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	Prof Mel Slater became Professor of Virtual Environments in 1997. He came to UCL from Queen Mary where he was Head of the Department of Computer Science (1993–95). He has been Visiting Professor at Berkeley (spring 1991 and spring 1992) and Visiting Scientist at MIT (Jan–Apr 1998). His research has concentrated on immersive virtual environments since 1991, since when he has been principal investigator on a variety of projects including a Wellcome Foundation project on using virtual environments for therapy in the context of social phobias and fear of public speaking.
	Dr Celine Loscos has been a Lecturer since 2001 in the Department of Computer Science at University College London where she teaches computer graphics to undergraduate and graduate students. She is part of Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics (VECG) laboratory. She first joined UCL in 2000 as a post-doc after completing her PhD on interactive relighting for augmented reality (1999, IMAG-INRIA, France). Her research focuses on real-time rendering, animation and interaction in complex environments for mixed reality on which she co-authored papers published in IEEE, ACM and EG conferences/journals.
	Dr Marco Gillies is a research fellow within the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Research Theme at the University College London Department of Computer Science. His work centres mostly on animated virtual characters and particular on expressive body language.
	Xueni Pan is a current PhD student under this project in UCL, supervised by Celine Loscos. After finishing her MSc in VIVE in UCL, she carries on studying the behaviour of Avatars and particular on facial expressions.

	Dr Peter Robinson is Reader in Computer Technology in the Computer Laboratory, Deputy Head of Department, and the senior co-leader of the Rainbow Research Group. Dr Robinson’s research interests are in the general area of applied computer science. The main focus for this is human-computer interaction, where he has been leading work for some years on the use of video and paper as part of the user interface. He also works on electronic design automation and, in particular, on support for self-timed circuits.
	Dr Neil Dodgson is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory and co-leader of the Rainbow Research Group. His research is in modelling for 3D computer graphics, human-figure animation, 3D displays, and image processing.
	Daniel Bernhardt has been studying for an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. He is now working towards a PhD in the Rainbow Group of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, studying the inference of mental states from body posture and gesture.

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