Winyu Chinthammit Seminar

From HIT Lab Australia

Winyu Chinthammit presented a seminar to the School of Computing & Information Systems on Thurday April 2nd entitled "Challenges in Human Computer Interface". His presentation was video recorded and is available for download in a number of formats. Winyu is being considered for the Post Doctoral Fellow position at HIT Lab Australia.

• Powerpoint presentation (PPT - 4.2MB)
• Powerpoint presentation (PDF - 5.5MB)
• Audio Only (MP3 - 7.8MB)
• Video Medium 320x240 (MP4 - 43.4MB)
• Video Large 640x480 (MP4 - 146.1MB)

Posted: Friday April 3, 2009

Seminar Announcement

School of Computing and Information Systems

Time: 1:10-2:00 on Thursday, 2nd of April, 2009

Location: Room 473 Centenary Building in Hobart, Room V137 Computing Building in Launceston

Title: Challenges in Human Computer Interface.

Speaker: Winyu Chinthammit, Ph.D (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Abstract: In the modern era, we are facing a new challenge in that a large quantity of data is becoming available to a user anywhere anytime via mobile computing platforms and high-speed network. As a result, how a user can effectively interact/communicate with the data on the platforms has rapidly become a serious consideration. Yet, some answers to these new challenges might lie over the solutions of the more-established VR/AR research. But this is where the problem truly lies. Most VR/AR systems have been conceptually conceived, designed, developed, and evaluated just for that individual system due to its funding constraints. Consequentially, there has been little on developing the foundation of the human computer interface technologies. To make a break-through, more fundamental research needs to be established.

Biography: Dr. Winyu Chinthammit graduated from the HIT Lab US at the University of Washington in Seattle. His Ph.D. work was on the novel head tracking system intended for usages in Augmented Reality (AR) applications in extreme conditions. His initial work on his dissertation was awarded "Best Paper Award" at the IEEE VR 2002 conference. Later parts of his work were awarded a US patent. Besides his AR works, he had worked with two high-technology startup companies in 2006 and 2007. In late 2007, he joined the information and computer sciences department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a researcher specializing in AR, where he is pioneering on a new method of AR tracking system.