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Dr Ashweeni Beeharee Dept. of Computer Science University College London Malet Place London WC1E 6BT United Kingdom

Office: 6.22 Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 0358 (Direct Dial) Internal: 30358 Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 1397 Email: A.Beeharee at cs dot ucl dot ac dot uk

Research My research interests are intelligent transport systems, automotive UI, driver distraction, usability, interaction, mobile applications, virtual reality and visual perception. Current research project SafeTRIP  - Safellite Applications For Emergency handling, Traffic alerts, Road safety and Incident Prevention. Short Biography Read B.Eng Computer Engineering in India (B.I.T), MSc in Software Engineering and PhD in Computer Science (Distributed Systems) from the University of Manchester. Worked as Lecturer at the University of Mauritius from 1996-1998, Director of Globo Consulting from 2000-2005 and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Matchtooth Ltd 2008-2009. Joined the Virtual Environment and Computer Graphics group at UCL in 2004 and moved to the HC-SPIT group in 2009.

Beyond UCL

• Lecturer at the City University since 2005
• Member of the UK delegation for International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Member of British Computer Society (MBCS)
• Member of Mauritius Academy of Science and Technology (MAST)
• Member of Council of Registered Professional Engineers

Recent Publications

2012

Davies, T., Beeharee, A. (2012) The Case of the Missed Icon : Change Blindness on Mobile Devices.  To be presented at ACM CHI 2012, Austin, Texas, USA, May 5-10, 2012.

Niemann, B., Heyn, T., Vargas, A., Titomanlio, S.,Grau, G. and Beeharee, A. (2012) SafeTRIP - Interactive Satellite Services for Automotive Applications and Road Safety. Chapter in Microelectronic Systems: Circuits, Systems and Applications. A. Heuberger, G. Elst, R. Hanke, J. Heppner and K. Kirsch (eds), Springer, Heidelberg 2012, p129-143. 

2011

Beeharee, A., Vaccaro, A. (2011) In-Car Contextualised Search on Tablets. In Adjunct Proceedings of Automotive UI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, Nov 30-Dec 2, 2011, p171-175.

Beeharee, A., Fremont, G., Wieczynski, A. and Campo, R. (2011) Getting on the S-Band Wagon for Crossing Borders - Exploiting Satellite Communication for Sustainable ITS Services. In Proceedings of  IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems (FISTS), Vienna, Austria, June 29-July 1, 2011.

Beeharee, A., Niemann, B., Titomanlio, S. and Grau,G. (2011) SafeTRIP - A Green Architecture for an Open ITS. In Proceedings of 8th ITS European Congress, Lyon, France,  June 6-9, 2011.

Beeharee, A., Fremont, G., Grazzini, S., Vaccaro, A. and  Rodriguez, J. L. (2011) Cooperative End to End User Services in SafeTRIP. In Proceedings of 8th ITS European Congress, Lyon, France,  June 6-9, 2011.

Lovas, T., Wieczynski, A., Baczyncka, M., Perski, A., Kertesz, I.,  Berenyi, A., Barsi, A. and Beeharee, A. (2011) Positioning for Next Generation Intelligent Transport Systems Services in SafeTRIP.  In Proceedings of  ASPRS 2011 Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1-5, 2011.

Beeharee, A., Laqua, S. and Sasse, A. (2011) Navigating Haystacks at 70mph: Intelligent Search for Intelligent In-Car Services. In Proceedings of 3rd International Multimodal Interfaces for Automobile Applications (MIAA) workshop at IUI 2011, Palo Alto, California, Feb 13-16, 2011. 

For complete list of publications and download links, please refer to my publications page.