Staff and Students
Principal Investigators
Name |
Research Interests |
Project Involvement |
| Professor Steve Benford | Technologies to support rich and dynamic social interaction across computer networks. | Dream Fellowship, Homework, CHESS |
| Professor Chris Greenhalgh | Multi user CVEs. | BURD - Scaling the Rural Enterprise, Horizon - Personal Containers, Crowd Sourcing |
| Professor Claire O’Malley | Design and use of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments. | e-Social Science |
| Dr Tony Pridmore | Three dimensional computer vision, image analysis and their integration into virtual and mixed reality environments. | e-Social Science |
| Professor Tom Rodden | CVES, CSCW and Ubiquitous computing. | ORCHID, BURD - Scaling the Rural Enterprise, Senior Research Fellowship, Homework |
| Professor John Wilson | Ergonomics and occupational psychology. | AS Interactive |
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Ethnographic Studies |
Bridging the Rural Divide, BURD-Scaling the Rural Enterprise, Mapping the Digital Economy |
Operations / Administration
Name |
Role |
| Felicia Knowles | Operations Manager (MRL) |
| Dr Hazel Glover | Research Support Officer (Computer Science). |
| Samantha Stapleford | Administrative Assistant (MRL) |
Lecturers
Name |
Interests / Role |
Project Involvement |
| Dr Tim Brailsford | My main interests are in educational multimedia and hypertext, and in the use of IT to support learning - be it local, distance or distributed. I am particularly interested in adaptive hypermedia, and how content can be adapted to facilitate pedagogic goals. | |
| Dr Gary Burnett | Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction between people and in-car technology, Human Factors of navigation, Design for ageing and disability. | |
| Dr Boriana Koleva | Mixed reality approaches; physical and tangible interfaces; human-computer interaction; ubiquitous computing; computer-supported cooperative work. | |
| Dr Brian Logan | Applications of software agents in CVEs | |
| Dr Sarah Sharples | Development of structured methods of application of quantitative and qualitative evaluation techniques to Virtual Environments. | |
| Dr Max L. Wilson | HCI, Information Seeking, & Social Media |
Researchers
Name |
Interests / Role |
Project Involvement |
| Balsam Alsugair |
Interest in utilising social networks and mobile devices to enhance peer learning for Key Stage 3 pupils. |
PhD Student - Supervisors: |
| Dr Ben Bedwell | Mobile technologies. Human-computer interaction. Tangible interfaces. | DESIMAX |
| Patrick Brundell | Use of video communications and multimedia technology to support teaching and learning, theoretical aspects of face-to-face communication and the development of methods to evaluate video-mediated communication. | PhD Student |
| Dr Alan Chamberlain |
Ethnography, Human Computer Interaction, Rural Computing, Pervasive Computing, User Evaluation. |
Bridging the Rural Divide, BURD - Scaling the Rural Enterprise |
| Dr Sue Cobb | Human factors aspects of VR and in bridging the gap between programmer and end-user. | AS Interactive, I-BiT |
| Dr Richard Eastgate | Methods of Virtual World building. | AS Interactive |
| Dr Joel Fischer | Mobile and context-aware interruption management. Future energy systems. Disaster response. |
ORCHID, Interdisiciplinary Foundatations for Ubiquitous Computing |
| Adriano Galati | MANet, Delay Tolerant Network, Routing Protocols. | PhD Student - Supervisor: Chris Greenhalgh |
| Anupama Roy | Mobile Game Based Learning for PE (Peer Educators) of the MSM (Males having Sex with Males) Community in India | PhD Student - Supervisors: Catrin Evans (Nursing), Mike Sharples (Education) and Steve Benford (Computer Science) |
| Kevin Glover | Ubiquitous Systems, Creating Interactive Experiences and systems development. | Bridging the Rural Divide, Homework, Interdisiciplinary Foundatations for Ubiquitous Computing, |
| Dr Tony Glover | CVEs, computer graphics and user interface design. | ViRS, AS Interactive, CoSpatial |
| Nils Jaeger | Adaptive Architecture, Reactive Environments, Exo-Prototypes. |
PhD Student - Supervisor: Holger Schnadlebach |
| David Large | Using ethnography to inform the design of interactive in-car technology. | PhD Student - Supervisor: Tom Rodden |
| Tom Lodge | Peer to Peer Overlay Networks, MANETs (Delay Tolerant Networks / Opportunistic Networking), Mass Scale Communities. | PhD Student Supervisor: Chris Greenhalgh, Homework |
| Joe Marshall | Computer Vision techniques within a performance setting. | PhD Student, The Challenge of Ubiquitous Widespread Comuting |
| Valentine Nwakacha |
The design and exploration of in-vehicle navigation user interfaces, and driver distraction and disengagement. |
PhD Student - Supervisors: Andy Crabtree (Computer Science) and Gary Burnett (Engineering) |
| Dr Marina Ng | Physical and Tangible User Interface, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Human-Computer Interaction. | The Challenge of Widespread Ubiquitous Computing |
| James Norris | Computer Vision techniques for mixed-reality teleconferencing. | PhD Student - Supervisor: Holger Schnadlebach |
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Information Visualisation, humanities computing, multi-disciplinary projects with an arts/science crossover |
Exploring the Potential of Netwroked Urban Screens for Communities and Culture |
| Keith Oliver | In-car gaming. | PhD Student - Supervisor: Steve Benford |
| Nadia Pantidi | Understanding users in real life settings |
ORCHID |
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Ubiquitous computing in the home. Architecture, Mixed Reality, Technology Prototyping, Display Technologies, Computing for Entertainment, Design, Observational Studies. |
CHESS, Interdisciplinary Foundations for Ubiquitous Computing Exploring the Potential of Netwroked Urban Screens for Communities and Culture, CHESS |
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Improving the management processes of home networks. |
PhD Student - Supervisor: Tom Rodden |
| Paul Tennent | Analysis tools for social scientists, Heterogeneous data synchronisation. | DReSS |
| Dr Peter Tolmie | Ethnomethodologically informed ethnographic studies. | |
| Wenchao Jiang | tbc | ORCHID |
| Witchaya Towongpaichayont | Augmented Reality (AR) in computer games. | PhD Student - Supervisor: Steve Benford - ORCHID |
| Lei Ye | tbc | DESIMAX |
Associates, Friends and Visitors
Name |
Interests |
Projects |
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| Theresa Caruana |
The relationship between space, body and knowledge and how these fluid concepts become stable symbols of cultural classification |
Towards Pervasive Media | |
| Andruid Kerne |
Embodied, visceral computing through creativity, expression, participation, ideation, and play. |
Thrill. BigSemantics. ZeroTouch sensing. IdeaMache. |
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A list of former members of the MRL is available here.