Author: Jamie O’Brien

I am currently Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. My current project seeks to map and model urban community formations in contrasting areas of Liverpool, UK, and Medellin, Colombia. I aim to integrate an urban model of community formations using GIS and network graphs to demonstrate how people use spaces to form boundaries, thresholds and interfaces to form their community identities. I have a broad interest in visual methods and visualization. My undergraduate degree was in Fine Art & Critical Theory, in which I explored applications of technology in visual representation. I hold an Engineering Doctorate from UCL (equivalent to PhD, also including scientific and enterprise training). My thesis covered topics of VR application in neuro-therapy rehabilitation, specifically examining the effect patients undertaking therapy treatments using home-life simulations. In 2007 I was Enterprise Scholar at the London Business School/UCL Centre for Scientific Enterprise, where I was also a business case writer for teaching purposes. Since 2009 I have been Manager of the UCL Centre for Virtual Environments, Interaction and Visualisation.

Talking Plexopolis with Jamie O’Brien

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Michalina A. Kulakowska and Jamie O’Brien

Thanks to their versatile nature, games and simulation tools are now widely appreciated by academics and businesses and willingly employed as a significant component of multipartner projects. We have had a chance to ask Dr Jamie O’Brien about how the Cimplex project incorporated games.