Professor George Ghinea
Professor - Mulsemedia Computing

Topics

I am interested in working with bright and motivated in a variety of areas:

- Musemedia and multimedia based production, distribution and rendering

- Adaptive, cross-layer communication systems

- Quality of Experience and perception-based modelling

- Human computer interaction and integration of human factors in e-systems

 - Communications security

PhD projects for research students

• MulsEAV: Integrating Mulsemedia Experiences in Autonomous Vehicles - Collaborative Studentship

Research supervision

I am fortunate enough to lead a team of motivated, bright and enthusiastic individuals who work on exciting research areas within my expertise:

Abdul-Malik Baba - Abdul is exploring user information security behaviour on home computer and mobile devices in Ghana

Aleph Campos da Silveira - Aleph is exploring the use of physiological data to enhance Quality of Experience in mulsemedia-based VR

Hana Al-Bulushi - Hana is investigating factors behind smart city adoption in Oman

Maryam Mohd S B Majareh - Maryam is exploring Sustainable Digital Transformation and Innovation in the Qatari Public Sector

Past Members

Past members of my team, whom I have supervised on exciting projects as part of their PhD and postdoc studies, include:

Dr Stephen Gulliver (PhD, 2003) - Stephen explored the wys<> wyg relation in multimedia applications using the Quality of Perception metric. Stephen and I were the first persons to use eye-tracking to explore perceptual multimedia quality and to apply eye tracking in the assessment of continuous media.

Dr Tacha Serif (PhD, 2004) - Tacha used the Quality of Perception metric to explore the user infotainment experience across multiple access devices in his PhD. We then subsequently explored the use of PDAs for pervasive clinical data collection.

Dr Oyindamola Abass (PhD, 2007) - Oyinda integrated the use of original strategies incorporating confidence traits in e-negotiations.

Dr Oluwakemi Ademoye (PhD, 2008) - Kemi’s innovative work focused on the use of the Quality of Perception metric to explore the user experience of olfaction-enhanced multimedia.

Dr Elisabeth Enabulele (PhD, 2008) - Elisabeth enlarged the concept of quality in broadband applications through a multi-stakeholder perspective.

Dr Elahe Kani (PhD, 2008) - Elahe’s PhD focused on the implications of employing user-centred design strategies in media-rich digital libraries.

Dr Kunle Olowe (PhD, 2009) - Kunle used the Quality of Perception metric to explore the user infotainment experience of packet-based voice quality in communication networks

Dr Adel Almohammed (PhD, 2010) - Adel explored novel and efficient ways of using steganography in both images and video media content

Dr Fotis Spyridonis (PhD, 2012) - Fotis studyied the use of 3D visualization techniques for real-time, ubiquitous, data collection in telemedicine.

Dr Bachar Alrouh (PhD, 2012) - Bachar’s research focused on web services security and the computational overheads involved in adding extra such functionality to distributed systems

Dr Mubarak Alkhrang (PhD, 2012) - Mubarak’s work investigated e-learning adoption in Kuwait

Dr Mathias Kretschmer (PhD, 2012) - Mathias looked at seamless integration of Broadcast technologies such as Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) to introduce support for high-bandwidth multimedia services.

Dr Tor-Morten Gronli (PhD, 2012) - Tor-Morten’s work looked at enriching the concept of context with elements of media-rich Web 2.0 and situational awareness within the framework of a Personal Information Manager.

Dr Jarle Hansen (PhD, 2012) - Jarle’s research focused on information sharing between mobile devices using the Android platform.

Dr Abdullah Alhayani (PhD, 2013) – Abdullah’s research involved examining information security threats and challenges in Saudi financial institutions.

Dr. Pardis Pourghomi (PhD, 2014) - Pardis researched mobile payment solutions using Near Field Communications

Dr. Kaveh Darabi (PhD, 2015) - Kaveh's work explored solutions for personalising multimedia video abstracts

Dr. Mohamed Hassanein (PhD, 2015) - Mohamed's research investigated the area of web services security and steganography

Dr. Zawlikhah Alsomali (PhD, 2015) – Zawlikhah work examined e-banking adoption in Saudi Arabia

Dr Joharah Alzahrani (PhD,2015) – Joharah looked at ways to enhance interactivity in e-learning solutions for Saudi Arabia

Dr. Michael Scott (PhD, 2015) - Michael explored the fascinating possibilityof using digital games-based solutions to enhance learners' programming skills

Dr. Mesfin Fikre Woldmariam (PhD, 2016) - Mesfin proposed a novel inclusive mobile money system for everyday money practices in Ethiopia

Dr. Gebremariam Mesfin  Assres (PhD, 2016) - Gebremariam developed a novel framework for enhanced usability of web services on smartphones

Dr. Galina Akmayeva (PhD, 2018) - Galina investigated novel methods of access control and copyright in e-Learning 

Dr. Emmanuel (Manos) Perakakis (PhD, 2018) - Manos explored novel ways for building multi-platform interactive TV ads

Dr. Estevao Bissoli Saleme (PhD, 2019) - Estevao put forward a conceptual architecture and a framework for dealing with variability in mulsemedia systems

Dr. Suad Al Uraimi (PhD, 2020) - Suad proposed novel approaches for using ICTs to empower women in the sultanate of Oman

Dr. Christian Niephaus (PhD, 2020) - Christian investigated solutions for QoS-aware load distribution

Dr. Jens Maiero (PhD, 2020) – Jens explored ad-hoc interaction in mulsemedia-based Spatial Augmented Reality Environments

Dr. Anas Ali Alkasasbeh (PhD, 2020) - Anas investigated novel uses of  employing olfactory-based mulsemedia in a digital contex

Dr. Nadia Hussain (PhD, 2020) - Nadia expanded the concept of Quality of Experience to wearable devices

Dr. Douglas Paulo de Mattos (PhD, 2021) - Douglas proposed a novel approach for authoring mulsemedia applications based on events

Dr. Andreas Bjorn Hanssen (PhD, 2021) - Andreas investigated the complexities of cross-platform mobile development approaches