I am a postgraduate research student at Aston University, Birmingham UK. I completed my Masters in Computer Science from Aston before being offered a PhD studentship. I hold an international degree in Computer Applications and a diploma in Electronics and Communications Engineering. Having spent some years teaching at primary, secondary as well as life long sector, I decided to restart my academic career as a Masters student and now as a full-time researcher here at Aston. Besides being a full-time student, I am a homemaker and a full-time mother of two. My extracurricular activities include ‘learning to ride a bike’, events organising and arts and design.

My research focuses on the nonverbal interactions and in particular implicit interactions between a human and a human-like character generated by the computer. The nature research is multidisciplinary involving computer science, psychology, engineering, biological science and human physiology, social cognition and human-computer interaction. The goal of the research is to develop an automated breathing relaxation system which is based on Virtual Reality and Breathing Physiology. The system resides on the fundamental phenomenon of Physiological Synchrony found in human to human interactions. My aim is to harness this mechanism in the human-virtual human interaction.