PROJECTS AT UCL (Past 5 Years Only)

Empathic avatars: input, processing and output of emotional state (EPSRC) £295,110, started October 2005 for three years(Principal Investigator).

Performing Presence: from the Live to the Simulated (AHRB) with Exeter University Performing Arts,   (started January 2006) (Principal Investigator).

Presence in Virtual Light Fields (EPSRC) £513,609, November 1st 2004-2007. This project will continue the Virtual Light Field research, and also carry out experimentation that examines people’s responses to being in virtual environments with global illumination effects (Principal Investigator).

Presence: Research Encompassing Sensory Enhancement, Neuroscience & Cognition, with Interactive Applications (PRESENCIA), 2002-2006, coordinator of 6 partners. (Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator). (Approx 900,000 Euro at UCL, 2M Euro for the project as a whole).

Virtual Light Field: EPSRC, 2001-2004, Investigates a new paradigm for realistic, real-time computer graphics, employs 2 Research Fellows and 1 PhD student. (Principal Investigator) (£350,000). www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/vlf

CAVE (ReaCTor system): JREI 2003. Equipment grant for £350,000 to upgrade existing virtual reality equipment (Principal Investigator).

CAVE: JREI, 2000. Equipment grant of £900,000 to install the first academically based projection based virtual reality surround system in the UK (Principal Investigator).

Fear of Public Speaking in Virtual Reality, 2000-2001, £50,000 funded by the Wellcome Foundation. A project to investigate the use of Virtual Reality in Social Phobia, with Prof. D. Clark, Department of Psychology, University of Oxford, and Dr C. Barker, Department of Psychology, UCL. (Principal Investigator).

Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments, 2000-2001, £50,000 funded by UKERNA. A project to investigate the use of Internet 2 using virtual reality to create shared spaces for collaboration. In conjunction with University of North Carolina, and MIT. (Principal Investigator). It resulted in the ‘hands across the Atlantic’ event which occurred in 2002.

PROMETHEUS: DTI/BBC, EPSRC: 1999-2002. Approx £200,000 funded by EPSRC and BBC. (Principal Investigator).

Virtual Rehearsals for Actors, EPSRC/DTI/ Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting (£250K approx), 1998-2000. (Principal Investigator).

Designing and Developing the Viewer Centred Paradigm in Virtual Environments, European Union Collaboration award, with CWI Netherlands, and University of Cape Town South Africa, 1998-2001. (Money for travel and collaboration). (Principal Investigator).