Stephen Brewster
FRSE
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is the Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computing Science at the
University of Glasgow
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, UK, where he runs the Multimodal Interaction Group. His main research interest is multimodal
human-computer interaction, sound and
haptics and gestures. Brewster received a PhD at the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the
University of York
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. He organized the Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (
MobileHCI
The Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI) is a leading series of academic conferences in Human–computer interaction and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. MobileHCI has be ...
) several times and is the organiser for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems alongside
Geraldine Fitzpatrick. He has contributed to several scientific books.
Brewster was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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in March 2017.
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Human–computer interaction researchers
British computer scientists
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Living people
Alumni of the University of York
20th-century British scientists
21st-century British scientists