Prof.
Robert J. Stone
BSc
(Hons), MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, MErgS, Eur.Erg, FIoN, FVRS
Academician
(IHEAS, Moscow)
Chair
in Interactive Multimedia Systems
Director,
Human Interface Technologies Team
Department
of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University
of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham,
B15 2TT
Tel.:
(+44) (0)121 414 7395
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(+44) (0)121 414 4291
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The
University of Birmingham boasts in excess of 20,000 undergraduate and
postgraduate students, with around 2000 members of staff. It has an annual
income in excess of £200 million, and is one of a leading group of ten
research-based Universities in the United Kingdom.
The
Electronic, Electrical & Computing Engineering Department EECE (www.eng.bham.ac.uk/eece/)
has around 700 students and 27 academic staff with an annual income of around £6.7
million. It received top marks (24/24) for its teaching excellence in the last
UK Teaching Quality Assessement Exercise, and a grade 5 (internationally
leading) rating in the UK Research Assessment Exercise.
The
Interactive Systems Research Group within the EECE is host to
skilled personnel from many human-centred disciplines - psychologists,
educationalists, social scientists, and ergonomists - along with software
designers and engineers. Through a combination of scientific, psychological,
technological and social approaches to the design of human-technology systems,
the group develops methods of analysing how people perform complex tasks in
organizational settings, subsequently applying the analyses to the development
of systems that are not just usable, but also useful and appropriate to the
workplace. Partnerships with Kodak and other major companies including IBM,
British Telecom and Fujitsu will mean that the findings of the group can
directly influence the design of computer products that will be found in
hospitals, homes, schools and offices.
Track
Record. The University of Birmingham has a good
track record of involvement in European projects. In particular, the research
team related to this proposal is involved in two framework V IST projects (Lab
of Tomorrow and MobiLearn) and is developing the consortium for a
major Framework VI project on mobile learning technology.
Professor
Robert J. Stone
BSc
(Hons), MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, EurErg, FErgS, FIoN, FVRS
Prof. Bob Stone holds a Chair in Multimedia Interactive
Systems at the University of Birmingham. He graduated from University College
London in 1979 with a BSc in Psychology, and in 1981 with an MSc in Ergonomics
(Human Factors), and currently holds the position of Visiting Professor of VR
within the Faculty of Medicine at Manchester University. In 1996, he became an
Academician of the Russian International Higher Education Academy of Sciences
(Moscow). An accomplished Ergonomist (UK and Europe accreditation), As a result
of his pioneering in-theatre human task analysis efforts, which led to the
development of the world’s first commercial keyhole surgery trainer (MIST),
Bob holds the position of Director of Virtual Reality Studies for the North of
England Wolfson Centre for Human-Centred Surgical Technologies. Bob’s work in
telerobotics, VR and human factors has received a variety of awards and he is
regularly invited to keynote at major international events.
UoB1.
Stone, R.J., “The Opportunities for Virtual Reality and Simulation in the
Training and Assessment of Technical Surgical Skills”; in Proceedings of
Surgical Competence: Challenges of Assessment in Training and Practice (conference
organised by the Royal College of Surgeons and Smith & Nephew Foundation); 2
November, 1999; pp. 109-125.
UoB2.
Stone, R.J. (with John, Thacker, Pokric, Jackson, et al), “An
Integrated Simulator for Surgery of the Petrous Bone”; in Westwood, J.D.
(Ed.), Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
January 2001. IOS.
UoB3.
Stone, R.J., “Robotics and Microsurgery”; BBC Online Robot World Special
Review Feature; August, 2001 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/robots/review/submicro2.shtml).
UoB4.
Baber, C., 1997, Beyond the desktop: designing and using interaction devices,
New York: Academic Press
UoB5.
Baber, C. and Baumann, K. (2002) Embedded Human Computer Interaction, Applied
Ergonomics,33 273-287
UoB6.
Moody, C.L., Baber, C., and Arvanitis, T.N., 2002. Objective Surgical
Performance Evaluation Based on Haptic Feedback, Medicine Meets Virtual
Reality 02/10, Digital Upgrades: Applying Moore's Law, Studies in Health
Technology and Informatics, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 304- 310
UoB7.
Moody, C.L., Baber, C., Arvanitis, T.N. and Elliott, M. (2003) Objective metrics
for the evaluation of simple surgical skills in real and virtual domains, Presence:
Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12 (2)
UoB8.
R
McCloy, R Stone “Science, medicine and the future: virtual reality in
surgery”; BMJ 001;323: 912-915.
UoB9.
Gor, Mounna, McCloy R, Stone R, Smith A., “Virtual reality
laparoscopic simulator for assessment in gynaecology”; BJOG: an
International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2003; 110:
181-187.
UoB10. Elsharief Deena, Murphy Aine, Ballester P, McCloy R.
Comparison of large and small screen images for laparoscopic surgery – a
simulator and operating theatre based study. Presented at the Medicine Meets
Virtual Reality Conference: 11 th Annual Conference, Newport Beach, California,
22-25 th January 2003 (pp 37-38).