Rate My Professor Stephen Brewster

Stephen Brewster is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where he is a member of the GIST research section and leads the Multimodal Interaction Group. His main research interests are in multimodal human-computer interaction, with a focus on sound, haptics, and gestures. He has conducted extensive research into Earcons as a particular form of non-speech sounds for use in interfaces.

He earned a degree in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire. Brewster completed his PhD in 1994 at the Human-Computer Interaction Group at the University of York; the title of his thesis was "Providing a structured method for integrating non-speech audio into human-computer interfaces." Following his doctorate, he worked as a research fellow for the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), with positions at VTT Information Technology in Helsinki, Finland, and at SINTEF DELAB in Trondheim, Norway. In October 1995 he began lecturing in human-computer interaction at the University of Glasgow. Brewster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017 and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He has organized the Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) on multiple occasions and has served as an organizer for the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems alongside Geraldine Fitzpatrick. He has also contributed to several scientific books. His research has received over 19,000 citations.