Tom Owen

PhD Researcher, FIT Lab

About Me

Tom Owen

I am currently a PhD researcher in the Future Interaction Technology research group under the supervision of Dr. Parisa Eslambolchilar. My PhD commenced in January 2010 working on the EPSRC funded research project CHI-MED, which aims to improve the usability and safety of interactive medical devices.

My research focuses on the devices used by patients to monitor their own medical conditions. Specifically I have been investigating the tools available to diabetic patients such as glucose monitors.

Previously I worked on techniques to aid the location of information within digital documents and navigation techniques for digital documents with Dr. George Buchanan.

Research Interests

  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Safety Critical HCI
  • Contextual Use of Devices
  • Document Navigation and Document Triage (but very part-time recently)

Publications

Conference papers

  1. T. Owen, G. Buchanan, P Eslambolchilar, F Loizides, Supporting Early Document Navigation with Semantic Zooming. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2010, Gold Coast, Australia, June 2010. Awarded Best Paper.
  2. G. Buchanan, T. Owen, Improving Skim Reading for Document Triage. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context, IIiX 2008, London, October 2008.
  3. G. Buchanan, T. Owen, Improving Navigation Interaction in Digital Documents. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital libraries, JCDL 2008, Pittsburgh, June 2008.

Doctoral Consortium

  1. T. Owen Don’t Let Me Down: Using Contextual Information to Aid Diabetics. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, UbiComp 2011, Beijing, September 2011. Awarded Student Travel Grant from IGRS (闪联) to attend.

Posters

  1. T. Owen, P Eslambolchilar, G. Buchanan, R Bracken, Anticipating Error: Analysing Blood Glucose Monitors for Potential Patient Use Errors. At Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes, ATTD 2011, London, February 2011.

Theses

  1. T. Owen, Improving Image Navigation in Digital Documents. M.Sc. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Wales, Swansea, July. 2008.

Presentations, Demos and Other Work

Talks

I have also been active in giving presentions at the FIT Lab Reading Group as well as:

  • 2009
    • Member of the working group and presenter at the British Science Association Postgraduate Researchers' Science Day (summary programme (PDF)), June 2009.

Teaching

  • 2011
    • Involved with Swansea Summer University which offered 16 - 17 year olds the opportunity to experience university life. Prepared and delivered course material introducing fundamental Computer Science concepts to the summer students. July 2011.
  • Teaching Assistant Duties
    • CS-150 (Concepts of Computer Science I) - 2011/2012.
    • CS-368/CS-M88 (Embedded Systems) - 2011/2012.
    • CS-M79 (Hardware and Devices) - 2008/2009, 2010/2011,2011/2012.
    • CS-M41 (Programming in Java) - 2010/2011.
  • E-mail:
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 1792 602693 (Internal extension: 2693)
  • Office: Future Interaction Technology Lab, Faraday Tower room 503
  • Address: Future Interaction Technology Lab, Computer Science Department, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK