Ms Sophie Skach

Teaching

Bridging Arts and Technology (Undergraduate)

This module investigates the relevance of creativity to computers and their applications. Students will develop ideas through a range of artistic practices to see how creativity informs technological development. Student writing will be developed through exploring narratives of technology, such as science fiction, using this as a springboard to understand the protocols and algorithms that underpin the technologies used in the digital world.

Interactive System Design (Postgraduate/Undergraduate)

The main areas of study are (i) interaction and design (ii) modelling of interaction (iii) the design process (iv) design principles and (v) usability evaluation. Various types of interfaces will be considered including those encountered on the web and mobile computing devices. A historical perspective is encouraged in order to provide a means of understanding current and projected developments in the discipline and profession of interactive computer system design. The module will include seminars and group laboratory classes in which analysis, design and evaluation methods will be used in practical contexts. Students will be expected to participate fully in the seminars by presenting and discussing their own designs and evaluations. Students will be required to construct prototype interfaces using techniques of their own choice (e.g. Java, Director).

Research

Research Interests:

Publications

• Greinke B, Wood E, Skach S et al. (2022), Folded Electronic Textiles: Weaving, Knitting, Pleating and Coating Three-Dimensional Sensor Structures $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1162/leon_a_02183

  
  
• Skach S, Stewart R, Healey PGT (2021), Sensing Social Behavior with Smart Trousers $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3088153

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/74067
• Skach S, Stewart R, Healey PGT (2019), Smarty Pants: Exploring Textile Pressure Sensors in Trousers for Posture and Behaviour Classification $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.3390/proceedings2019032019

  
  
• Skach S, Stewart R (2019), One Leg at a Time: Towards Optimised Design Engineering of Textile Sensors in Trousers ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2019 In- ternational Symposium on Wearable Computers

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3341162.3343775

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59761
• Skach S, Patrick G. T. H (2019), Posture Shifts in Conversation: An Exploratory Study with Textile Sensors SemDial

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59776
• Albert S, Heath C, Skach S et al. (2019), Drawing as transcription: how do graphical techniques inform interaction analysis? $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.7146/si.v2i1.113145

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/74756
• Skach S, Stewart R, Healey PGT (2018), Smart ARSE: Posture classification with textile sensors in trousers $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3242969.3242977

  
  
• Skach S (2018), Strike a pose: Capturing social behaviour with textile sensors $nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3242969.3264968

  
  
• STEWART RL, SKACH S, BIN SMA (2018), Making Grooves With Needles: Using e-textiles to encourage gender diversity in embedded audio systems design ACM Designing Interactive Systems

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3196709.3196716

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/40903
• SKACH S, XAMBO A, TURCHET L et al. (2018), Embodied Interactions with E-Textiles and the Internet of Sounds for Performing Arts ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3173225.3173272

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/40883
• STEWART RL, Skach S (2017), Initial Investigations into Characterizing DIY E-Textile Stretch Sensors 4th International Conference on Movement Computing

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3077981.3078043

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/23487