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0. Calendar Manager Info:

        Date:   Thu 05 Sep 1996
        Start:  1600
        End:    1700
        What:   ANU Comp. Sci. Seminar - Dr Gurminder Singh

1. Speaker      Dr Gurminder Singh
                ISS Singapore

2. Time:     4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, 5 September 1996 (Thursday)

3. Place:    Room N101, Ground Floor
             CSIT Building, North Road, ANU

4. Title:    KidSpace: Educational Entertainment for Kids

5. Abstract: 

KidSpace is an internetworked 3D virtual environment for kids 7-11.
It is a system that kids find at least as interesting and engaging as
the current generation of games. But, instead of using violence and
destruction as vehicles for entertainment, KidSpace uses
communication, collaboration and construction to deliver socially
responsible and educational entertainment. Through a media-rich,
networked and game-like interface, KidSpace aims to educate kids about
Singapore's National Heritage. KidSpace is scheduled for national
roll-out in Singapore in April 1997. In this talk, we will present an
overview of KidSpace.


6. Biography:

Dr. Gurminder Singh is Program Director of Creative Services at the
Institute of Systems Science and Director of Imagine Interactive
Inc. For many years he has been involved in R&D in Virtual Reality,
User Interface software and Visual Languages.  Much of what he has
done has been either converted into commercial products or systems
that people use to do their everyday work.  Dr. Singh received his
M.Sc. and Ph.D., both in Computing Science, from the University of
Alberta, Canada.  He has been awarded the Andrew Stewart award for
"excellence in research at the Ph.D. level" by the University of
Alberta and a meritorious award by his current institute.

Dr. Singh is on the editorial boards of ACM Interactions, ACM-Springer
Multimedia Systems and the Advances in Human-Computer Interaction book
series published by Ablex. He has recently edited or co-edited the
following special issues on Virtual Reality: Communications of the ACM
(May 1996), ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (September
1995) and ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems.

Contact: Ramesh Sankaranarayana (ramesh[at]cs.anu.edu.au)