Professor Sylvia Xueni Pan

Sylvia has extensive experience working in VR researching Virtual Reality technology and social neuroscience.

Staff details

Position

Professor of Virtual Reality

Department

Computing

Email

x.pan (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

Xueni Pan is a Professor of Virtual Reality. Working in VR for almost 20 years she developed a unique interdisciplinary research profile with journal and conference publications in both VR technology and social neuroscience. Her work in training and education in VR has been featured multiple times in the media, including BBC Horizon and the New Scientist magazine. More info can be found on .

Academic qualifications

2009 PhD in Virtual Reality, Computer Science Department, UCL
2005 MSc in Vision, Imaging, and Virtual Environments, Computer Science Department, UCL
2004 BEng in Computer Science, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Teaching

Before joining 吃瓜网 in 2015, she worked as a research associate in Computer Science, UCL from 2009-2013, and in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), UCL from 2013-2015, where she remains an honorary research fellow.

Modules she taught/is current teaching at 吃瓜网 include:

3D Virtual Environments and Animation (previously Advanced Graphics and Animation)
Data Visualisation
Audio-Visual Computing
Perception and Multimedia Computing

Areas of supervision

The use of Immersive Virtual Reality in: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Interaction, Training, Education, and Psychotherapy.

VR technology: Character Animation (facial expression, motion capture), Photogrammetry built Virtual Environment.

Professional activities

Xueni Pan has participated in the following projects

Picking up ethical challenges within the humdrum of professional practice: can 3D avatars help? Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, HENCEL (Health Education North and Central London), and the Wellcome Trust. In Collaboration with UCL Laws and UCL Computer Science. More info can be found on the .

INTERACT: ERC funded project looking at how we subconsciously copy each other, using Virtual Reality. The project was based at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN), UCL. More info can be found on

Moral Judgement and Virtual Reality: funded by the Leverhulme Trust to investigate how we make moral judgements - and more importantly whether our moral judgements are aligned with our moral action, in Virtual Reality. The project was based at the Department of Computer Science, UCL. More info can be found on

Featured work

Xueni Pan, Mel Slater, Alejandro Beacco, Xavi Navarro, Anna I. Bellido Rivas, David Swapp, Joanna Hale, Paul A. Forbes, Catrina Denvir, Antonia Hamilton, Sylvie Delacroix. . PloS one 11, no. 2 (2016): e0146837. .
Xueni Pan, & Antonia Hamilton (2015): . Frontiers in Psychology. 6, 790 .
Xueni Pan, Marco Gillies, & Mel Slater (2015). . Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2. .
Pan, X., Gillies, M., Barker, C., Clark, D. M., & Slater, M. (2012). . PloS one, 7(4), e32931.
Pan, X., & Slater, M. (2011, July). . In Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 46-51). British Computer Society.

Publications and research outputs

Book Section

; Ballin, Daniel; and Dodgson, Neil. 2008. . In: Lola Ca帽amero and Ruth Aylett, eds. Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 235-255. ISBN 9789027252104

Article

ThompSon, Nicalia; and . 2025. . IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, ISSN 1077-2626

Rovira, Aitor; Lambe, Sinead; Beckwith, Helen; Ahmed, Memoona; Hudson, Felicity; Haynes, Phoebe; ; Williams, Kira; Saidel, Simone; Iredale, Ellen; ; Waite, Felicity; and Freeman, Daniel. 2024. . Scientific Reports, 14, 19445. ISSN 2045-2322

; and . 2022. . Virtual Reality, 26(4), pp. 1519-1538. ISSN 1359-4338

; and . 2022. . International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 157, 102717. ISSN 1071-5819

Zibrek, Katja; and Orel, Marko. 2021. . Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 773258. ISSN 2673-4192

; ; and . 2021. . Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 648601. ISSN 2673-4192

Farmer, H.; Hewstone, M.; Spiegler, O.; Morse, H.; Saifullah, A.; ; Fell, B.; Charlesford, J. and Terbeck, S.. 2020. . Scientific Reports, 10, 2700. ISSN 2045-2322

Drewett, Olivia; Hann, Gayle; ; Sher, Carmel; Delacroix, Sylvie; ; and Fertleman, Caroline. 2019. . Frontiers in Public Health, 7(255),

and Hamilton, Antonia F de C. 2018. . British Journal of Psychology, 109(3), pp. 395-417. ISSN 0007-1269

; ; Antley, Angus; Brenton, Harry; Congdon, Benjamin; Drewett, Olivia; ; Swapp, David; Pleasence, Pascoe; Fertleman, Caroline and Delacroix, Sylvie. 2018. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5, 80.

and Hamilton, Antonia F de C. 2018. . British Journal of Psychology, 109(3), pp. 437-441. ISSN 0007-1269

Fertleman, Caroline; Aubugeau-Williams, Phoebe; Sher, Carmel; Lim, Ai-Nee; Lumley, Sophie; Delacroix, Sylvie and . 2018. . Frontiers in Public Health, 6,

Forbes, Paul Alexander George; and Hamilton, Antonia F de C. 2016. . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(12), pp. 3788-3797. ISSN 0162-3257

Kyriakou, Marios; and Chrysanthou, Yiorgos. 2016. . Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 28(5), e1729. ISSN 1546-4261

; Slater, Mel; Beacco, Alejandro; Navarro, Xavi; Bellido Rivas, Anna I; Swapp, David; Hale, Joanna; Forbes, Paul Alexander George; Denvir, Catrina; Hamilton, Antonia F. de C. and Delacroix, Sylvie. 2016. . PLoS ONE, 11(2), e0146837. ISSN 1932-6203

and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.. 2015. . Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 790. ISSN 1664-1078

; and Slater, Mel. 2015. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2, 1. ISSN 2296-9144

Friedman, Doron; Pizarro, Rodrigo; Or-Berkers, Keren; Neyret, Sol猫ne; and Slater, Mel. 2014. . Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 943. ISSN 1664-1078

Cook, Jennifer; Swapp, David; ; Bianchi-Berthouze, Nadia and Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne. 2014. . Psychological Medicine, 44(4), pp. 731-740. ISSN 0033-2917

; ; Barker, Chris; Clark, David M. and Slater, Mel. 2012. . PLoS ONE, 7(4), e32931.

; and Slater, Mel. 2010. . Virtual Reality, 14(4), pp. 221-228. ISSN 1359-4338

; ; Slater, Mel and Shawe-Taylor, John. 2008. . Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 19(5), pp. 579-589. ISSN 1546-4261

Conference or Workshop Item

; ; Tankelevitch, Lev; Panda, Payod; Asadi, Torang; Hewitt, Charlie; Petikam, Lohit; Clemoes, James; ; ; Rintel, Sean and Wilczkowiak, Marta. 2025. ''. In: The 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). San Jos茅, Costa Rica 9 - 13 November 2024.

; Castegnaro, Andrea; Rudzka, Katarzyna; Burgess, Neil; Chan, Dennis and . 2024. ''. In: 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH). Funchal, Portugal 7 - 9 August 2024.

Richardson, Mike; Cork, Alicia G; Stanton Fraser, Dana毛; Proulx, Michael J; ; Krau脽, Veronika; Khamis, Mohamed and Lukosch, Heide. 2024. ''. In: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA 鈥�24). Honolulu, HI, United States 11 - 16 May 2024.

; ; Nambyiah, Pratheeban; Fertleman, Caroline and . 2024. ''. In: 12th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH). Funchal, Portugal 7 - 9 August 2024.

; Constantinides, Marios; Joglekar, Sagar; and Quercia, Daniele. 2023. ''. In: INTERACT 2023. York, United Kingdom 28 August - 1 September 2023.

Park, Seonjeong; Carlisle, Damaris; and . 2023. ''. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Shanghai, China 25-29 March 2023.

Du, Haoyang; Jia, Songkai; Gautschi, Joel; Quehenberger, Julia; L盲tsch, David and . 2023. ''. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Shanghai, China 25-29 March 2023.

; ; Koeck, Richard and Yu, Hankun. 2023. ''. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Shanghai, China 25-29 March 2023.

; ; and . 2022. ''. In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). Singapore, Singapore 17-21 October 2022.

; ; Ranyard, David C; Harding, Russell and . 2022. ''. In: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 鈥�22). Faro, Portugal 6 - 9 September 2022.

O鈥橲hea, Zo毛 ; Bartle, Richard; and . 2022. ''. In: HCI in Games. HCII 2022. Virtual Conference 26 June - 1 July 2022.

; Wilczkowiak, Marta; ; and Rintel, Sean. 2022. ''. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. New Orleans, LA, United States 29 April - 5 May 2022.

and . 2022. ''. In: 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces. Christchurch, New Zealand 12 - 16 March 2022.

; and . 2022. ''. In: 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Christchurch, New Zealand 12-16 March 2022.

; Rovira, Aitor; and Freeman, Daniel. 2022. ''. In: 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). Christchurch, New Zealand 12-16 March 2022.

; ; Falk, Patrick; ; Hamilton, Antonia F de C and . 2021. ''. In: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 鈥�21). Montr茅al, QC, Canada 18 - 22 October 2021.

and . 2018. ''. In: VR/AR in Higher Education Conference 2018. Swansea, United Kingdom 12 September 2018.

Hale, Joanna; and Hamilton, Antonia F. de C.. 2015. ''. In: IEEE VR. Arles, France.

Kyriakou, Marios; and Chrysanthou, Yiorgos. 2015. ''. In: IEEE VR. Arles, France.

Khantong, Ranchida; and Slater, Mel. 2015. ''. In: IEEE VR. Arles, France.

; and Slater, Mel. 2008. ''. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents. Tokyo, Japan 2008.

; ; Sezgin, T M and Loscos, C. 2007. ''. In: Second International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Lisbon, Portugal.

Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba; ; Steed, A.; Tanguy, E.; ; Loscos, C. and Slater, M.. 2006. ''. In: Eurographics Conference State of the Art Reports. Vienna, Austria 4-8 September, 2006.

Research Interests

Virtual Reality
Social Neuroscience

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