Current Projects
Accessible Audio for Autistic Individuals - A3i
Project Lead: Dr Dan Johnston
The A3i: Accessible Audio for Autistic Individuals project is the first research project to characterise autistic individuals’ media access needs.
Binaural Acoustic Responses in Canines (BARC)
Project Lead: Dr Michael McLoughlin
Recent advances in the study of human spatial hearing use scanned 3D models of human ears to model sound localisation. We will explore these models and investigate dog spatial hearing...
Convergent Screen Technologies and Performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) LiveLAB
Project Lead: Professor Gavin Kearney, Professor Helena Daffern
The convergent screen technologies and performance in realtime (CoSTAR) programme provides researchers, companies and institutions across the UK with the infrastructure they need to conduct world-class research and development (R&D) in screen and performance technology.
Enhancing Audio Description II
Project Lead: Professor Mariana Lopez
Enhancing Audio Description II: implementing accessible, personalised and inclusive film and television experiences for visually impaired audiences, is a project that proposes a new paradigm in accessible experiences, in which there is not an overreliance on a narrator's spoken word, as in traditional Audio Description practices.
ParkVR: Re-imagining the Park Experience in VR
Project Lead: Dr Dan Johnston, Dr Constantin Popp
This research project investigates how existing parks can be re-imagined and brought into VR using state-of-the-art immersive technologies, interactive storytelling, and spatial audio.
Scalable Audio Frameworks For Immersive Realtime Experiences (SAFFIRE)
Project Lead: Professor Gavin Kearney, Professor Helena Daffern
This transformative project will deliver a novel framework where performers at remote locations can come together in a shared virtual performance space, whereby remote audiences can interact and engage in the experience.
The Past Has Ears
Project Lead: Professor Damian Murphy
PHE focuses on the preservation, conservation, and reconstruction of heritage sites, bringing them back from the ashes for use by researchers, stake holders, cultural institutions, and the general public.
Virtual Choirs in Care Homes
Project Lead: Professor Helena Daffern
This project will develop a new VR application that provides a therapeutic immersive group singing experience to residents in care homes.
XR Network+
Project Lead: Professor Damian Murphy
XR Network+ Virtual Production in the Digital Economy provides funding and support to researchers working in virtual production technologies.
XR Stories
Project Lead: Professor Damian Murphy
XR Stories and the Screen Industries Growth Network are research programmes with the aim to foster the growth and development of the screen industries in Yorkshire and the Humber.