Dr. Robin Wolff

Created various award-winning XR/VR/AR apps for clients in automotive, manufacturing, energy, training, education, tourism and arts.

Created various award-winning XR/VR/AR apps for clients in automotive, manufacturing, energy, training, education, tourism and arts.

Developing an immersive Virtual Reality environment for the interactive real-time simulation of on-orbit servicing (OOS) scenarios.

Continuing my work on building a novel application for deaf and hearing impaired children for learning lip-reading.

As Visiting Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Virtual Technology in the Institute of Machine Design, I'm working on several commercial oriented projects with main focus on 3D real-time simulations of mobile machines.

In a pilot study, I investigated the potential of motion-tracking for realistic lip-movement animation for a novel lip-reading learning tool for deaf children. Additoinally, I ported an extended immersive collaborative virtual environment software system from an SGI shared-memory super-computer to a high-end SUN cluster 8-wall immersive projection based display with Vicon tracking.

I was the lead-researcher developing the underlying collaboration platform and undertook evaluations of the system in a number of user trials during a 2 years EPSRC funded project, which evaluated the role of eye-gaze in tele-communication so as to better design future communication technologies.

I was responsible for management, development, security and maintenance of Virtual Reality display and interface systems, including all supporting ICT infrastructure, located in the Centre for Virtual Environments and in satellite visualisation facilities across the University. Additionally, I made active input into the research undertaken by the research group.

I was responsible for the full set of VR equipment (CAVE, RealityCenter, vDesk, HMDs, SGI supercomputer, workstations, etc) and ~20 office machines including network infrastructure, backup and user support. This post was in parallel to my PhD studies.

Virtual Reality, Real-time Simulation, Network Programming, Distributed Systems, User Interfaces, Human Factors

Parallel Programming, Unix System Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Linear Algebra, Image Processing, Software Engineering

Software Engineering, Computer Architectures, Analog & Digital Electronics, Programming Languages C/C++, Pascal, Assembler