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Stuart Taylor
I joined the Socio-Digital System group at Microsoft Research Cambridge as a Research Software Development Engineer (RSDE) in January 2006. I also spent 6 months working in the incubation group at the lab prior to this date.

I graduated in 1989 with a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and subsequently studied at Birkbeck College (University of London), completing a MSc in Computing Science in 1995.

Much of my childhood was spent taking things apart and then trying to figure out how they worked. This inquisitiveness now drives my research, which tends to be very experimental in nature.
Current Research Interests
  • Tangible User Interfaces
  • Paper Interfaces
  • Interactive Surfaces
  • Mobile Communication Devices
  • Novel Uses of Technology
 Knowing how things work is invaluable when creating new things
Work History
Over the years, I've worked for a broad range of companies and have built up a wide range of experience. I've developed for a variety of platforms, both at the application and driver level and have also undertaken a number of embedded projects.

Some of the companies that I've worked for include:
  • Xerox Research Centre Europe
  • PageCam Inc.
  • Newnham Research Limited
  • The Warp Corporation
  • Xenia Technology
  • WorldPay
Publications
  • Taylor A. S., Dance C. R., Newman W. M. and Taylor S. A. (2000) “Designing a Camera-based Auto-Completion Tools to Improve Text-Copying Speeds for Authors.” XRCE Technical Report EPC-2000-101, Xerox Research Centre Europe, 61 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AB, UK.
  • Newman W. M., Taylor A. S., Taylor S. A. and Dance C. R. (2000) “Performance Targets, Models and Innovation in Interactive System Design”, Design of Interactive Systems Conference 2000 (DIS2000)
  • Taylor S. A., Dance C. R., Newman W. M., Taylor A. S., Seeger M., Taylor M. J. and Aldous A. (1999) “Advances in Interactive Video Scanning of Paper Documents”. Proc. IEE Document Image Processing & Multimedia Colloquium ’99 (DIPM99), pp. 3-7
  • Newman W. M., Dance C. R., Taylor A. S., Taylor S. A., Taylor M. J. and Aldhous A. (1999) “CamWorks: A Video-based Tool for Efficient Capture from Paper Source Documents.” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Computing Systems ’99 (ICMCS99), Vol 2, pp. 647-653
  • Taylor S. A. (1998) “CCD and CMOS Imaging Arrays – A Technology Review” XRCE Technical Report EPC-1998-106, Xerox Research Centre Europe, 61 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AB, UK

Patents
Whilst working at Xerox, I co-authored the following US patents:
  • 6512539 - Document Periscope
  • 7123292 - Mosaicing images with an offset lens
  • 6975352 - Apparatus and method for capturing a composite digital image with regions of varied focus and magnification
  • 6922487 - Method and apparatus for capturing text images
  • 6766069 - Text selection from images of documents using auto-completion
  • 6943904 - Method and apparatus for image capture, selection and copying
  • 6640010 - Word-to-word selection on images
  • 6947609 - System with motion triggered processing
  • 2002/0078088 - Method and apparatus for collaborative annotation of a document