Chris Gunn

Chris Gunn

Senior Software Engineer

Contact

Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus

Tel: 61 2 6216 7081
Email

Themes

  • eHealth
  • Mining Down Under

Projects

  • Human Systems Integration
  • Remote Immersive Diagnostic Examination System

Biography

Electrical engineer for 8 years.
Commercial software development for 4 years.
Scientific software research and development for 18 years
My particular interest is in developing virtual environments involving haptics and distance collaboration. Areas of application include surgical training, geological exploration and mine planning.
Other interests include enhancing video-conferencing with interaction techniques, tele-operation and scientific visualisation.

Academic Qualifications

2007 Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Western Australia
1985 Graduate Diploma of Computing Studies, University of Canberra
1975 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of Western Australia

Recent Professional Experience

2005-Present: project leader, CSIRO ICT Centre
1990-2005: senior software engineer, CSIRO ICT Centre
1986-1990: software engineer, ACT Gaming and Liquor Authority
1982-1985: engineer at CSIRO
1976-1980: electrical engineer with the public service

Achievements & Awards

2005: ICT Centre Innovation Award for collaborative surgical training system
2009: AIIA iAward for eHealth Innovation, ACT, for RIDES (Remote Immersive Diagnostic Examination System)
Patents:
1.AU2008329571(2008), PCT/AU2008/001777 : A System and Method for Providing Remote Indication. Doug Palmer, Matthew Hutchins, Chris Gunn, Jocelyn Smith, Duncan Stevenson, Ken Taylor, Matt Adcock

Other Highlights

1992 Provided consultancy to US National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Books/Book chapters 1
Journal 6
Refereed Conference/Workshop 30
Technical/Client Reports 4
Invited Presentations 3
Patents 1

Student Supervision

2006-2007 4th year project, ANU

Science Citizenship

2003 Panel, graphite conference
2007 Reviewer for Journal of Computing and information Science in Engineering

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Gunn, "Collaborative virtual sculpting with haptic feedback", Virtual Reality Journal, Special Edition on Collaborative Virtual Environments for Creative People, vol 10, no 2, Springer, London, Oct 2006.
Gunn, C., Stevenson, D., "In-vivo Surgical Instruction across the Pacific", Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, vol 12, no 3. pp 106, 2006 (Successes and Failures in Telehealth 2006, Brisbane August 2006).
Hutchins, M., Adcock, M., Stevenson, D., Gunn, C., Krumpholz, A., “The design of perceptual representations for practical networked multimodal virtual training environments”, Proc. HCI International 2005: 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Gunn, C., Hutchins, M., Adcock, M., "Combating Latency In Haptic Collaborative Virtual Environments", Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol 14, no 3, pp 313-328, June 2005
Gunn, C., M. Hutchins, M., Stevenson, D., Adcock, M., Youngblood P.,“Using Collaborative Haptics in Remote Surgical Training”, Proc. WorldHaptics, Pisa, Italy, March 2005.
Gunn, C., “Using Force Fields as a User Interface Device”, Proc. VR2005, Bonn, Germany, March 2005.
Gunn, C., Zhu, D., "Haptic Tele-operation of Industrial Equipment", APCHIErgo2010, Indonesia, August 2010, pp 640-646.
Gunn, C., Adcock, M., "Using Sticky Light Technology for Projected Guidance", OZCHI 2011 pp 131-135, Canberra, Australia
Gunn, C., "A networked virtual environment for teaching surgery", Book chapter in "Computer Science Research and the Internet" Nova Science Publishers Inc., NY, USA., 2010.
Gunn, C., Muller W. and Datta, A., 2. "Performance Improvement with Haptic Assistance: A Quantitative Assessment", Third Joint EuropHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WorldHaptics), Salt Lake City, USA, March, 2009.

Number of citations

ISI 3
Google Scholar 98

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