I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing, and a member of the School's Visualization and Virtual Reality research group.. I specialise in research in:
- Navigation (encompassing virtual reality, information spaces and the real-world)
- Real-time interaction (particularly collaborative systems and ultra-high resolution "powerwall" displays).
If you are interested in doing a PhD in either of these topics then I would be delighted to hear from you. My current PhD students are all in the area of real-time interaction:
- Zhesi He: Interactive analysis and visualisation of high dimensional bio/chemoinformatics data (funded by ORS and White Rose Scholarships and co-supervised with Dr Leo Caves, Dept. of Biology, University of York).
- Michael Measures: GenSys - Generic nanoscale engineering system
(co-supervised with
Prof Alistair Smith, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds).
Objective is to optimise the human interface for a atomic force microscope (AFM) for nanoscale engineering, based on the concepts of virtual reality and real-time simulation. - Trevor Dodds: Interaction in collaborative virtual environments (funded by a scholarship from the School of Computing)
- Chris Rooney: Interaction with Powerwall displays (funded by a University of Leeds scholarship; co-supervised by Dr Haibo Chen, Institute for Transport Studies)
In 2008 I was awarded a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which I will spend studying navigation in real and virtual spaces at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
My research group is the regional hub for the UK Visualization Support Network vizNET, and we are also one of the partners in the VisMaster Coordinated Action on Visual Analytics, which is funded by EC Framework 7. I am also an Associate Editor of the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments and was Technical (Papers) co-chair of the 18th Annual BCS HCI Conference (HCI'04).
Prior to coming to Leeds I spent seven years as a researcher in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, where I also completed my PhD. Before that I worked in industry for PAFEC Ltd, Prime Computer, Datel Technology, and Evans and Sutherland, mostly in research and development software engineering positions.
Contact Details
Post: School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1711 (direct)
Fax: +44 (0)113 343 5468
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The effect of body-based information on navigation The 50-million pixel Powerwall that we built