Simon Harper

ORCID: 0000-0001-9301-5049
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Research Areas
  • Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
  • Usability and User Interface Design
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Multimedia Communication and Technology
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Subtitles and Audiovisual Media
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Interactive and Immersive Displays
  • Personal Information Management and User Behavior
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies

University of Manchester
2016-2025

University of Cambridge
2022-2023

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2022

Wesley Hospital
2014-2019

UNSW Sydney
2014-2019

St George Hospital
2017-2019

Black Dog Institute
2017

Texas A&M University
2017

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
2010-2012

Health Information Management
2010

Objective This pilot study assessed the feasibility, efficacy and safety of an individual dose‐titration approach, intravenous ( IV ), intramuscular IM ) subcutaneous SC routes for treating depression with ketamine. Method Fifteen treatment‐refractory depressed participants received ketamine or midazolam (control treatment) in a multiple crossover, double‐blind study. Ketamine was administered by n = 4), 5) 6) injection. Dose titration commenced at 0.1 mg/kg, increasing mg/kg up to 0.5 given...

10.1111/acps.12572 article EN Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2016-03-30

The visual appearance of a Web page influences the way user will interact with page. structural elements (such as text, tables, links, and images) their characteristics colour size) are used to determine presentation complexity level We theorise that by understanding user's aesthetic perception we can understand cognitive effort required for interaction This paper describes an investigation into pages. Results show strong high correlation between users' complexity, (links, images, words...

10.1145/1456536.1456581 article EN 2008-09-22

10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.03.008 article EN International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2016-04-08

Objectives. Research studies have reported impressive antidepressant effects with ketamine but significant knowledge gaps remain over the best method of administering ketamine, and relationships between dose, response adverse effects. Methods. In this pilot dose-finding study, efficacy tolerability given by rapid intravenous (i.v.) infusion were assessed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design, four subjects treatment- resistant depression. Each subject received up to i.v....

10.3109/15622975.2014.922697 article EN The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2014-06-09

The visual complexity of Web pages is much talked about; “complex are difficult to use,” but often regarded as a subjective decision by the user. This limited use if we wish understand importance complexity, what it means, and how can be used. We theorize that understanding user's perception page cognitive effort required for interaction with page. important because using an easily identifiable measure, such implicit marker load, design which easier interact with. have devised initial...

10.1145/1498700.1498704 article EN ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 2009-02-15

The equality of access – accessibility is difficult to quantify, define, or agree upon. Our previous work analysed the responses web specialists in regard a number pre-defined definitions accessibility. While uncovering much, this analysis did not allow us quantify communities' understanding relationship has with other domains and assess how community scopes In case, we asked over 300 people, an interest accessibility, answer 33 questions surrounding between user experience (UX), usability;...

10.1080/0144929x.2013.848238 article EN Behaviour and Information Technology 2013-10-25

Eye tracking has commonly been used to investigate how users interact with web pages, the goal of improving their usability. This article comprehensively revisits techniques that could be applicable eye data for analysing user scanpaths on pages. It also uses a third-party study compare these techniques. allows researchers recognise existing goals, understand they work and know strengths limitations so can make an efficient choice studies. These mainly calculating...

10.16910/jemr.9.1.2 article EN cc-by Journal of Eye Movement Research 2015-12-30

10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.08.002 article EN International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2013-08-17

Web accessibility means that disabled people can effectively perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the web. evaluation methods are needed to validate of web pages. However, role subjectivity expertise in such is unknown has not previously been studied. This article investigates effect by conducting a Barrier Walkthrough (BW) study 19 expert 57 nonexpert judges. The BW method an be used manually assess pages for different user groups as motor impaired, low vision, blind, mobile...

10.1080/07370024.2011.601670 article EN Human-Computer Interaction 2011-09-02

10.1007/s11280-011-0130-8 article EN World Wide Web 2011-04-26

Eye tracking studies have widely been used in improving the design and usability of web pages research understanding how users navigate them. However, there is limited clustering users’ eye movement sequences (i.e., scanpaths) on to identify a general direction they follow. Existing tends be reductionist, which means that resulting path so short it not useful. Moreover, little work correlating scanpaths with visual elements underlying source code, result cannot for further processing. In...

10.1145/2970818 article EN ACM Transactions on the Web 2016-11-15

Anecdotal evidence suggests that people with autism may have different processing strategies when accessing the web. However, limited empirical is available to support this. This paper presents an eye tracking study 18 participants high-functioning and neurotypical investigate similarities differences between these two groups in terms of how they search for information within web pages. According our analysis, are likely be less successful completing their searching tasks. They also a...

10.1080/0144929x.2018.1551933 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Behaviour and Information Technology 2018-12-11

Currently, the vast majority of web sites do not support accessibility for visually impaired users. Usually, these users have to rely on screen readers: applications that sequentially read content a page in audio. Unfortunately, readers are able detect meaning different objects, and thus implicit semantic knowledge conveyed presentation is lost. One approach described literature tackle this problem, Dante approach, which allows annotation pages provide with extra (semantic) better facilitate...

10.1145/1060745.1060799 article EN 2005-01-01

The importance of the World Wide Web for information dissemination is indisputable. However, dominance visual design on leaves visually disabled people at a disadvantage. Although assistive technologies, such as screen readers, usually provide basic access to information, richness experience still often lost. In particular, traversing becomes complicated task since objects presented their sighted counterparts are neither appropriate nor accessible users. To address this problem, we have...

10.1145/1279700.1279704 article EN ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2007-09-01

Access is what the web 'about', it motivation behind its creation, and rationale HTML. The desire to provide all users at CERN with ability access documents was Tim Berners-Lee's primary goal, this goal must also be carried through equal for users. But equality of -- accessibility difficult quantify, define, or agree upon. In a constantly evolving field, understanding each other can tricky; indeed, there are many different definitions in literature, perspective. This makes our community...

10.1145/2207016.2207027 article EN 2012-04-16

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) require that success criteria be tested by human inspection. Further, testability of WCAG is achieved if 80% knowledgeable inspectors agree the has been met or not. In this paper we investigate very core 2.0, being their ability to determine web content accessibility conformance. We conducted an empirical study ascertain when experts and non-experts evaluated four relatively complex pages; differences between two. discuss validity...

10.1145/1878803.1878813 article EN 2010-10-25
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