The School of Computing and Mathematics of the University of Teesside is one of the largest in the United Kingdom with 100 full-time staff and over 2000 students.
One of the main focus for Research and Teaching in the School is Visualisation, including Virtual Reality, Computer Animation and Computer Games Programming. The School has extensive experience in 3D content production and holds several dedicated computer animation laboratories running state-of-the-art computer animation software. Computing. The School is also hosting an international Animation festival, “Animex”, on a regular basis.
Research in the School of Computing includes AI-based animation, Interactive Storytelling, Smart Graphics, AI for computer games and Interactive Television. The School staff have extensive experience in the development of VR applications, as well as the use of state-of-the-art computer game engines.
Teesside is one of the main technology providers of the ALTERNE Project, besides being the Project’s co-ordinating partner.
It is in charge of the development of the “Alternative Reality” technologies, a set of Artificial Intelligence techniques underlying the behaviour of virtual environments. This technology should support the development of VR Art installations, which depart from the simulation of “realistic” worlds and instead obey alternative laws of Physics.
Key Personel
Prof. Marc Cavazza (M.O.Cavazza@tees.ac.uk)
Marc Cavazza is Professor of Intelligent Virtual Environment at the University of Teesside. His research interests are in the field of Artificial Intelligence applied to virtual environments, among which intelligent 3D graphics, interactive storytelling, Virtual Humans and AI-based animation. The research in Interactive Storytelling he is conducting with colleagues in the School of Computing has been awarded two “best paper” prizes at recent conferences on the subject and has been used to illustrate Multimedia courses by more than 10 Universities internationally.
He has published over 150 refereed papers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality and has served on the Programme Committee of most recent conferences on Entertainment Computing.
Simon Hartley
- Has a Msci In theoretical Physics and a MSc in Virtual Environments
Jean-luc Lugrin
- has Msc in computer aided graphical technology applications
