Dr Helen Miles
BSc, PhD, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

Email: hem23@aber.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0003-4063-6479
Office: C37, Llandinam Building
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 628680
Personal Website: https://lionspaws.github.io
Twitter: @LionsPaws
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=OWuu1f0AAAAJ
Research Portal Profile
Personal Pronouns: she/her

Profile

Helen's research is in the field of computer graphics, virtual environments, visual perception and data visualisation. She has a BSc (2010) and PhD (2014) in Computer Science from Bangor University. She moved to Aberystwyth in 2014 to work as PDRA on the HeritageTogether project, collecting 3D digital recordings of neolithic archeology sites in Wales. In 2015 she became a lecturer for the department. Since 2016, Helen has been working as part of Aberystwyth University’s ExoMars team, simulating images from the perspective of the PanCam instrument led by UCL/MSSL and developing processes to work with the images taken by PanCam.

From 2019-23 she led the £2.4m ESF Advanced Media Production project to develop a postgraduate-level training programme, supporting Wales’ creative industries sector by training professionals and graduates to exploit new technologies in media production. The project was shortlisted for the 2021 Times Higher Education Awards 'Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year'.

Helen is a member of the BCS, and is on the committees for BCSWomen and BCS Mid Wales. From 2017-2020, Helen was chair of the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium, an annual conference for undergraduate women in computing.

Teaching

Module Coordinator

Coordinator

Lecturer

Research

Computer graphics
Virtual environments and virtual reality
Visual perception
Data visualisation
Virtual reconstruction

Responsibilities

Computer Science Employability Coordinator (2016-18)
Computer Science Head of Admissions, Marketing and Recruitment (2017+)

Research Groups

Publications

Ladegaard, A, Gunn, M, Miles, H & Tyler, L 2023, AUPE: An Emulator for the ExoMars PanCam Instrument. in D Hunter & P Vangorp (eds), Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC). Eurographics. 10.2312/cgvc.20231199

Cerkez, T, Finnis, J, Kurki, M, Miles, H & Thurgate, JJ 2023, Reflections on Imagination of Future and AI. in Handbook of knowledge and expertise in international politics. Oxford University Press.

Hajzer, SP, Jones, A, Jones, D, Miles, H, Ellis, V, Villagra Povina, F, Sganga, M, Swain, M & Bennett-Gillison, S 2023, Towards Ceramics Inspired Physiotherapy for Recovering Stroke Patients. in Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC). Eurographics. 10.2312/cgvc.20231194

Hajzer, SP, Jones, A, Jones, D, Miles, H, Ellis, V, Sganga, M, Bennett-Gillison, S, Villagra Povina, F & Swain, M 2023, 'Towards Ceramics Inspired Physiotherapy for Recovering Stroke Patients', Computer Graphics & Visual Computing , Aberystwyth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 14 Sept 2023 - 15 Sept 2023. 10.2312/cgvc.20231194

Miles, H, Zerk, R, Wydall, S, Freeman, E, Jones, AL & Hancock, N 2022, '‘Through their eyes’: virtual experience as a help-seeker of domestic violence and abuse', Digital transformation: Wales Data Nation Accelerator (WDNA), 26 May 2022.

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