Guest Speaker: Dr. Kasun Thejitha Karunanayaka
Imagineering Institute, IDM Lab Sdn Bhd, Johor, Malaysia
In this talk Dr Kasun will demonstrate Imagineering institute's technologies developed for "digital senses" such as Virtual Smell and Digital Taste. The session will give an insight into the state of the art technologies developed in HCI field.
Schedule
Date: 19 Nov., 2018
Time: 1:15-1:45pm
Introduction of the Speaker
Kasun Karunanayaka is a HCI researcher interested in multimodal interactions, multi-sensory communication and Magnetism. Kasun received Ph.D in Electrical & Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore. His research works has been published in several international conferences such as SIGCHI, Interact, ACE, IEEE VR, BodyNets, ACHI over the years. He also won several international awards including CHI honorary mentioned award in 2015. His Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology is from University Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and he served as a software engineer in the IT industry for more than two years. Currently Kasun is working as a Research Fellow in Imagineering Institute, Iskandar, Malaysia.