Dr Simon Scarle
Senior Lecturer in Games Design and Development
Cardiff School of Technologies
Overview
Simon Scarle has had a diverse research career publishing papers on defects in semi-conductors, thin film delamination, ion motion in polymer hosts, Berne-Gay potential/boids model link and electro-cardio dynamics, before going to work for the Game Developer, Rare Ltd, part of Microsoft Games Studios. There he was the main programmer of a GPU based particle effects system. He then went on to be a Senior Programmer for a Serious Games Project at the International Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick, which was developing a motion-controlled game to teach children good nutrition and the worth of exercise, after which he was the Principal Technical Developer at the Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, where he was also the main Technical Advisor on the Games Industry and Games Development. Previously he was Senior Lecturer and Program Leader for MSc Commercial Games Development at UWE Bristol.
Research Publications
Personalised Learning through Context-Based Adaptation in the Serious Games with Gating Mechanism
Shum, L. C., Rosunally, Y., Scarle, S. & Munir, K., 23 Mar 2023, In: Education and Information Technologies. 28, 10, p. 13077-13108 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Asset pipeline patterns: Patterns in interactive real-time visualization workflow
Lear, J., Scarle, S. & McClatchey, R., 3 Jul 2019, Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, a6. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Visualising software as a particle system
Scarle, S. & Walkinshaw, N., 23 Nov 2015, 2015 IEEE 3rd Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2015 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 66-75 10 p. 7332416. (2015 IEEE 3rd Working Conference on Software Visualization, VISSOFT 2015 - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: Virtual transactions
Scarle, S., Arnab, S., Dunwell, I., Petridis, P., Protopsaltis, A. & de Freitas, S., 3 Oct 2012, In: Electronic Commerce Research. 12, 3, p. 379-407 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Scenario-based serious games repurposing
Protopsaltis, A., Auneau, L., Dunwell, I., De Freitas, S., Petridis, P., Arnab, S., Scarle, S. & Hendrix, M., 3 Oct 2011, SIGDOC'11 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. p. 37-44 8 p. (SIGDOC'11 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Building social commmunities around alternate reality games
Petridis, P., Dunwell, I., Arnab, S., Scarle, S., Qureshi, A., De Freitas, S., Protopsaltis, A. & Star, K., 28 Jul 2011, Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011. p. 76-83 8 p. 5962106. (Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Complete motion control of a serious game against obesity in children
Scarle, S., Dunwell, I., Bashford-Rogers, T., Selmanovic, E., Debattista, K., Chalmers, A., Powell, J. & Robertson, W., 28 Jul 2011, Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011. p. 178-179 2 p. 5962085. (Proceedings - 2011 3rd International Conferenceon Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2011).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review