Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez

Yolanda Vazquez-Alvarez, M.Sc.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    School of Computing Science

    University of Glasgow (Glasgow, UK)

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  • Advisor:

    Stephen A. Brewster

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Computing Science, University of Glasgow (Glasgow, UK)
     
    M.Sc., Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College London (London, UK)
     
    B.A., English, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Mark A. Huckvale (as Graduate Student - Masters)
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  • Research:
    Designing Spatial audio interfaces for mobile devices: supporting multitasking and context information.

    Investigating how to design audio interfaces to support multiple audio streams to enable multitasking and audio spatializaton to represent context, i.e. location-based information. Evaluating different techniques for simultaneously presenting multiple audio streams when mobile, including 3D audio techniques, to better understand the affordances of these different delivery mechanisms.

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  • Other Experience:

    2010 Research Intern, Nokia Research Center (NRC-Helsinki), Multimodal Interactions Group. Finland

    2009 Visiting Researcher, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI), Funchal. Madeira. Portugal

    2006-2008 Research Associate, Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), Informatics Department, University of Edinburgh. UK

    2006-2008 Research Assistant, Psychology Department, University of Glasgow. UK

    2003-2006 Research Fellow, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. UK

    2005 Visiting Scholar, U.C. Berkeley. USA

    2002-2003 Development Engineer, Rhetorical Systems Ltd., Edinburgh. UK

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