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Professor Aaron Quigley is the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He is the director of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group. He is the general co-chair for UIST 2013, ITS 2013 and MobileHCI 2014. He is organising a CHI 2013 SIG on Visions and Visioning in HCI and the CHI 2013 workshop on  Blended Interaction: Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces. In addition he is an organiser of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Proxemics in Human-Computer Interaction". Aaron is also the Deputy Director of SICSA the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance and its Director for Knowledge Exchange.

Along with this website you can read more about SACHI here, or follow him at @aquigley on twitter or read the occasional news updates on his blog. In SACHI he currently supervises two PhD students Jakub Dostal in St Andrews and Anne-Marie Mann. His vizify biography provides a nice visual overview of his work and life.

Aaron's research interests include surface and multi-display computing, human computer interaction, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation. He has published over 120 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers and holds 3 patents. In addition he has served on over 80 program committees and has been involved in chairing roles of over 20 international conferences and workshops including, Pervasive, UbiComp, Tabletop, LoCA, UM, I-HCI, BCS HCI and MobileHCI.

Professor Quigley is the editor-in-chief for the Journal Computers, a chartered fellow of the BCS, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM and is a recipient of the Engineers Australia excellence in engineering education award. He serves as an external examiner, an external board member, a steering committee member and editorial board member and he maintains an active range of professional activities both ongoing and each year, see for example 2012 or 2011.

If you need to contact or find directions to locate Aaron then please visit his contact details page.