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David Roberts
Prof David J Roberts
postal addressNewton, University of Salford, UK, M5 4WT.
email addressD.J.Roberts@salford.ac.uk
telephone0161 295 2926
website addresswww.cve.salford.ac.uk/page/david_roberts
Key Memberships
From October 2009 to present.
From October 2009 to present.
Profile Summary

David’s primary research interest is the development of new technology to allow communication on a more human level.  He is Head of the Virtual Environments and Future Media Research Centre and Co-General Chair of IEEE ACM Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. David has been researching collaborative virtual environments for over 15 years and specifically the impact of level of immersion on collaboration for over 10 years. He has designed a number of cutting edge immersive display and capture spaces and telepresence systems. The current focus of his work is on developing a communication medium where both attention and appearance can be communicated. This is being approached by combining the winning qualities of video conferencing and immersive collaborative virtual environments in 3D free viewpoint video. Other current research includes adaptive architecture and immersive display and capture for training and assessment. David was the first to show how eye-gaze could be communicated between people moving in different spaces through technology across a distance.  

Key Qualifications
1995
Thesis Title: A Real Time Predictive Architecture for Distributed Virtual Reality
1992
1988
1987
Key Projects
2006
Jul
EYE-CATCHING
EPSRC, £232,507.00.
Investigators: D Roberts (75%), N Murray (25%).
2005
Feb
Advanced Virtual Agents - AVATARS
EC (Framework), £27,772.00.
Investigator: D Roberts (100%).
Key Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Book Sections
Other Publications
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings
Published Conference Proceedings
Key Presence
Conference Organisation
2012
Sep
2012
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2011
Oct
2011
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2011
Sep

DS-RT 2011 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2011 targets the growing overlap betw... more >>.

2011
Apr
2010
Oct

DS-RT 2010 serves as a forum for simulationists f... more >>.

2009
Oct
2008
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2008
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2007
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2006
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Consultancy Roles
2009
Jan

As part of the developing Research Councils UK (RCUK) Digital Economy Programme the... more >>.

External Examiner Duties
2012
Mar
2011
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2011
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2010
Sep

 Student: Adriana Pena

Supervisor: Angelica de Antonio

Title: A Model for 3D Virtual Environment for learning based on the dete... more >>.

2010
Apr

Student: Alistair Barrow

PhD Supervisor: William Harwin

Subject: Haptics

2010
Feb

VIEV Engineering Doctoral School, Computer Science & Bartlett

2009
Apr

Student: Maria Spante

Supervisor: Ralph Schroeder

Title: Connected Practice: Dynamics of social interaction in shared virtual environments

2006
Sep

Student: Daniel Fielding

Supervisor: Steve Benford

Invited Papers and Lectures
2011
Mar
2009
Oct
2005
May
2003
May

Invited Chapter in EU i3net sponsored book.

Journal Editorship
2012
Jan
Other
2009
Sep
Other Evidence of External Esteem
2012
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