Dr Norman Alm
Academic partnerships with industry
Norman will speak about the ways in which people working in industry can get involved in academic research, ranging from consultancy to joint proposals for funding.
Norman Alm - biography
Dr Norman Alm's current research projects include devising new methodologies for eliciting the needs of older computer users, teaching computing to older first-time users, using music in interfaces for older people, and computer-based memory and communication support for people with dementia. He has been a Royal Society of Edinburgh / TSB Foundation for Scotland Ageing Research Fellow. His research into conversation modelling to improve communication systems has been influential in the design of communication systems for non-speaking people.
His work has thus far resulted in five internationally marketed communication systems: Talk:About, TALK Boards, ScripTalker (in Germany and The Netherlands), and UNICORN (in Japan). Two commercial computer interview systems, Chatterbox and LISA, are now in use, based on his work in this new area of human-computer interaction.