3D Computer-Human Interactions for Face-to-Face Collaboration.

Dr. Yoshifumi Kitamura, Associate Professor Graduate School of Information Science & Technology Osaka University Osaka, Japan

DEPARTMENT SEMINAR DATE: Friday, July 28, 2006 TIME: 3:00pm PLACE: Thorvaldson 159 *** Everyone is welcome ***

Abstract

3D interaction is one of the key techniques for providing sophisticated intuitive user interfaces, by exploiting everyday experiences of humans and natural physical motions in 3D environments. We are conducting several research projects on 3D user interfaces that fully utilize the user's intuition, sensitivity, and proprioception, for face-to-face cooperation by multiple participants. I am going to introduce some of our research projects.

About the speaker

Dr. Yoshifumi Kitamura received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD. degrees in Engineering from Osaka University in 1985, 1987 and 1996, respectively. From 1987 to 1992, he was at the Information Systems Research Centre of Canon Inc., where he was involved in research on artificial intelligence, image processing, computer vision, and 3-D data processing. From 1992 to 1996, he was a researcher at ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, where he worked on sophisticated user interfaces in virtual environments. From 1997 to 2002, Dr. Kitamura was an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. Since April 2002, he is an Associate Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University. His current research interests include 3-D user interfaces that utilize the user's intuition, sensitivity, and proprioception to the full.

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