Mobile Apps Group Meetup

Informatics Ventures, Informatics Intern West and GU Tech Society welcome students, graduates, academia and people from the local industry to come to the first Mobile Apps Group Meetup this year!

Schedule

• 6.00pm - registration

• 6.15pm - pizza & drinks

• 6.45pm - talks & discussions

• 7.30pm - networking

• 9.00pm - close

Speakers

Euan Freeman

PhD student in the Multimodal Interaction Group in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow

His research is supervised by Stephen Brewster and Vuokko Lantz (Nokia Technologies, Finland). Previously he was an undergraduate student at the UofG, where he also worked as a research assistant before starting his PhD.

His research interests include multimodal human-computer interaction, novel gesture interfaces, wearable technology and interactive surfaces. As an undergraduate student his research focused on novel interfaces for the home, particularly for elderly people. He designed and developed reminder systems using digital pens and paper, and interactive tabletops. His PhD research looks at novel interaction techniques for gesture interfaces. He is particularly interested in around-device interaction and gesture interaction with small devices.

In his spare time he likes to run along the coast, mountain bike in the woods, drink coffee in his kitchen and chill out with his slippers on. He's an Android developer; also fluent in C#, Java and Python; often works with Arduino; has a good eye for design; knows a lot about human-computer interaction and good interaction design; and he documents his code well.

Raj Sark

Founder of Lupo

As a Founder of LUPO startup funded by the Strathclyde University, Raj is an active innovation driven entrepreneur who likes to make use of technology to solve practical issues. He is a graduate in Electronics & Communications Engineering and has an Erasmus Mundus Masters education in New Product Development & Innovation Management. Raj has been working in the area of wireless communication technologies for the past 5 years. Formerly he was employed by a Danish firm RTX A/s who supply wireless modules to handset makers and mobile operators Vodafone, Skype, etc.

We hope to see all you soon!