Professor Kate Hone
Head of Department - Computer Science
Wilfred Brown 103
- Email: kate.hone@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266009
Topics
Applications are welcome for PhD study on the following research topics:
User interface design for voice user interfaces / chat bots - voice user interfaces are starting to become popular consumer products with the lauch of tools such Amazon's Echo / Alexa and Google Home. Research to explore user experience of voice user interfaces and how this can be improved.
Subjective evaluation of voice user interfaces - research to develop reliable and valid subjective measures of voice user interface quality which can be used in usability research.
Emotionally sensitive user interfaces - research to explore the potential use of emotion recognition technolgy to enhance human computer interaction, including user studies of the impact of emotionally adaptive interfaces.
MOOC acceptance factors - open online courses are increasingly available. Research to explore factors in adoption and retention of learners in this context.
Research supervision
| Name | Thesis Title/Topic | Status | 1st or 2nd supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lorna Lines | Older adults\' Interactions with speech Systems | Completed 2003 | First |
| Ghada Refaat El Said | Cultural issues in Human Computer Interaction | Completed 2005 | First |
| Tim Cribbin | Classifying complex topics using spatial-semantic document visualization | Completed 2005 | Second |
| Emma Pickering | Towards an improved evaluation of use for everyday computing | Completed 2009 | Second |
| Lesley Axelrod | Emotion Recognition for Interaction with Computers (Human Factors Issues) | Completed 2010 | First |
| Ali Tarhini | E-learning Acceptance in Lebanon and England | Completed 2013 | Second |
| Ahmad Aljwaijri | User acceptance in online banking | Current student | First |
| Sumayyah Alfaresi | Mobile Digital Libraries | Current student | First |
| Alison Bulbeck | E-learning Innovation | Current student | First |