Research Projects
[Emotions-Valencia:2016, CI] Project Name/Description: Follow up - Emotions Modeling for eLearning Environments Role: Co-Investigator (Lead Researcher) Source of Funding: University of Valencia Inter- national Visiting Researchers Program Total Budget: e6500
[BIG-AFF:2015, CI] Project Name/Description: fusing multimodal BIG Data to provide low-Intrusive Affective and cognitive support in learning contexts (BIG-AFF) Role: Co-Investigator - named external member, University of Valencia team (PI: Prof. Francesc J. Ferri) Source of Funding: Ministerio de Economia Y Competitividad, Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigaci ́on C ́ıentifica y T ́ecnica de Ex- celencia Total Budget: e145,983
[Emotions-Valencia:2013, CI] Project Name/Description: Investigating Opportunities for Research Collab- oration - Emotions Modeling for eLearning Environments Role: Co-Investigator (Lead Researcher) Source of Funding: University of Valencia International Visiting Researchers Program (6500 Euro) Total Budget: £5530
[Learning-Andalucia:2010, CI] Project Name/Description: Design And Improvement Of Learning Algo- rithms Based On Soft Computing And It’s Application To Robot-Person Interaction, this project was lead by Prof. Antonio Gonz ́alez (PI) and involved 6 participants. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Grant No. P09-TIC04813, Proyecto de excelencia financiado por la Junta de Andaluc ́ıa, Spain, 2010-2014. Total Budget: £152,500 (183,000 Euro)
[AISB:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: AISB 2010 Convention Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Conference fees and other associated income - 14 symposiums proposed, 10 ran, 197 attendees Value: £33,428
[TCIT-ONRG:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: Turing Test (TCIT-2010) Symposium – AISB2010 Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: The Office of Navy Research Global (ONRG) Value: £6442
[Portavata-EU:2010, PI] Project Name/Description: PortAvata: Portable Avatar for Virtual Presence Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: The Innovation Fellowships programme (funds provided by East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Value: £15,445
[Travel-RAE:2009, PI] Project Name/Description: RAE Conference Travel Grant to attend IEEE SMC 2009. Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Royal Academy of Engineers - 2009 Value: £600
[SwarmStream–OHM:2008, PI] Project Name/Description: this is an open source project, currently in prealpha status on SourceForge.net and the code is being produced in collaboration with Georg-Simon-OHM Hochschule (Technical University) in Germany, where 26 students in 10 groups worked on producing base code of which 4 versions where chosen for release (2010). Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Georg-Simon-OHM Hochschule (international visiting researchers/professors fund) Total Budget: £2207.80 (2660 Euro)
[Creativity-AHRC:2006, CI] Project Name/Description: Creativity Research Network: this project was led by Professor Stephen Brown (PI) and had number of participants. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: AHRC Total Budget: £12,161
[RoboViz-EPSRC:2006, PI] Project Name/Description: RoboViz: Remote Command and Control for Robotic Emergent Behaviour – The Next Evolution of Telepresence: this project was in collaboration with University of Manchester, the funding was to enable DMU team to travel and use high end visualisation equipments at UoM. This was extended to utilize IOCT Robots. The project outcome was recorded in video (avaliable on youtube) and end of project technical report. Role: DMU Principal Investigator Source of Funding: EPSRC-CompuSteer Network Value: £1,480
[AIBO-NL:2006, CI] Project Name/Description: AIBO Stories: this project was part of the Narrative Labs which was led by Professor Sue Thomas (PI). I was leading on the AIBO stories activities. Role: Co- Investigator Source of Funding: HEIF funded under NLab: creativity and collaboration project. Total Budget: £30,000
[PhiOrch-RC:2004, CI] Project Name/Description: Philharmonia Orchestra Project: this project was a combination of research and industrial project. It was led by Professor Andrew Hugill (PI) and my participa- tion was mainly on the research side resulting in number of published papers. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Art Council 2003-2004 Value: £3,400
Infrastructural Projects
[IOCTRobots-SRIF:2005, CI] Project Name/Description: Equipment Funding – Institute of Creative Tech- nology Robots: this was part of a larger multi-faculties proposal submitted on behave of the University to the infrastructural funding scheme SRIF. I was leading on the robotics part of the proposal. Role: Co-Investigator (lead on the robotics) Source of Funding: SRIF 2005/2006 Total Budget: £481,000 Value: £150,000 for robotics
[TeachingRobots2-HEFECE:2003, PI] Project Name/Description: Equipment Funding – Mobile Robots Lab: this was the funding that launched the robotics lab, with more equipment such as AIBO dogs, to support the growth in robotics teaching and research. Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: HEFCE 2003/2004 Value: £47,000
[TeachingRobots1-DMU:2001, PI] Project Name/Description: Equipment Funding – Advanced Mobile Robots: this was a Faculty funding to support the development of the new module Advanced Mobile Robots, which I was developing at that time as a final year option. Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: School of Computing Fund 2001/2002 Value: £8,800
Consultancy and Industrial Projects
[FIM-APEng:2007, PI] Project Name/Description: FIM project Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Funding in Kind from Ambient Performance Ltd. and Engenuity Technologies Inc. Total Budget: £2500 estimated value of contribution in terms of software licence and staff time from both companies.
[Consultancy-BAe:2002, CI] Project Name/Description: Consultancy Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Company buyout 2002 Value: £2400 approx.
[Consultancy-GV:1999, PI] Project Name/Description: Consultancy Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Company buyout 1999 Value: £3600
[TCS-Holage:2001, CI] Project Name/Description: Holage Management and Planning System - Teaching Company Scheme (TCS): this was a TCS partnership in collaboration with a holage company with a soft- ware development department. There were looking at developing their in-house software to a product that is available to other similar companies. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Teaching Company (UK) Scheme [Predecessor to KTP/InnovateUK]
Educational and Research into Teaching Projects
[GameEngine-TIF:2013, CI] Project Name/Description: The DMU Game Engine: this project was led by Dr. Ian Kenny (PI) and I provided the AI expertise. Role: Co-Investigator Source of Funding: Teaching Innovation Funding (TIF) - De Montfort University Value: £5000
[RoboCup-DMU:2008, PI] Project Name/Description: DMU RoboCup Team – Arena equipment: a team of master degree students created DMU AIBO Football team. Eventually we had two teams of robots playing against each other. The students then put a show at the Institute of Creative Technology (IOCT) building. My role was to guide the team technically and I used the project to introduce the students to some complex software code and advanced programming techniques. Role: Principal Investigator Source of Funding: Research Into Teaching Faculty/HEFCE RITI fund - 2007/08 Value: £500
[LegoAnts:2005, CI] Project Name/Description: 50 Lego RCX educational robots were purchased and utilised in teaching programming to HND students as part of innovative research into teaching initiative. Role: Co-Investigator, facilitated the purchasing of the robots with my colleague Mr. Clinton Ingram and assessed him in setting up the robots for the purpose of teaching programming using a visual programming language. A dedicated area in the HND lab were also set up. Source of Funding: Research Into Teaching Faculty Funding Value: £10,500
Funded Networks
[EUCog, 2013 -Now] Member of EUCog - European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Sys- tems, Interaction and Robotics (ID: 2310, http://www.eucognition.org)
[AIinGames, 2008-2010] Member of An Industry/Academia Research Network on Artificial Intelligence and Games Technologies, EPSRC funded network (http://www.aigamesnetwork.org).
[CompuSteer, 2007-2008] Member of the CompuSteer computational steering network, EPSRC funded network (http://compusteer.net.dcs.hull.ac.uk).
[EURON II, 2004-2007] Represented DMU in EURON Network of Excellence (EU FP6) [EURON I, 2002-2004] Represented DMU in EURON Network of Excellence (EU FP5) [AgentLink I, 2001-2003] Represented DMU in AgentLink Network of Excellence (EU FP5)