Cognitive Engineering

The Cognitive Engineering Research Group was formed relatively recently to foster synergy between researchers in graphics, video, visualisation and human factors engineering, and to encourage collaboration with the Centre for Video Communications in the School of Engineering.

Research is characterised by a focus on imaging, graphics, visualisation, cognitive modelling and user interaction.

Researchers: Patrik O'Brian Holt, Xiangyang Ju, Robert Noble, Lin Shang, Ian Richardson, Yafan Zhao and Laura Muir.

Research students: Ibrahim Alwawi, Jean-Claude Golovine, Aggelos Liapis, Jeanette Rey, Kefeng Zhang, Guofu Xiang and Abharana Bhat.

Projects:

• Pig project
• Cleft project

• Generic animatable facial models
• Make models work
• V-Man
• Virtual Sculpting using Implicit Objects
• Visualisation of Human Gait Data

• Application of VR to exposure therapy for anxiety and phobias — the role of presence

• Optimisation of Adaptive Control of Thought — Rational (ACT-R) for simulating human computer interaction in healthcare
• Human errors in colour perception in Telehealth diagnosis
• Human factors models for enhanced computer based training

• Fully Configurable Video Coding
• Fast video coding: estimation based control of video codec complexity
• Perceptually optimised video coding
• Video Telephony for the Deaf: Analysis and Development of an Optimised Video Compression Product
• Eye Movement Analysis and its Application to Videotelephony
• Brain Volumetric Analysis from MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

• Professor David Alexander, Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research, RGU
• Dr. Albert Burger, Medical Research Council, Human Genetics Unit (Edinburgh) and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• Dr. Paul Cockshott, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
• Dr. Gus Ferguson, Biomedical Informatics Systems Engineering Laboratory (BISEL), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• Dr. James Ferguson, Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Aberdeen; Accident and Emergency Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
• Dr. Susan Klein, Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research, RGU
• Bruce Milne, VISCOM (Video and Multimedia) Ltd., Aberdeen
• Pietro Murano, Computer Science Research Centre, Interactive Systems and Media, University of Salford
• Professor Gordon Peterkin, Scottish Centre for Telehealth, Aberdeen
• Professor Ian Ricketts, department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee
• Dr. Paul Siebert, 3D-MATIC Research Laboratory, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
• Dr. Arthur D Stewart, School of Health Sciences, Robert Gordon University
• Professor Nicholas Tarrier, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester
• Dr. Ray White, Biomechanics, School of Health, and Social Sciences, University of Sunderland
• Professor Qingchuan Zhang, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)