This talk outlines new facilities that are arising in the hyperconnected internet era within human media spaces. This allows new embodied interaction between humans, species, and computation both socially and physically, with the aim of novel interactive communication and entertainment. Humans can develop new types of communication environments using all the senses, including touch, taste, and smell, which can increase support for multi-person multi-modal interaction and remote presence. In this talk, we present an alternative ubiquitous computing environment and space based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds. We discuss some different research prototype systems for interactive communication, culture, and play.
Short Bio: Adrian David Cheok AM FIET FIEAust FRSA is a Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Director of the Imagineering Institute, Malaysia. A recipient of the Order of Australia for contributions to international education, he is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Engineers Australia, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Asiatic Society. In 2024, he was inducted as a Full Member of Sigma Xi, USA
