Awards/Prizes – Mixed Reality Lab

Research Awards and Prizes

C4C- Como for Children Competition, Best Interaction Design for Children Award (3 Awarded), Italy 2009.
Laval Revolution Award, (Given for Best Virtual Reality Inventions, approximately 10 selected each year) – France 2009
Winner of The Integrated Art Competition. Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA) – Singapore 2008
Awarded Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. This honour is bestowed each year by the World Economic 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 – 2008
First Prize Winner of Awards “Creativity of Warm”, 8th International University Creative-in-Action Contest 2007” held in I-Shou University – Taiwan, December 2008
The Winners of the MobileHCI 2007 Demo Category 09 – 2007
Winner of Microsoft Research Asia Award for Gaming and Graphics – 2005
Art & Artificial Life International Competition Vida 8.0 competition in Madrid, MENCIONES ESPECIALES Award for ”Poultry Internet” – 2005
Award of Fellow in Education, World Technology Network. Awarded October 8, 2004, in San Francisco, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony at San Francisco City Hall held in association with Nasdaq, Microsoft, TIME magazine, Science magazine, and CNN. Only five (5) people in the world, out of the global selection process were selected as Fellow in the Category of Education. – 2004
Associate of the Arts Award, a prestigious national award, awarded by the National Arts Council, Award presented by Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts – 2004
Young Professional of the Year 2004, a prestigious national award, awarded by the Singapore Computer Society. Award presented by Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Art – 2004
Honorary Mention Best Artistic Projects Prize. Cyberart 04. Bilbao. – 2004
TKK Science Award for Research: Human Pacman
TKK Science Award for Research: 3d-Live
Singapore National Young Scientist Award 2003 Winner. This prestigious award is organised by the Singapore National Academy of Science and supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. The YSA is presented to young researchers, aged 35 years or below, who are actively engaged in R&D in Singapore, and who have shown great potential to be world-class researchers in their fields of expertise. – 2003
Certificate of Appreciation Award from National Heritage Board – 2003
Winner of Hitachi Research Fellowship. Three months fully funded visiting Professorship to Japan. – 2003
Awarded International Touring Award, National Arts Council – 2002
NOKIA Ubimedia MindTrek Award: Babbage Cabbage Empathetic Living Media was one of three prize winner’s of the international NOKIA Ubimedia MindTrek Award. The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards was an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia, NAMU Lab. -Tampere University of Technology, and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and, Finland. The purpose of the competition was to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubiquitous media products & services. The entries were expected to take a stand on the question, how ubiquitous computing affects intelligent media environments and what the future of location and context aware media services might look like. – 2008