GeekcampSG is a tech conference, where in Dr. Shengdong Zhao, head of the lab, presented the WADE project. In the same conference, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Environment and Water Resources, also presented a short talk for the students. Dr. Shengdong Zhao and Xiaojun Meng also had the chance to talk to the Minister. It was a great experience!
Welcome Arne and Sarthak!
On the 15th of September, we welcomed in a new Research Intern, Arne Wessels. Arne will stay in the lab with us for a few months. He has shown us some interesting works that he has done like SoniCue and Light Travel. 
And just this 7th of October, Sarthak Ghosh from India joined the lab as a new Research Intern for a few months. He worked in Telecom Paristech from January to June 2014.
Dr. Marina Ng is a researcher in the area of HCI from the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham UK. Early this year, she joined the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus near KL. She gave a presentation about her past and current research projects. She also gave a talk entitled, “Understanding Underutilisation” today, 07 August 2014 from 10am to 12noon. It was very exciting to hear about the types of project she did. We wish her all the best with her current projects. We too hope that she will join us for a longer stay next time!
“Being at the NUS-HCI lab for me was a great experience, from the daily updates to the weekly meetings, I enjoyed every part of the culture. The NUS-HCI lab has an ecosystem of it’s own, where every member collaborates to achieve a goal, that is innovation. My stay at the lab was highly motivated by the work of senior PhD students in the lab, Rubaiat and Haimo. I was amazed by their thinking process, and it was nice to be able to discuss my doubts, when stuck at a problem. Working with Dr. Zhao, was like amazing, he’s very hardworking, energetic and always open to have a discussion. My stay at the lab helped me learn research practices, and techniques for conducting experiments in HCI. At graduate school now, I have been able to apply those practices and am glad that I took up the internship at the lab. I would really like to thank Dr. Zhao for the time he spent with me, solving my questions, and all his efforts to have our work published in AVI’2012. “
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“Hi All! I hope everyone’s doing fine ! I wanted to tell you that out team from Sharif University of Technology (in Iran) achieved the First place of Service Robots League in an international robotics’ competitions. The experiences that I had gained during the time I was at HCI Lab played a great role in this achievement. I used Kinect as our main Camera which helped a lot in recognition including gesture recognition that I programmed and was one of the main tests in the competition. I wanted to thank Dr.Zhao and everyone who helped me to gain such precious experiences.”
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“I worked in NUs-HCI lab as an intern. Working in NUS-HCI lab was the most amazing opportunity that I have ever gained. Apart from the priceless experiences that I gained during my internship, Dr.Zhao and everyone in the lab have left a durable impression to me. I would like to describe my impression of this grateful experience in the following aspects. Working in NUS-HCI lab was a pleasure (I am not exaggerating). As a person who worked in a few other research labs the most amazing thing about working in this lab was that an experienced mentor was always around and I was able to talk to them about my project at any time and from my point of view, it was the main reason that I could be really successful in this lab. They are always ready to share their ideas with everyone. The quality of the research in NUS-HCI lab is really high. I was told that “once you published your first good paper you have opened the doors to yourself in academic life”. At that time, I could not understand what they really mean but today I am experiencing that how important is to have experience of doing high quality research. NUS-HCI lab is the place which brings quality, innovation and simplicity.”
(https://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/keninzhu/tool4creativity.htm)
Second Call for Participation:
Workshop Submission Deadline: July 8th, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: August 18th, 2014
Camera Ready & Author Registration: September 15th, 2014
Workshop: December 3rd
Trends in the area of computer graphics and interactive techniques aspire tools that support content creation and manipulation. Contributions to computer graphics such as 2D or 3D modeling, animation, rendering and imaging along with the emerging interactive techniques open up a broad space for developing specialized platforms that promote creativity, design, discovery, innovation, and composition. The SIGGRAPH Asia Workshop on Designing Tools for Crafting Interactive Artifacts aims at aspiring ideas on creativity support tools for multisensory or interactive content creation, including design, evaluation and theoretical implications. The workshop also provides a platform for discussions on the challenges and the subsequent research opportunities in developing such tools.