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Bryan Duggan
Hi, I'm a lecturer in the DIT School of Computing. I teach Game Worlds, Game Behaviour and Game Middleware in the fourth year of DT228/4. I also teach Game Programming 1 & 2 on DT211/4. I was one of the local organisers for CGAMES07 and co-edited the proceedings. My research areas include music & AI, digital signals and computer games of course! For more information see my home page.
Brian Mac Namee
I am a lecturer in the DIT School of Computing. Briefly, my research focuses on the novel application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in areas such as robotics, machine vision and image processing, games and augmented/virtual reality. My teaching duties at DIT include courses in Graphics & Image Processing, Mobile Robotics and Business Systems Intelligence. For more information see my home page.
Hugh McAtamney
I am a lecturer in the DIT School of Computing. My teaching duties at DIT include courses in Game logic and design, Game modding, Web Development and Marketing. Ive been researching VR, multimedia and games for 10 years and completed an M.Phil in VR and the internet. This resulted in a commercial VR project for the national gallery of ireland. I have been working most recently on a FARCRY MOD for the new DIT grangegorman campus, as well as two serious games (in food safety) that we ran over the summer with some of our students. contamin8 and Serious gordon. I too worked with Bryan on the CGAMES 06 conference and won best paper at the CGAMEs 05 conference.
Ciaran O'Driscoll
I am a lecturer in the DIT School of Electronics and Communications Engineering. Briefly, my research interests are in the area of Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Environments. In particular focussing on usability issues for smart classroom technologies and the willingness of students and lecturers to interact with the system. As part of my research in Ubiquitous Computing I am interested in the programming of mobile devices. My teaching duties at DIT include courses in Program Design, Project Management and Software Engineering. For more information see my home page home page
Pauline Rooney
I am a lecturer and eLearning Development Officer in the DIT Learning Teaching Technology Centre (http://ltt.dit.ie). My research focuses on serious games and virtual worlds - in particular strategies for designing and implementing serious games in formal educational contexts, serious games as pedagogical tools for facilitating student motivation, engagement and flow, theoretical frameworks and models underpinning serious game design, and virtual worlds as facilitators of collaborative learning and interaction. I currently teach on the MSc in Applied eLearning, with modules including instructional design, virtual communities and trends in elearning technologies.
Ciarán O'Leary
I am a lecturer in the DIT School of Computing. Though I am not involved in the teaching of Games Development at undergraduate level, I have an interest in the use of games as a means of attracting students to study computer science, and to understand the opportunities afforded by computers to experiment, understand and innovate. My research interests are in the goal-oriented development of autonomous agents, specifically in understanding the dimensions of the goal conflict problem, and the means of arbitrating between, and prioritising across, extended lifetime goals. In the future I would like to expolre the relationship between this work and work on believeable, autonomous characters in computer games.
Along with a colleague, Paul Kelly, I am offering a course called Introduction to Games Development to transition year, secondary school students from the inner-city area.
