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Professor Daria Dorosh is an artist and senior researcher with SMARTlab, and fashion design professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Her PhD with SMARTlab traced the shift from the analogue to the digital age in knit and weave, offering a glimpse into fashion futures.
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Dr Sher Doruff is SMARTlab Adjunct Faculty and Post-Doc Researcher, whose work has influenced the field of online networked collaboration and the cultural theories of presence. She was formerly the Creative Director of the Sensing Presence Unit at the WAAG Society/for old and new media in Amsterdam, and is a core member of the development team of KeyWorx, a distributed, multi-user, multi-channel performance platform. |
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Dr Mary Flanagan is SMARTlab Adjunct Faculty- PostDoc Researcher in
Systems Design & Computational Media. She investigates everyday technologies through critical writing, artwork, and activist design projects.
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Dr Sara de Freitas is Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute at the University of Coventry, where she leads an applied research team working closely with industry. She co-supervises PhDs for SMARTlab on the subject of serious games. |
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Dr. Sol Haring is a research fellow at the University of Graz, Austria. Her main research area ‘digital narratives’ is interdisciplinary using feminist methodologies. The research is grounded in the fields of narrative and gender studies and gerontology. |
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Dr Helen Kennedy is a SMARTlab Adjunct Faculty member working on Digital Futures, and PhD co-superviser. She recently took up a new senior faculty post at the University of Leeds. She was previously Principal Lecturer in Interactive Media in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at UEL. With a history of researching new media in/equalities, of debunking some of the myths of cyberspace, and of collaborative new media production, her current research on Inclusive New Media Design focuses on new media design and production practices and informs the research of UEL's Rix Centre for Innovation and Learning Disability. >>link |
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Dr. Radan Martinec is a PhD supervisor at the Smartlab. He is also the owner and director of a new media research and consultancy company, IKONA Research and Consulting LLC. He is a trained linguist and semiotician and has lectured and carried out research at universities in Australia, Italy, United Kingdom and the USA. His main research interests are new media design, image-text relations, and the semiotics of embodied action. |
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The areas of specialization of Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis include Interactive Conversational Robots and Media, as well as Cognitive Science. He is currently an Asst. Professor founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Laboratory at the United Arab Emirates University and . Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis obtained his PhD from the MIT Media Lab, where he created a robot with vision and language, with capabilities comparable to those required by a psychological test given to 3-year old children. Some current projects: the "IbnSina" arabic speaking humanoid, and the Microsoft-awarded "FaceBots"-social robots utilizing FaceBook. |
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Dr Genaro Rebolledo Mendez
Dr Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez too his PhD from the University of Sussex. His research work combines his programming skills with his understanding of motivational factors in education through an investigation of the effect of motivational scaffolding in intelligent tutoring systems. |
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Dr Jacquelyn Ford Morie completed her PhD with SMARTlab in 2007, and now co-supervises PhD working on Virtual Environments and Virtual Reality 'Worlds'. Her long and prestigious research career spans the academic domain and industry, where she has worked in both animation and visual effects entertainment (for Disney, Rhythm & Hues Studios) as well as with developing virtual environments in government-sponsored research laboratories. |
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Dr Gayil Nalls is an interdisciplinary artist, theorist, writer, curator, filmmaker, and academic who works in the arenas of professional art practice, science, and academia. Her Phd with SMARTlab focused on the emergent field of Neuroaesthetics, exploring the connection between botanical scents and human olfcatory memory. |
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Dr Celia Pearce is an Adunct at SMARTlab, conducting Post-Doc Research focusing on game play and online ethnographies. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech, where she heads up the Gamelab. She has also worked as a researcher and teacher at University of Southern California and University of California Irvine. |
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Perparim Rama co-supervises PhDs in the area of 3d Generative Architecture &
SMARTbuilding design. He has a degree in Architecture from South Bank University, a Postgraduate Degree in Architecture from University of East London and a Masters degree (with Distinction) in Architecture/Computing and Design from Centre for Evolutionary Computing in Architecture - University of East London. |
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Charles Watt is a co-supervisor of SMARTlab Phds in the area of Global Policy and Disruptive IT. He has 35 years experience in delivering ICT solutions in the private sector, in inter and intra government projects as well as part of national initiatives to accelerate the competitiveness of national economies. |
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Jeb Weisman is PhD is CIO for the Children’s Health Fund, Director of the Center for Community Health Technology, Assistant Clinical Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Director of Strategic Technologies, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, both at Columbia University in New York. |
