Supervisors

Music computing, audio-visual composition

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

Interactivity in Music and Multimedia

Games with a purpose to model and tackle issues in diversity and inclusion, development of AI characters to support training

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.

Artificial intelligence, Analytics, Embodied Cognition, Enactivism & Cybernetics.

Complexity; dynamical systems; digital art and music, swarm intelligence.

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)

Object knowledge, spatial representation, body representation, multi-sensory perception, learning and cognitive control, in childhood.

Games & Interaction Design.

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

Deep Learning in Games.

Brain Computer Interfaces and Games, Data mining, game analytics.

Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics.

Use of games to understand complex crowd and swarm behaviours (Organiser of Theoretical Ecology and Complex Systems (TECS) seminar series).

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

Music information retrieval

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

Multi-agent systems for online cultural experiences

Marketing of games. Business models. Games With A Purpose (GW AP).

Illumination models for graphics, interaction design

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 AI techniques for automated heuristic design, noisy optimisation/automated game design

Soundscapes, acoustic ecology, acoustics

Neural networks and Deep Learning. Adaptive Dynamic Programming + Reinforcement Learning. Optimisation. Control Theory. Financial Forecasting. AI in games.

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

Market Based Economic Games, Game Trading Competitions.

Creative applications of machine learning; gestural and embodied interaction; accessibility and personalised interaction

Game theory and optimisation applied to mechanism and market design

Strong games industry links. Procedural game content genesis. 3D graphics and vision. Gamification. Scientific visualisation.

Interested in using coevolutionary algorithms for game intelligence, and in developing games to address scientific questions.

presence, user experience of digital media, restorative media, social media, gaming, digital inclusion, usability and accessibility, attitudinal consumer segmentations, future media, innovation

Software studies, computational culture

Science and technology studies, digital media, rnateriality, environments and environmental change, urbanism, creative practice, participation inventive methods.

Study of Network Games, Economic Game Theory, Recipient of 5 Year ERC Fellowship Grant, Editorial Board of Several Economics Journals.

Games and virtual reality, games and education.

Virtual Reality, Virtual Humans, Interactive Machine Learning, Body and Movement based Interaction Techniques.

computer vision expert

Audiovisual interaction, cognition and perception, signal processing, brain-computer interfaces

Games for Rehabilitation (with successful clinical trials)

Reinforcement Learning and Robotics, Use of Games as Complex Virtual Environments for studying Machine Learning.

Interactive media.

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

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

Robotics, famous for Robotic Fish (featured on BBC News, London Aquarium}, Robotic Games (e.g. RoboCup). Novel methods for man-machine interaction.

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

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

The impact of technology on the arts (textiles, sound, curating, design and literature)

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

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.

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

Strong games industry links. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine Learning. Game Analytics.

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

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.

Embedded systems, novel hardware architectures, measuring emotional responses.

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.

Games and the study of perception and cognitions, Life-Long Synthetic Companions

Music and sound perception

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

Machine learning and computer vision, particularly motivated by problems arising in the audio-visual analysis of affective behaviour under real-world conditions.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Interaction design and assistive technologies.

Immersive Virtual Reality; Cognitive Neuroscience; Social Interaction; Training and psychotherapy; Character Animation

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

Sound design; Auditory displays; Sound synthesis and processing; Interactive audio; Sound design for Cinema and Television; Cinematic and synthetic voice.

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

Biological and cognitive correlates of personality, statistics, neural networks and other formal models, cognitive control, category learning.

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).

Genetic Programming, games and emergent behaviour.

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

Interactive systems for disabled and older adult users. Interactive systems for digital cultural heritage. Evaluation of interactive systems.

Algorithmics and collective intelligence

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

Compiler design and implementation; colour theory and perception; audio, music and multimedia informatics.

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

Mechanism design for economic games. Experimental game theory.

Brain Computer Interfaces and Games.

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.

Vision-based Games, Social Drawing Games, Deep Learning in Games

Data science and analytics

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

Audio-based games, games for people with visual impairment

Games for Rehabilitation (research already supported by successful clinical trials).

Compiler design and games programming; substantial industry experience.

Using machine learning approaches in collective decision making for autonomous systems.

Constrained Satisfaction, Computational Finance and Game Theory.

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

Design of novel mathematical games and puzzles

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

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.

Robotics and Games, Games in Education.

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

Lifelong learning in games, deep learning, games with a purpose (for computer vision)

Education technology, creative musical Ais, computer Music, automatic sound synthesizer programming, genetic algorithms, interactive music systems.

Evolutionary Algorithms, Multi-Objective Optimisation and Games.

New media psychology, culture mining, machine haptics.