Professor Paul Vickers

Professor

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

I am Professor of Computer Science and Sonification in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences where I have worked since 2001. Prior to that I worked for 12 years in the School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, and from 1987-1988 I worked in a software development team at Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Reading.

My research interests are:

Sonification & Auditory Display
Visualisation (esp. visualisation for security)
Network security
Cyber security and situational awareness
Aesthetic Computing
Computing & Music

Teaching Interests

Computer Programming
Computer and Cyber Security
Research Methods

Campus Address

Ellison Building

Email Paul

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research is in the following main areas. I am especially interested in the points at which these topics intersect:

Sonification & Auditory Display
Network security
Visualisation
Aesthetic Computing
Embodied Interaction
Computing & Music

Key Publications

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ADSM: Audible Display of the Stock Market in Real Time, Storey, M., Vickers, P. 26 Jun 2023, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2023)
Listener Perception of Spatialised Audio for Embodied Interaction in Sonification, Beadling, A., Vickers, P. 30 Jun 2023, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2023) , Atlanta, USA, Georgia Institute of Technology
Listener-centred Sonification Practice as Transdisciplinary Experimental Artistic Engagement, Boehringer, J., Pietruszewski, M., Bowers, J., Hogg, B., Newbold, J., Sharma, G., Shaw, T., Vickers, P. 14 Nov 2022, New Paradigms for Music Research, Valencia, Spain, Publicacions Universitat de València
A Radical New Interdisciplinary Space for Sonification, Vickers, P., Boehringer, J., Bowers, J., Hogg, B., Newbold, J., Pietruszewski, M., Sharma, G., Shaw, T. 25 Jun 2021, ICAD 2021: The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display
Sonification of Solar Corona Data, Antolin, P., Boehringer, J., Pietruszewski, M., Bowers, J., Hogg, B., Newbold, J., Sharma, G., Vickers, P., Shaw, T. 25 Jun 2021, ICAD 2021: The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display
Sonifications Sometimes Behave So Strangely, Vickers, P. 2021, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, New York, London, Bloomsbury
The Many Ways of Listening: A Provisional Analysis of Talk in Critical Listening Sessions to Inform the Research Agenda of Sonification, Boehringer, J., Bowers, J., Vickers, P., Shaw, T., Sharma, G., Hogg, B., Pietruszewski, M., Newbold, J. 25 Jun 2021, ICAD 2021: The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display
Direct Segmented Sonification of Characteristic Features of the Data Domain, Vickers, P., Höldrich, R. 27 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria University
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search, Brown, P., Vickers, P., Zhou, Y. 29 Oct 2019, In: Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Proceedings of ICAD 2019 — The 25th Meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display, Vickers, P., Gröhn, M., Stockman, T. 26 Jul 2019

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: Panel Discussion: Audio-Visual Analytics Community – Bringing Senses to Mind 2023
Invited talk: Invited panel member for plenary session, Q&A open discussion, and debate on Arts, Science and Technology 2021
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: ICAD 2021: The 26th International Conference on Auditory Display 2021
Examination: PhD Examination 2020
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Shared Perceptual Spaces in the Sciences and the Arts 2019
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Sonification and sonic interaction design for space 2019
Examination: PhD Examination 2019
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: ICAD 2019: The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display 2019
Examination: DPhil Examination 2018
Examination: PhD Examination 2017