A Day in the Life of...Professor Claude Sammut School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group and Deputy Director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research.

I’m not very good at selfies, but here’s an attempt. That’s me preparing lectures at home. We were already used to putting a lot of our material online, but it’s very different when you have to go fully online in a matter of a week or so. I’m recording voiceovers on my slides, using my ever present iPad with screen recording to point and draw on the slides. The problem is that when I listen to myself I sound so boring! It’s much harder than I thought to create recorded lectures. When I’m talking to an audience it’s easier to be animated and spontaneous, so I’ll have to work on that. We’re using video conferencing tools to run tutorials, letting the students interact and ask questions. I’m lucky to have a great group of tutors, who are mostly senior students, themselves. All of this is keeping me busy, so staying at home for long periods isn’t too bad. We get to see our colleagues by video chat and the school staff have even organised virtual coffee catchups. It’s good to see the technology we create keeping people in touch and helping us cope with difficult times.

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