About me
I'm currently employed as a Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham.
I completed a BSc in Physics at Durham University, before realising that I wasn't good enough at it to do anything useful with it. I then came to Nottingham where I did an MSc in IT, and my MSc thesis on building an asynchronous commmunication system for virtual reality environments won the prize for being the best in the year.
I joined the MRL in 2000, and since then have worked on a variety of EPSRC and EU funded projects, particularly focusing on pervasive gaming, locative media and mixed-reality environments. My research interests revolve around software, tools and infrastructures to support publicly deployed mixed-reality experiences, and I completed my PhD in this area in 2007 having lead the technical development of some award winning pieces, largely as part of a close collaboration with the artists group Blast Theory. You can find a veritable smorgasbord of publications on the subject here.
This year I'm teaching a module about games, so if you're looking for that you should check out my teaching pages.
I now have a blog, where I'll hopefully be documenting some of the bits and pieces I've done and am up to, but don't hold your breath.
In my spare time I get up to a variety of different things, including being a slightly obsessive muso, being "that dreadlocked cyclist", vegetarian cooking and creating over-engineered ubicomp solutions to domestic problems - namely my cat flap. I have quite strong opinions on DRM, intellectual property and digital culture, but you'll have to ask about that.
A short bio for use in publications can be found here, or you can get in touch with me here. I'm available for consultancy and development work for mobile and location-based applications.