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Think:act special issue on Young Global Leaders : “The man with the electric lollipop”

Adrian David Cheok is one of the pioneers of what is known as mixed reality. He examines ways in which the digital and physical worlds can better interact. The result is a series of incredible ideas that have the potential to make all our lives easier over the long term.

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Poetry Mix-Up installed at the Kent Ridge MRT Station

Under the Art in Transit program at Kent Ridge MRT Station (newly opened station on the circle line in Singapore), a new media art piece entitled Poetry Mix-Up is commissioned. The Poetry Mix-up system is developed by Mixed Reality Lab of National University of Singapore. The system allows local travelers to send an SMS to generate a poem based on the submission. The final output generated is shown in a digital display on the lift shaft at the platform level as shown in the images.

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Comostory Interview 2011 : Adrian David Cheok

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Set Poetry In Motion, Just Send A Text Message.

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Adrian David Cheok invited speaker at opening P.ARTY of POSKOD.SG on “The Possibilities of Internet”

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Mixed Reality Lab’s Adrian Cheok talking about communicating without talking.

Mixed Reality Lab’s Adrian Cheok talking about communicating without talking.

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Invited Exhibition of Poetry Mix-up in Korea

The exhibition of Poetry Mix-Up will be invited by Art Center Nabi where has been in the forefront of the convergence of art and media technologies of the time in Korea and will be held from 1st to 31 of July. And in this time, Poetry Mix-up will present participants messages from Seoul and Daejeon each other.

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Confucius Computer & Liquid Interface featured in ECE newsletter

In November 2010, a team of students and research staff from the Mixed Reality Lab led by Assoc Prof Adrian Cheok walked away with the Creative Showcase Golden Award at the 7th International Advances in Computers and Entertainment Conference, a premier forum for interactive entertainment, held in Taiwan.

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Third International AR Standards Meeting June 15-16, 2011

The meeting was recently concluded in Taichung, Taiwan. The objectives of this meeting were:

To establish or increase mutual awareness among Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) relevant to AR through a carefully managed “discovery” process that is mindful of the IPR policies of the respective SDOs, to establish or increase dialog among leadership of industry associations whose members are specifically interested in Augmented Reality initiatives and SDOs, to explore how SDOs and industry associations will define “contact zones” of mutual interest, to permit participants of the meeting to share their views and objectives, as well as progress/status of their activities, and to introduce new and important topics likely to impact the future of AR such as Spatial Law and Policy.

Program Committee members for this meeting were:

Neil Trevett, NVIDIA
Martin Lechner, Wikitude
Carl Reed, OGC
Douglas Knisely, Qualcomm
Gerard Kim, University of Korea
Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore CUTE Center
Ed Parsons, Google
Lars Erik Bolstad, Opera

A summary of the meeting can be found at:
http://www.perey.com/ARStandards/[Perey]Summary_of_3rd_AR_Standards_Meeting.pdf

Best Paper Award for 2nd International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics (ICETI 2011)

The paper titled “A Multimodal Virtual Anatomy Learning Tool for Medical Education”, has been selected as the best paper from the session of ‘Learning Technologies / Strategies for Assessing Student Learning and Teaching,’ at the 2nd International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics (ICETI 2011), held in Orlando, Florida, USA, on March 27th – 30th, 2011. This project is jointly developed by Keio-NUS CUTE Center (NUS) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS) which is particularly useful medical students to identify key anatomy structures and their complex spatial relationships.

The members of the A Multimodal Virtual Anatomy Learning Tool for Medical Education team are:

Ponnampalam Gopalakrishnakone
Lu Jianfeng
Goh Poh Sun
Asanka Abeykoon
Owen Noel Newton Fernando
Adrian David Cheok

Khoo Eng Tat accepted in Dragon100 Young Chinese Leaders Forum

Eng Tat, a graduating PhD scholar from Mixed Reality Lab/CUTE Center, has been selected as one of the 100 young Chinese leaders to participate in this year’s Dragon 100 forum. The forum will be held from 24 July – 1 August 2011, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, under the theme, “Caring about the Poor – Today and Tomorrow”. The organizer, the Dragon Foundation, was initiated jointly by the Home Affairs Bureau and Home Affairs Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups.

Dragon 100 is an annual event at which 100 of these ethnic Chinese leaders of tomorrow, aged 18-35 come together to discuss pertinent global issues and explore about the social affair, economic development, Chinese history, culture and tradition. They must have demonstrated leadership skills, academic prowess and a commitment to the community. The Programme is intended to generate synergy among these participants from across the world so that they work together, strengthen contacts and build up networks. The selection process has been competitive, with nominations from universities, organizations and corporations from various geographical locations around the world.
Dragon100 Young Chinese Leaders Forum 2011 Invitation letter: http://tinyurl.com/6azx6ac

Singapore gets creative in the digital space

You may not have heard of Petimo yet.However, chances are your children will soon know all about this cuddly little social networking robot.  

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Lovotics User Study

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In order to evaluate the performance of Lovotics robot a  novel method for measuring human – robot is proposed by Lovotics team in CUTE Center. A user study is conducted to evaluate the emotional effect of interaction with the robot.  20 users experienced  interaction with Lovotics robot and answered questionnaires which were designed based on psychology of love especially to measure love scales between the participants and the robot.

ACE 2011: 8th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2011 (6th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference) In Cooperation with ACM and ACM SIGCHI Lisbon, Portugal 8-11 November, 2011

 ACE 2011: 8th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference incorporating DIMEA 2011 (6th Digital Interactive Media Entertainment and Arts Conference) In Cooperation with ACM and ACM SIGCHI Lisbon, Portugal 8-11 November, 2011

http://www.ace2011.org

IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Papers Submission Due: 1 June 2011
 Workshop Proposal Submission Due: 15 June 2011
 Late Breaking Results Submission Due: 24 June 2011
 Creative Show Case Submission Due: 24 June 2011
 Tutorial Submission Due: 24 June 2011
 Game Competition Submission Due: 20 September 2011

Young Global Leaders – Next-Generation Resonsibility

The young leaders’ network of the World Economic Forum combines commitment and expertise. The aim is a better future – for the whole world

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Mixed Reality Lab makes two videos for the support of Glorious Penny Low of Punggol

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MXR Lab produces kids augmented reality for Okto Channel with Oak Three Films and Real Space

Witz Alive is a preschool show for children from 3 – 6 years old based on three characters, the tiger (TAMMY), the monkey (ITCHEE), and the bird (WINGZ). Augmented reality application, WITZ Alive AR, is jointly developed by CUTE Center, NUS and Real Space pvt. LTD to provide an added interactive experience for children. We believe that this will enhance their experience outside the television box, where they can immerse themselves in the exciting AR technology by seeing their favorite WITZ characters come to life.

URLs:

• http://witz.sg/
• http://www.witz.sg/alive.html
• www.cutecenter.org
• http://www.sgrealspace.com/

Impact:

• Giving out 1,000 markers to pre-school teachers who will in turn hand it out to students during their classes
• OKTO will be producing trailers that will run on OKTO to promote the WITZ Augmented Reality (will update on airtime and dates)
• Mom & Baby Event: held the demo on OKTO booth, where children experienced the demo from 18th – 20th March, Expo, from 11am – 8pm (below are some photos from the event)
• Broadcast on the WITZ Alive AR through singaporemotherhood.com which has around 50,000 subscribers. This will showcase Augmented Reality as the key information for them to try out with their children.

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FoodGenie – At the Global Service Jam’11

Summary:

You’ve been there, staring inside your fridge loaded with ingredients but just don’t quite know how to put things together to make a nice decent meal. Or have you come across an awesome recipe that you really wanted to try out but just missed that one important ingredient required for that recipe?

Now, you don’t have to worry about these problems anymore! FoodGenie comes to your rescue!!
FoodGenie is a cool iPhone app that gives everyone a chance to become a super chef and helps your neighbours in cooking. It helps ordinary people (like you) make extraordinary dishes with what you have in the fridge. When there is a really important ingredient missing, it helps you find that missing ingredient by encouraging sharing of ingredients between neighbours. Guess what? You may get to know some really cool neighbours in your building! So what are you waiting for? Check out FoodGenie now!!!

*FoodGenie was created in 48 hours by a team of four enthusiastic jammers – Shawn Foo, Dhairya Dand, Zhu Kenning and Emma Zhang.

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Adrian David Cheok – Talk at Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2010

Reclaiming the Commons: Collaborating and Competing in The New Economic Order

Dr Adrian D. Cheok – Director, Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore

SESSION 2: FIRMS & TRANSFORMATION

SPECIAL ADDRESS: Synthetic Reality: The Science and Applications of Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Mixed Reality Lab and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. He was appointed to be a Full Professor of Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, from April 2008.

He received several outstanding awards: A-STAR Young Scientist of the Year Award 2003, the SCS Singapore Young Professional of the Year Award 2004, Fellow in Education, World Technology Network in 2004, and Microsoft Research Award for Gaming and Graphics in 2005. He was also awarded the Young Global Leader 2008 by World Economic Forum.

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Engineer, musician, interactive arts designer

When Mr Khoo Eng Tat took up Electrical and Computing Engineering for his Bachelor of Engineering degree, he never knew it would open up a world which integrates technology with art and music. For this, he said, he has much to thank his supervisor, Assoc Prof Adrian Cheok, Director, Mixed Reality Lab at NUS.

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NUS project lets you chat with virtual philosopher online, Confucius, what is love?

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ECE PhD scholar Wang Xuan win’s international award !

Wang Xuan, a 2nd Year Ph.D. student in our lab, has recently been selected as the winner for Communication Technologies and Interface Track, Young Researchers and Ph.D. Workshop for Research on Innovative Solutions for Elderly (YR-RISE). She was also placed the third for best oral and poster presentation at the workshop. The workshop was held as part of the 2nd Ambient Assisting Living (AAL) Forum in Odense, Denmark from Sep 15th to 18th, 2010. The AAL is a new joint research and development funding supported by the European Community. The research project she presented is entitled “Confucius Chat: Mediating Cultural Communication between Elderly and Children using New Media”.

Link: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/students/stu_achievements1.html

A/Prof Adrian Cheok talk on U@live

Adrian Cheok talked at U@LIVE at NUS on:

Digital Humanity

We have entered a new era of humanity. For the first time we haveconstant 24/7 real time global communication. How has this changedhumanity and the internet generation? How will learning change. Whatare the mega trends we will see from this digital exponential revolution.

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ACE Creative Showcase Golden Award

Liquid Interfaces won the Creative Showcase Golden Award at ACE2010 in
Taiwan.  The competition was part of the Advances in Computer
Entertainment conference which brings together researchers and
practitioners from industry and academia to present and discuss their
work in breakthrough areas in computer entertainment.
From more than 15 projects Liquid Interfaces was chosen as the first price by the
attendees public poll.  The second position was shared by two projects
“VirtualPhilharmony: a conducting system focused on a sensation of
conducting a real orchestra” and “A Software System for Creating and
Developing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications”

 The members of the Liquid Interfaces team are:

Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Kasun Karunanayaka, Jose R. Sepulveda, Mili John Tharakan, Jeremy Heng, Liu Yi Jiang, Eishem Bilal Naik, Adrian David Cheok

Mixed Reality Lab work published in new book by Springer: Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication

Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication takes a blue sky research perspective on the field of interactive media for entertainment computing. Adrian David Cheok argues that entertainment as an end-product is useful for interactive play, however it is also a powerful tool for learning and communication and it is also a key driver for the development of information technology. This book explores the future of entertainment technologies used for communication and describes quantum step research. It will inform and inspire readers to create their own radical inventions and innovations that are not incremental, but which break through ideas and non-obvious solutions. One of the main explorations is the examination of how new forms of computer interaction can lead to radical new forms of technology and art for entertainment computing. Art and Technology of Entertainment Computing and Communication is an informative and inspirational text for students and the next generation of researchers. It’s main aim is to provide information that will hopefully help change the world and society for the better, through new modes of entertainment and communication. Academics, researchers, engineers, game designers, and interaction designers, will find the content both interesting and valuable. Entertainment is the “engine” to inspire people and drive innovation in interactive digital media design.

Link : http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/book/978-1-84996-136-3