Miguel Nacenta is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada. For eight years he was lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland (he remains an honorary senior lecturer there), where he co-founded the St Andrews Human-Computer Interaction research group (SACHI) with Aaron Quigley and Per Ola Kristensson. He was also long-time co-leader of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) HCI theme, where he helped organize and mobilize the awesome Scottish HCI research community.

Before that, Miguel was a post-doctoral fellow at the interactions lab, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, under the supervision of Sheelagh Carpendale and Saul Greenberg, a visiting Scholar at the University of Osaka, invited by Yoshifumi Kitamura, and an intern at Microsoft Research under the supervision of Andy Wilson, Patrick Baudisch and Hrvoje Benko.

Miguel got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, in the interaction lab, under the supervision of Carl Gutwin and with the help of Sriram Subramanian.

Miguel’s research interests started in Multi-Display environments and interaction techniques, Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW), and perception applied to interfaces. Interests have since then expanded mostly to visualization, augmented cognition and infotypography.

His work has been featured in New Scientist, wired.co.uk, la Recherche and exhibited at the Esker Foundation. He has been involved in the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conference for a long time, as organizer, papers chair and steering committee member and then chair, and he helped organize UIST 2013 in St Andrews, Scotland.

He enjoys a good book, a long and slow run, going with his family on bike rides, and anything that David Simon cares to gift us with.