Category Archives: Prizes

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

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

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

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 conference attracted a multi-disciplinary group including experts in the arts, sociology, anthropology, psychology, marketing, computer science and design.  Liquid Interfaces Gold Award

2010-04-22 – SINGAPORE – Children as young as seven years old are now able to experience a safe and fun online social environment with the world’s first interactive virtual and real world social robot,developed by a team led by A/Prof Adrian Cheok from the Mixed Reality Lab. Parents can feel safe and comfortable with their children using social networks because the friend making must be made only in the physical world through the children’s robot. An experience like no other, the robotic toy, named “Petimo”, responds to touch and movement. Its outer finish is an adorable plush toy and its small, round physical shape evokes a warm and tender feeling likened to carrying a baby animal. Petimo has already been selected by an international review panel as one of the best three submissions for the Como for Children (C4C) design competition held at The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2009) during its debut in Europe.

Recently, “Petimo” – social networking robot for children, won the first prize in an international innovation competition in Milan Milan, Italy (Apr 22nd 2010). The prize is InventiON: concorso di idee per inventori, InventiON: competition of ideas for inventorshttp://www.innovationcircus.it/2009/. Petimo won the first prize in the ICT (information and communication technologies) track The competition is sponsored by the Municipality of Milan and the Chamber of Commerce, and is co-organized by a service company (Alintec) together with “Nova-Sole 24 ore”, (Italian financial times). The main sponsor of the competition is 3M.