Anusha Withana

Papers

  1. Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Masahiko Inami and Takeo Igarashi, Cooking with Robots: Designing a Household System Working in Open Environments, Proceedings of the 28th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI2010, Atlanta, USA, April 10-15, 2010. (to appear)
  2. Yuta Sugiura, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Gota Kakehi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi and Masa Inakage, An Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot for Entertainment, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Full-Conference DVD-ROM Emerging Technologies, Yokohama, December 2009.
  3. Adrian David Cheok,Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Kening Zhu, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Yukihiro Morisawa, Kasun Karunanayaka, Makoto Danjo, Isuru Sawubhagya Godage, Michelle Narangoda, Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, Miyuru Dayarathna, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, James Keng Soon Teh, Dilrukshi Abeyrathne, Chamari Priyange Edirisinghe, Kris Hoogendoorn, Junsong Hou, WeiWang Thang. Petimo: Children’s companion for safe social networking, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Emerging Technologies, Yokohama,Japan. December 2009.
  4. Adrian David Cheok,Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Kening Zhu, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Yukihiro Morisawa, Kasun Karunanayaka, Makoto Danjo, Isuru Sawubhagya Godage, Michelle Narangoda, Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, Miyuru Dayarathna, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, James Keng Soon Teh, Dilrukshi Abeyrathne, Chamari Priyange Edirisinghe, Kris Hoogendoorn, Junsong Hou, WeiWang Thang. Petimo: Enhanced tangible social networking companion for children, ACE’09 2009 Poster, Athens, Greece. October 29-31.
  5. Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Kening Zhu, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Michelle Narangoda, Isuru Sawubhagya Godage, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, James Keng Soon Teh, Chamari Priyange Edirisinghe, Kasun Karunanayaka, Timothy Merritt, Dilrukshi Abeyrathne, Yukihiro Morisawa, Miyuru Dayarathna, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, Makoto Danjo, Junsong Hou, Wei Wang Thang 2009. Petimo: Safe Social Networking Robot for children.   8th International Conference on Interaction design and children (Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009). IDC ’09. (Accepted for publication).
  6. W.D.A. Indrajith, C.M. S.U. Bandara, S.A.M. Nirosha, W.N.E. Peiris, S.A.D. Dias, , Video Surveillance System with Adaptive Compensation for Wireless Networks, 14thAnnual Symposium of Engineering Research Unit (ERU-Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa)-2008, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2008, Paper No. 08ERU112, 2008. pp71-72
  7. 杉浦裕太，筧豪太，Anusha Indrajith Withana，坂本大介，Charith Lasantha Fernando，稲見昌彦，五十嵐健夫，Walky: 指の擬人的な動作を利用した歩行ロボットへの操作手法，インタラクション2010 インタラクティブ発表（プレミアム），2010年3月．(to appear)
  8. 杉浦裕太，坂本大介，Anusha Indrajith Withana，稲見昌彦，五十嵐健夫，Cooky: 調理順序指示インタフェースと料理ロボットの開発，第17回インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関するワークショップ （WISS2009），2009年12月．（2009/12/2-4＠静岡県熱海市 熱海温泉 ホテル大野屋

Awards

  1. Petimo: Safe Social Networking Robot for children short listed at the Como for Children (C4C) Competition at the  8th International Conference on Interaction design and children in Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009. IDC ’09.
  2. Winner of Dialog Change scholarship given to 25 best students in Sri Lanka in Physical science stream, in year 2002.
  3. Winner of the award for Best Announcer of Engineering Faculty 2003 at Pehesara Cultural Festival 2003, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa in year 2002.

Demos and Exhibitions

  1. Petimo: Safe Social Networking Robot for children at the  8th International Conference on Interaction design and children in Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009. IDC ’09.

Book Chapters

  1. Adrian David Cheok, Timothy Merritt, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Yukihiro Morisawa, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Isuru Sawbagya Godage, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Nancy Lan-Lan Ma,Chamari Priyange Edirisinghe, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Kenning Zhu, Miyuru Dayarathne, Makoto Danjo, Marc Tuters, Dilrukshi Abeyrathne, Michelle Narangoda, “Cute Interactive System”,  Art and Technology, Springer (Accepted for publication).

Achievements

  1. Score the Highest mark at Kalutara District at GCE A/L examination 2002, placing District Rank 1 (Out of more than 15000 students) and Island Rank 41.
  2. 1st Class B.Sc. Honors Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication engineering from University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. (GPA 3.91). Selected for Deans list in the 5 out of seven semesters in the B.Sc. degree program

Experience

  1. Work experience as a Core Network Planning Engineer in the leading mobile communication provider in Sri Lanka, Dialog Telekom Sri Lanka for eleven (11) months.
  2. Editor of the official magazine E-Carrier of the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication, University of Moratuwa for academic year 2004/2005.

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