Rich Davison

About

I completed a PhD in computing science at Newcastle University in 2015, in which I investigated motion and force sensing devices for use in rehabilitation strategies for sufferers of hemiplegic stroke. Since 2019 I have been a lecturer in the School of Computing, as a member of Networked and Ubiquitous Systems Engineering group. My current research interests are in the areas of applied use of video game technology and computer graphics. I have been involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects that aim to use video game technology such as virtual reality and motion sensing controllers in medical, training, and educational capacities. I am also involved in research into lighting techniques and high performance GPU computing.

Education

• PhD Computing Science, Newcastle University, 2015

Selected publications

• Lighting and Shadow Techniques for Realistic 3D Synthetic Object Compositing in Images
• Adopting Best Practices from the Games Industry in Development of Serious Games for Health
• Benchmarking Motion Sensing Devices for Rehabilitative Gaming
• Bespoke Video Games to Provide Early Response Markers to Identify the Optimal Strategies for Maximizing Rehabilitation
• Early response markers from video games for rehabilitation strategies
• Dynamic Balancing and Walking for Real-Time 3D Characters
• Real-Time Deformable Soft-Body Simulation using Distributed Mass-Spring Approximations
• A General Purpose Contention Manager for Software Transactions on the GPU
• Adoption of Sparse 3D Textures for Voxel Cone Tracing in Real Time Global Illumination
• Privacy-preserving cooperative localization in vehicular edge computing infrastructure