialogue engineering for financial services and travel applications,
and further telephone dialogues research for
Lloyds TSB (1998 to present) and for
Standard Life Bank (2002-3).
I have acted as second supervisor for the following recent PhD
students within CCIR:
- Jenny Wilkie - system-initiated digressions in automated telephone
dialogues (submitted December 2005, graduated June 2006).
-
Nancie Davidson (now Nancie Gunson) - automated dialogue strategies for
surname capture (submitted January 2007, graduated June 2007).
-
Hazel Morton - development and assessment of the SPELL system for
foreign language learning (submitted September 2007, graduated June 2008).
I also did some work on quality of service for voice over IP with
Nestor Becerra Yoma of the University of Chile during 2000 and 2001.
Education and past work
Publications
Software
Other interests:
Croquet
Walking over the Pentlands and elsewhere around
Edinburgh
Changing the world
Fergus's Brain Online
I am in the process of uploading my brain to the Internet... Well,
some of the content of my brain anyway. You can find it at
http://www.ccir.ed.ac.uk/~fmi/brain/Fergus's_Brain_Online.htm.
