Recent workshops/presentations I enjoyed organising (or giving)…
- Internal demonstrations and knowledge transfer activities colleagues:
- technical colleagues in order to enable effective cross-disciplinary collaborations and
- non-technical but established, innovative, content-creator colleagues in order to achieve awareness over time.
- Running brainstorming workshops as part of innovation and brainstorming hubs aiming to explore novel experience formats through an exploration of user needs.
- Annual cross-industry collaborative demonstrations and stand-alone organisational prototype showcases at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC).
- External demonstrations in order to demonstrate the potential of technical standards to industry partners:
- to showcase prototypes and trial ideas in order to collect recommendations for future technical standards,
- to demonstrate progress of deliverables as part of collaborative project meetings and/or
- to build awareness in outreach programmes.
| December 2020, Manchester, UK (Virtual) | What next for VR?, VR Manchester – Review of 2020 – Invited Panel |
| November 2020, UK (Virtual) | Introduction to Social VR, BBC STEM Outreach event – KS3. – Guidebook to Playing on Mozilla Hubs – Suggested first activity instructions to Exploring Mozilla Hubs – Attached PDFs has been stripped off the BBC logo. They were originally created as part of a BBC Young Reporters’ BBC STEM activity. |
| November 2020, Manchester, UK (Virtual) | Designing for the Future: Anticipating the needs of BBC audiences on (immersive) platforms, 6th International ARVR Conference – Invited Keynote |
| Jun 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual) | Toys and the TV: Serious Play, ACM IMX half-day virtual Workshop – Reviewed & curated track, – In collaboration with BBC Childrens’, IRT and ZDF AR Creative Challenge: Reimagine the Future of Storytelling with Augmented Reality, ACM IMX full-day special virtual Workshop – Invited track, – Co-organised with Snap Research and Microsoft Research |
| Apr 2020, Hawaii, USA (Virtual) | Social VR: A New Medium for Remote Communication & Collaboration, ACM SIGCHI half-day Workshop – Reviewed and curated track, – Virtual workshop in Mozilla Hubs – In collaboration with CWI, Facebook, FXPAL, TU Eindhoven and Mozilla |
| Mar 2018/9, London, UK | Future Media Interfaces, Guest lecture – Invited talk, – UCL Interaction Centre, University College London |
| Mar 2019, Belem, Brazil | Enabling Richer Interactions delivering (synchronised) connected multi-device experiences, Jornada de Cooperação Internacional half-day guest lecture – Invited talk, – Universidade Federal do Pará Generating ideas for the future of TV, Half-day Workshop – – Invited, – Universidade Federal do Pará |
| Oct 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Virtual Embodiment for Good, VR Days Europe 2018 – Invited panel moderation |
| Apr 2018, London, UK | Companion “screens”: Enabling richer interactions, HCI Open Day – Reviewed and curated track, – City, University of London |
| Nov 2017, Luxembourg | Insights into VR and 360, World Broadcasting Union’s International Media Connectivity Group – Invited presentation & panel moderation, – WBU Forum |
