The School of Computing

Paul  Gnanayutham

Dr. Paul Gnanayutham

Senior Lecturer (Postgraduate Admissions Tutor)

School of Computing

Office 1:10 Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE

Paul.Gnanayutham@port.ac.uk

http://www.paulgnanayutham.com

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Dr. Paul Gnanayutham
Senior Lecturer and course leader for MSc and BSc courses

Professional Details 

 

(1) Research since 2000 

(1.1) Research Interests – looking for PhD students in the following areas
  • Brain Body Interfaces
  • Robotics for brain injured
  • Self-healing and dynamic
  • GRID systems
  • Mobile agents
(1.2) Authored Books

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2008), Developing Brain Body Interfaces for the Visually Impaired, Chapter 4, pp 41 - 54, ISBN: 978-960-6672-34-7, Published by ATINER, 2008

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2008), Using Multimedia based Assistive Technology to Enhance Pronunciation Skills for Children with Phonological Disorders, Chapter 3, pp 27 - 40, ISBN: 978-960-6672-34-7, Published by ATINER, 2008

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2008), Brain-body interfaces, Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, User Interfaces for All - Concepts, Methods, and Tools, Taylor and Francis.

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2006), Using Human Computer Interaction Concepts to Design Interfaces for the Brain Injured, Chapter 1, pp 2 -14, ISBN: 960-6672-07-7, Published by ATINER, 2006

Gnanayutham, P., Peart, A., (2005), Survey of the latest Concepts in Distributed Systems,Chapter 20, pp 255-260, ISBN 960-88672-3-1, Published by ATINER, 2005
(1.3) Authored Journals

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2008), Using multimedia Interfaces for Speech Therapy, Universal Access in the Information Society, Springer, accepted for publication.

Gnanayutham, P., (2006), The State of Brain Body Interface Devices, UsabilityNews, http://www.usabilitynews.com/, October 2006.

Gnanayutham, P., (2004), Assistive Technologies for Traumatic Brain injury, September 2004, ACM SIGACCESS Newsletter, issue no. 80, pages 18 - 21.

Gnanayutham, P., Bloor, C., Cockton, G., (2002), Researching Applications for Brain Computer Interface, Ability Magazine, Issue 42, March 2002, 20 - 21 
(1.4) Authored Conference Publications
Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2008), Analysis of Research Methodologies for Neurorehabilitation, ATINER, Greece, 2008, July 2008, Athens.

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2008), Global Legislation, Accessibility Practices and Assistive Technology, ATINER, Greece, 2008, July 2008, Athens.

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2008), An experiment using personalised multimedia interfaces for speech therapy, ICCHP2008, July 2008, Springer-Verlag Publishers, July 2008, Linz, 1236 – 1243.

Eyasim, F., Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2008), Multimedia Interfaces for BSL Using Lip Readers, ICCHP2008, July 2008, Springer-Verlag Publishers, July 2008, Linz, 663 – 669.

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2008), Adaptive Brain-Body Interfaces, BCI-HCI Symposium, A Symposium at the Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland 2008, CD-ROM.

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2007), Developing Brain Body Interfaces for the Visually Impaired, ATINER 2007, July 2007, Athens.

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2007), Using Multimedia Based Assistive Technology to Enhance Pronunciation Skills for Children with Phonological Disorders, ATINER 2007, July 2007, Athens.

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2007), Inclusive Design for Brain Body Interfaces, HCI International 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, July 2007, Beijing.

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2007), Facilitating pronunciation skills for Children with phonological disorders using Human Modelling, HCI International 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, July 2007, Beijing.

George, J., Gnanayutham, P., (2007), Research Methodology for Phonological Development, HCI International 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, July 2007, Beijing.

Gnanayutham, P., George, J., (2006), Using Human Computer Interaction Concepts to Design Interfaces for the Brain Injured, ATINER 2006, Chapter 1, 2 -14, ISBN: 960-6672-07-7, June 2006, Athens.

Gnanayutham, P., Peart, A., (2005), Survey of the latest Concepts in Distributed Systems, ATINER 2005, Chapter 20, 255-260, ISBN 960-88672-3-1, June 2005, Athens.

Gnanayutham, P., Bloor, C., Cockton, G., (2005), Discrete Acceleration and Personalised Tiling as Brain-Body Interface Paradigms for Neurorehabilitation, CHI 2005, April 2005, ACM Press, Portland, Oregon, 261 - 270.

Gnanayutham, P., Bloor, C., Cockton, G., (2004), Soft-Keyboard for the disabled, Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Burger, D., (Editors), ICCHP2004, July 2004, Springer-Verlag Publishers, Paris, 999 - 1002.

Doherty, E., Wong, Y., Fernandes, J., Gnanayutham, P., Stephenson G., (2003), The OWI-007 Robotic Arm, Cyberlink Interface, and Visual C++ Interface are a Great Help to the Handicapped and a Good Platform for Teaching Technology, Njedge.net Conference, October 2003, New York.

Doherty, E., Stephenson G., Gnanayutham P., Fernandes, J., (2003), Robotics in Health Care - Designing Robot Controls to Accommodate Disabilities, Careers in Mathematics Symposium, October 2003, New York.

Gnanayutham, P., Bloor, C., Cockton, G., (2003), AI to enhance a brain computer interface, Edited by Stephanidis, C., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, HCI International 2003, June 2003, 1397 - 1401, Crete.

Gnanayutham, P., Bloor, C., Cockton, G., (2001), Robotics for the brain injured: An interface for the brain injured person to operate a robotic arm, Edited by Antoniou. G., Deremer. D., October 2001, ICCIT'2001 , New York, 93 - 98

(2) Teaching

(2.1) Unit Coordinator & Lecturer
  • Operating Systems
  • PC Systems & Management
  • Wireless Networks

 

(3) Professional Memberships

  • 1990 - British Computer Society (MBCS, CITP), 
  • 1990 - Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.),
  • 2000 - Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

 

(4) Career History

(4.1) Career History
Period:October 2003 - Present
Employer:University of Portsmouth
Position:Senior Lecturer/BSc and MSc Course Leader
Period:August 2000 – September 2003
Employer:De Montfort University
Position:Senior Lecturer/MSc Course Leader
Period:September 1997 – August 2000
Employer:Farnborough College of Technology (Surrey University college)
Position:Lecturer in Computing and Information Technology
Period:January 1996 - August 1997
Employer:Workstation Solutions Plc
Position:Computer Consultant
Period:May 1993 - December 1995
Employer:Control Data Plc
Position:Senior Technical Support Analyst 
Period:August 1990 - May 1993
Employer:Callhaven Plc
Position:Senior Systems Engineer
Period:February 1988 - August 1990
Employer:Vegas Computer Communications (UK) Ltd.
Position:Pre/Post Technical Support Engineer

(5) Education 

2000 - 2007University of Sunderland,
PhD, “Interaction Paradigm for Brain-Body Interfaces for Computer Users with BrainInjuries”
1996 - 2000London Guildhall University, London
            MSc in User-Interface Design (HCI)
1997 - 1999University of Southampton, Southampton
Certificate in Education 
1992 - 1996University of Greenwich, Woolwich
BSc Hons in Computer Science