Mark McGill

Sir Alwyn Williams Building (SAWB) 407

Glasgow, UK

It’s always a bit egotistical having a website for yourself, but nonetheless if you want to know more about my research, on-going projects, or how to contact me, then browse away!

My interests are in Human-Computer Interaction and Extended / Augmented / Mixed / Virtual Reality, in-particular around:

Perceptual manipulation, and how we might stretch the boundaries of perceived human capabilities in XR to benefit immersion, engagement, accessibility
Deceptive and manipulative design, and the risks/harms/vulnerabilities exposed by emerging and intersecting technologies such as spatial computing and AI
Motion and cybersickness, and how we might unlock new use cases such as passenger use of XR and generate new insights into motion perception
Interaction design and ergonomics, such as around everyday augmented reality and mobile interactions, or the use of virtual workspaces …amongst many other topics.

I’m always on the look out for project students (if you are an undergraduate at UoG) and PhD students (if you either have a scholarship application in mind or are targeting our School scholarships), and am open to lab visits and hosting - but keep in mind we don’t typically have funds available to support these, so you’d need to consider funding via available national and international partnership schemes (RSE for example).

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015	A simple inline announcement.

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.