IEEE MALAYSIA NEWS LETTER

The IEEE Instrumentation and measurement Malaysian chapter arranged a IEEE undistinguished lecture on:

Ambient Intelligent Environments by Prof Abdulmotaleb El Saddik University of
OTTAWA

Date: 9 July 2007
Time : 9 -11am
Venue: Monash University, Jln Lagoon, Bandar Sunway

And at afternoon conducted a Tutorial on Haptic Technologies : Theory and application will be at 2-5pm.

Ambient Intelligent Environments
This talk is on interactive media that will make part of tomorrow’s ambient intelligent environment. It describes sensors-enabled perception and interfaces, and gives insight of the different new sensors’ technology that will facilitate our daily life. It also, demonstrates the vast application spectrum of this emerging technology together with its trends. The primary objective is to provide a comprehensive overview and a practical view of Ambient Intelligence. An understanding of the close relationship among the wide range of disciplines that constitute an ambient intelligent system is a key principle towards the successful building of our life of the future.

Haptics Technology: Theory, applications and Challenges

Haptics (word derived from the Greek verb “to touch”) introduces the sense of touch and force in human-computer interaction. A special case of distributed virtual environments is collaborative haptic virtual environments (C-HAVE) where multiple users each with his/her own haptic device collaboratively manipulate a shared virtual environment. The potential of the technology is significant for interactive virtual reality, tele-presence, tele-learning, tele-medicine and tele-manipulation applications. In this Talk we will give an overview of C-HAVEs, discuss some research issues and address the remaining challenges.

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (IEEE M’02-SM’03), University Research Chair and Associate Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa and recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007) the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Award (2004) and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab) and the director of the ICT-cluster of the Ontario Research Network on E-commerce (ORNEC). He is a Theme co-Leader in the LORNET NSERC Research Network. He is an Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), Associate Editor of the ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) and Guest Editor for several IEEE Transactions and Journals.
Dr. El Saddik has been serving on several technical program committees of numerous IEEE and ACM events. He has been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 15 international conferences on collaborative hapto- audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. He is leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures, collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and communications. He has authored and co-authored three books and more than 150 publications. He has received research grants and contracts totaling more than $6 million and has supervised more than 90 researchers. His research has been selected for the BEST Paper Award at the Virtual Concepts 2006 and as one of the three Best Research Papers at IEEE DS-RT 2004.

Further Contact:

Fatimah Ibrahim BScEE, MScME, Ph.D, MIEEE
(IEEE I&M Vice Chair)
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Malaya,
50603, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
Tel: 603-7967-6818
Fax: 603-7967-4579