Martin Flintham
Research Interests: Summary
Martin is a research fellow at the Mixed Reality Laboratory. His main research focus is in building software tools and infrastructures to support pervasive gaming that are both powerful and yet easily usable by software engineers, designers and artists alike. He is currently working towards his PhD in this area. Martin has been heavily involved in the development of award winning and world first mixed reality games such as Can You See Me Now? Uncle Roy All Around You and I Like Frank. He has helped to realise projects based on wireless technologies including 3G, WiFi and GPRS, tracking technologies such as GPS, and platforms from mobile phones and PDAs to more conventional servers, while supporting artists in maintaining the rapid design and testing cycle leading to a strict deadline that mixed reality games inherently involve. Martin has taken part in a residencies and the running of master-classes across the world. His other interests include multiplayer gaming, digital rights, reverse engineering and generally meddling. |