Logo for CoventryChristopher Peters 

Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering and Computing      
Coventry University
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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
         

GENERAL                                                                                                       
Guest Editor (with Kostas Karpouzis, Ginevra Castellano, Louis-Philippe Morency, Laurel Riek and Jean-Claude Martin) of the Special Issue on Affective Interaction in Natrual Environments, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2011
Section Editor: "Emotion in Interaction". In P. Petta, C. Pelachaud and R. Cowie (Eds.), Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Humaine Handbook, Cognitive Technologies Series, Springer, January 2011
Associate Editor of the International Journal of Interactive Worlds (IJIW)
Guest Editor (with Kostas Karpouzis, Ginevra Castellano and Jean-Claude Martin) of the Special Issue on Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Springer, 2010
Founding member of the Interactive Worlds Applied Research Group (iWARG)
International Program Committee Service:
  • Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
  • 3rd International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games), Short papers / poster committee member, 2011
  • Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG), IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2011
  • Novel Gaze-Controlled Applications (NGCA), 2011
  • 1st Symposium on Human Memory for Artificial Agents (HMAA), Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2011
  • 2nd Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction workshop, Intelligent User Interface (IUI), 2011
  • Eurographics (education track) 2011
  • The Second International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) 2010
  • Perception and Interactive Technologies (PIT) 2008, 2006
  • Eurographics Ireland Workshop 2009, 2007
Reviewer activities:

Journals
  • IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B (SMC) 2011; ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), special issue on Eye Gaze 2011; Elsevier Computers and Graphics (CG), special issue 2010; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CGA) special issues 2010, 2009; Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI) 2009; Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (JAAMAS) 2009; IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) 2005

Conferences
  • Eurographics (technical track) 2011, 2009, 2006, 2005, 2004; Joint Virtual Reality Conference (JVRC) 2011; Pacific Graphics (PG) 2009; ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2008; Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2007; ACM SIGGRAPH (technical track) 2007, 2006; International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2005; Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2005

Workshops
  • Workshop on Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG) 2008; Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2008 (Virtual Agents Track), 2005 (Creating Bonds with Humanoids Workshop); IEEE Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) 2006
Recipient of Serious Games Institute (SGI) Research Fellowship, GBP 5,000 research funding, 2009
Recipient of two Nuffield Science Bursaries to support Undergraduate Research, each providing funding of GBP 1,440 for second year student summer projects; 2009, 2011  (2011 acceptance rate: ~57%)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the HUMAINE Association


INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
Organiser of Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) 2011 workshop, ICMI, November 2011 (with G. Castellano, K. Karpouzis, L.D. Riek, L.P. Morency and G. Yannakakis)
Organiser of Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) 2010 workshop, ACM Multimedia, October 2010 (with G. Castellano, K. Karpouzis, J.C. Martin, L.D. Riek and L.P. Morency)
Organiser of Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) 2009 workshop: Affective-aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots, a satellite event of the Eleventh International ACM Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2009) (with G. Castellano, K. Karpouzis and J.C. Martin)
Organiser of Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Servies (WIAMIS) 2009 special session: AFFINE Affective Interaction in Natural Environments: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation in everyday settings (with G. Castellano, K. Karpouzis and J.C. Martin)
Organiser of Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (AFFINE) 2008 workshop: Real-time affect analysis and interpretation for virtual agents and robots, a satellite event of the Tenth International ACM Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008) (with G. Castellano, K. Karpouzis and J.C. Martin)


INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
"Visual Perception and Directionality for Modelling and  Evaluating Artificial Crowd and Agent Behaviour", Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy, July 2011
"Gaze and Perspective-taking as a Basis for Supporting Engagement between Humans and Virtual Agents", Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, November 2010
"Simulating Pedestrian Crowds in Urban Settings: An Analysis-Synthesis-Perception Approach", Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Genoa, Italy, October 2010
"Synthetic Characters: Behaviour Modelling, Perception and Interaction", University of Sheffield, UK, November 2009
"Evaluating the Perceptual Plausibility of Pedestrian Crowd Behaviour", CNRS / PARISTech, Paris, France, November 2008
"A Perceptually-Based Theory of Mind Model for Supporting Agent Interaction Behaviours", Invited speaker, Workshop: Theory of Mind (ToM) Analysis of the integrative potential of a cognitive capacity, ZiF Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2008
"Full-Body Analysis of Real and Virtual Human Motion for Animating Expressive Agents", HUMAINE Cross-currents meeting, Athens, Greece, June 2006 (presented with Ginevra Castellano)
"Steps Towards Modelling Attention to Expressive Faces for Agent Interaction", HUMAINE Network, WP7 Workshop, London, UK, July 2005
"Attention and Perception of Attentive Behaviours for Emotive Interaction", HUMAINE Network, WP6 Workshop, Paris, France, March 2005
"Theory of Mind and an Application to ECA Interaction", HUMAINE Network, WP6 Workshop, Paris, France, March 2005
"Applying Psychology to Real-time Autonomous Virtual Humans", Department of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, February 2002
"Real-Time Character Animation Techniques", Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, October 2000