Professor Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson

University position

Professor

Professor Peter Robinson is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Computer Laboratory

Email

pr10@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pr10/ (personal home page)

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Interests

I am a computer scientist with an interest in neuroscience.

My research concerns problems at the boundary between people and computers. This involves investigating new technologies to enhance communication between computers and their users, and new applications to exploit these technologies. The main focus for this is human-computer interaction, where I have been leading work for some years on the use of video and paper as part of the user interface. The idea is to develop augmented environments in which everyday objects acquire computational properties through user interfaces based on video projection and digital cameras. Recent work has included desk-size projected displays and inference of users' mental states from facial expressions, speech, posture and gestures.

Research Focus

Keywords

HCI

displays

Clinical conditions

No direct clinical relevance

Equipment

Computational modelling

User studies

Collaborators

Cambridge

Neil Dodgson

United Kingdom

Mel Slater Web: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M...

International

Mark Ashdown Web: http://mark.ashdown.name

Missy Cummings Web: http://web.mit.edu/aeroast...

Rana el Kaliouby Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~kaliouby/

Roz Picard Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/

Yoichi Sato Web: http://www.hci.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ysato/

Associated News Items


    Key publications

    Ashdown M, Robinson P (2005), “Escritoire: A personal projected display” IEEE Multimedia 12(1):34-42

    el Kaliouby R, Robinson P (2005), “Generalization of a vision-based computational model of mind-reading” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction: 582-589

    el Kaliouby R, Robinson P (2005), “Real-time inference of complex mental states from facial expressions and head gestures” Real-time vision for human-computer interaction: 181-200.