Mel Slater

 
 

I am Professor of Virtual Environments with several projects and PhD students at UCL. I am an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.


My major research interest is the question of what makes virtual reality work: how is it possible to build virtual environments such that people respond realistically to events within them? What scientific explanations are there of this phenomenon? On the other side I have also lead research on computer graphics aspects of virtual environments, in particular the issue of real-time global illumination. For this work I was supported by an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship for 5 years from 1999.



 

Department of Computer Science

Malet Place Engineering Building

University College London

Gower Street

London WC1E 6BT


Tel:  +44(0)20 7679 3709

Fax: +44(0)20 7387 1397

Email Me

Projects


  1. •The exploitation of immersive
    virtual reality for the study of
    moral judgements,     Leverhulme Trust


  1. •People’s Responses to Violent

Emergencies, EPSRC


  1. •Virtual Reality in Understanding and  treating persecutory delusions: an interventionist-causal model approach,

MRC led by Dr Daniel Freeman



Publications

Extended List

@SIGGRAPH: Presence

@PLoS ONE : Body Transformation




Links

  1. •My blog

  2. •Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

  3. •The Virtual Milgram Experiment - paper and more information

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