People

Simon is a pro­fes­sor at the Depart­ment of Com­put­er Sci­ence. His research inter­ests lie in the ver­ti­cal chain of how we can get from an envi­ron­ment to action­able infor­ma­tion for a user, com­bin­ing togeth­er ele­ments of both data fusion and UI design.

David is a research fel­low in the Vir­tu­al Envi­ron­ments and Com­put­er Graph­ics group, and man­ag­er of the Immer­sive Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty Lab­o­ra­to­ry since its incep­tion in 2000. His inter­est is in how human per­cep­tu­al capa­bil­i­ties can influ­ence the design of immer­sive systems.

Sebas­t­ian works on CASMS – Con­text Aware net­work archi­tec­tures for Send­ing Mul­ti­ple Sens­es. His inter­ests are in mak­ing high fideli­ty vir­tu­al worlds. He is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in visu­al ren­der­ing, physics sim­u­la­tion and track­ing technologies.

Mel has been involved in research in vir­tu­al real­i­ty since the ear­ly 1990s, and has been the first super­vi­sor of 38 PhDs in graph­ics and vir­tu­al real­i­ty since 1989. He has been involved in and led sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al projects in this field.