People

The Wearable Computer Lab is made up of a number of talented people. This includes post graduates, under graduates, research staff, and intern students. Below you can find a bit about each of the members of the lab.

Lab Director

Bruce Thomas

Period in lab: 1998-present
Current Projects: I have my hand in most of them
Specialties: Wearable Computers, Tabletop, Augmented Reality, User Interaction
Email Address: Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au
Personal Website: http://wearables.unisa.edu.au

Research Staff

Robert Kong

Period in lab: 3 years
Current Projects: Wireless Sensors
Specialties: Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software
Email Address: Robert.KongWinChang@unisa.edu.au

Ross Smith

Period in lab: 2001-present
Current Projects: Deformable surfaces development, Mobile and Spatial Augmented Reality
Specialties: Hardware Input Devices
Email Address: ross.smith@unisa.edu.au
Personal Website: http://www.r-smith.net

Ashish Doshi

Period in lab: 8 month
Current Projects: Projector-Based Spatial Augmented Reality
Specialties: optical flow, nonlinear diffusion, finite element analysis. 3D mesh processing, markerless tracking
Email Address: Ash.Doshi@unisa.edu.au

Ivan Lee

Email Address: ivan.lee@unisa.edu.au

Wynand Marais

Email Address: wynand.marais@gmail.com

PhD Students

Michael Marner

Period in lab: 2007-present
Current Projects: Interaction in SAR
Specialties: C++, OpenGL, Maya
Email Address: michael.marner@unisa.edu.au
Personal Website: http://www.20papercups.net

Markus Broecker

Period in lab: Since Jan. 2009
Current Projects: Radiance Textures for SAR
Specialties: C++, OpenGL and Shaders
Email Address: markus.broecker@unisa.edu.au
Personal Website: http://www.mbroecker.com

Thuong Hoang

Period in lab: June 2007 - present
Current Projects: Tinmith, Precise manipulation at a distance.
Specialties: Tinmith, Wearable computer, outdoor augmented reality, interaction techniques for outdoor AR
Email Address: contact@thuonghoang.com
Personal Website: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Thuong.Hoang

Shane Porter

Period in lab: 2008 - Present
Current Projects: Using SAR with Industrial Design
Specialties: C++, Java
Email Address: Shane.Porter@postgrads.unisa.edu.au

James Walsh

Period in lab: 2009 - Present
Current Projects: Ad-hoc tangible user interface defintion
Specialties: .NET, HTML/AJAX - I have experience with most Microsoft technologies and offer skills in a vast array of different areas.
Email Address: james.walsh@setoreaustralia.com
Personal Website: http://www.setoreaustralia.com

Honours Students

Tim Simon

Period in lab: Since Dec. 2010
Current Projects: Glove Of Doom
Specialties: Networking
Email Address: tim.simon@radiumblue.net
Personal Website: http://radiumblue.net

Andrew Irlitti

Period in lab: 2010 - Present
Current Projects: Constraint based design in Spatial Augmented Reality
Specialties: Networking, Java, C++
Email Address: feray006@mymail.unisa.edu.au

Simon Judd

Period in lab: 1 year
Current Projects: SAR Menus
Specialties: C/C++, Java, OpenGL
Email Address: judsg001@mymail.unisa.edu.au

Alumni

Benjamin Close

Period in lab: 2000-2011
Current Projects: Digital Calipers, Vislab Infrastructure, libWCL
Specialties: FreeBSD, System Administration, Xorg, Networking
Email Address: cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au
Personal Website: http://www.clearchain.com/blog/people/benjamin-close

Sam O'Malley

Period in lab: 2009 - 2012
Current Projects: Digital Foam Cushion
Specialties: C++, Java, MSPGCC
Email Address: oymsj001@mymail.unisa.edu.au

Jess Tsimeris

Email Address: tsija001@students.unisa.edu.au

Jianlong Zhou

Current Projects: Laser Projection System for Work Cells
Specialties: Visualization, Computer graphics, Spatial Augmented Reality, Laser projector based SAR in automobile industries
Email Address: Jianlong.Zhou@unisa.edu.au