Reinhold Behringer

Running Stream Professor of Creative Technology

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Since September 2005, I am working at Leeds Metropolitan University as "Running Stream Professor of Creative Technology" in the Innovation North - Faculty of Information and Technology. My interest is in combining information and computing technology with the creative process: I envision that ubiquitous computing and wearable computing will evolve into seamless systems, providing tools for increased productivity and enabling the creation of previously not possible works. This interaction technology will find its way into future computer games, and can also be used for new expressive modes in creating computer music.

My technology interest is in human-computer interaction systems, specifically computer vision as a system input method, and Augmented Reality as computer output method. Making computing systems more intelligent and autonously acting can also be applied in robotics and intelligent/autonomous systems such as future transport systems, and in the short term can provide increased safety in current transport systems.

Previous Work:

Before moving to the UK in 2005, I lived and worked in Southern California for 9 years. At Rockwell Scientific (RSC), a corporate privately held research laboratory, I worked on software development in projects related to human-computer interface technology as program manager. These R&D projects dealt with exploring the possibilities of these technologies for providing a faster and direct interface between humans and computers.

As president of SciAutonics, I facilitated in 2003 the forming of the team and company "SciAutonics" for participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2004, a competition of driverless vehicles. In October 2005, our team sent their autonomous vehicle RASCAL again into the competition - it drove more that 16 miles!