Movement, understood.
I study how the brain moves the body — and build the technology that proves it.
One question. Three instruments.
EEG captures the neural signature of a movement — before the hand even begins to move.
Psychophysics reveals how skin senses contact, force and texture — and how touch shapes what we do next.
Markerless motion capture measures action to the millimetre. No suits. No markers. Just movement.
From neural signal to shipped product. I work every step of that path.
My research asks a deceptively simple question: how does the brain command the body to act in the real world? Answering it means closing the loop between perception and action — reading neural signals, probing the sense of touch, and measuring movement with precision.
I founded and lead the University of Birmingham's markerless Movement Lab. At Meta, I helped build the hand tracking now integral to Quest. And as Co-Founder & Director of Motion Dynamics, I turn the science into hardware, haptics and XR software — then teach it to other scientists.
At Meta, I characterised the noise and jitter of camera-based hand tracking — then used psychophysical methods to measure exactly what the eye can detect. Those thresholds informed the filtering that holds jitter below perceivable levels, in the hand-tracking pipeline that ships on every Quest headset.
Facilities, collaborations and companies that let new science happen — and the people mentored to deliver it.
I designed, specced and established a state-of-the-art markerless motion-capture facility — now a shared research asset used across groups at the University of Birmingham, and a magnet for collaborators and grant co-investigator roles.
I opened an independent direction applying kinematic assessment to sign-language acquisition, and mentor the PhD researcher delivering it — reflected in our co-authored publications.
I initiated a cross-college neuroscience × immersive-simulation collaboration — and converted it into a funded PhD studentship, bringing new research income and people into the group.
Through Motion Dynamics, the Kenilworth Revealed AR heritage project and training courses for scientists, the research leaves the lab — as products, skills and community.
From the brain to the fingertip and back again.
Reading how motor plans are formed, predicted and corrected — while people act in naturalistic, real-world tasks.
How the hand senses contact, force and texture — and how tactile feedback shapes the next movement.
Fine-grained sensorimotor measurement with markerless mocap and hand-tracking hardware, at experimental precision.
XR, HCI and human–robot systems that close the perception–action loop in real time — for research and rehabilitation.
Hardware, software and studies that turn sensorimotor science into things people can use.
AR that lets visitors step into Kenilworth's history — university innovation, delivered to the community.
Camera-based hand tracking, now integral to the Quest line.
Every finger, tracked at high rate — with integrated haptics for precise XR and robotics control.
Physical button-press sensations, rendered with controllable indentation.
A billiards task with impact-synchronised wrist feedback.
Precise vibrotactile stimuli, measured fingertip force.
Selected work across HCI, sensorimotor neuroscience and XR.
Grants, awards and translation funding across research and enterprise.
Text Entry for XR Trove (TEXT) — a review of text input techniques.
Named postdoc delivering XR music system integration & studies.
Gift to explore ten-finger text entry for VR/AR.
Innovate UK market validation for the AR musician system.
Selected as a finalist; the fund was later withdrawn nationally.
Portable tactile neuropathy assessment proof-of-concept.
Immersive biofeedback for upper-limb rehabilitation.
Intensive, hands-on training taught from real lab experience. Two cohorts a year. Small groups. You leave with something that works.
Build and run a VR experiment in a game engine — from empty scene to logged data.
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Set up, capture and analyse motion data end to end — calibration to kinematics.
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Explore the coursesA research-led venture on how fine-motor and cognitive development intertwine in early childhood — and how technology can guide young children back toward the physical world during the stages that matter most.
Collaborations, PhD supervision, speaking, consulting — or a conversation about how the brain moves the body. To join a course, use the course sign-up page.