His video games research has won industry awards (gold award for excellent in crime prevention, Games for Change ‘Most Significant Impact’ nomination, and keynotes at industry events: PAX, G4C), academic recognition (from the Young and Well CRC, and best paper awards at International conferences: INTERACT and BHCI), and government recognition (invited presentations to Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia governments and Intellectual Property being used in projects across Asia, Africa and US of significant social, environment, cultural and commercial benefit). This work enveloped many technical disciplines including speech physiology, communicative psychology and sociology, together with acoustic analysis, speech recognition and computer-based facial modelling and animation.Ĭhristian is recognised by academia, industry and government as an international expert in interactive media, and have achieved awards and commercial success. He has developed systems that recognise human emotion from speech and from biometric sensors, and has applied these systems to create emotionally intelligent cars, robotics, mobile communications, customer relationship management, audio players and computer games.Ĭhristian's PhD (conferred 1998) developed a talking-head animation systems capable of automatically lip synching to speech and he has worked with a wide range of speech-enabled technologies, including video compression, immersive virtual reality, entertainment, e-business and interactive digital television. His research into affective computing considers how to develop systems that can automatically recognise human emotion and respond appropriately. He heads up large scale collaborative projects in mental health and wellbeing, physical health and fitness, sports analytics, medical training and simulation, child protection, road safety, augmented and virtual reality, affective computing (emotion), human computer interaction, and videogaming and serious games.

Immediately prior to this he had an academic position in computer science at Heriot–Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, as well as founder and CEO of a UK-based emotion engineering company, Affective Media. He joined USC in November 2006 to build collaborative research projects across the University and with local, national and international industry and government. His background is in Psychology and Technology.

He has a successful track record of managing large-scale academic research projects and spinning out Intellectual Property for industrial commercialisation.Ĭhristian is the leader of the Engage Research Lab - where technologies for social good are designed. Professor Christian Jones is both an academic and commercial entrepreneur.

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