My interests are most broadly in interactive systems and particularly in the production and presentation of visual media. The communicational power of the human face is a recurring theme in my work. My passion is usability.
I have published papers and filed patents in the fields of HCI, psychology, tangible interfaces, computer vision and computer graphics. My portfolio has many examples of my projects. I have also written a regular blog for Business Weekly discussing a variety of new technologies and their implications.
I am currently studying Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art and developing software with ITO
World. I have also facilitated with Tinker.it and worked with Aldeburgh Music. My independent open-source activity has recently developed the Arduino Eye Shield, allowing the popular Arduino microprocessor to interpret analogue video. New propositions should be addressed to:
I cofounded the Curiosity Collective and I am an organiser of dorkbot anglia.
Between September 2000 and July 2009 I was a researcher at BT’s Broadband Applications Research Centre (BARC), where I was responsible for creating intellectual property and communicating new concepts to the business. Specifically those to drive and maintain broadband adoption. To accomplish this I built and designed software and hardware prototypes, evaluated them by user-study and disseminated the results in business presentations and academic publications. Any significant intellectual property generated was protected by patent.
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Publications
Visible Imagination: projected play
Chatting D J and Sutton J S, HCI 2009 (September 2009). [PDF]
Character Mediated Communications
Chatting D J, McCahill C and Gower A, Children and Embodied Interaction: Seeking Common Ground - IDC 2009 Workshop (June 2009). [PDF]
WISP: Wearable Illumination for Spatialised Play
Sutton J S and Chatting D J, Night and darkness: Interaction after dark - CHI 2008 Workshop (April 2008). [PDF]
Action and Reaction for Physical Map Interfaces
Chatting D J, Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2008 (February 2008). [PDF]
Presence and Portrayal: video for casual home dialogues
Chatting D J, Galpin J S and Donath J S, ACM Multimedia 2006 (October 2006). [PDF]
Viewpoint dependence in adaptation to facial identity
Benton C P, Jennings S J and Chatting D J, Vision Research 46(20):3313-25 (October 2006). [PDF]
Faces as Content
Chatting D J and Thorne J M, HCI and the Face - CHI 2006 Workshop (April 2006). [PDF]
Making Recognisable Faces
Chatting D J, Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2006 (April 2006). [PDF]
The Uncanny Valley: does it exist?
Brenton H, Gillies M, Ballin D and Chatting D J, Workshop on Human-Animated Character Interaction - HCI 2005 (September 2005). [PDF]
The Uncanny Valley: does it exist and is it related to presence?
Brenton H, Gillies M, Ballin D and Chatting D J, Presence-Connect (April 2005). [HTML]
Prometheus: Facial Modelling, Tracking and Puppetry
Thorne J M and Chatting D J, Vision, Video and Graphics, University of Bath, UK (July 2003). [PDF]
Real-time production and delivery of 3D media
Price M et al, Proc. International Broadcasting Convention, Amsterdam, Netherlands (September 2002). [PDF]
Designing User Interaction for Face Tracking Applications
Chatting D J and Thorne J M, DSV-IS 2002 (June 2002). [Abstract: PDF, Full Paper: PDF]
Republished in, "Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Interactive Systems" - ISBN: 3540002669
The Prometheus Project - the challenge of disembodied and dislocated performances
Thorne J M and Chatting D J, BT Technology Journal, 20, No 1, pp 85-90 (January 2002). [PDF]
Republished in, "Broadband Applications and the Digital Home" - ISBN: 0852964285.
Patents
Providing an Image for Display
Chatting D J, Milner V L and Thorne J M.
Publication Patent: WO2008025969
Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Intelligent Media Content Playing Device with User Attention Detection, Corresponding Method and Carrier Medium
Chatting D J and Kegel I C.
Publication Patent: WO2007113580
Publication Date: 11th October 2007
Adaptive Closed Group Caricaturing
Chatting D J, Shadbolt A and Thorne J M.
Publication Patent: WO2005069226
Publication Date: 28th July 2005
Video Communications Method and System
Chatting D J, Thorne J M and Morrison D G.
International Patent: WO2005025219
Publication Date: 17th March 2005
Image-Size Dependent Facial Caricaturing
Chatting D J, Thorne J M and Nightingale C.
International Patent: WO2004102484
Publication Date: 25th November 2004
Feature Based Caricaturing
Chatting D J, Thorne J M and Fendley M S.
International Patent: WO2004102483
Publication Date: 25th November 2004
Image Processing
Chatting D J and Morrison D G.
International Patent: WO0175797
Publication Date: 11th October 2001
Press
BT Balance
The Gadget Show - Channel Five, 17th December 2007.
New Scientist Graduate - Real Lives
New Scientist, 19th May 2007.
BT pilots 'motion-sensing' laptop
BBC, WIRED, Technology Review, silicon.com, more, 30th April 2007.
Video: Man vs machine in football fan battle
silicon.com, 17th April 2007.
BT people in the spotlight
BT Today, 5th December 2006.
Home editing for TV soccer
BT Today, 13th October 2006.
BT computers calculate football highlights
Nic Fildes, The Independent, 18th July 2006.
Pupils given preview of tomorrow's world
The Strathspey & Badenoch Herald, 25th May 2006.
Awards
BT Balance
PC Pro Awards finalist (Technology Innovator category), 5th December 2007.
IET Awards finalist (Emerging Technologies category), 13th November 2007.
