Outputs (53)

The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams (2024)
Journal Article

As an embodied and spatial medium, virtual reality is proving an attractive proposition for robot teleoperation in hazardous environments. This paper examines a nuclear decommissioning scenario in which a simulated team of semi-autonomous robots are... Read More about The ballad of the bots: Sonification using cognitive metaphor to support immersed teleoperation of robot teams.

KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop] (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This workshop provides a practical introduction to two technologies developed to support C++ audio development: klang, a C++ dialect (language extension) that adds audio DSP semantics to modern C++, and rapIDE (rapid audio prototyping IDE), a complet... Read More about KLANG: Live and expressive C++ for audio [ADC24 Workshop].

Tide and Time - Liz Lane (2024)
Other

Commissioned in 2018 by Foden's Band, conductor Michael Fowles, premiered at the RNCM Brass Band Festival. Revised 2023 for performance by Flowers Band, conductor Michael Fowles at the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral.

Tide and Time is... Read More about Tide and Time - Liz Lane.

Brixham Immersed (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

This immersive experience for MetaQuest presents a combination of still point cloud renders of public and hidden spaces captured with LiDAR cameras that are brought to life by 2nd Order Ambisonic (Core Octomic) and spot field recordings (conventional... Read More about Brixham Immersed.

Evaluating the graphics processing unit for digital audio synthesis and the development of HyperModels (2023)
Thesis

The extraordinary growth in computation in single processors for almost half a century is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Future computational growth is expected from parallel processors, as seen in the increasing number of tightly coup... Read More about Evaluating the graphics processing unit for digital audio synthesis and the development of HyperModels.

Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space (2022)
Thesis

Game jams are intensive, time-bound videogame-development events where students, professionals, and hobbyists form teams to create games against the clock. Jams are popular, offering accessible, informal learning environments which promote teamwork,... Read More about Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space.

Users’ experiences of enhancing underwater images: An empirical study (2021)
Journal Article

Within the worldwide diving community, underwater photography is becoming increasingly popular. However, the marine environment presents certain challenges for image capture, with resulting imagery often suffering from colour distortions, low contras... Read More about Users’ experiences of enhancing underwater images: An empirical study.

Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

A video presenting excepts from two pieces of live generative works developed for BBC Music Day 2018, performed continuously throughout the day on the busy main platform of Bristol railway station. Both pieces are generated (and played) live using th... Read More about Automatic for the people: Two pieces of crowd-driven music.

Music and sound in virtual/augmented realities—Questions, challenges and approaches: A multidisciplinary roundtable (2021)
Journal Article

The mid-to-late 2010s saw a renewed interest in virtual reality technologies with the release of a wide selection of consumer VR headsets and glasses, and the increased power of smartphones to provide augmented reality experiences. While research on... Read More about Music and sound in virtual/augmented realities—Questions, challenges and approaches: A multidisciplinary roundtable.

Throwing Things (2019)
Digital Artefact

Perlin noise is very useful. Its also complicated and for some of us opaque. A multilayered, random-ish waveform, Perlin and other noise systems can be put to use making Waves, Islands, Caves etc.

Noise systems generate these structures... Read More about Throwing Things.

Anomaly detection using pattern-of-life visual metaphors (2019)
Journal Article

Complex dependencies exist across the technology estate, users and purposes of machines. This can make it difficult to efficiently detect attacks. Visualization to date is mainly used to communicate patterns of raw logs, or to visualize the output of... Read More about Anomaly detection using pattern-of-life visual metaphors.

Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Today, Big Data plays an imperative role in the creation, maintenance and loss of cyber assets of organisations. Research in connection to Big Data and cyber asset management is embryonic. Using evidence,... Read More about Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets.

The alchemy of chaos: A sound art sonification of a year of Tourette’s episodes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Touretteshero is the name of a organisation that aims to raise awareness of Tourette's syndrome by sharing and celebrating the creativity and humor of the involuntary vocal and movement tics that characterise the condition. This paper documents the d... Read More about The alchemy of chaos: A sound art sonification of a year of Tourette’s episodes.

Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Author(s). As molecular scientists have made progress in their ability to engineer nanoscale molecular structure, we face new challenges in our ability to engineer molecular dynamics (MD) and flexibility. Dynamics at the molecular scale differ... Read More about Interactive molecular dynamics in virtual reality from quantum chemistry to drug binding: An open-source multi-person framework.

Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level (2019)
Journal Article

This statement explores the digital photo artwork Fear Filter which uses the UK Terror Threat Level as a source for a set of visualisation tools. It argues that the UK Terror Threat Level should be understood as part of the expansion of a range of se... Read More about Fear filter: Visualising the UK Terror Threat Level.

Learning preferential perceptual exposure for HDR displays (2019)
Journal Article

High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays are capable of displaying a wider dynamic range of values than conventional displays. As HDR content becomes more ubiquitous, the use of these displays is likely to accelerate. As HDR displays can present a wider ran... Read More about Learning preferential perceptual exposure for HDR displays.

Audio-visual-olfactory resource allocation for tri-modal virtual environments (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 IEEE. Virtual Environments (VEs) provide the opportunity to simulate a wide range of applications, from training to entertainment, in a safe and controlled manner. For applications which require realistic representations of real world environm... Read More about Audio-visual-olfactory resource allocation for tri-modal virtual environments.

ROOMS – People, space and changed realities (2019)
Digital Artefact

“ROOMS” is the first Cinematic VR film (CineVR) of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Germany). Directed by Christian Zipfel, the award winning 360 documentary invites the audience into five, private, strictly regulated, yet culturally signi... Read More about ROOMS – People, space and changed realities.

Return to temperament (In digital systems) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Considering the generation of musical tunings, it is reasonable to expect that the many constructs contained in Functional programming languages may provide useful tools for exploring both conventional and new tunings. In this paper we present a numb... Read More about Return to temperament (In digital systems).

Uniform Color Space-Based High Dynamic Range Video Compression (2018)
Journal Article

© 1991-2012 IEEE. Recently, there has been a significant progress in the research and development of the high dynamic range (HDR) video technology and the state-of-the-art video pipelines are able to offer a higher bit depth support to capture, store... Read More about Uniform Color Space-Based High Dynamic Range Video Compression.