Advanced Interfaces Group

The Advanced Interfaces Group

The University of Manchester Advanced Interfaces Group researches virtual environments, collaborative visualization systems, and computer vision. The group is led by Steve Pettifer [ contact ].

Current projects| Previous projects (1996-2009)


Utopia Documents	Open PHACTS	Phantom Limb Pain rehabilitation

Vision-based Interfaces	Retinal imaging in diabetes and glaucoma	Simulation of blockplay in early childhood

Augmented Reality for Public Engagement	Exploring the Uncanny Valley	General Polygon Clipper (GPC)

Academic staff


Aphrodite Galata	Toby Howard	Tim Morris

Steve Pettifer	Roger Hubbold (Emeritus)

Research staff


James Marsh	Philip McDermott	Dave Thorne

PhD students

Aphrodite Galata supervises	Toby Howard supervises	Tim Morris supervises	Steve Pettifer supervises
Salil Deena	Adrian Albin-Clark	Issa Abbasi	Alex Constantin
Martin Fergie	Xin Bao	Raza Ali	Shaun McGlinchy
Monica Valenzuela Delgardo		Myrna Frias
Xing Yu		Michael May
		Abdulmalik Mohammed
		Suraya Mohammad
		Abdullah Sindhu
		Mike Taylor

Recent publications

C. Brenninkmeijer, C. Evelo, C. Goble, A.J.G. Gray, P. Groth, S. Pettifer, R. Stevens, A. Williams, and E. Willighagen. Scientific lenses: An approach to dynamically vary the relationships between datasets. In Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013), Berlin, Germany, July 2013. (Poster paper).

J. Ison, M. Kalas, I. Jonassen, D. Bolser, M. Uludag, H. McWilliam, J. Malone, R. Lopez, S. Pettifer, and P. Rice. EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats. Bioinformatics, Apr 2013.

T.L.J. Howard. Turing's contributions to the early Manchester computers. In S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen, editors, Alan Turing: His Work and Impact. Elsevier, 2013. ISBN 978-0123869807. In press.

S. Pettifer, T. Attwood, J. Marsh, and D. Thorne. Utopia documents: Transforming how industrial scientists interact with the scientific literature. In L. Harland and M. Foster, editors, Open source software in life science research: Practical solutions to common challenges in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. Springer-Verlag, November 2012. ISBN-10: 1907568972. [ http ]

A. J. Williams, L. Harland, P. Groth, S. Pettifer, C. Chichester, E. L. Willighagen, C. T. Evelo, N. Blomberg, G. Ecker, C. Goble, and B. Mons. Open PHACTS: Semantic interoperability for drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today, November 2012. [ DOI ]

S. Pettifer, J. Velterop, T. K. Attwood, L. Harland, J. Marsh, D. Thorne, and A. Tunbridge. Reuniting data and narrative in scientific articles. Insights, 25(3):288-293, November 2012. [ DOI ]

A. J. G. Gray, P. Groth, A. Loizou, S. Askjaer, C. Brenninkmeijer, K. Burger, C. Chichester, C. T. Evelo, C. Goble, L. Harland, S. Pettifer, M. Thompson, A. Waagmeester, and A. J. Williams. Applying linked data approaches to pharmacology: Architectural decisions and implementation. Semantic Web Journal, April 2012.