Supervisors

Inventing new languages for in-game communications; studying their effects on game play and character development

Games for Creative Music Education and Participation Using Augmented/Virtual Reality

Sociology of digital data and big data, mobile media and the relations between popular culture and by-product data.

Data-Driven Content Creation in Esports; Data Analytics in Esports; Data-Driven Creativity; Interactive Data Visualisatin for Learning and Public Engagement.

Intelligent sensing and pattern recognition applied to games for healthcare (especially elder-care, mental health monitoring)

Accessibility; Human Computer Interaction; User Experience; Research Methods; Music and sound

Games & Interaction Design.

Human-computer interaction and games. Psychology of game players. Research methods.

Deep Learning in Games.

Lecturer in music technology interested in machine learning applied to music; automatic generation of stylistic compositions; The Web Audio API; discovery of repeated patterns in music; voice recognition and natural language processing for music editing and analysis; musical expectancy and listening choices

Computational creativity, content generation, game HCI.

Bayesian Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making in Games; Bayesian game outcome prediction

Machine learning particular Bayesian methods and graphical models. Applying discrete optimisation algorithms to machine learning. Statistical methods in artificial intelligence.

Strong UX and gamification industry links. Gamification, gameful and playful design, motivational design, social norms and interactions around games and play

Comparing human and computational creativity in game design processes; Improving gaming experience by decoding brain and body physiological responses through machine learning

Interactive Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property Law issues in games and AI

Game Analytics, data mining, machine learning, game development, business and business intelligence, supply chain analytics, Human-Computer Interaction and Game User Research, user experience.

Game theory to study human-agent/machine/robot multimodal interaction

Game theory and optimisation applied to mechanism and market design

Machine learning, network analysis, graph neural networks, data science, coevolutionary algorithms, gamification and developing games to address scientific questions.

Dr Lina Gega is a Reader in Mental Health, senior clinician, researcher, teacher and supervisor with expertise in digital mental health and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). She is interested in the use of games to deliver therapy to children and young people with mental health problems.

computer vision expert

Computational creativity, game analytics and Human Computer Interaction

Photo-realistic acquisition, representation and rendering of material appearance for games; Face avatars for games; Color constancy and material perception in AR/VR.

Intelligent Dialogue Systems for Games, Games and the study of interaction (gestures, social)

Games with a Purpose: physical and digital games to motivate and deliver science education, crowdsource ecological data and as a communication conduit between multiple stakeholders in wicked ecological problems

Novel forms of interaction for games (e.g. augmented reality); tools and interfaces for game creation; the intersection of games and live performance.

Games & the study of human decision making

Game-based modelling of biological systems, including models of coevolution and host-parasite dynamics

3D face avatars for games, AR/VR, serious games and social interaction. Immersive 3D player experiences. Psychology of esports players.

Serious games for materials design; statistical game AI for modelling ans synthesising novel materials

Human Computer Interaction and Games. Games for learning, persuasion and citizen science. The role of emotion in player experience

The effects of AI, big data and developments in games and game technology on consumer behaviour. Legal frameworks for enabling and protecting competition.

Artificial intelligence, perception and cognition for Virtual Characters in Games; telepresence and embodiment

Mechanism design for economic games. Fair division, bargaining and negotiation protocols. Experimental game theory.

Professor Delaram Kahrobaei is chair of Cyber Security and interested in supervising theses on data-mining over encrypted big Sensitive game data for mental health and IQ, and fully homomorphic machine learning over game data

Adaptive and learning agents for games. Evolution of cooperation, communication and foraging strategies in game environments. Natural language processing and language games. Games and financial forecasting for stock market simulations.

Sound and audio processing for virtual environments. Spatial Audio and surround sound. Interactive audio systems. Virtual Acoustics.

Psychological assessment through gaming (e.g., personality); application of games in educational and organisational contexts

Unconventional gameful/playful interfaces, locative/pervasive games, critical game design

multiplayer games to understand/train sustainable and economic use of shared resources, especially in fisheries.

Sound design and spatial audio for games and interactive experiences; accessibility for visually impaired people in gaming; historical soundscaples in games.

Founding Editor-in-Chief IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games. Co-Founder of IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. A leading academic in the field with three prizes for games related work and more than 40 publications in the area.

Analysing in-game communications and chats combined with in game actions and events; multimodal and mediated discourse analysis.

Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.

Using virtual environments to manipulate and measure emotion; the social cognition of driving.

Using games to better understand the limitations of working memory, how distractors are ignored and how these change across the lifespan, with implications for cognitive training.

Interactive acoustic environments, room acoustics measurement and simualtion, auralization, acoustic modelling and evaluation, spatial audio rendering.

Film and interactive media; digital media convergence; machinima; game aesthetics, narrative, affect

Deep Learning in Games, Affect Analysis for Games, Games with a purpose

Computational Intelligence for Games. Reinforcement learning. Evolutionary Computation. General Video Game AI

Games and the study or learning, innovation and work in organisations

multiplayer games to understand/train sustainable and economic use of shared resources, especially in fisheries.

Expert in natural language processing, Games With a Purpose (GWAP).

Game theory based gamification, applications to smart cities, travel and lifestyle

Computational linguistics applied to games: human-like conversational characters, analysing dialogue between players

Integrating learning to read in gaming apps. In particular helping boys learn to read

Procedural audio for games, intelligent game audio engines

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Games and Mathematics

Ethical and legal aspects of advanced AI and games technology, including creative AI and intelligent synthetic characters.

Semantic Audio for Games

Video game artist turned researcher. I am interested in supervising PhDs in storytelling, cinematics, and game design for games, specifically VR.

Mechanism design for economic games. Experimental game theory.

Gamification of Security and Privacy Decisions, Privacy and Security Issues in Games, Security and Robustness of Games with A Purpose (GWAP)

Games and novel wearable technology, games for artistic invention

Manager of Complex City Apps. Games With A Purpose (GW AP). Interactive tasks for the assessment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Content capture for animation and games, photorealistic rendering, 3D graphics.

Gamification: Using games to do and publicise complex systems science.

Audio-based games, games for people with visual impairment

Physically interactive mobile and wearable games. Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) especially in relation to improving learning and cognition. Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Computation and Games.

Strong creative industries links. Interactive media. Interactive narratives. Intelligent audio-video-centred communication.

Expert in human neuroimaging. Ongoing collaboration with Riot Games to evaluate personality traits from huge quantities of gameplay data.

AI and Machine Learning for Games and Game Analytics. Adaptive Autonomous Systems

Music signal modelling and effects processing, public engagement.

Using games to do as well as disseminate science. Current interests in animal behaviour and synthetic biology.

Genetic Programming and Games, Games and Real-World Simulations and Problem Solving

Positive and negative effects of gaming. Effects of gambling in games. Effects of loot boxes in games. Effects of in-game content on players (e.g. violence). Effects of toxic behaviour on players.