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Research area(s)

Damon's main research activities are within the Creative Computing, Games and Digital Media domain, and are specifically focused on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Games and Digital Media including Collaborative Content Modelling, Serious Gaming, Immersive technologies in cultural heritage, Immersive technologies in training and education, Gamification for accessibility design and User Modelling and Personalisation. He has worked on using Machine Learning for automated music generation, strategy planning, user modelling and game personalisation, use of Artificial Intelligence (swarm intelligence) in strategic and serious games, use of gamification for accessibility design and serious games for reading interventions in Dyslexia. He has been involved in various projects funded by the EPSRC, AHRC, NIH, the Bikeability Trust and Department for Transport. The results of his projects have been adapted for personalisation in MMOGs (Artemis) and in developing frameworks for collaborative decision-making games (Lu-Lu and responsive Lu-Lu).

Research Interests

• Applications of AI in Games and Digital Media
• Machine Learning & Evolutionary Algorithms (Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithm, Swarm Intelligence)
• Games, Serious Games and Gamification
• Accessibility Design in Games and Digital Media
• Extended Reality (xR) and Immersive Technologies: AR, VR and MR
• Computer Generated Music

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