Current PhD Students

In Progress

• Joan Llobera, Interactive Narrative in Immersive Virtual Environments
• Elias Giannopoulos, Whole Body Haptics
• Andrea Brogni, Haptic Illusion (p/t)
• Joel Jordan (submitted 2010) Gaze Direction Analysis for the Investigation of Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments
• Aitor Rovira Perez Machine Learning for Interaction with Virtual Characters in Immersive Virtual Environments
  

Completed PhD Students

Queen Mary, University of London

• Tony Tsung-Yueh Lin 1989, Parallel Ray Tracing Using Space Subdivision.
• Raj Malhi 1989, Parallel Algorithms for Constructive Solid Geometry.
• Pericles Papageorgiou 1991, A New Paradigm for Object Oriented Design and Specification of Interactive  Software.
• Siamak Masnavi 1992, Program Visualisation.
• Nikitas Tsopelas 1993, Modeling Thin-Walled Objects in Computer Graphics and Animation. 
• Rabin Ezra 1994, An Adaptive Method for Rendering of Curved Surfaces. 
• Adelene Whye-Leng Ng 1994, Techniques for Rapid Computation of Form Factors in Radiosity.
• Shancy Kou 1995, Interactive Deformable Models, November 1995.
• Yiorgos Chrysanthou 1996, Algorithms for Rapid Computation of Shadows in Dynamically Changing Scenes, February 1996.
• Mark Brown 1996, Displays for real-time 3D command/control applications, concentrating on Air Traffic Control, March 1996.
• Anthony Steed 1996, A User-Defined Virtual Environment Dialogue Architecture, November, 1996.

University College London

• Bob Rosenberg, Novel input devices: computing without keyboards and mice, March 1998.
• Amela Sadagic  1999, Efficient image display for head-slaved viewing of virtual environments, March 1999
• Cristina Alberto 2000, Study of Acclimatisation using Virtual Reality, April, 2000
• Maia Garau, 2003, The Impact of Avatar Fidelity on Social Interaction in Virtual Environments, October 2003
• Andreas Loizides, 2003, Intuitive Visualisations of Multivariate Data Sets, October 2003
• Mette Thomsen, 2004, Discovering Mixed Reality: inventing design criteria for an action based Mixed Reality (jointly supervised with Prof. Peter Cook, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London).
• Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, 2006, User Responses to Virtual Agents in Immersive Virtual Environments.
• Maria Roussou, 2006, Interactivity and Learning: Examining Primary School Children’s Activity within Virtual Environments
• Lee Bull, 2006, Point Based Graphics Rendering with Unified Scalability Solutions
• Franco Tecchia, 2006, An image-based approach to the rendering of crowds in real-time
• Howard Towner, 2007, Analysis of Feature Points and Physiological Data for Facial Expression Inference
• Sylvia Pan, 2010, Experimental Studies of the Interaction between People and Virtual Humans with a Focus on Social Anxiety
• Jesper Mortensen, 2010, Virtual Light Fields for Global Illumination in Computer Graphics [accepted subject to minor changes]

University of Barcelona

Christoph Groenegress, 2010, Whole-Body Interaction for the Enhancement of Presence in Virtual Environments