Location Microsoft Research Roger Needham Building 7 J J Thompson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FB. UK

Web: http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/people/david/ Email: d.molyneaux [at] comp.lancs.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1223 479 969

I am a PostDoc Senior Research Associate in the Embedded Interactive Systems (EIS) group at Lancaster University, but based full-time in Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, where I am also a research consultant. 

Before moving to Cambridge, I was awarded my PhD by Lancaster University in 2008 for research in Augmented Reality and Ubiquitous Computing entitled "Cooperative Augmentation of Smart Objects with Projector-camera systems", where everyday objects with small embedded sensing and computation devices (so called "smart objects") were detected and tracked visually and enabled for user interaction through projected interfaces. 

Immediately before my PhD I had a some-what unusual job, working for several years at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, where I managed communications and computing systems for the British Antarctic Survey. 

Prior to that I worked for the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (now called Qinetiq) as a software engineer in aerodynamics and flight simulation.

• Human Computer Interaction
• Augmented Reality
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Interactive Multitouch tabletops
• Handheld and Steerable projected interfaces
• Mobile smart objects
• Computer vision
• Machine Learning

My PhD work presents a new approach for cooperation between mobile smart objects and projector-camera systems to enable augmentation of the surface of these objects with interactive projected displays. I investigated how a smart object’s capability for self description and sensing can be used in cooperation with the vision capability of projector-camera systems to help locate, track and display information onto object surfaces in unconstrained environments.

The displays achieved with such Cooperative Augmentation allow smart objects to deliver visual feedback to users such as interactive user interfaces and notification messaging. Wireless sensing embedded within the objects can detect various forms of explicit interaction, supporting objects as both input and output medium simultaneously. This work contributes to the central vision of Ubiquitous Computing by enabling everyday objects and activities to be augmented digitally.

"Cooperative Augmentation Concept with Chemica Container Smart Object". 30MB Quicktime MOV (Sorensen3 codec, 352x288).

"Coopertive Augmentation vision and sensor based interaction with smart object". 15MB Quicktime MOV (Sorensen3 codec, 352x288).

"Cooperative Augmentation - Stick-on sensors make smart mug temperature sensitive". 81MB Quicktime MOV (Sorensen3, 720x576).

• Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Richard Newcombe, Steve Hodges, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Andrew Davison, Andrew Fitzgibbon, ?KinectFusion: Real-Time Interactions with Dynamic 3D Surface Reconstructions?. To appear at UIST 2011.

• Alex Butler, Otmar Hilliges, Shahram Izadi, David Molyneaux, Steve Hodges, ?Vermeer: Direct Interaction with a Horizontal 360-Degree Viewable 3D Display?. To appear at UIST 2011.

• Shahram Izadi, Richard Newcombe, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Steve Hodges, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Anderw Davison, Andrew Fitzbiggon, ?KinectFusion: Real-Time Dynamic 3D Surface Reconstruction and Interaction?. To appear in SIGGRAPH 2011 Late Breaking Results.

• David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen, Gerd Kortuem and Bernt Schiele. "Cooperative Augmentation of Smart Objects with Projector-Camera Systems". In Proc. Ubicomp 2007, Springer, pp. 501-518, September 2007.

• David Molyneaux and Hans Gellersen, ?Projected Interfaces: Enabling Serendipitous Interaction with Smart Tangible Objects?, In Proc. Tangible Embedded Interaction 2009, ACM, Cambridge, February 2009.

• David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen and Bernt Schiele, ?Vision-Based Detection of Mobile Smart Objects?, In Proc. Euro Smart Sensing and Context 2008, Springer LNCS, pp. 27-40, Zurich, October 2008.

• Florian Block, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Mike Hazas, David Molyneaux, Nicolas Villar. "Locating Physical Interface Objects on Interactive Surfaces". In: Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'06), Workshop at Informatik 2006, Dresden, Germany, October 2006.

• David Molyneaux and Hans Gellersen. "Cooperatively Augmenting Smart Objects with Projector-Camera Systems". In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Camera-Projector Systems, pp. 13-14, New York, June 2006.

• David Molyneaux, Gerd Kortuem. "Ubiquitous displays in dynamic environments: issues and opportunities". Ubiquitous Display Environments Workshop at Ubicomp 2004, Nottingham, September, 2004.