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.
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.
On Thursday the 2nd of December David Freeman visited CUTE center to give his workshop titled “Giving Engaging and Memorable Presentations”. David Freeman is a Los Angeles based story writer which teaches the “Beyond Structure” story writing workshop world wide. His workshop is taken by novelists, screenwriters, directors, producers, stars, and key creative an marketing executives for the major Hollywood companies. All the students in the lab attended the one day workshop. In his workshop Mr Freeman provided the audience with a series of drills to engage audiences.
Report : Bar Camp Seoul
http://barcamp.org/BarCampSeoul4
Participant : Yongsoon Choi,
Venue: DAUM building, Hannam-dong, Seoul, Korea
Date: Saturday, November 7 2009
Seoul Bar Camp had 2 sessions and many discussion issues. In fact, I could not count on how many discussions were going on at that time because Seoul Bar camp was very flexible un-conference and I could see many enthused volunteers were presenting their researches and ideas freely during the sessions without presentation allocations. This event was started from almost 10 AM and finished 5PM.
Read More: https://www.mixedrealitylab.org/media/articles/Seoul Bar Camp Report.doc
TEDxCanton aims to convey “ideas worth spreading” to individuals, businesses and institutions in our community and beyond by putting together a program of heavyweight local and international speakers. TEDxCanton engages people in Guangzhou and elsewhere in better understanding Guangzhou’s modernity and heritage, and reach out towards the wider world through motivational, intellectual and entertaining experiences. The theme of the event is “The Overflow of the Heart”, or “心溢新意·畅享创想” in Chinese. The mixed reality lab PhD scholars Wei Jun, and Wang Xuan attended this session and below are their reports on their experiences,
On May 7th, Dr Kim Solez visited CUTE center in Singapore to see the demos of the research projects. Dr Kim Solez is one of the world’s foremost renal pathologists and medical Internet leaders. He has been at the University of Alberta since1987, and is currently a Professor and Director of Experimental Pathology as well as Director of NKF cyberNephrology, a joint venture of the National Kidney Foundation (U.S.) and the University of Alberta. Dr Solez is a co-writer of http://www.internetevolution.com/ and has a profound interest in technology. The meeting developed as a long conversation where Dr Solez expressed his interest in our projects and provided interesting suggestions for future work.
http://picasaweb.google.com/106341802660447646160/KimSolezVisit#
