Cristina Portalés is a researcher at the Laboratorio de Luz of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain), which is included in the Arts school. She is actually a visiting researcher at the Interaction & Entertainment Research Center (IERC) of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, where she is participating in some projects related to virtual and augmented reality and in the field of arts, entertainment and education.
In 1999 she finished a bachelor program in topography at the UPV, and received the San Isidoro award by the Cartographic Institute for having the highest mark. That year she was granted by the UPV to study at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), where she finished a master degree in Geoinformation after three years. Afterwards, she took part in a postgraduate program in the field of Geodesy, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems at the UPV, receiving a diploma of advanced studies after two years.
Granted in 2004 by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology to take part in the project ‘augmented perception, a dual system of augmented reality’ at the Laboratorio de Luz, she started her Phd. in the field of media arts. There, she has worked in different augmented reality projects in the area of arts and human interaction. In 2005 she was a visiting researcher at the Mixed Reality Lab of the Nottingham University in UK, where she worked in an artistic project related to
location based services (LBS), which involved the use of GPS and inertial sensors.
Charith Fernando is a visiting intern researcher at the Interaction & Entertainment Research Center (IERC) of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore from Sri Lanka. He came to Singapore as a part of his degree program at the University of Moratuwa (UOM) in Sri Lanka, where he studies “Electronic and Telecommunication” Engineering.
At the lab he works on embedded hardware design, wireless communication, RFID detection & programming systems, VHDL & FPGA designs, PCB design and implementation. He is also interested in computer hardware and network management. First few months he was working with “Age Invaders” hardware team and after completing it currently he is doing the “Metazoa Ludens” hardware designing.
Technical Documentations :
These technical documentations will cover the complete hardware designs for the projects such as schematic diagrams, Flow charts, Block diagrams & PCB designs.
Monthly Reports :
- Introduction to Age Invaders hardware design, Power supply design & trouble shoting the hardware (February)
- Troubleshooting the Ethernet, Bluetooth and design of the new antenna (March)
- Introduction to Metazoa Ludens hardware design, I2C protocol & design of the master controller (April)
- Design of the stepper driver and PCB designs for Metazoa Ludens (May)
- Finalizing the stepper driving circuit, Increasing the stepper speed & testing the actuators (June)
- Design of the Hydrophone circuit & VHDL Learning (July)
These monthly reports explains the work done by each month.
Frédéric Sarkozy is a Visiting Intern Researcher at the Mixed Reality Lab. He studied Installation Art at L’Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art de Cergy-Paris, based in France. He received a Bachelor of Art Degree in Interactive Art with first class, at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, in Singapore. He is interested in augmented reality as a way to create illusions in space and haptic sensations. He has exhibited his work in France and Singapore, including at the Caroussel du Louvre of Paris.
Leong Li Sun is an undergraduate at the School of Biological Sciences in Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Her research interests include microbiology, fruit flies and evolution. She was involved in the Metazoa Ludens , taking care of the biological aspect of the project (i.e hamsters)
Sen Yin Ping is a Life Sciences undergraduate in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests lie in the fields of Genetics, Cell Biology and Biodiversity. She hopes to specialize in Biomedical Sciences. She is currently involved in the Metazoa Ludens research project; more specifically, the biological aspects of the project (the hamsters).
Muratti a Life Sciences undergraduate in the National University of Singapore (NUS). Her research interests include animal behaviors, evolution and environment. She is also addicted to taking photo. She wants to become a photographer joining research on nature or wild animal of some science magazine or channel in future. Taking part in Metazoa Ludens research project, she hope to gain more experiences and to contribute as much as she can.
Yio Zhiwen Elvin is a Life Sciences undergraduate in the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests are Immunology, Microbiology and Cell Biology. He wants to specialize in Immunology, and aid in clinical research in the future. He is currently contributing towards Metazoa Ludens and dDNA, in particular the Biological and Microbiological aspects of the 2 projects, so that he can explore bringing forth Life Sciences to everyday application.
Mayank Agarwal is an undergraduate student at Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, India. His interests include novel interfaces for human computer interactions, augmented reality, wearable computing,software engineering and entrepreneurship.As an intern in the lab, he worked on spatial sound for mobile phones and Blogwall.
Anne-Katrin Barthoff is doing her German ‘Diplom’ (similar to Master) in Computer Science at the University of Rostock in Germany. Her field of specialization is Computer Graphics and her minor is Business Administration.
In 2005 she participated for six months in an International Certificate Program of New Media at the IMEDIA-Academy in Providence RI, USA. There she was supported by INI-GRAPHICS NET with a full scholarship. Afterwards she was an intern for four months at the IGD – Fraunhofer Institution Rostock. In addition, she gained more practical experience as a student assistant at the Institute of Applied Computer Science in
Rostock and also by joining various other projects at her university.
In her leisure time she has been a member of the student representatives at her university for one year. Furthermore she enjoys her Spanish and salsa courses.
Mixed Reality is a field she started to focus on since she joined as a student volunteer the SIGGRAPH exhibition 2006. The MXR is giving her a good chance to get highly involved in very interesting projects like BlogWall.
Jerome Lee is a student from Singapore Polytechnic and he is doing Industrial Training Program with MXR Lab from 12 Feb – 14 Apr.
Vinod Krishnan is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, pursuing his interest in Human-
Computer Interaction. His current research revolves around Recommender Systems and its users, while he continues
to study User-centered Design and the psychology of user experience and interaction. He has been working with
GroupLens, the HCI research group at the University of Minnesota, where he is pursuing his research. He is
currently working with the Mixed Reality Lab on two projects – the Cute E-Bot and the Cute 3D Virtual World for
Asian Children.
His alter ego is a budding singer-composer, with formal training in different forms of Indian music and a strong
foundation in digital keyboard. He has a strong sense of leadership that he has nurtured since his formative years and
is an occasional poet-cum-blogger. He enjoys extending his creativity and has found new avenues like visual design
to let loose his imaginative sense.
Rahul Parsani is currently in his fourth year at the BITS – Pilani, Goa Campus pursuing a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in Electronics and Instrumentation. His current fields of research are embedded systems, human computer interaction and interfaces. He joined the Mixed Reality Lab in the summer of 2008 and worked on the Cute-e-Bot project as a technical team member.
Shimul Noor is an undergraduate student at National University of Singapore, pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. Her interests lie in interactive media, robotics and the introduction of human elements in technology. Shimul is working as a research intern at the Technical Design team of Cute-e-bot at the Mixed Reality Lab. She is currently involved in the motors and related controllers required to implement the mechanical movements of the robot. She enjoys researching for new technologies and she hopes to gain experience from this project to pursue his future interests.
Jialing The is a Year 2 Life Sciences undergraduate with particular interest in biology (mainly living organisms and how they come about). She had some basic experience in different aspects of Life Sciences, mainly lab experiments in dealing with cells and cloning using E.Coli; using bioinformatics software to find out if two or more organisms are related by comparing their gene sequence alignments. At the Mixed reality Lab, she is involved in the Babbage Cabbage Project, the biological aspect where chemical solutions and other food stuffs (coke, vinegar, soapy water, etc) with different pH values are used to cause the change of colour in cabbage.
Phan Nguyen Thuy Duong is an undergraduate student in Ngee Ann Polytechnic in charge of color changing display part. Color changing display is one of the important parts in Huggy Pajama. There are five human senses in human beings to interface with the surrounding medium such as hear, vision, smell, touch and taste. By all these senses, human beings can express their emotions. For example, when we watch a sad movie, we cry (sense of vision), or when we meet an old friend, we hug him or shake his hand (sense of touch), or when we smell fragrance of some food, we feel hungry (sense of smell).Touching sense is being discovered in air actuating module. The color changing module will focus more on the vision sense. In Huggy Pajama project (Mixed Reality Lab), there are two ways to change colors. One is chemical color changing; the other one is electronic color changing. Phan Nguyen’s task is electronic color changing. She is building a prototype which let the users choose which LED and color they want to light up from PC.
Zhan Yinan is an undergraduate student at Electrical Engineering at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. At the Mixed Reality Lab, she is involved in Huggy pajama output part which included the hardware design for slave, master circuit and minimizes the board size, improve the accuracy of the whole system and integrate the slave part and master part.
Tian Yao is a year 3 student from Ngee Ann Polytechnic Electrical Engineering Department. Now he is doing his final year project-Huggy pajama at the Mixed Reality Lab. He is in charge of the air actuating part. He has build up the communication structure between master and slave circuits through I²C bus. He is modifying the output WiFi communication part.
Loyalle Chin is an undergraduate student of Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore. He has a dream: One day, every child in rapidly developing nations such as Vietnam and China entering the Internet bandwagon will have a healthy online environment for education and social interaction. He aims to establish this culture-revolution for the next generation by 2025.
He was heavily involved with the artwork and user interface design of Confucius Computer, in collaboration with students from Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan. This was presented to SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles with forthcoming response.
Currently, he is researching on inter-generational communication and character education.
Cathie Wu Chia Hsin is a visiting research intern at the Mixed Reality Lab from Taiwan, where she is participating in some projects related to tabletop game interaction and is also involved in the field of interactive media and user experience design in Caring Media Design project.
She received her BA degree in Industrial Design from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taiwan in 2006 and now currently doing her postgraduate studies for Master degree at the Graduate Institute of Applied arts at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her research interests include Human Computer Interaction and Human Behaviour Study.
In the meantime, she worked for the User Experience Design Team in the Mechanical and Industrial Design Centre of ASUS Tek Computer as an design intern and took part in many projects related to graphic user interface design, software user interface design and user experience design in laptop and home multimedia centre. Her designs for a set of stationary for National Palace Museum in 2005 during her undergraduate studies has been published by an Italian Magazine ‘INTERNI’ in 2007 and has been manufactured and sold in boutique shops at the museum.
Cathie plays volleyball and was a member of the design school team during her undergraduate studies at NTUST, which also won the school championship at the Inter-University (Design Schools) Volleyball Tournament in 2005.
Huang Mei-Chen was born on Aug. 4th, 1985,and her nationality origined from Taiwan,she is currently enrolled in the Master program in Industrial Management Department at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, and is major in human factors in engineering and design. Her professor is Prof. Yung-Hui Lee.Previously she hold a bachelor of Industrial Management from National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. During high school, she is major in Data Processing and has work experience in office software and art design.
Chen, Chien-Chou Terrence is a research intern from Taiwan. He is involved in the Emotional Media Project and help in the literature review part about living media and to analysis the data by using statistics tool in the Tabletop Game Interaction Project.
Chien-Chou received his BA degree in psychology in 2007 from Soochow University, where he was trained to work on statistics analysis and experiment design. While he was doing his undergraduate studies, he was a research assistant under his Professor’s research related to use event-related potential (ERP) to collect the data and was in charge of a part of analysis. And now he is doing his postgraduate studies in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), where his major is human factors in engineering and design in Industry Management Department.
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