Synthetic Reality: The Science and Applications of Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality
Prof. Adrian David Cheok
Embodied Media and Mixed Reality for Social and Physical Interactive Communication
Abstract:
This talk outlines new facilities within human media spaces
supporting embodied interaction between humans, animals, and
computation both socially and physically, with the aim of
novel interactive communication and entertainment. We aim to
develop new types of human communications and entertainment
environments which can increase support for multi-person
multi-modal interaction and remote presence. In this talk,
we present an alternative ubiquitous computing environment
based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. We
discuss some different research prototype systems for
interactive communication and play. The functional
capabilities implemented in these systems include mixed
reality, tangible interaction, and ubiquitous human media
spaces.
Related Web Sites:
http://www.mixedrealitylab.org
Biography:
Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Mixed Reality Lab,
National University of Singapore. He is Associate Professor
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He
became Full Professor in Keio University, Graduate School of
Media Design from April 2008.
He worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded
computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Osaka,
Japan). He has been working on research covering mixed
reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and
ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power
electronics. He has successfully obtained funding for
externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers
and mixed reality from Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense
Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Communications and
Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center,
Hougang Primary School, National Research Foundation. The
research output has included numerous high quality academic
journal papers, research awards, keynote speeches,
international exhibitions, numerous government
demonstrations, broadcast television worldwide broadcasts on
his research(such as CNN/CNBC/ABC/Discovery/National
Geographic etc.), and hundreds of international press media
articles.
In the Mixed Reality Lab, he leads a team of over 40
researchers and students. He has been a keynote and invited
speaker at numerous international conferences and events. He
was invited to exhibit for two years in the Ars Electronica
Museum of the Future, launching in the Ars Electronica
Festival 2003. His works "Human Pacman",
"Magic Land", and "Metazoa Ludens", were
each selected as one of the worlds top inventions by Wired
and invited to be exhibited in Wired NextFest 2005 and 2007.
He was awarded the Hitachi Fellowship 2003, the A-STAR Young
Scientist of the Year Award 2003, and the SCS Singapore
Young Professional of the Year Award 2004. In 2004 he was
invited to be the Singapore representative of the United
Nations body IFIP SG 16 on Entertainment Computing and the
founding and present Chairman of the Singapore Computer
Society Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing.
Also in 2004, he was awarded an Associate of the Arts award
by the Minister for Information, Communications and the
Arts, Singapore. He was awarded as Fellow in Education,
World Technology Network in 2004. In 2005 he was awarded a
Microsoft Research Award for Gaming and Graphics. In 2008 he
received the Mindtrek award. He was awarded Young Global
Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. This honour is
bestowed each year by the World Ecomonic Forum to recognize
and acknowledge the top young leaders from around the world
for the professional accomplishments, commitment to society
and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the
world.
He is Editor/Associate Editor of the following academic
journals:
Transactions on Edutainment (Springer), ACM Computers in
Entertainment, Advances in Human Computer Interaction,
International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART),
Journal of Recent Patents on Computer Science, The Open
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Journal, International
Journal of Entertainment Technology and Management
(IJEntTM), Virtual Reality (Springer-Verlag), International
Journal of Virtual Reality, and The Journal of Virtual
Reality and Broadcasting.
Adrian David Cheok, who was born and raised in Adelaide
Australia, graduated from the University of Adelaide with a
Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) with
First Class Honors in 1992 and an Engineering PhD in 1998.
Some Selected Representative Publications:
Adrian David Cheok, Yan Qiu, Ke Xu, and Krishnamoorthy
Ganesh Kumar, Combined Wireless Hardware and Real-Time
Computer Vision Interface for Tangible Mixed Reality, IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL. 54, NO. 4,
AUGUST 2007
Cheok, A.D., Anuroop Sreekumar, Lei, C., Thang, L.N.,
Capture the flag: mixed-reality social gaming with smart
phones, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE, Volume: 5, Issue: 2,
pp. 62- 69, April-June 2006
Lee, S.P., Cheok, A.D., Teh, K.S.J., Goh, P.L.D., Chio,
W.J., Wang, C., and Farbiz, F., A mobile pet wearable
computer and mixed reality system for human poultry
interaction through the internet, Personal and Ubiquitous
Computing, Volume 10, Number 5 / August, 2006, pp. 301-317
CHEOK, A. D., TEH, K. S., NGUYEN, T. H., QUI, T. C., LEE, S.
P., LIU, W., LI, C. C., DIAZ, D., and BOJ, C. 2006. Social
and Physical Interactive Paradigms for Mixed-Reality
Entertainment, ACM Computers in Entertainment (CIE), 4, 2
(Apr. 2006), 5.
Real-Time 3D Human Capture System for Mixed-Reality Art and
Entertainment Ta Huynh Duy Nguyen; Tran Cong Thien Qui; Ke
Xu; Cheok, A.D.; Sze Lee Teo; ZhiYing Zhou; Mallawaarachchi,
A.; Shang Ping Lee; Wei Liu; Hui Siang Teo; Le Nam Thang; Yu
Li; Kato, H.; Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE
Transactions on Volume 11, Issue 6, Nov.-Dec. 2005
Page(s):706 - 721
Live three-dimensional content for augmented reality Farbiz,
F.; Cheok, A.D.; Liu Wei; Zhou ZhiYing; Xu Ke; Prince, S.;
Billinghurst, M.; Kato, H.; Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2005 Page(s):514 - 523
"Touch-Space: Mixed Reality Game Space Based on
Ubiquitous, Tangible, and Social Computing", Adrian
David Cheok, Wang Weihua, Xubo Yang, Mark Billinghurst,
Hirokazu Kato, Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 6,(Jan. 2002),
430-442.
"3D Live: Real Time Captured Content for Mixed
Reality", Simon Prince, Adrian David Cheok, Todd
Williamson, Nik Johnson, Mark Billinghurst, Hirokazu Kato,
Farzam Farbiz, IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed
and Augmented Reality Sept. 30 - Oct.1, 2002 in Darmstadt,
Germany, age(s):7 - 317
