Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality

Dr. Michael Haller is a researcher working at the Department of Digital Media of the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences and responsible for computer graphics, multimedia programming, and augmented reality. He has produced technical publications and his work has been demonstrated at a wide variety of conferences. Prior to teaching at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, he worked at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. From 2001 to 2004, he directed the EU funded project AMIRE, a research project on authoring augmented reality. In 2004, he received the Erwin Schroedinger fellowship award presented by the Austrian Science Fund for his stay at the HITLabNZ, University of Canterbury and the IMSC, University of Southern California (USA). Dr. Mark Billinghurst is a researcher developing innovative computer interfaces that explore how virtual and real worlds can be merged to enhance face-to-face and remote collaboration. Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (New Zealand) and Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury, he has produced over 100 technical publications and his work has been demonstrated at a wide variety of conferences. Dr Billinghurst has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, USA. Dr. Bruce Hunter Thomas is the current Director of the Wearable Computer Laboratory at the University of South Australia. He is currently a NICTA Fellow, CTO A-Rage Pty Ltd, and visiting Scholar with the Human Interaction Technology Laboratory, University of Washington. His academic qualifications include the following: B.A. in Physics, George Washington University; M.S. in Computer Science, University of Virginia with a thesis titled: Pipeline Pyramids in Dynamic Scenes; and Ph.D. in Computer Science, Flinders University with a thesis titled: Animating Direct Manipulation in Human Computer Interfaces.