Event overview
ABSTRACT: Spatial and temporal context helps to convey the source of an emotional reaction, evident from a person's appearance. Yet current technologies favour either visual or spatial properties of non-verbal behaviour. Balancing the two is challenging without temporal disturbance. This talk juxtaposes crossing the stage line in video with removing the mask from the avatar. It talks about the dawn of a step change in interactive media, as fundamental as taking the camera off the tripod was to film. It also explains why almost a decade of failing to get a roof on a garden gazebo is helping the development of technologies for telepresence and mental health.
BRIEF BIO: David Roberts is a Professor of Telepresence at the University of Salford. After heading up one of the larger UK VR research groups for almost a decade, he has recently jumped ship into psychology, focussing on technologies for understanding cognition and improving mental health. His PhD is in Cybernetics from the university of Reading. He has approaching 100 publications in telepresence and distributed simulation. He is currently joint PI in an EU project to teleport Europe's space scientists together to Mars; or at least give them impression. He lead a recent EPSRC project that developed the first technology to communicate eye gaze between distal human people. David may well have made more of a pig's ear of telepresence, more often, than anyone else. He knows how technology fails social human communication, and has some ideas of what needs to be fixed, and how this can be approached.
The Whitehead Lectures in "Cognition, Computation and Culture"
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Oct 2014 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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