Christopher Peters 

I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Technology at the Faculty of Engineering and Computing in Coventry University. I am also a founding member of the Interactive Worlds Applied Research Group (iWARG) and a research fellow at the Serious Games Institute (SGI).

I received my Ph.D. degree in 2004, as a member of the Image Synthesis Group, from Trinity College Dublin. My thesis was entitled "Bottom-up visual attention for autonomous virtual human animation'' and was developed under the guidance of Prof. Carol O' Sulllivan. I have served as a post-doctoral researcher in LINC (Laboratoire d’Informatique, de genie iNdustriel et de Communication) at the University of Paris 8, France, and INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt working in collaboration with Prof. Catherine Pelachaud on the EU FP6 NOE HUMAINE and FP6 STREP CALLAS. I have also served as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Graphics, Vision and Visualisation Group in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, studying crowd modelling and perception, as part of the Science Foundation Ireland funded METROPOLIS project focusing on the creation of a populated virtual Dublin city. My research interests include the investigation of interrelationships between computational visual attention, affect, memory, theory of mind and gaze control models for real-time animation, perception of, and multimodal interaction with humanoid characters, groups and crowds.

I am the co-founder, with Ginevra Castellano, Kostas Karpouzis and Jean-Claude Martin, of the AFFINE (Affective Interaction in Natural Environments) events. This year's AFFINE workshop will take place at the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2011), in Alicante, Spain - see below for CFP.


Previous AFFINE events:

2010: Affective Interaction in Natural Environments @ ACM Multimedia, Florence, Italy
2009: Affective-aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots @ ICMI-MLMI 2009, Boston, MA, USA
2009: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation in everyday settings @ WIAMIS 2009, London, UK
2008: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation for virtual agents and robots @ ICMI, Crete, Greece

Authors of papers in previous AFFINE workshops have been invited to extend their work for consideration in two special issues:

2011: Affective Interaction in Natural Environments @ ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
2010: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation: closing the affective loop in virtual agents and robots @ Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Springer

Last Update: 28 June 2011