Owen Noel Newton Fernando (Research Fellow)

Owen Noel Newton Fernando (Research Fellow)

BOOK CHAPTERS
Michael Cohen and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Audio Windowing Narrowcasting for Multipresent Privacy and Attention on Workstations and Mobile Phones,” Awareness Systems, Human Computer Interaction Series, Springer London, ISSN 1571-5035, pages 259-289, 2009, DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-477-5.

ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Kening Zhu, Chamari Edirisinghe, and Khoo Eng Tat,”Interactive Technology and Digital System to Explore Culture: Media Me, BlogWall and Confucius Computer”, Art and Technology, Springer (Accepted for publication).

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Timothy Merritt, 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).

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Kening Zhu, and Chamari Edirisinghe, “BlogWall: Promoting Social Communication through Mobile Technology in Sri Lanka”, Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries: Effects and Implications (Accepted for publication).

Adrian David Cheok, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Roger Thomas Tan, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Hooman Samani, “Metazoa Ludens” , Art and Technology, Springer (Accepted for publication).

Adrian David Cheok, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Khoo Eng Tat, “Energy and touch-information for body-worn ubiquitous computing” , Art and Technology, Springer (Accepted for publication).

JOURNALS
Michael Cohen, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Uresh Chanka Duminduwardena, and Makoto Kawaguchi, “Duplex narrowcasting operations for multipresent groupware avatars on mobile devices,” IJWMC: Int. J. of Wireless and Mobile Computing (Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia systems and Applications), 2009, Vol. 3, No.4 pages 280 – 287, ISSN 1741-1084, 1741-1092 .

Chamari Edirisinghe, Kening Zhu, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Eng Tat Khoo, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, “Modeling literary culture through interactive digital media”, Virtual Reality, Springer London, ISSN 1359-4338 (Print) 1434-9957 (Online), 2009, DOI 10.1007/s10055-009-0147-9.

Adrian David Cheok, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Khoo Eng Tat: Energy and Touch-Information for Body-worn Ubiquitous Computing. International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy Vol. 7, No.2, 2009, pages 137-166.

Adrian David Cheok, Michael Haller, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Janaka Prasad Wijesena, “Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art”, The International Journal of Virtual Reality (Special Issue on Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art), 2009, Vol. 8, No.2 pages 83-90, ISSN 1081-1451.

Adrian David Cheok, Michael Haller, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Workshop on Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art”, The International Journal of Virtual Reality (Special Issue on Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art), 2008, Vol. 7, No.3, pages 87-88, ISSN 1081-1451.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Abd-ur-Rehman Mustafa, Anne-Katrin Barthoff, and Naoko Tosa, “BlogWall: Social and Cultural Interaction for Children,” Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2008, Article ID 341615, 8 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/341615.

Adrian David Cheok, Hiroshi Ishii, Junichi Osada, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Tim Merritt “Interactive Play and Learning for Children,” Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 2008, Article ID 954013, 3 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/954013.

Michael Cohen, Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “A Mixed Reality Application: A Multiuser Multiperspective Stereographic qtvr Browser Complemented by Java3d Visualizer and Emulator,” Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 16(4), pages 414-438, August 2007, ISSN 1054-7460.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Kazuya Adachi, Uresh Chanaka Duminduwardena, Makoto Kawaguchi, and Michael Cohen, “Audio Narrowcasting and Privacy for Multipresent Avatars on Workstations and Mobile Phones,” IEICE Transaction on Information and Systems, vol. E89-D, no. 1, pages 73–87, January 2006. ISSN 0916-8532.

Uresh Chanaka Duminduwardena, Kazuya Adachi, Makoto Kawaguchi, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Michael Cohen, “Narrowcasting Operations for Multipresent Chatspace Avatars in Collaborative Virtual Environments,” 3D Forum: Journal of Three Dimensional Images, vol. 18, no. 1, pages. 129–135, March. 2004, ISSN 1342-2189.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Michael Cohen, Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, Dishna Wanasinghe, and Toshifumi Kanno, “Mobile Control in Cyberspace of Image-based and Computer Graphic Scenes and Spatial Audio Using Stereo QTVR and Java3D,” 3D Forum: Journal of Three-Dimensional Images (3D Forum), Vol. 16, No. 4, pages 101–106, December 2002, ISSN 1342-2189.

ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION

CONFERENCES
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 and Wei Wang Thang, Petimo: children’s companion for safe social networking. In ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Art Gallery & Emerging Technologies: Adaptation (Yokohama, Japan, December 16 – 19, 2009). SIGGRAPH ASIA ’09. ACM, New York, NY, pages 80-80.

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 and Wei Wang Thang, Petimo: Children’s tangible social networking platform, International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Athens, Greece, October 29 – 31, 2009), ACE’ 2009.

Kening Zhu, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Chamari Edirisinghe, Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando and Yan Yan Cao, Poetry Mix-up: The 10th Muse, International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Athens, Greece, October 29 – 31, 2009), ACE’ 2009.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Kening Zhu, Chamari Edirisinghe, Poetry Mix-up: A poetry generating system for cultural communication, International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (Athens, Greece, October 29 – 31, 2009), ACE’ 2009.

Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Adrian David Cheok, James Keng Soon Teh, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Mili Tharakan, Kris Hoogendoorn, Wen Yingqian, Andre Lim, Pan Yi 2009. AmbiKraf: An embedded non-emissive and fast changing wearable display. In proceedings of Interactive Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan, October 24, 2009). iTokyo ’09.

Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Adrian David Cheok, James Keng Soon Teh, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Mili Tharakan, and Kris Hoogendoorn. 2009. AmbiKraf: An embedded non-emissive and fast changing fabric display. In Smart Textile Salon 2009, Prototype Exhibition (Ghent, Belgium, September 25, 2009).

Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Adrian David Cheok, James Keng Soon Teh, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Wen Yingqian, Andre Lim, Pan Yi, Doros Polydorou, Kian Peng Ong, Mili Tharakan, “AmbiKraf: An embedded non-emissive and fast changing wearable display”, In Proc. SIGGRAPH2009: The 36th Int. Conf. and Exhibition on Computer graphics and interactive techniques (Emerging Technology Demos), New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-6, 2009.

Adrian David Cheok, Isuru Godage, Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani, Michelle Narangoda, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Intimate Physical Interaction with Robots, Human – Robot Kiss”, International conference on Human-robot personal relationship, Tilburg, Netherlands, 11-12 June 2009.

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, “Petimo: Safe Social Networking Robot for children”,In Proc.IDC’09: 8th International Conference on Interaction design and children, Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009.

James Teh Keng Soon, Adrian David Cheok, Yongsoon Choi, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando,Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Huggy Pajama: A Parent and Child Hugging Communication System”, In Proc.IDC’09: 8th International Conference on Interaction design and children, Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, Tim Merritt, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Inosha Wickrama, Kasun Karunanayaka, “Babbage Cabbage: Biological Empathetic Media”, In Proc. VRIC’09: Virtual Reality International Conference, April 22-26, 2009, Laval, France. pp. 363-366.

Tim Merritt, Adrian David Cheok, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Empathetic Biological Media,” In Proc. CHI’09 Wkshp. on Programming Reality: From Transitive Materials to Organic User Interfaces, Bostan, USA, April 2009. http://ambient.media.mit.edu/transitive/chi2009papers/merritt09.pdf.

Kening Zhu, Nimesha Ranasinghe, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, S. Makino, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Adrian David Cheok, “BlogWall: A Public Display Promoting Social Communication and Entertainment “, ACE 2008: International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment Technology,p. 439, Yokohama, Japan, 3-5 December 2008.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Janaka Prasad Wijesena and R. Shankar, “Poetry Mix-up: Preserving Culture with Poetic SMS,” Collabtech’08: Proc. of the Fourth Annual Conference on Collaboration Technologies, Wakayama, Japan, August 30-31, 2008.

Adrian David Cheok, Roger Thomas Tan, Owen Noel Newton Fernando,Tim Merritt, Janyn Yen ping Sen, and Dung Thi Khanh Nguyen, “Empathetic Living Media,” DIS2008: Proc. of the Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa, pages 465-473, February 2008.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tim Merritt, and Chenxi Zhang, “Kawaii Engineering,” Proc. of the DIS2008 Workshop on Cute Interactive Media, Cape Town, South Africa, February 2008 (Online: www.cutemedia.org).

Naoko Tosa, Seigow Matsuoka, Hideto Obara, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, “Hitch Haiku: A System for Generating Haiku,” The 6th Symposium of the Acedemic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Japan, pages 57-60, January 10th, 2008.

Wei Liu, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Adrian David Cheok, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, and Roger Thomas Tan, “Science Museum Mixed Reality Digital Media Exhibitions for Children,” DMAMH 2007: Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Media and its Application in Museum & Heritage, Chongqing Institute of Technology, Chongqing, P.R.China, pages 389-394, December 2007.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tim Robert Merritt, Masahiko Inami, and Masa Inakage, “Explorations on Interactive Interfaces Using Cuteness,” DIMEA 2007: Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Perth, Western Australia, September 2007, vol. 274, pages 3-3, ACM, New York, NY.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Adrian David Cheok, Wei Liu and Naoko Tosa, “BlogWall: Personal and Poetic Expressions,” DIMEA 2007: Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Perth, Western Australia, September 2007, vol. 274, pages 186-186, ACM, New York, NY.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Imiyage Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Adrian David Cheok, Ajith P. Madurapperuma, Lochandaka Ranathunga, Mei Gangwen, Miyuru Dayarathna, Srinivasan Mariappan, and Lee Rui Jie Jerome, “Media Me: Body and Personal Media Interaction,” ICEC 2007: Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Shanghai, P. R. China, pages 407-410, September 2007.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Abd-ur-Rehman Mustafa, Anne-Katrin Barthoff, and Naoko Tosa, “ BlogWall: Displaying Artistic and Poetic Messages on Public Displays via SMS,” MobileHCI ’07: Proc. of the 9th Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, pages 238-241, September 2007.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Michael Cohen, Adrian David Cheok, “Spatial Audio Interfaces for Workstation and Mobile Devices,” MobileHCI ’07: Proc. of the 9th Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, pages 259-261, September 2007.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Abd-ur-Rehman Mustafa, Mayank Agarwal, and Anne-Katrin Barthoff, “BlogWall: A new paradigm of mobile communication,” MobileHCI ’07: Proc. of the 9th Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, pages 247-248, September 2007.

Naoko Tosa, Seigow Matsuoka, Hideto Obara, Kazuya Fujioka, Adrian David Cheok, Gary Jay Coffman, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Rohei Nakatsu, “Hitch Haiku: Computer-generated, semi-automatic Haiku program,” In Proc. SIGGRAPH2007: The 34th Int. conf. and Exibition on Computer graphics and interactive techniques,San Diego, California, USA, pages 250-250, August 2007.

Michael Cohen, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tatsuya Nagai, and Kensuke Shimizu, ““Back Seat Driver”: Spatial Sound for Vehicular Way-Finding and Situation Awareness,” FCST 2006: Japan-China Joint Workshop on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, pages 109-115, November 2006.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando and Michael Cohen, “Narrowcasting Attributes for Presence Awareness in Collaborative Virtual Environments,” Proc. CIT 2006: IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer and Information Technology, Seoul, Korea, pages 129-134, September 2006.

Kyoko Kanno, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, S. Narita, and Michael Cohen, ““Personal Practically Panoramic” Multimodal Interfaces,” Proc. EDT: Emerging Display Technologies (IEEE-VRWorkshop), Ed. A. Simon, G..Welch, and M. Bolas, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, pages 37–40, March 2006.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Narrowcasting and Privacy for Multipresent Avatars on Workstations and Mobile Phones in Collaborative Virtual Environments,” Proc. AC 2006: IADIS Int. Conf. on Applied Computing, San Sebastian, Spain, pages 715–719, February 2006.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Guo Saito, Uresh Chanaka Duminduwardena, Yoshia Tanno, and Michael Cohen, “Cloning and teleporting avatars across workstations and mobile devices in collaborative virtual environments: Clipboard operations for virtual reality,” Proc. ICIA’05: IEEE Int. Conf. on Information and Automation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2005 (CD Only).

Michael Cohen and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Narrowcasting Attributes for Presence Awareness,” Proc. CHI’05 Workshop on Awareness Systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts, and Future Challenges, Portland, April 2005 (CD Only).

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Kazuya Adachi, and Michael Cohen, “Phantom sources for separation of listening and viewing positions for multipresent avatars in narrowcasting collaborative virtual environments,” in Proc. MNSA: Int. Wkshp. on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (in conjunction with ICDCS: 24th Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems), Hachioji, Tokyo: Tokyo University of Technology, pages 170–175, March 2004, ISBN 0-7695-2087-1.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Kazuya Adachi, Uresh Chanaka Duminduwardena, Makoto Kawaguchi, and Michael Cohen, “Audio Narrowcasting for Multipresent Avatars on Workstations and Mobile Phones,” in Proc. ICAT: Thirteenth Int. Conf. on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence, Tokyo: Keio University, pages. 106–113, December 2003, SSN 1345-1278.

Uresh Chanaka Duminduwardena, Kazuya Adachi, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Michael Cohen, “Narrowcasting Operations for Multipresent Chatspace Avatars in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Part I,” Proc. HC2003: Sixth Int. Conf. on Human and Computer, AizuWakamatsu, Japan, pages, 14-19, September 2003,

Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, Michael Cohen, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and William L. Martens, “Image-based Stereoscopic Navigation in Collaborative Virtual Environments,” Proc. of the Int. Workshop on Geometric Modeling, Computing, and Visualization (IWGMCV’03), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, pages 3-5, July 2003.

Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, Michael Cohen, William L. Martens, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Tomoya Kamada, Hiroaki Osaka, and Takuzo Yoshikawa, “”Just Look At Yourself!”: Stereographic Exocentric Visualization and Emulation of Stereographic Egocentric Panoramic Dollying,” Proc. of the 12 Int. Conf. on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT’02), Tokyo, Japan, pages 146–153, December 2002.

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Michael Cohen, Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, Dishna Wanasinghe, and Toshifumi Kanno, “Mobile Control in Cyberspace of Image-based and Computer Graphic Scenes and Spatial Audio Using Stereo QTVR and Java3D,” Proc. HC2002: Fifth Int. Conf. on Human and Computer, AizuWakamatsu, Japan, pages 92-97, September 2002.

Noor Alamshah Bolhassan, Michael Cohen, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Stereographic QTVR with Synchronized Spatial Audio,” Int. Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002), Chiba, Japan, May 2002 (Demo only).

Owen Noel Newton Fernando and Gihan Wikramanayake, “Web Based Agriculture Information System,” Proc. IIT98: Int. Conf. on Information Technology, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 1998 (Page numbers are not presently available).

MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Adrian David Cheok, Michiko Ohkura, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Tim Merritt, “Designing Cute Interactive Media,” INNOVATION: The magazine of Research & Technology, National University of Singapore and World Scientific Publishing, 8(3) pages 08-09, 2008.

Adrian David Cheok, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Wei Liu, “The Magical World of Mixed Reality,” INNOVATION: The magazine of Research & Technology, National University of Singapore and World Scientific Publishing, 8(1) pages 70-73, 2008.

Adrian David Cheok, Roger Thomas Tan, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Roshan Peiris, Janaka Prasad, and Janyn Sen Yan Ping, “Metazoa Ludens,” AXIS: Tokyo’s AXIS Center for Design, Vol 130, pages 36-36, December 2007.

WORKSHOPS
Adrian David Cheok, Masa Inakage, Masahiko Inami, Michiko Ohkura, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, and Tim Merritt, “Designing Cute Interactive Media,” DIS2008: Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa, February 25th, 2008 (Workshop Proposal).

Adrian David Cheok, Michael Haller, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art,” ISMAR 2007: Sixth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, November 13th, 2007 (Workshop Proposal).

Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Michael Cohen, Adrian David Cheok, Ajith Parakum Madurapperuma, Raine Koskimaa, and Kimmo Lehtonen, “Spatial Audio for Mobile Devices,” MobileHCI ’07: The 9th Conf. on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Singapore, September 9th, 2007 (Workshop Proposal).

Mark A.M. Kramer, Yutaka Ishibashi, Adrian David Cheok, and Owen Noel Newton Fernando, “MobiMundi: Exploring the Impact of Current and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services on Society,” MobileHCI ’07: The 9th Conf. on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Singapore, September 9th, 2007 (Workshop Proposal).

INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS
“AmbiKraf: An embedded non-emissive and fast changing wearable display” at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technology Demos (New Orleans, Louisiana, August 4-6, 2009).

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

“Huggy Pajama: A Parent and Child Hugging Communication System” at the IDC ’09: International Conference on Interaction design and children (Como, Italy, June 3 – 5, 2009). .

“Babbage Cabbage”, demonstrated at the Laval Virtual Revolution 2009 under the “Welcome” catergory in Laval, France April 2009.

“Cultural Computing: Hitch Haiku,” MMM2008: The 14th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, January 10th, 2008.
(http://research.nii.ac.jp/mmm2008/).

“Media Me: Body and Personal Media Interaction,” Art and EntertainmentWorkshop, IFLIP Technical Committee on “Entertainment Computing,” Kyoto, Japan, November 11th, 2007.
(www.tosa.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ifip/).

“Metazoa Ludens,” Wired NextFest 2007, LA, USA, September 13-16, 2007.
( www.wirednextfest.com/community/exhibitors.php/).

“Hitch-Haiku,” SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery: Global Eyes, San Diego, California, USA, August 5-9, 2007. (www.siggraph.org/s2007/).

“Spatial Audio Interfaces for Workstation and Mobile Devices,” MobileHCI07: 9th Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, September 9th, 2007.
(www.mobilehci2007.org/).

“BlogWall: A new paradigm of mobile communication,” MobileHCI07: 9th Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Singapore, September 9th, 2007.
(www.mobilehci2007.org/).

“Mobile Control of Spatial Audio Displayed Through a Speaker Array and Multiplicity & Keitai iCon,” Sixth Int. Wkshp. on Spatial Media: IWSM05-06, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, February 1st– 3rd, 2006. (www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/welcome/ISSM/05-06/).

“Just Look At Yourself!: Stereographic Exocentric Visualization and Emulation of Stereographic Panoramic Dollying,” Fifth Int. Wkshp. on Spatial Media: IWSM04-05, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, November 1st– 3rd, 2005.
(www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/welcome/ISSM/04-05/).

“Stereographic QTVR with Synchronized Spatial Audio,” Int. Workshop on Entertainment Computing (IWEC2002), Chiba, Japan, May 14-17, 2002.
(www.graphic.esys.tsukuba.ac.jp/iwec2002/)..

PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
Babbage Babbage Cabbage: One of the winners at Laval Revolution 2009

Babbage Cabbage, short listed to the top 53 finalists out of 295 entries at the 80+1 “Live Bits”, Ars Electronica

Babbage Cabbage, third place at the “Nokia Ubimedia Mindtrek Awards” Tampere University of Technology in Finland.

A paper describing a “Spatial Audio for Mobile interfaces” won the third prize (MobileHCI Demo Category) at the MobileHCI 2007 Conference, Singapore, September, 2007.

FELLOWSHIPS/ AWARDS
AGrants for Researchers Attending International Conferences – Foundation for C&C (Computers & Communication) Promotion, Japan, October 2005.

Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT: Monbusho), April 2004 – September 2006.

SAISUA Scholarship for outstanding scholastic performance, April 2003 – September 2003.

Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT: Gakushu-Shoreihi) for outstanding scholastic performance, April 2002 – March 2003.

Distinguished Laksakura Award from the Herath Foundation, October 2001.

Mahapola Scholarship for Higher Education, University of Colombo, 1994-1998.

SERVICE AS AN INVITED SPEAKER
Invited Speaker at Minimally Invasive Surgery Symposium (MIS) in 41st Singapore-Malasia Congress of Medicine, Singapore, July 19-22, 2007. (Title: Operating Theatre and Digital Age). (www.ams.edu.sg/41smcm/index.cfm/).

SERVICE AS AN EDITOR
Guest Editor: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction: (AHCI: Issue on Interactive Play and Learning for Children, 2007).

SERVICE AS A REVIEWER
Invited Reviewer: ACE2009: Advances in Computer Entertainment, Athens, Greece, October 29-31, 2009.

Invited Reviewer: ACE2008: Advances in Computer Entertainment, Yokohama, Japan, December 2008.

Invited Reviewer: Advances in Human-Computer Interaction: (AHCI: Issue on Interactive Play and Learning for Children, 2007).

Invited Reviewer: DIMEA 2007: 2nd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts, Perth, Western Australia, September 2007.

Invited Reviewer: ICEC 2007: 6th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Shanghai, P. R. China, September 2007.

Invited Reviewer: Ninth Int. Conf. on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: MobileHCI’07, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 2007.

Invited Reviewer: ACE2007: Advances in Computer Entertainment, Salzburg, June 2007.

Invited Reviewer: Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCiNi: Special issue on Ambient Intelligence and Arts, 2006).

Additional Reviewer: Fourth IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2004), 14th–16th Sep. 2004, Wuhan, China. (www.ams.edu.sg/41smcm/index.cfm/).

SERVICE TO LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITYS
Organizing Co-Chair: ACE2009: Advances in Computer Entertainment, Athens, Greece, October 29-31, 2009. (http://www.ace2009.org/).

Organizing Chair: ACE2008: Advances in Computer Entertainment, Yokohama, Japan 03-05, 2008. (http://www.ace.org/ace2008).

Designing Cute Interactive Media Workshop in conjunction with DIS2008: Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa, February 25th, 2008.
(www.cutemedia.org/).

Organizing Chair: Interactive Design Art and Technology (An event of Ars Electronica, Creative Korea, and Interactive Tokyo), Science Center, Singapore, November 10th to December 31st 2007. (http://idat.wikidot.com/).

Organizing Chair: Mixed Reality Entertainment and Art Workshop in conjunction with Sixth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Nara, Japan, November 13th, 2007. (http://ismar07ea.wikidot.com/).

Organizing Chair: Spatial Audio for Mobile Devices Workshop in conjunction with Ninth Int. Conf. on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: MobileHCI’07, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 9th, 2007. (www.samd.nus.edu.sg/).

Publicity Chair: Ninth Int. Conf. on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services: MobileHCI’07, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September 11th–14th, 2007.
(www.mobilehci2007.org/).

Coordinator: Spatial Media Group Public Lecture, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, February 18th, 2006.
(www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/spatial-media/koukaikouzas/2005-6/program.html).

Demonstration Chair: Sixth Int. Wkshp. on Spatial Media: IWSM’05-’06, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, February 1st– 3rd, 2006.
(www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/welcome/ISSM/05-06/).

Demonstration Chair: Fifth Int. Wkshp. on Spatial Media: IWSM’04-’05, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, November 1st– 3rd, 2005.
(www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/welcome/ISSM/04-05/).

Demonstration Chair (Spatial Media Group): Lab demonstrations for local high school students, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, 2004 – 2005.
(www.u-aizu.ac.jp/˜mcohen/spatial-media/welcome.html).

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