Areas of interest Research Entrepreneurship & Teaching Outreach New and existing Informatics research applied to virtual worlds Entrepreneurship & Teaching E-learning and in-world education Outreach Public interaction, promoting Informatics Commercialisation Working with industrial partners on in-world projects
The Informatics Forum
Current Work Second Life used as the current platform for virtual world research Creation of external tools and assets which can be imported into world Active AIAI virtual world grid running internally Two active research projects with industrial partners
Virtual World of Whisky Project
Virtual World of Whisky Collaborative systems applied to tutorial environments for whisky tasting Connecting virtual world to physical environment Virtual tour of Scotland’s whisky regions E-learning tour guide Intelligent agents
Virtual Collaboration Centre
The Virtual Collaboration Centre Collaborative research project with SLAM Games Infrastructure to support collaborative work and play Environment to assist games development Games lobby to create gamer community Applying existing AIAI technology to Second Life
The Future More collaboration across Academia, Industry and Community Building a technology asset bank for virtual environments ‘Virtual Scotland’ Commercial island for working on commercial projects with Entrepreneurs, SMEs and larger industry Applying research to commercial ventures