Dr Andrea Szymkowiak

My research activities are primarily industry-facing and underpinned by close to ~£0.5M of external funding. I am currently involved in projects on virtual agent design, consumer experience in retail, emotional biometrics and traffic psychology, as well as food perception and obesity and visualisation of cell networks. I have also obtained funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering for an Industrial Secondment to be located for a year at a global company investigating self-service solutions, starting September 2012.  

Siebenaler, S., Szymkowiak, A, Robertson, P., Johnson, G., & Law, J. (2017). Social presence and dishonesty: Perceptions from security guards. In International Conference on HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations (pp. 264-281). Springer International Publishing.

Simpson, E., Mulholland, G., Szymkowiak, A., Calmeiro, L., & Turner, J. (in press). Can graduate attributes be taught and not simply embedded in the curriculum? An evaluation of stakeholder perspectives and implications for graduate employability. Taylor's 10th Teaching and Learning Conference.

Creighton, S., Johnson, G., Robertson, P., Law, J., & Szymkowiak, A. (2015). Dishonest behavior at self-service checkouts. In International Conference on HCI in Business (pp. 267-278). Springer International Publishing.

Shovman, M., Bown, J., Szymkowiak, A., & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2015, April). Twist and Learn: Interface Learning in 3DOF Exploration of 3D Scatterplots. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 313-316). ACM.

Rusconi, E., Scott-Brown, K. C., & Szymkowiak, A. (2014). Neuroscience perspectives on security. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 996.

Fawzi, A, & Szymkowiak, A. (2014). An investigation into gender role conformity in an online social networking environment, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8531, 322-330.

Creighton, S., & Szymkowiak, A. (2014). The effects of cooperative and competitive games on classroom interaction frequencies. Procedia Social and Behavioral Science, 140, 155-163.

Ahmad, N., Szymkowiak, A., & Campbell, P. (2013). Keystroke dynamics in the pre-touchscreen era. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7(835).

Payne, A., Szymkowiak, A., Robertson, P., & Johnson, G. (2013). Gendering the machine: Preferred virtual assistant gender and realism in self-service. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8108, 106-115.

Payne, A., Szymkowiak, A., Johnson, G.I., Robertson, P., & Henderson, R. (2013). Preferences for virtual assistant gender and clothing style. International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, October 24 – 26, 2012. http://ispr.info/presence-conferences/previous-conferences/ispr-2012/

Payne, A., Johnson, G., & Szymkowiak, A. (2012). Virtual assistants and social cues: Retail interactions and consumer experience. The 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Industrial Experience, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-17, 2012.

Shovman, M., Scott-Brown, K., Szymkowiak, A., Bown, J. (2012). The meaning of graphs: Scatterplots as a test-bed for Theories of Object-Hood. Gestalt Theory, 34(3/4), 381-398.

Rookes, M., & Szymkowiak A. (2012). The personality correlates of academic procrastination. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Education, Learning, Styles, Individual Differences Network XVII, Cardiff, Wales, 26-28 June 2012, BRNO, Tribun, Czech Republic, pp. 337-348.

Scrimgeour, A., Szymkowiak, A., Hardie, S., & Scott-Brown, K. (2012). Gender and hazard perception skills in relation to road traffic police officers. The Police Journal, 84(4), 333-343.

Ball, L., Bradley, D., Szymkowiak, A., & Brownsell, S. (2011). Observational data and emotive and adaptive computing in eHealth. In: Z. M. Charlesworth, E. Cools, & C. Evans (eds). First IEEE conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology (HISB) 2011, July 27-29, 04. San Jose, California, pp. 198-204.

Martinez, S., Sloan, R. J. S., Szymkowiak, A., & Ken Scott-Brown (2011). Animated virtual agents to cue user attention. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 4 (3&4), 299-308.

Payne, J., Johnson, G., & Szymkowiak, A. (2011). The behavioural impact of a visually represented virtual assistant in a self-service checkout context. In 25th BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Conference on Human Computer Interaction - HCI 2011, pp. 58-63. 

Martinez, S., Sloan, R. J. S., Szymkowiak, A., & Ken Scott-Brown (2010). Using virtual agents to cue observer attention. CONTENT 2010, The Second International Conference on Creative Content Technologies, November 21-26, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 7-12.

Bown, J., Fee, K., Sampson, A., Shovman, M., Falconer, R., Goltsov,. A, Isaacs, J., Robertson, P., J, Scott-Brown, K, & Szymkowiak, A. (2010). ACM Information visualisation and the arts-science-social science interface. In: M. D. Tiwari, R. C. Tripathi and Anupam Agrawal (eds.) IITM '10 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia, pp. 9-17.

Robertson, P., Szymkowiak, A., & Johnson, G. (2010). Investigating the future of self-service technology. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, '10 Proceedings of the 24th BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Interaction Specialist Group Conference, pp. 346-349.

Shovman, M., Szymkowiak, A., Bown, J., & Scott-Brown, K. (2010). Is visual search a high-level phenomenon? Evidence from structure perception in 3-D scatterplots. Perception, 39 (March).

Shovman, M. M. Szymkowiak, A., Bown, J. L. & Scott-Brown, K. C. (2009). Changing the view: towards the theory ofvisualisation comprehension. In Information Visualisation. Ed. E. Banissi (Barcelona), pp. 135-138.

Shovman, M. M., Scott-Brown, K. C. Szymkowiak, A & Bown, J. L. (2008). Use of ‘pop-out’ paradigm to test graph comprehension in a three-dimensional scatter plot. Perception 37, 79-80.

Szymkowiak, A., Morrison, K., Gregor, P., Inglis, E. A., Shah, P., Evans, J. J., & Wilson, B. A. (2005). A memory aid with remote communication: preliminary findings. Technology and Disability, 17, 217-225.

Szymkowiak, A., Morrison, K., Gregor, P., Shah, P., Evans, J. J., & Wilson, B. A. (2005). A memory aid with remote communication using distributed technology. Personal & Ubiquitous Computing, 9, 1-5.

Szymkowiak, A., Morrison, K., Gregor, P., Shah, P., Evans, J., & Wilson, B. (2004). Memojog – successes and limitations of a memory aid system. Brain Impairment, 98-99 (Abstract).

Szymkowiak, A., Morrison, K., Shah, P., Gregor, P., Evans, J., Newell, A., Wilson, B., & Schofield, S. (2004). Memojog – an interactive memory aid with remote communication. In: S. Keates, P. J. Clarkson, P. Langdon and P. Robinson (eds.)  2nd Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access ad Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) "Designing A More Inclusive World", Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK, 22-24 March, 2004, pp. 15-24.

Morrison, K., Szymkowiak, A., & Gregor, P. (2004). Memojog - An interactive memory aid incorporating mobile based technologies. In: S. Brewster and M. Dunlop (eds.) Mobile HCI September 13-16 2004, Glasgow, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 3160, Springer-Verlag, pp. 481-485.

Inglis, E. Szymkowiak, A., Gregor, P., Newell, A. F., Hine, N., Wilson, B. A., Evans, J., & Shah, P. (2004). Usable technology? Challenges in designing a memory aid with current electronic devices, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 14, 77-87.

Fischer, M. H., & Szymkowiak, A. (2004). Joint attention for pointing but not grasping postures, Cortex, 40, 166-168.

Inglis, E. A., Szymkowiak, A., Gregor, P., Newell, A. F., Hine, N., Shah, P., Evans, J. J., & Wilson, B. A. (2003). Issues surrounding the user-centred development of a new interactive memory aid, Universal Access in the Information Society, 2(3), 226-234.

Szymkowiak, A., Morrison, K., Inglis, E. A., Gregor, P., Shah, P., Evans, J. J., & Wilson, B. A. (2003). A memory aid with remote communication for elderly and memory-impaired users. In: Stephanidis, C. (ed.) Universal Access in HCI: Inclusive Design in the Information Society, Vol. 4, Proceedings of HCI International 2003 (22-27 June 2003, Crete, Greece). London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., pp. 902-906.

Inglis, E., Szymkowiak, A., Gregor, P., Newell, A. F., Hine, N., Wilson, B. A., & Evans, J. (2002). Issues surrounding the user-centred development of a new interactive memory aid. In: Keates, S., Langdon, P., John Clarkson, P., & Robinson, P. (eds.), Universal Access and Assistive Technology (Proceedings of the Cambridge Workshop on UA and AT ‘02), London: Springer, pp. 171-178.