Plymouth University

Graduate Student, Architecture, Design and Environment

PhD researcher

About

The objective of my research project is to find a new and compelling method for telling stories and narratives that are presented via the use of an interactive panorama. The final goal of the project is to build on the tradition of touring panoramas and to create a new form of demountable immersive digital 'gallery space' or 'virtual arena' that is suitable for a broad spectrum of audio-visual material and other creative content. I was awarded MSc in Surveying and Cartography, specialization in Geo-computer science, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland (2000-2005). I was also a Socrates/Erasmus exchange programme student at Dresden University of Technology (2004-2005) and the title of my thesis was: Generation of a virtual tour in the 3D space applying panoramas exercised on the sites of Dresden and Cracow, where methods of creating stereo panoramas were researched. This thesis was distinguished by Polish Ministry of Infrastructure in 2006. I am a panorama photographer and create multimedia presentations. I won a number of business awards at the University of Plymouth. My sole-trader was awarded the Microentrepreneur of Year 2006 in Poland. I published a few multimedia DVDs with interactive full screen panoramas and have designed the website about my research (www.charles3d.info and www.360stories.net). I won Dragons’ Den at the VC’s Research and Enterprise Conference 2009 and funds received allowed me to explore 360-degree opportunities in Canada. My paper presented on the Virtual Systems and MultiMedia conference (VSMM2009) was awarded the Best Student Paper Award. I was also a shortlisted finalist – Postgraduate Research Student of the Year 2010. I have presented papers and provided workshops at: The International Panorama Councils conference in Dresden & Leipzig, Germany; 3D modelling and Archaeology Summer School, Ascona, Switzerland; The 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia VSMM2009, Vienna, The Panotools meetings in Lucerne, Switzerland 2007 & Prague, Czech Republic, 2008; CAA Computer Applications and Quantitive Methods in Archaeology Conference, Oslo Norway, 2008, and the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts Conference, London, 2010, The 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia VSMM2010 in Seoul, South Korea, 3D-ARCH2011, Trento, Italy and immersiveEducation 2011 in Boston, USA.

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