Cover Story: Interactive Digital Media

• Touch-Based Programming for Robots
  Tangible user interfaces make programming a robot easy.

• Designing Cute Interactive Media
  Research into "cuteness" could help digital media designers make their products more appealing.

• Even Better than the Real Thing
  The future of interactive digital media is about understanding the mind-brain problem, suggests brain scientist Dr Kenichiro Mogi.

• Breathing Life into Machines
  Thanks to the rapid advancement of technology, robots now have the potential to act as intelligent companions for humans.

• Interactive Storytelling
  wIzQubesTM unite traditional storytelling with mixed reality.

• Game to Learn
  Integratng virtual reality, mixed reality and serious gaming environments into classrooms is not without challenges, but the results could transform the way students learn.

• Preparing NUS Students for Careers in IDM
  Gung-ho students can excel in a course that teaches next generation games and interactive technologies and encourages learning through doing.

• Soul Man
  Director of the Interactive and Digital Media Institute, Professor Ryohei Nakatsu, talks about his plans for the center.

• From 2D to 3D via Shape Palettes
  A new interaction approach termed "Shape Palettes" should make it easy even for amateur digital artists to create three-dimensional content.

• Digitizing Plants
  Snapshots from a handheld camera can provide data to build computer models of plants ranging from bushes to trees.

• Music made Richer
  Stimulating the senses of touch and sight for an enhanced musical experience.

• A Next Generation Music-Based Social Network Game
  Players must DJ to win respect in local research institute's offering to the gaming industry.

• Immersive Audio Communication in Virtual Worlds
  A peer-to-peer network will allow large group interactions without requiring vast bandwidth.

• Personal and Portable, Plus Practically Panoramic
  Mobile and ambient display and control of virtual worlds.

• The Interactive Road
  Swedish research looks to mobile technology to increase social interaction in traffic.

• Vision-Based Human Activity Understanding
  Software that can interpret video footage of human behavior may greatly enhance the intelligence and scalability of city-life surveillance systems, and consequently better protect social security.

• Martial Arts are Opening Act for Cultural Heritage Programme
  The NUS Department of Computer Science begins programme to digitize cultural heritage with a motion capture event.

• Making Digital History
  Three-dimensional scanning techniques can preserve threatened cultural heritage.

• Computer Science Meets Social Science
  The Events in the World project applies social science theories to digital media.

• A Computational Approach to Culture
  Interactive software can provide new ways to understand and explore different cultures.

• An Inspiration Seeker
  Sam Furukawa believes the future of interactive digital media will be shaped by artists and depend on collaboration.

• Membrane Technology for More Efficient Fuel
  Scientists work on membrane technology - the key technical innovation in clean energy production.

Features

• Driving Research into Standards
  An I2R perspective.

• To Prototype or Not to Prototype an Invention
  The timing of filing a patent application when constructing a prototype or pilot plant constitutes as much a business strategy as a patent law.

• Groundbreaking Development for Reclamation Projects
  Civil engineers fight challenges faced in land reclamation.

• Analysis of Facial Images for Acne Treatment
  Computer science development tackles problems of inaccuracy in facial analysis.

Departments

• Editorial
  Interactive digital media.

• In Brief
  Innovative highlights in various fields.

• Industry Updates
  Growing green technologies with organic photovoltaics

• Spotlight
  Orchid Draws US Epilepsy Specialist to Singapore
  Steven C. Schachter hopes that traditional botanical medicines may yield new treatments for epilepsy.

• Young Innovator Strives for Personalized Vaccines
  Victor Joo Chuan Tong blends computer science and biology in his research.

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