Madrid ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter

 

Multimedia Communications, Virtual Environments, Haptics and Gestural Interfaces have been in the forefront of informatics research for several years now, but only recently have seen numerous applications in many areas. This presentation will give an introduction to the field of Distributed and Collaborative Hapto-Virtual Environments, with applications in e-Learning, Industrial Training and Medical Education, particularly highlighting the relevant research in the Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments Research laboratory (DISCOVER) of the speaker.

 

Nicolas D. Georganas is Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa and currently holds a Cátedra de Excelencia- Univ. Carlos III de Madrid.  He received the Dipl.Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1966 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Summa cum Laude ) from the University of Ottawa in 1970. He received Honorary Dr.-Ing. Degrees from the Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany in 2004 and NTUA, Greece, in 2007. He was Dean of Engineering (1986-93) and Associate Vice-President Research (2005-08) at the University of Ottawa.

 

He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Secretary and Fellow of the Academy of Science (Royal Society of Canada) and Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a Laureate of the 2002 Killam Prize for Engineering, Canada's highest award for career achievements in research, and an Officer of the Order of Canada, the highest recognition for a Canadian. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.  His research interests are in Multimedia Communications, Ambient Computing and Collaborative Hapto-Virtual Environments.