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Original Title: David Wooding

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From: Eye-movement mailing list [mailto:EYE-MOVEMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alastair Gale
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:01 PM
To: EYE-MOVEMENT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [EM_LIST] David Wooding

Dear all

(With apologies for any cross posting)

I regret to report the untimely death last night of Dr David Wooding, aged 38, the moderator of this eye movement list and Reader in the Applied Vision Research Institute (formerly the Institute of Behavioural Sciences).

Dave had been diagnosed with cancer in late 2002 and had since undergone several major operations as well as long chemotherapy treatment. These had seemed to go well and up until late last year he was fully planning on returning to work - but unfortunately the disease then returned. Despite his illness he had carried on with his academic work as much as he could.

Those of you who met Dave will remember him for his intellect, wit, humour and whole-hearted dedication to research and the search for knowledge. He was not one to agree lightly with another´s point of view if he had the slightest question about the veracity of some fact (possibly reflecting his training as a physicist). This was no more apparent than a few years back when we started a short project meeting (scheduled to last an hour or so) which eventually ran non-stop for two days as he sought to ensure that everyone fully understood all the details. After much ´blood on the carpet´ we all left with a deeper understanding.

Dave led many innovations related to eye movement research: he started this list, instigated and ran the independent list of eye movement equipment (which will continue in his honour), organised and ran the National Gallery eye movement experiment which had over 5,000 participants and most recently he was ensconsed in developing new techniques for the analyses of large quantities of eye movement data. Some indication of his legacy can be found at http://ibs.derby.ac.uk/~dave/ . We were jointly just starting some major new vision-related projects which will run over the next three years.

If those who knew him care to email me any message then I will pass these on to his wife and three very young children as a momento of their father.

I will take over moderation of this list for a while and then hand it on to a member of my staff.

Alastair

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Prof Alastair Gale
Applied Vision Research Institute
University of Derby
Kingsway House
Kingsway
Derby DE22 3HL
UK

tel: 0044 (0)1332 593131
fax: 0044 (0)1332 593176
web: http://ibs.derby.ac.uk

	David Wooding
	BSc (Hons) ARCS MPhil PhD DIC
	Reader

	Address: AVRU, University of Derby
	Tel:
	Email: d.wooding@derby.ac.uk
	Web: Personal web pages

David Wooding has been involved in visual science and the recording of eye-movements for over ten years in a wide range of contexts. The patterns of eye-movements elicited by real images has been an ongoing research question and David is currently involved in a major study with the National Gallery, London, looking at the eye-movements of members of the public when viewing paintings. His interests also include the causes of enhanced visual performance brought about by training or expertise and of impaired visual performance resulting from brain injury. Issues surrounding the acquisition and use of expertise in the interpretation of medical images have drawn David into the PERFORMS project (which looks at the performance of breast-screening radiologists in the UK) and involvement in the ACTIVE project illustrates his interests in applied vision (in this case in the context of driving).

David created and maintains the Eye Movement Equipment Database (EMED) and runs the mailing lists Eye-movement, Vision-and-Vehicles and Mammo-analysis.

Graduating with a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, London, his research began at The City University, London, where he obtained an MPhil, before returning to Imperial College to undertake a doctorate under the late great Prof. Keith Ruddock. Post-doctoral work has taken him to the University of Wales College of Medicine, and now the Applied Vision Research Unit at the University of Derby, where he is a Reader.

More information, including a list of publications, can be found on David´s personal web pages.

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