Scott Fisher

Speakers:Yuta Nakayama and Steven Zhou
Time: Wednesday, October 18, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC)
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)

The Interactive Media Divsion has two Visiting Scholars for the 2006-07 year: Yuta Nakayama from Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa Japan, and Steven Zhou from National University of Singapore. In tonight's forum, they will present their past and current research projects.

Bios:
Yuta Nakayama is a Visiting Scholar at USC IMD during 2006-07. He is a media artist working in the areas of mobile and environmental media. Examples of his unique resarch projects include:
- 3D MUSCLE, a 3D moblog system created by two camera phones arranged in a line. It can shoot stereoscopic pictures everywhere and send those pictures wirelessly to its weblog at anytime. The purpose of this project is to recreate stereoscopic picture of 19th century with 21st-century mobile communication technology that captures the perspective and depth we perceive in real life.
- Iwani-Shimiiru-Seminokoe, a project collaboration with Architect Kengo Kuma to design physical and virtually annotated space where a visitors’ voice is soaked into the place through the use of QR code stickers.

Steve Zhou ZhiYing is a Visiting Scholar at USC IMD during 2006-07. He has been working on research covering computer vision, mixed reality, multi-modal human-computer interaction, and wearable computers. He is currently a lecturer at the National University of Singapore where he leads a team of over 10 researchers and students. Steven is also the founder and director of MXR Corporation Pte Ltd, a NUS spin-off MNC which commercializes his patented inventions.