Goldsmiths - University of London

Robert Davis

BSc MSc MBCS CITP

Analysis, design & application development for research projects, design and construction of electronic systems for research, systems for biosignal acquisition, development of analysis software, web page design

My principal skills within the department are:

• Analysis, design and application development and software testing for research projects
• Analysis, design and development of analogue and digital electronic systems for research projects
• Development of specialised equipment and software for biosignal acquisition for research projects
• Analysis, design and implementation and testing of analysis software for data processing of eye movement and other biosignal research data
• Design and update of department web site

I have on-going projects in the areas of computer based experiments for cognitive psychology research, eye tracking and biosignal measurement.

My interests are in the areas of:

• Artificial intelligence, in particular Neural Networks
• Programming methodology and application development and testing
• Human Computer Interfacing, particularly involving eye tracking and other biosignal measurements

Further details of my work are at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/rdavis/

Selected publications

Papers:

Davis, J.P., Valentine, T., Davis, R.E. (2010).  Computer assisted photo-anthropometric analyses of full-face and profile facial images.  Forensic Science International, 200, 165–176.

Perkins, A.M., Ettinger,U., Davis, R.E., Foster,R., Williams, S.C.R,. Corr, P.J. (2009).  Effects of Lorazepam and Citalopram on Human Defensive Reactions: Ethopharmacological Differentiation of Fear and Anxiety.  The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(40), 12617-12624.

French, C.C., Haque, U., Bunton-Stasyshyn, R., Davis, R.E. (2009). The “Haunt” Project: An attempt to build a “haunted” room by manipulating complex electromagnetic fields and infrasound. Cortex, 45, 619-629.

Heaton, P., Davis, R.E.,  Happe, F. (2008) Exceptional absolute pitch perception for spoken words in an able adult with autism, Neuropsychologia, 46, 2095-2098.

Thompson, T., Keogh E., French C.C., Davis R.E. (2008) Anxiety sensitivity and pain: Generalisability across noxious stimuli, Pain, 134, 187-196.

Ettinger, U., Kumari, V., Crawford, T.J., Flak, V., Sharma, T., Davis, R.E., Corr, P.J. (2005) Saccadic eye movements, schizotypy, and the role of neuroticism. Biological Psychology, 68, 61-78.

Keogh, E., Bond, F.W., French, C. C., Richards, A., & Davis, R.E (2004). Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 17, 241 - 252.

Ettinger, U., Kumari, V., Crawford, T.J., Davis, R.E., Sharma, T., Corr, P.J. (2003) Reliability of smooth pursuit, fixation, and saccadic eye movements. Psychophysiology, 40, 620-628.

Lessiter, J., Freeman, J., Davis, R.E. and Dumbreck, A. (2003) Helping Viewers Press the Right Buttons: Generating Intuitive Labels for Digital Terrestrial TV remote controls. Psychnology, 1, 355-377.

Powell, J.H., Dawkins, L, and Davis, R.E. (2002) Smoking, Reward Responsiveness, and Response Inhibition: Tests of an Incentive Motivational Model. Biological Psychiatry, 51, 151-163.

Stone, A., Valentine, T. and Davis, R.E. (2001) Face recognition and emotional valence: processing without awareness by neurologically-intact participants does not simulate covert recognition in prosopagnosia. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioural Neuroscience, 1, 183-191.

Conference and other presentations:

Stagg, S., Heaton, P., Davis, R. (2009) Being the Subject of Another's Attention; Differences in Skin Conductance Levels in Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome.  The 8th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Chicago, Illinois, USA, 7 May, 2009.

Abadi, S.G., Linnell, K.J., Fischer, M.H., Dubey, A., Griffith, M. Davis, R.E. (2008) On probing the labile stage of saccade programming in reading. Experimental Psychology Society, Liverpool, UK, July, 2008.

Davis, R.E. and Haque, U. (2008) Huey-Dewey-Louie Climate Clock, Climate Clock Colloquium. 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, San José State University, San José, California, USA, June 10th, 2008.

Davis, R.E. & Haque, U. (2007) Exhibiting artists seminar: “(in)visible technology”, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2 June, 2007.

Davis, R.E. (2006) Invited speaker at Connecting Worlds. NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan, 16 September 2006.

Davis, R.E. & Haque, U. (2006) Evolving sonic environment. Second International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition - Models of Machine Learning in Creative Design, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 9 July 2006.

Haque, U. & Davis, R.E. (2006) Threshold: The evolving sonic environment project. Cybersonica, London, UK, 19 May 2006.

French, C.C., Haque, U., Davis, R.E., Bunton-Stasyshyn, R., Kim, S., & Bejanyan, K. (2005) The "Haunt" Project: Can we build a "haunted" room? European Skeptics Congress, Brussels, Belgium, 13-16 October 2005.

Keogh, E., Bond, F. W., French, C.C., Richards, A. & Davis, R.E. (2004) Test anxious worry, distraction and examination performance. 25th Stress and Anxiety Research Society Annual Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2004.

Ettinger U., Kumari V., Crawford T.J., Davis R.E., Sharma T., Corr P.J. (2003) Reliability and practice effects of smooth pursuit, fixation, and saccadic eye movements. Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, Kiel, Germany, March 2003.

Ettinger U., Kumari V., Crawford T.J., Davis R.E., Sharma T, Corr P.J. (2003) Reliability and practice effects of smooth pursuit, fixation, and saccadic eye movements. 12th European Conference on Eye Movements, Dundee, UK, August 2003.

Ettinger U., Kumari V., Crawford T.J., Flak V., Davis R.E., Sharma T., Corr P.J. (2001) Schizotypy, eye movements, and the effects of neuroticism. Tenth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, Edinburgh, UK, July 2001.