Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik - University of Ottawa (CANADA)

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is University Research Chair and Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, where he also directs the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He is a leading researcher in haptics, service-oriented architectures, collaborative environments and ambient interactive media and communications. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is the author and co-author of two books and more than 250 publications, and has also been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 25 international conferences, symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. Dr. El Saddik is a Senior Member of ACM, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of IEEE, and a recipient of the Professional of the Year Award in 2008.

RESEARCH STAY AT UC3M: TELEMATIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Project: The web is a medium of accessing and sharing information in our modern society. In recent years we have had a new tendency to have version numbers for the World Wide Web. Although the definition for the term Web 3.0 is still ambiguous, the truth is that most of the technologies and paradigms that experts are talking about have been around for quite some time. We think that it is not a matter of “which” new technologies will be widely available, but “how” these technologies will be applied and integrated to give structure to the next generation of the Web. Our ultimate goal is to work together with the UC3M's Telematic Applications and Services Group (gast) on novel ways to combine new technologies to open intelligent avenues for delivering dynamic, interactive and targeted contents specific to the user in an interesting smart interface. All the interactions occurring between avatars today are kept in the virtual world and are not reflected back to real users in real-time. Therefore we will investigate ways to change the real world to reflect events that occur in the virtual world and vice versa.

Stay period: FEB 11 - JUL 11

Conferences

Title: "Research in Collaborative Haptic Audio Visual Environments"

Author: Prof. Abdulmotaleb Elsaddik

Date: April 13, 2011

Time: 13:00h

Place: Sala de video (3.1S08) Biblioteca de Leganés