New Grants Awarded to ICS Researcher (10/12/2006)

Posted By: Dan  Suthers ( suthers@hawaii.edu )

Congratulations to Dr. Sam Joseph of ICS for securing two corporate-funded
grants! Descriptions of the grants follow. (Sam will be giving presentations on
this work Thursday October 12th at 12:00 noon in POST 127.)

Applications in Ubiquitous Wireless Environments

Amount: $34,927 (6 months)

Abstract: In the first stage this is a planning grant to work out the
plan and budget for a subsequent five years of research into
applications for ubiquitous high-speed wireless environments, including
but not limited to, P2P, Mobile Learning, AI Agents, Augmented Reality
Overlays and Virtual Collaborative Teams. The focus is to investigate
new applications that become possible given a ubiquitously present high
speed wireless access to the internet, such as augmented reality systems
that overlay a digital reality on top of a physical one allowing users
to perceive a digital reality through mobile devices or modified
eyeglasses, perceiving it in tandem with the physical reality.

Learning and Retention of Paired Associate Material using
Personalized Online Multimedia Study

Amount: $142,581 (12 months)

Abstract: This work is intended to assess the effects of studying
paired-associate material, e.g. second language vocabulary, using
personalized online multimedia study systems. It involves a number of
experiments to compare the effectiveness of educational software against
self and directed study for recall and recognition performance at pre,
post and delayed tests.

Dr. Sam Joseph is a research assistant at the Laboratory for Interactive
Learning Technology in the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he works on
intelligent interfaces and mobile devices. Dr. Joseph received a B.Sc. (Hons) in
physics with astrophysics at the University of Leicester, UK, followed by a
M.Sc. in cognitive science and natural language and a Ph.D. in neural networks
from the University of Edinburgh, UK (1998). He is a recipient of the
Raymond-Hide prize for Astrophysics and a Toshiba Fellowship. As part of the
Toshiba Fellowship he worked on software agents at Toshiba's Research and
Development Center in Japan. He was subsequently involved in a number of
internet startup companies in Tokyo and also spent two years as a research
associate at the University of Tokyo, where he worked on peer to peer and
distributed information management systems. Dr. Joseph holds a number of
patents, and has a wide range of both academic and journalistic publications.