þÿ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Biographical Information</TITLE> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.hw.ac.uk/css/main.css"> <SCRIPT language=JavaScript> <!-- var url function changepage(formObject) { url = formObject.options[formObject.options.selectedIndex].value; formObject.options.selectedIndex = 0; window.location=url; url = ""; } function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x; } function MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore){ //v3.0 eval(targ+".location='"+selObj.options[selObj.selectedIndex].value+"'"); if (restore) selObj.selectedIndex=0; } function MM_jumpMenuGo(selName,targ,restore){ //v3.0 var selObj = MM_findObj(selName); if (selObj) MM_jumpMenu(targ,selObj,restore); } //--> </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#000099 onload="MM_preloadImages('images/guide_on.gif','#943309662716');MM_preloadImages('Images/newIn.gif')"> <DIV align=center> <TABLE align=center border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="95%"> <TBODY> <TR vAlign=middle> <TD width="40%"><a href="index.html"><img src="Images/aylett.gif" width="320" height="39" border="0"></a> </TD> <TD align=right width="60%"> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tbody> <tr> <td> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>&nbsp; </font></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td></td> <td> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td> <form name="form1"> <select name="menu1" onChange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,1)"> <option selected>jump to...</option> <option value="index.html">Homepage</option> <option value="bio.html">Bio</option> <option value="teaching.html">Teaching</option> <option value="research.html">Research</option> <option value="projects.html">Projects</option> <option value="pubs.html">Publications</option> <option value="contact.html">Contact Details</option> <option value="people.html">People</option> <option value="narrative.html">Narrative</option> <option value="agents.html">Agents</option> <option value="personal.html">Personal stuff</option> <option value="writing.html">Non-academic writing</option> <option value="links.html">Links</option> </select> <input type="button" name="Button1" value="Go" onClick="MM_jumpMenuGo('menu1','parent',1)"> </form> </td> <td><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>&nbsp; </font> </td> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> <TABLE align=center border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="95%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=top height="50" width="19%"><img src="Images/TopLeftSwirl.jpg" width="178" height="21"><br> <img src="Images/leftCurl.jpg" width="26" height="75"></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=top height="50" width="54%"> <div align="center"> <h3><b><font color="#003399"></font></b></h3> </div> </TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=top height="50" width="27%"><a href="new.html" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('new','','Images/newIn.gif',1)"><img name="new" border="0" src="Images/new.gif" width="100" height="38"></a></TD> </TR> <TR align=center> <TD bgColor=#ffffff colSpan=3 height="18"> <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td ALIGN=CENTER></td> <td ALIGN=CENTER><h1><font SIZE=+3 color="#990099">Ruth Aylett BSc, MBCS, CEng</font></h1></td> </tr> <tr> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=MIDDLE><a HREF="Images/Ruth-small.jpg"><img SRC="Images/Ruth-small.jpg" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=139 WIDTH=160></a></td> <td ROWSPAN=2><p><font class="body"><font SIZE=+1>R</font>uth is Professor of Computer Sciences in the <a href="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/index.htm">School of Maths and Computer Science</a> at <a href="http://www.hw.ac.uk">Heriot-Watt University</a>. She researches intelligent graphical characters, affective agent models, human-robot interaction, and interactive narrative. She was a founder of the International Conference Intelligent Virtual Agents. She has more than 200 publications - book chapters, journals, and refereed conferences.</font></p> <p><font class="body"> <font SIZE=+1>A</font>fter a first degree in mathematical economics at the London School of Economics Ruth entered computing with ICL as a graduate trainee in 1976. After three years of technical support she moved to Sheffield University where she worked in the micro-computing laboratory and developed an interest in Artificial Intelligence. During five years as a lecturer at the Sheffield Hallam University she developed these interests with particular reference to cognitive modelling, natural language and intelligent interfaces. </font> <p><font class="body"><font SIZE=+1>I</font>n 1989 she took up a post at the <a HREF="http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/">Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute</a> in Edinburgh University where she specialised in knowledge acquisition and knowledge engineering methodologies, working in the South Bridge building destroyed by fire Dec 7th 2002. This was followed by two years as leader of the AI group at the National Advanced Robotics Research Centre on the University of Salford campus with special responsibility for task planning. The robotics work done there was continued by UK Robotics, more recently known as RTS Advanced Robotics</font></p> <p> <font class="body"><font SIZE=+1>M</font>oving to the then <a href="http://www.isi.salford.ac.uk">IT Institute</a> in Salford University in 1992, she worked on co-operating robots with Dave Barnes, then at Salford and now at Aberwstwyth, linking a task planner to a behavioural robot architecture. In 1998 she moved to the newly set up <a HREF="http://www.nicve.salford.ac.uk/">Centre for Virtual Environments</a> and located her research in the overlap between 3D interactive graphics and artificial intelligence, first as Senior Lecturer, and then, from 2000, as Professor of Intelligent Virtual Environments. She moved to Heriot-Watt University in 2004.</font> </p> <font class="body"><font SIZE=+1>T</font>he more personal stuff is <a href="personal.html">here</a>.</font> </td> </font> </tr> <p> </p> <tr> <td VALIGN=TOP> <center><p> <IMG height=39 src="Images/e-address.jpg" width=150><br> <br> </p></center> <h3> <center><p><font class="body">Ruth Aylett,<br> School of Maths and Computer Science, <br> Montbatten Building, <br> Heriot-Watt University,<br> Edinburgh,<br> E14 4AS.<br> </font></p></center> <center><p><font class="body">Tel +44 131 451 4189<br> Fax +44 131 451 3327 </font></p></center> </h3> </td> </tr> <tr> <td COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><font SIZE=-1> <IMG SRC="http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cgi-bin/nph-count?link=ruthbio-index.htm&width= 5"/> Visitors since 22/10/04 </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td COLSPAN=2 ALIGN=CENTER><font SIZE=-1>Last Update: 22 Oct 2004</font></td> </tr> </table> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=bottom width="19%" height="40"><a href="http://www.hw.ac.uk"><img src="Images/hwlogo.jpg" width="113" height="84" border="0"></a></TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=bottom width="54%" height="40">&nbsp;</TD> <TD align=right bgColor=#ffffff vAlign=bottom width="27%" height="40"> <P><a href="http://www.hw.ac.uk"><img src="Images/whiteSpace.gif" width="85" height="85" border="0"></a>&nbsp; </P> <DIV align=right></DIV> <img src="Images/bRightCurl.jpg" width="243" height="26"></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD colSpan=3 vAlign=bottom height="2"> <TABLE border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><IMG height=1 src="Images/whiteSpace.gif" width=1></TD> <TD align=right>&nbsp;</TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </DIV> </BODY> </HTML>