Owen Noel Newton Fernando

Owen Noel Newton Fernando is a Research Fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab in the IDMI of the National University of Singapore. He received his B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Aizu, Japan. He has previously worked as a systems analyst at the IT department of People’s Bank, Sri Lanka (one of the leading government banks in Sri Lanka). Recently, he has completed a term of six months as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies of Kyoto University. His research interests are human-computer interaction, entertainment computing, mixed and virtual reality, mobile computing, ambient information, multimodal interfaces, multimedia communication, and cultural computing. His research works have been accepted and published by prestigious conferences (such as MobileHCI—the premier mobile conference—and DIS—the ACM conference on designing interactive systems) and highly esteemed journals (such as MIT Press’ journal Presence—Teleoperators and Virtual Environments—and TAAS—ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems). He is an invited reviewer at several conferences and journals, including ACE, ICEC, MobileHCI, IJCiNi, and AHCI. He has also contributed his service as one of the guest editors of the Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (issue on Interactive Play and Learning for Children).

Biography Updated on 1 November 2008

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