Dr. Neil Madden

Research Fellow

Mixed Reality Lab,
School of Computer Science,
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG8 1BB UK

Email:: Neil.Madden@nottingham.ac.uk
Office:: C10a
Phone:: +44 (0)115 8466782

About Me

I am a Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Lab here at Nottingham. I am also a member of the Intelligent Agents Group in the School of Computer Science. My research interests are in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, agent-oriented programming languages and software development, narrative generation, and ubiquitous computing. I am currently involved in a number of projects, including EDUCATE (an EU project with the School of the Built Environment), Digital Replay System (DRS), and BigraphSpace. I graduated with my PhD in Computer Science from Nottingham in July 2009, titled “Collaborative Narrative Generation in Persistent Virtual Environments”. My supervisor was Dr. Brian Logan.

Previous Projects

In mid 2009, I was involved in developing and deploying a project for the Venice Biennale arts festival. The piece, titled Ulrike and Eamon Compliant was a collaboration with Blast Theory and commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion as a collateral exhibition in the Biennale fringe. It ran from the 4th–7th of June, 2009.

I was previously employed as a Research Associate for the INSCAPE: Storytelling for Creative People project, a European Commission Sixth Framework project (number 004150). This project aimed to provide tools to enable ordinary people to author and experience “interactive stories”.

I have also been involved in providing technical assistance/consultation for a project investigating “griefing” and antisocial behaviour in online virtual environments: a collaboration across the schools of Computer Science, Business, and Psychology.

Lecturing and Tutorials

I am currently lecturing for the MSc course Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (G64FAI), mentored by Brian Logan. Previously, I have been a tutor for modules on designing intelligent agents and concepts of concurrency.

Publications

2009

Neil Madden and Brian Logan. “Modularity and Compositionality in Jason” — in Proceedings of ProMAS 2009.
Iain Coyne, Thomas Chesney, Brian Logan and Neil Madden. “Griefing in a virtual community: An exploratory survey of Second Life residents” — Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology Special Edition on Cyber-bullying (to appear).
Thomas Chesney, Iain Coyne, Brian Logan, and Neil Madden. “Griefing in Virtual Worlds: Causes, Casualties and Coping Strategies” — Information Systems Journal (to appear).

2007

Neil Madden and Brian Logan. “Collaborative Narrative Generation in Persistent Virtual Environments.” — in Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, Arlington, Virginia, 9–11 November, 2007.
Thomas Chesney, Iain Coyne, Brian Logan and Neil Madden. “A design for researching virtual worlds—opportunities and limitations.” — in Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, St. Galen, Switzerland, 7–9 June, 2007.

2005

Ella Tallyn, Boriana Koleva, Brian Logan, Dan Fielding, Steve Benford, Giulia Gelmini and Neil Madden. “Embodied reporting agents as an approach to creating narratives from live virtual worlds.” — in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Ed, Proceedings of Virtual Storytelling 2005, Strasbourg, November 2005.
Neil Madden and Brian Logan (2005). “Modelling Perceptual Phenomena using Temporal Abstraction Networks.” — in Proceedings of Modeling Natural Action Selection Workshop, MNAS '05, Edinburgh, 30–31 July, 2005.
Neil Madden and Brian Logan (2005). “It's About Time” — poster at IJCAI '05 Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, August 2005.

2003

Neil Madden (2003). “Optimising RETE for low-memory, multiagent systems” — in Proceedings of Game-On 2003: 4^th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, pages 77–81, London, November 2003.