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PATRICK OLIVIER (Computing Science)
EDUCATION
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Ph.D.
M.Sc.
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B.A.
Language Engineering, UMIST
Artificial Intelligence, University of Wales, Cardiff
Computing, University of Bradford
Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Cambridge (King’s College)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-present
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2001-2003
1998-2001
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK.
Teaching Fellow. Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK.
Director and co-founder, Lexicle Limited, York, UK.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of York
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Research Associate, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST
RESEARCH EVENT ORGANISATION
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Organiser (joint), 7th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Kyoto, Japan, 2007.
Steering Committee (joint), Intelligent Virtual Agents, Paris, France, 2007.
Chair (joint), AISB Annual Convention, Newcastle, UK, 2007.
Steering Committee (joint), Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, 2006.
Organiser (joint), 6thInternational Symposium on Smart Graphics, UBC, Canada, 2006.
Chair (joint), Intelligent Virtual Agents, Kos, Greece, 2005.
Organiser (joint), 5th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Munich, Germany, 2005.
Chair (joint), Language, Speech and Gesture for Expressive Characters, Leeds, UK, 2004.
Organiser (joint), 4th Symposium on Smart Graphics, Banff, Canada, 2004.
Organiser (joint), 3rd Symposium on Smart Graphics, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003.
Organiser (joint), 2nd Symposium on Smart Graphics, IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA, 2002.
Organiser (joint), 1st Symposium on Smart Graphics, IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA, 2001.
Chair, AAAI Spring Symposium on Smart Graphics, Stanford, USA, 2000.
Chair, 3rd Thinking with Diagrams Workshop (TwD-98), University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1998.
Chair ,Workshop on Language and Space, AAAI, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 1997.
Chair, Workshop on Spatial Expressions, ECAI, Budapest, Hungary, 1996.
Chair, AAAI Symposium on Cognitive and Computational Models of Space, Stanford, CA, 1996.
Chair, IJCAI Workshop on Spatial Expressions, Montreal, Canada, 1995.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Artificial Intelligence and Digital and Interactive Media (Stanford 2006, Stanford 2007); Workshop on Human-Animated
Characters, HCI, Edinburgh, UK, 2005., Diagrams 2000 (D2K), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000; Fall Symposium on Visual
Reasoning, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Florida, USA, 1998; Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society of Ireland, UCD, Dublin, 1998; Workshop on Combining AI and Graphics in the Interface of the Future,
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), Brighton, 1998; Workshop on Conceptual Descriptions from
Images, International Conference on Computer Vision, Bombay, India, 1998. Fall Symposium on Reasoning with
Diagrammatic Representations II, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1997.
Workshop on Conceptual Descriptions from Images, European Conference on Computer Vision, Cambridge, UK, 1996.
Reviewer for many international conferences; and International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, ACM
Transactions on Asian Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Constraints, Spatial Cognition and
Computation, Graphics Forum, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review,
Expert Systems, AI and Engineering, Advanced Engineering Informatics.
OTHER RESEARCH, EDITING, SPEAKING & COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
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Keynote speaker, International Workshop on Pen-based Learning Technologies, Catania, Italy, 2007.
Guest editor. Virtual Reality Journal, Special Issue on Language and Gestural interaction with VR, 2005.
Editor, Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Founding editor with Stephen Hirtle
(1999-2001). An interdisciplinary journal, originally from Kluwer Academic Publishers, now Lawrence
Erlbaum, addresses issues of spatial cognition in geography, artificial intelligence neuropsychology and
cognitive psychology.
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Editorial Board, Expert Systems: the International Journal of Engineering and Neural Networks, Blackwell
Publishers (1998-present).
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Past supervision:
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John Pickering (University of York)
Marie Kelly (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Darren Boyce (University of Wales Aberystwyth)
Current supervisor (main):
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John Shearer, PhD, 3rd Year (Persuasive dialogue in virtual agents)
Han Cao, PhD (P/T), 3rd Year (Crossmodal ambient displays)
Hai Nam Ha, PhD, 2nd Year (Automated lighting design)
Zhiwen Kuang, MPhil, 2nd Year (Immersive video)
Stephen Lindsay, PhD, 1st Year (Computing & dementia)
Jonathan Hook, PhD, 1st Year (Tabletop video)
Martin Rougvie, MPhil, 1st Year (Camera control)
Ahmed Sulaiman, PhD, 1st Year (Tabletop annotation)
Phil Heslop, PhD (P/T), 1st Year (Social interactions in virtual characters)
Additional supervision (25% or more):
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Alistair Sherit (SELLLS), MPhil (50%)
Amy Guo (CEGS), PhD, 4th Year (33%)
Rick Fairchild (CEGS), PhD, 3rd Year (33%)
James Thomas (CEGS), PhD, 1st Year (25%)
Pierfrancesco Celada (Mech Eng), PhD, 1st Year (25%)
Paul Dunphy (Computing Science), MPhil, 1st Year (25%)
RESEARCH FUNDING (see attached sheet)
BOOKS
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Anderson, M., Meyer, B. and Olivier P. (Eds), (2002), Diagrammatic Reasoning, Springer-Verlag.
Coventry, K.R. & Olivier, P. (Eds.), (2002), Spatial language: cognitive and computational perspectives, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
Olivier, P., & Gapp, K-P., (Eds.), (1998). Representation and processing of spatial expressions. Hillsdale, NJ,
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Olivier, P. (Ed.), (1996). Cognitive & computational models of spatial representation: papers from the 1996 AAAI
Spring Symposium. Menlo Park, CA, AAAI Press.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (most significant in bold)
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Heslop, P., J. Shearer, P. Olivier & M. De Boni (2006). Synthetic Character Fidelity through Non-Verbal
Behaviour in Computer Games. In: Proceedings of GAMES 2006, Portulegre, Portugal.
Singh, P., H. N. Ha, P. Olivier, C. Kray, A.W. Guo, P. Blythe, & P. James. (2006) Rapid prototyping and
evaluation of intelligent environments using immersive video. Mobile HCI Workshop on Modeling and
Designing User Assistance in Intelligent Environments, Finland.
Olivier, P. (2006). A Real-world Architecture for the Synthesis of Spontaneous Gesture. In: Computer
Animation and Social Agents, Geneva, Switzerland.
Christie, M. and P. Olivier (2006). State of the Art Report: Automatic Camera Control in Computer Graphics.
In: Eurographics, Vienna, Austria.
Butz, A., B. Fisher, A. Krueger, and P. Olivier (Eds) (2006). Proceedings of the Smart Graphics, LNCS 4073,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
Gilroy, S.W., P.L. Olivier, H. Cao, D.G. Jackson, C. Kray and D. Lin (2006). CROSSBOARD: Crossmodal Access
of Dense Public Displays. In: International Workshop on Multimodal and Pervasive Services (MAPS06), Lyon,
France.
Olivier, P., H. Cao, S.W. Gilroy and D.G. Jackson (2006). Crossmodal Ambient Displays. In: HCI 2006,
London, UK.
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Gratch, J., M. Young, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier (Eds.): Intelligent Virtual Agents, LNCS 4133 , SpringerVerlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
Olivier, P., S.W. Gilroy, H. Cao, D.G. Jackson and C. Kray (2006). Crossmodal Attention in Public-Private
Displays. In: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS06), Lyon, France.
Cao, H., P. Olivier, D.G. Jackson, A. Armstrong and L. Huang (2006). Enhancing privacy in public spaces
through crossmodal displays. In: Pervasive: Workshop on Privacy, Trust and Identity Issues for Ambient
Intelligence, Dublin, Ireland.
Ha, H. N. and P. Olivier (2006). Explorations in declarative lighting design. In: Sixth International
Symposium on Smart Graphics, Vancouver, Canada.
Cao, H., P. Olivier, D.G. Jackson, and A. Armstrong (2006). Mobile Devices in Crossmodal Interfaces. In:
Pervasive: Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID), Dublin, Ireland.
Ha, H. N., and P. Olivier (2006). Perception-based lighting design. In: Theory and Practice of Computer
Graphics.
Holmes, M. K., P. Gallagher, L. J. Robinson, J. M. Gray, P. Olivier, P. Heslop, and I. N. Ferrier (2006). Virtual
reality assessment of spatial memory in mood disorders: A pilot study (poster). 2nd Biennial Conference of the
International Society Bipolar Disorders, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Shearer, J., P. Olivier and P. Heslop (2006). Requirements of non-verbal communication in believable
synthetic agents. In: AISB Symposium on Narrative AI and Games, Bristol, UK.
Guo, A.W.,, P. T. Blythe, P. Olivier, P. Singh, H. N. Ha, D. G. Jackson, (2006). Future Traveller information
Systems: Impacts on Modal Shift. Mobility for all – The Use of Ambient Intelligence in Addressing the
Mobility Needs of People with Impairments: The Case of ASK-IT. Nice, France.
T. Panayiotopoulos, J. Gratch, R. Aylett, D. Ballin, P. Olivier and T. Rist, (eds) (2005). Intelligent Virtual
Agents, , Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.
Butz, A. Kruger and P. Olivier, (eds) (2005). Smart Graphics: 5th International Symposium. Springer.
Christie, M., Machap, R.K., Normand, J., Olivier, P. Olivier & Pickering, J.H. (2005) Virtual Camera
Planning. In: International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Munich, Germany, 22-24 August, Springer.
Butz, A. Kruger and P. Olivier (2004), Eds. Smart Graphics. Springer.
Olivier, P. (2004). Gesture Synthesis in a Real-World ECA, ADS 2004, In: Elisabeth André, Laila Dybkjær,
Wolfgang Minker, Paul Heisterkamp (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3068, Springer.
Pickering, J.H & Olivier, P. (2003). Declarative Camera Planning: Roles and Requirements. Smart Graphics,
Heidelberg, Germany.
Olivier, P., (2001). Diagrammatic Reasoning: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective, Artificial Intelligence
Review, 15 (1-2): 63-78.
Halper, N. and Olivier, P., (2000). CamPlan: A Camera Planning Agent, American Association for Artificial
Intelligence Spring Sympoisum on "Smart Graphics", Stanford, USA, March, 2000.
Olivier, P., Halper, N., Pickering, J. and Luna, P. (1999), Visual composition as optimisation, AISB Symposium
on AI and Creativity in Entertainment and Visual Art, Edinburgh.
Olivier, P., (1998). Kinematic reasoning with spatial decompositions, Constraints: An International Journal,
Volume 3, Issue 2/3, pp. 227-237.
Olivier, P. (1998). Computer Graphics and Linguistic Felicity, Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop on AI and
Graphics, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), Brighton, UK.
Olivier, P., (1998) Language and Space: Coordinating the Visual and Verbal Domains, Second International
Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication Theory and Applications, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Olivier, P., (1997). Hierarchy and attention in computational imagery, Machine GRAPHICS & VISION, Special
Issue on Diagrammatic Reasoning, Vol. 6 (1997), No. 1, 77-88.
Olivier, P., (1997). Estimating visuospatial properties in graphics, British Computer Society SGES Expert Systems
Conference, Cambridge, UK.
Olivier, P., (1997). Co-ordinating the visual and verbal domains, ACM Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces,
Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Olivier, P., (1997). Estimating visuospatial properties in graphics, Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-97) Workshop on Language and Space, Providence, Rhode Island.
Olivier, P., (1997). Diagrams and machine reasoning. EPSRC/ESRC Workshop on Thinking with Diagrams,
Plymouth.
Nakata, K., Olivier, P., Bill, J., & Boyce, D. (1996). Matching and tracking using spatial decomposition. Machine
Graphics and Vision, vol. 5, no. 1, 131-140.
Olivier, P., Ormsby, A., & Nakata, K. (1996). Occupancy array-based kinematic reasoning, Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9, No. 5, 541-549.
Olivier, P. (Ed.), 1996. Proceedings of the ECAI-96 Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Spatial
Expressions, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96), Budapest, Hungary.
Olivier, P., Nakata, K., & McManus, A. (1996). Higher pair kinematic synthesis using quadtrees, 4th
International Conference on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (GKPO'96), Machocice, Poland, 1996.
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Olivier, P., Nakata, K. & Landon, M., (1996). Multi-level molecular representation, Artificial Intelligence in
Design '96, 24-27 June, 1996, Stanford, California, USA. Also published in: Artificial Intelligence in Design '96,
John S. Gero and Fay Sudweeks (Eds.), (1996). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Nakata, K., Olivier, P., McManus, A., & M. Landon, (1996). Kinematic synthesis using analogical
representations. In: J.C.B. Damski and N.H. Narayanan (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Design Workshop on
Visual Representations, Reasoning and Interaction in Design, Stanford, California, USA.
Olivier, P., Nakata, K., Landon, M., & McManus, A., (1996). Analogical representations for mechanism
synthesis, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 12-16 August, Budapest, Hungary.
Olivier, P., & Nakata, K. (1996) Computational imagery: a case study in kinematics, IEE Colloquium on Thinking
with Diagrams, Savoy Place, London.
Nakata, K., Lee, M.H., Ormsby, A.R.T. & Olivier, P., (1995) Modelling electromechanical systems from
multiple perspectives, Tenth International Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Italy.
Olivier, P., Ormsby, A.R.T, & Nakata, K., (1995) Using occupancy arrays for kinematic Reasoning, Spatial and
Temporal Reasoning Workshop, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95), Montreal, Canada.
Olivier, P., Ormsby, A.R.T, & Nakata, K., (May, 1995) Occupancy array-based kinematic reasoning. 9th
International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Olivier, P., & Tsujii, J., (1994). A quantitative perceptual model of the semantics of spatial prepositions, AI
Review, volume 8, issue 2.
Nakata, K., Olivier, P., Ormsby, A.R.T, & Lee, M.H., (October, 1994). Functional modelling to support
diagnosis system development, The Fifth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, New York.
Olivier, P., Nakata, K., Ormsby, A.R.T, & Lee, M.H., Multiple and single perspective models, Twelfth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Workshop on Functional Representation and Reasoning, Seattle,
Washington.
Nakata, K., Olivier, P., Ormsby, A.R.T, & Lee, M.H., (August 1994). Capturing functional specifications,
Reasoning with Function Workshop, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design, Lausanne,
Switzerland.
Olivier, P. & Tsujii, J., (1994). Prepositional semantics in the WINTOP system, Twelfth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Workshop on Integrating Natural Language and Vision Processing, Seattle,
Washington.
Lee, M.H., Ormsby, A.R.T., Nakata, & Olivier, P., (1994). Enhanced product integrity through model-based
reasoning support tools, International Symposium on Automotive Technology and Automation (ISATA-94), Aachen,
Germany, 1994.
Olivier, P., Maeda, T., & Tsujii, J., (1994). Automatic depiction of spatial descriptions, Twelfth National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, Washington.
Olivier, P., & Tsujii, J., (1994). A computational view of the cognitive semantics of spatial prepositions,
32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-94), Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Olivier, P., Ananiadou, S., Maeda, T., & Tsujii, J., (1992). Visualization: mediating the interchange of
information from the visual to the verbal domain, ISI'92, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Olivier, P., Ananiadou, S., & Tsujii, J., (1992). A visualization architecture based on the systematicity of
language, Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-92), Korea, Seoul.
TEACHING
Advanced Graphical Interfaces (UG, Newcastle University); Advanced Computer Graphics (UG, Newcastle
University); Artificial Inteeligence for Games (UG, Newcastle University), Human-Computer Interation (MSc
Newcastle University); Introduction to Computer Systems (UG, University of York); Practical Software Management
(Adv MSc, University of York); Advanced Graphical Interfaces (UG, University of York); Computer Graphics and
Visualization (UG, University of York); Algorithms and Data Structures (UG, University of York); User Interface
Design (UG, University of York); Introduction to Programming (MSc, University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Interactive
Computer Graphics (UG, University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Artificial Intelligence Concepts (UG, University of
Wales, Aberystwyth); Artificial Intelligence Systems (UG, University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Data Structures and
Algorithms (MSc, University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Introduction to Logic (UG, UMIST); Group project supervision
(York and Aberystwyth).
Numerous undergraduate and masters individual and group project supervision (Newcastle, York, Aberystwyth)
ADMINISTRATION
Undergraduare Selector (Newcastle University); Undergraduate admissions tutor (University of York);
Undergraduate admissions tutor (University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Convenor Research Meeting (University of
Wales, Aberystwyth); Secretary Department Board (University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Syllabus Committee
(University of Wales, Aberystwyth); Scholarship Examiner (University of Wales, Aberystwyth).
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