About the IOCT

The IOCT was launched in September 2006 and comprises:

- a network of Research Centres and Groups embedded in the Faculties of De Montfort University

- a programme of research projects, events, and activities, benefiting from a collection of showcase facilities and a laboratory hub.

- a number of key industrial and commercial partners, and strong links with local, national and international creative industries.

- a small core team of visiting and permanent staff.

IOCT Research Centres and Groups

Faculty of Art and Design

• Modern Holography (Director: Prof M Richardson)
• Knowledge Media Design (Director: Prof S Brown)
• Digital Media Group (Director: Dr N Higgett)

Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering

• Software Technology Research Lab (Director: Prof H Zedan)
• Centre for Computational Intelligence (Director: Prof R John)
• Virtual Reality Centre (Director: Dr H Istance)
• Mechatronics Group (Director Prof. Philip Moore)

Faculty of Humanities

• Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (Director: Prof L Landy)
• Production and Research in Transliteracy (PART) (Director: Prof S Thomas)
• Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts (Director: Dr R Brannen)
• Centre for Textual Scholarship (Director: Prof P Shillingsburg)

There are also numerous IOCT researchers in the Faculties of Business & Law, and Health & Life Sciences, or not affiliated to a particular research group.

Visiting Staff

• Professor Howard Rheingold (Visiting Professor)

• Mr Toby Moores (Visiting Professor - Sleepy Dog Ltd.)

• Mr Steve Grand OBE (Visiting Research Fellow - Cyberlife Research)

• Dr Andrea Cohen (Visiting Research Fellow)

IOCT Researchers

(see Centre links above for details of Faculty-based researchers)

• Dr Bruce Mason Postdoctoral Research Fellow - A Million Penguins (analysis)

• Dr Ximena Alarcón Leverhulme Research Fellow - London Underground: Interactive Sonic Environment

• Ian Willcock (PhD - Multimedia and Live Performance, supervisors: Prof A Hugill, Prof H Zedan)

• Jess Laccetti (PhD - Click Lit.: Interactivity, Feminism, and Narrative Structures in New Media, supervisors: Prof S Thomas, Prof A Hugill)

• Sascha Westendorf (PhD - Knowledge Engineering for Creativity / De Montfort Creativity Assistant, supervisors: Prof H Zedan, Prof S Thomas)

• Keno Buss (PhD - Transformation Theory for Massive Data Identification and Structure / De Montfort Creativity Assistant, supervisors: Prof H Zedan, Prof S Thomas)

• Heather Conboy (PhD - Creative Writing in a Computer Mediated Environment: presence, identity and interaction)

• Mark Hancock (PhD - Film and Literacy Hybrids in Networked Publishing, supervisors: Prof S Thomas, K Pullinger)

• Stephen Vickers (PhD - Gaze Based Interaction with Online Virtual Worlds)

• Nils Benjamin Passow (PhD - Evolutionary Control and Creative Emergent Behaviour for Indoor Flying Robots)

• Anietie Isong (PhD - New Writing, New Media: Emerging African Writers and the Internet, supervisor: Prof S Thomas)

• Motje Wolf (PhD - Electroacoustic Music Studies)

• Jerry Fishenden (PhD - New Media Composition)

For further information or to be kept informed about IOCT activities, please contact:
The Director, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.
Tel: (+44) 0116 250 6146
Email: ioctdirector [at] dmu.ac.uk
www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk