The Mixed Reality Lab (MXR) aims to push the boundaries of research into interactive new media technologies through the combination of technology, art, and creativity.
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.
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.
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
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
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.