Aaron Quigley

Atheist, Brainstormer, Educator/Teacher, Explorer, Gay, Inventor, Public servant, Scientist, Technologist, World traveler

Professor Aaron Quigley is the incoming Head of School for UNSW’s School of Computer Science and Engineering in Sydney Australia and a general co-chair for the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Yokohama Japan in 2021. His research interests include discreet computing, global HCI, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation on which he has delivered over 50 invited talks and he is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Aaron is a member of the ACM SIGCHI steering committee for the CHI conference series and a member of the ACM Europe Council Conferences Working Group. From 2015-2020 Aaron served first as the ACM SIGCHI Adjunct Chair for specialised conferences and then the ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences. From 2016-2017 Aaron was a convenor for the ACM Future of Computing Academy. His research and development has been supported by the EPSRC, AHRC, JISC, SFC, NDRC, EU FP7/FP6, SFI, Smart Internet CRC, NICTA, Wacom, IBM, Intel, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and MERL. He has published over 180 internationally peer-reviewed publications (see ORCID) including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers and holds 3 patents. He has held academic and industry appointments in Singapore, Australia, Japan, USA, Germany, Ireland and the UK.

Discreet Computing

Human Computer Interaction, Information Visulization, Mobile Computing, Multi-Display Computing, Pervasive Computing, Surface Computing, UbiComp, Wearable Computing

I founded TEDxDublin by organising the first TEDxDublin in 2009. I also organised the first TEDxTasmania in 2010. Since then I've supported and mentored other TEDx organisers.

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