Roderick McCall
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Research associate University of Luxembourg
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Dr Rod McCall joined SnT in October 2010 is a member of the SECAN-Lab research group which is led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel. His primary area of work is human-computer interaction where he focuses on aspects such as usability, place and presence within mixed realities, cars and mobile technologies. He leads two projects: I-GEAR (FNR) and LiveCity (EC). I-GEAR explores the use of incentives and serious gaming technologies to change driver behavior (PI: Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel). He is also the local project leader for LiveCity which explores live video-to-video systems that use new Internet right-of-way technologies (PI: Prof. Dr. Thomas Engel). Since joining SnT and in collaboration with colleagues he has attracted projects with a total value of €5.3m (approx.) with the University of Luxembourg's share being approximately €1.3m.
Prior to joining SnT he was based at Fraunhofer FIT and was the co-ordinator of the EC funded IPCity project on mixed realities and has worked on a number of other leading research projects relating to virtual reality and location-aware technologies. He has authored around 40 publications in conferences, journals, workshops, magazines and books during which time he has edited special issues of the Journal of Personal and Ubquitous Computing and Psychnology. He has also organised workshops at the ACM CHI and BCS HCI conferences and is a reviewer for many leading journals and conferences including: Interacting with Computers and Presence: Tele-operators and Virtual Environments. In 2008 he and his co-authors won a best paper award at the ACM MobileHCI conference for work on augmented reality gaming. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the IFIP working group on Social and Ethical Issues in Entertainment Computing.
Twitter: @rodlux (covers topics such as place, presence, location-aware gaming and mixed realities)
Full publications list and background at: Personal Website (not the responsibility of the University of Luxembourg)
Official University of Luxembourg Publication Database (only publications while at UL)
Programme and Organising Committees 2011-2012
- Joint Programme Chair for the workshops at The International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC) 2012, Bremen
- Co-organiser of the workshop on Ethics, Privacy and Trust at ICEC 2012, Bremen, Germany
- Programme committee for the Effects of Subliminal Perception in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Workshop at Ubicomp 2012
- Programme Committee of ISPR Presence 2011 Conference, Edinburgh, UK
- Programme Committee for the Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Conference (AutomotiveUI 2012), Portsmouth, USA
- Programme committee for the Mobile Gaming Workshop at the ACM ACE Conference 2011, Lisbon
Pending Publications
- Gaming Concepts and Incentives to Change Driver Behaviour. McCall, R. and V. Koenig. 1st International Workshop on Vehicular Communications and Applications (VCA 2012). Med-HOc-Net Conference. Aiya Napa, Cyprus.
- The Final TimeWarp: Using Form and Content to Support Player Experience and Presence when Designing Location-Aware Mobile Augmented Reality Games. Blum, L., Wetzel, R., McCall, R., and L. Oppermann. DIS 2012, Newcastle UK
- Let's Do The TimeWarp again - Subjective and Behavioural Presence Measurement and Interactivity in the Collaborative Augmented Reality Game TimeWarp. Klatt, J., von der Pütten, A.M.,Ten Broeke, S., McCall, R., Kràmer N.C., Wetzel, R., Blum, L., Oppermann, L. and J. Klatt. Journal: Interacting with Computers.
Recent Publications
- Using Presence to Evaluate Location Aware Games. McCall, R., Wetzel, R., Löschner, J. and A.K. Braun. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15 (2011), no. 1, pp. 25-35.
- Lightweight palm and finger tracking for real-time 3D gesture control / Hackenberg, G., McCall, R. and W Broll. IEEE VR 2011 (2011), pp. 19-26 , ISBN: 978-1-4577-0039-2
Some of the above publications are affiliated to Fraunhofer FIT but were written and/or published since joining SnT.
last modified:08 May 2012
