I have moved back over to Informatics to work on the EU FP7 SpaceBook project, so this page is unlikely to be kept up-to-date.

Previously worked on Visual Cognition on projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate Dynamic Images and Eye Movements and the ESRC. There is an A4 version of a DIEM poster that I made as an introduction to the project.

Before that, I worked in Informatics here at Edinburgh on an EU-funded project: Joint-Action Science and Technology. This involved analysing people engaged in multimodal communication and using this information to enhance human-robot interaction. Despite becoming more "visual" in recent years I still have a strong interest in psycholinguistics and tend to call myself a cognitive scientist.

Ph.D. in Psychology (Dundee). Thesis: Where’s the Point in Psycholinguistics? An analysis of punctuation, eye movements, parsing and prosody. [pdf]

M.Phil. in Cognitive Science (Dundee). Thesis: A Comma in Parsing. [compact version pdf]

B.Sc.(Hons)in Logic & Philosophy of Science – Statistics (St Andrews).

Book chapters, journal articles, proceedings:

Hill, R. L., Dickinson, A., Arnott, J. L., Gregor, P., & McIver, L. (2011). Older web users' eye movements: experience counts. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11) (pp. 1151-1160). New York, NY, USA: ACM. [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979115]

Mital, P. K., Smith, T. J., Hill, R. L. & Henderson, J. M. (2011). Clustering of gaze during dynamic scene viewing is predicted by motion. Cognitive Computation, 3(1), 5-24. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12559-010-9074-z]

Carletta, J., Hill, R. L., Nicol, C., Taylor, T., de Ruiter, J. P., & Bard, E. G. (2010). Eye tracking for two-person tasks with manipulation of a virtual world. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 254-265. [http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.1.254]

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., & Arai, M. (2009). Referring and gaze alignment: accessibility is alive and well in situated dialogue. In N. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1246-1251). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society, Inc. [http://141.14.165.6/CogSci09/papers/283/paper283.pdf]

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., Arai, M., & Foster, M. E. (2009). Accessibility and attention in situated dialogue: roles and regulations. Proceedings of the Production of Referring Expressions: Bridging the gap between computational and empirical approaches to reference workshop (PRE-Cogsci 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 July. [http://pre2009.uvt.nl/pdf/bardhillaraifoster.pdf]

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L. & Foster, M. E. (2008) What tunes accessibility of referring expressions in task-related dialogue? In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 945-950). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/Proceedings/2008/pdfs/p945.pdf]

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L. & Foster, M. E. (2008) Who tunes accessibility of referring expressions in task-related dialogue? Proceedings of the 12^th SEMDIAL Workshop (LONDIAL), King’s College, London, UK, 2 – 4 June. [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/89/15/paperbard.pdf]

Foster, M. E., Bard, E. G., Guhe, M., Hill, R. L., Oberlander, J. & Knoll, A. (2008) The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 295-302. [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1349822.1349861]

Dickinson, A. & Hill, R. L. (2007) Keeping in touch: talking to older people about computers and communication. Educational Gerontology, 33, 613-630. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03601270701363877]

Dickinson, A., Smith, M. J., Arnott, J. L., Newell, A. F. & Hill, R. L. (2007) Approaches to web search and navigation for older computer novices, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 281-290. [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240670]

Van Gompel, R.P.G., Fischer, M.H., Murray, W.S., & Hill, R.L. (2007). Eye-movement research: An overview of current and past developments. In R.P.G. van Gompel, M.H. Fischer, W.S. Murray, & R.L. Hill (Eds.) Eye movements: A window on mind and brain (pp. 1-28). Oxford: Elsevier.

Dickinson, A., Gregor, P., McInver, L., Hill, R. L. & Milne, S. (2005) The non browser: helping older novice computer users to access the web, Electronic Workshops in Computing Series (Eds. L. Gibson, D. Sloan and P. Gregor), pp.1-6. Dundee, Scotland, 23-25 August (proceedings of ADDW 2005). ISSN: 1477 9358. [http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_ad05_s7paper2.pdf]

Dickinson, A. Newell, A. F., Smith, M. J. & Hill, R. L. (2005) Introducing the internet to the over-60s: developing an email system for older novice computer. Interacting with Computers,  17, 621-642. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2005.09.003]

Dickinson, A., Hill, R. L., Gregor, P., McIver, L. & Milne, S. (2005) Making sense of content: eye-tracking older, novice users to evaluate an alternative web browser design. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1 (SI: ECEM13), p87. (Abstract).

Fischer, M. H., Dewulf, N., & Hill, R. L. (2005). Designing bar graphs: Orientation matters. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(7), 953-962. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.1105]

Hill, R. L. & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2005) Eye movements and processing at the point of sentence wrap-up. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 1 (SI: ECEM13), p64. (Abstract).

Fischer, M. H., Warlop, N., Hill, R. L., & Fias, W. (2004). Oculomotor bias induced by number perception. Experimental Psychology, 51(2), 1-7. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.51.2.91]

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2003). The consequences of commas for text-to-speech software. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), HCI International 2003 Adjunct Proceedings (pp. 83-84). Heraklion: Crete University Press.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2003). Punctuation and spacing: modulating on-screen reading patterns. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), HCI International 2003 Adjunct Proceedings (pp. 85-86). Heraklion: Crete University Press.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S.(2000). Commas and spaces: Effects of punctuation on eye-movements and sentence parsing. In A. Kennedy, R. Radach, D. Heller, & J. Pynte (Eds.), Reading as a Perceptual Process (pp. 565-590). Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd.

Workshops and Conference Presentations:

Arai, M., Hill, R. L., De Ruiter, J. P., & Bard, E. G. (2011). The illusion of mutual visibility. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2011), 24-26 March.

Hill, R.L., Henderson, J. M., Mital, P. K. & Smith, T. J. (2010) Dynamic Images and Eye Movements. Poster at ASCUS Art Science Collaborative, Edinburgh College of Art, 29 March.

Hill, R.L., Henderson, J. M., Mital, P. K. & Smith, T. J. (2009) Through the eyes of the viewer: Capturing viewer experience of dynamic media. Poster at SICSA DEMOFest, Edinburgh, 24 November.

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., & Arai, M. (2009). Tuning accessibility in dialogue: roles and visual alignment. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2009, Barcelona, Spain, 7-9 September.

Hill, R. L., Dickinson, A., & Gregor, P. (2009). Age-related differences in eye movements comes down to experience. Paper presented at the 15th European Conference on Eye Movements, Southampton, UK, 23-27 August.

Hill, R. L. , Bard, E. G. & Foster, M. E. (2008) Referring phenomena in human-human cooperative dialogue. Paper presented at the Towards Natural Human-Robot Joint Action Workshop, 17th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2008), Munich, Germany, 1-3 August.

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L. & Foster, M. E. (2008) Determining the form of initial mentions in dialogue. Poster presented at the 5^th International Workshop on Language Production, Annapolis, Maryland, US, 28-30 July.

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., Nicol, C. & Carletta, J. (2007) Look here: Does dialogue align gaze in dynamic joint action? Paper presented at 13th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Turku, Finland, 24-27 August.

Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., Nicol, C. & Carletta, J. (2007) Look here: Effects of Communication and Role on Alignment of Gaze at Shared Dynamic Targets. Paper presented at 15th ESCoP Conference Marseilles, France, 29 August to 1 September.

Hill, R. L. & Bard, E. G. (2007) Alignment in multi-modal dialogue corpora. Paper presented at Generating Referring Expressions Research Workshop, University of Aberdeen, 22 June.

Hill, R. L., Bard, E. G., Nicol, C. & Carletta, J. (2007) Eye-tracking joint action: New technologies. Paper presented at 14th European Conference on Eye Movements, Potsdam, Germany, 19-23 August.

Hill, R. L., Bard, E. G., Nicol, C. & Carletta, J. (2007) Multiple communication modalities and visual alignment in dynamic joint action. Poster presented at 14th European Conference on Eye Movements, Potsdam, Germany, 19-23 August.

Hill, R. L. & Bard, E. G. (2007) Eye movements during collaborative activities and automated analysis. Paper presented at the 1st Eye Tracking in Dynamic Scenes (EDS) workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 7 September.

Hill, R. L. (2006) Collaborative construction in a multimodal virtual environment: joint action with dual eyetrackers. Paper presented at the 8th Workshop on Active Vision, Dundee, UK, 1 September.

Hill, R. L. & Van Gompel, R. P. G. (2005). Syntactic and lexical processing at the point of sentence wrap-up. Paper presented at the 18^th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ, US, 31 March – 2 April.

Van Gompel, R. P. G. & Hill, R. L. (2004). Sentence wrap-up: Investigating the effects of syntactic reanalysis and lexical access. Paper presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, 16-18 September.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2004). Terminal punctuation. Paper presented at the 6^th European Workshop on Language Comprehension, Oléron, France, 20-22 May.

Fischer, M. H., Warlop, N., Hill, R. L., & Fias, W. (2004). Oculomotor bias induced by number perception. Poster presented at the 1st Congress of the European Neuropsychological Societies, Modena/Italy, 18-20 February.

Fischer, M. H., & Hill, R. L. (2004). A SNARC in the dark. Poster presented at the 22^nd European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, January.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2003). Punctuated prepositional phrases. Poster presented at ECEM 12, Dundee, Scotland, August.

Kennedy, A., Hill, R. L., & Pynte, J. (2003). The Dundee Corpus. Poster presented at ECEM 12, Dundee, Scotland, August.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2003). Punctuation and spacing: modulating on-screen reading patterns. Poster presented at The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Attention EPS Workshop, Gregynog, University of Wales, July.

Hill, R. L., & Van Gompel, R. P. G. (2002). Wrapping up the frequency effect. Poster presented at the CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2001). Punctuation, punctuation; punctuation. And eye-movements. Paper presented at the Scottish Psycholinguistic Workshop, Stirling, October.

Hill, R. L., & Murray, W. S. (2001). And the full stop clauses the comma: clausal manipulation and closure through conjunction and punctuation. Paper presented at 11th European Conference on Eye Movements, Turku, Finland, August.

Hill, R. L. & Murray, W. S. (2000). Atoning for punctuation: Prosody and ambiguity while reading aloud. Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, La Jolla, California, March.

(Pre-2000 list available)