Pete Carss is a Research Assistant in Immersive Vision. He looks after the University of Plymouth Immersive Vision Theatre (Full Dome).
Background:
…in Music and Photography. Childhood of taking things apart, learning musical instruments and programming everything from a Vic 20 onward.
Taught English as a foreign language for 5 years in various countries.
Rebuilt a 1600cc VW Camper engine from scratch. Including the use of swivel feet tappets.
Graduated BSc Medialab Arts in 2002. This was accomplished while living on a 22′ 2″ yacht.
3 Years as Research Associate @ The Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol University. Developing Video editing/authoring/sharing applications to support Classroom, Research and Web/3G activities.
Currently employed as Research Assistant in Immersive Vision by The Natural Sciences CETL. I am located within i-DAT. Creating content and methodologies for immersive visualisations, for a huge variety of disciplines, within the immersive vision theatre.
Research Interests:
Photography and Fisheyes, Video ( Camera Arrays, Fisheye capture, CODECS, Streaming over SIP/H.323), Surround Sound and Sound Design, Programming Linguistics, RealTime 3D, Ai and Neural Nets, Ubiquitous Computing, Computer Vision, Embodied Cognition, Dome Projection Systems, CAVES/VR.
I have some Arabic, French, C/Objective-C/C++, Ruby, BSL (British Sign Language) and Java.
PhD Title: Immersion in Data: A Trans-disciplinary Study of the Design of Immersive Visualisations for Domed Virtual Environments (VEs).
Scope: This study sets out to describe a design process that is, by the nature of the target medium, bound to a need to be perceptually and cognitively informed. Through a process of content based inquiry it hopes to accurately locate domed VEs within the academic literature. It is a trans-disciplinary study, drawing on Arts, Computer Science and Experimental Psychology – to describe a practice which is ultimately located within any discipline requiring immersive visualisations such as Biology or Human Geography. The metaquestion asks, is it possible to engender a sense of immersion in data, and can this kind of representation be experiential. This paper will present the theoretical frameworks that are relevant to the study, which support the intended areas for experimentation.
eml: peter.carss@plymouth.ac.uk
