Dr. John C. Murray
Campus: Brayford (Lincoln)
Email: jomurray@lincoln.ac.uk
Tel: 01522 886903
Role
Lecturer in the Lincoln School of Computer Science.
Academic Activities
- Co-Chair of International workshop on: Affective-aware Virtual Agents and Social Robots (AFFINE) held as part of the ICMI-MLMI 2009 Conference. Boston, MA, USA.
- Conference reviewer for:
- IROS
- IJCNN
- HCI
- Alife
- RO-MAN
- Journal Reviewer for:
- JMUI – Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces
Biography
John received a BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2002 and a Ph.D in Computational Robotics and Neuroscience from the University of Sunderland in 2006. John is a new member of the department, having joined the Lincoln School of Computer Science in September 2009. Prior to this, John has spent 7 years as a Visiting Lecturer at various universities around the UK and worked on several large projects as a PostDoctoral Researcher, in the fields of Robotics and Vision.
Research Interests
John has a wide variety of research interests which include work into acoustics (Localisation, Component Analysis), and the broad scope of robotics. John has been working within robotics for many years and has focused his interests into two main areas, HRI (Human-Robot-Interaction), specifically in Emotion understanding and Developmental Robotics, and Aerial Robotics, looking into visual guided systems, autonomous control systems, and multi-agent (swarm) systems.
Recent Publication List
Murray, J.C., Erwin, H.R. and Wermter, S. 'A hybrid architecture using cross-correlation and recurrent neural networks for robotic sound-source localisation'. Journal of Neural Networks, Special Edition, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 173-189, March 2009.
Malatesta, L., Murray, J., Boucenna, S., Raouzaiou, A., Hiolle, A., Pierre, A., Cañamero, L., Gaussier, P., Karpouzis, K. 'Emotion modelling and facial affect recognition in human-computer and human-robot interaction'. Affective Computing, Emotion Modelling, Synthesis and Recognition, V. Kordic (ed.), ARS Publishers, 2008.
Murray, J.C. and Cañamero, L. 'Towards a Model of Emotion Expression in an Interactive Robot Head'. Proceedings of 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Toyama International Conference Center, Japan, Sept. 27 - Oct. 2, 2009.
O'Bryne, C., Cañamero, L. and Murray, J. 'The Importance of the Body in Affect-Modulated Action Selection: A Case Study Comparing Proximal versus Distal Perception in a Prey-Predator Scenario'. Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction, Amsterdam, September 10-12, 2009.
Murray, J., Cañamero, L., Bard, K., Davila Ross, M. and Thorsteinsson, K. 'The Influence of Social Interaction on the Perception of Emotional Expression: A case study with a robot head'. Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (CSIR), Hosted by: FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009 [Accepted], Incheon, Korea. August 16 - 18, 2009.
Murray, J.C., and Cañamero, L. 'Developing Preferential Attention to a Speaker: A Robot Learning to Recognise its Carer'. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: ALife 2009, Nashville, TN, USA. March 30 - April 2, 2009.
Murray, J.C., Wermter, S., and Knowles, M. 'MIRA: A Learning Interactive Robot Agent'. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2008, Barcelona, Spain, September 10-12, 2008.
Murray, J.C., and Cañamero, L. 'Towards a Hormone-Modulated Model for Emotion Expression in a Socially Interactive Robot Head'. Workshop - The Role of Emotion in Adaptive Behavior and Cognitive Robotics at SAB 2008 - Simulation and Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, July 7-12, 2008.
Murray, J.C., Neal, M.J., and Labrosse, F. 'Intelligent Kite Aerial Platform for Site Photography'. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE CASE, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, September 22-25, 2007.
Murray, J.C., Rowan, C., Yau, A., Elshaw, M. and Wermter, S. 'Sound localisation and emotional language communication in the Mira robot head'. Proceedings of the AI Video Competition at 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.