ARCHIVED NEWS 2020
KUASE (Dr. Liang, Prof. Piumarta, Dean Prof. Tabata) successfully organized a special track on “Preparing the Workforce for Industry 4.0: Robotics, Automation, and Ubiquitous Smart Technologies in Education” in IEEE TALE 2020. A summary of this special track is available here. [10 Dec 2020]
Our following paper was published in the Proceedings of IEEE TALE 2020, the flagship conference of IEEE Education Society on STEM education. This is a joint-effort with the University of Macau. Liang Z., da Costa Junior MG, Piumarta I (2020) Opportunities for improving the learning/teaching experience in a virtual online environment. (presented by Dr. Liang) [10 Dec 2020]
A group of undergraduate students (Shinjiro Matayoshi, Daisei Tanaka, Sena Yun) made a presentation entitled "Developing Novel IoT System for Real-time Room Occupancy Monitoring" and won the undergraduate category of the IEEE TALE 2020 Student Research Competition. [9 Dec 2020]
Ms Sirithummarak participated in the IEEE TALE 2020 Student Researhc Competition and made a presentation entitled "A Novel Approach to Non-contact-based Pulse Detection: Pulse and ECG Measurement Using Mobile Phone Camera". [9 Dec 2020]
Dr. Liang attended a live webinar on Bilibili to promote KUASE to wide audience in China. [18 Nov 2020]
Dr. Liang gave an invited talk on "Wearable Technologies for Enhancing Health and Sports Performance" in the Department of Health and Sports Science, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at KUAS. [30 Oct 2020]
Two KUASE presented the following short papers in the 2020 IEICE Society Conference. These papers are based on their course work in Technical Communications in English. Well done! Their achievements are featured in a news article (by Prof Tadayuki Imai) on the official website of KUAS.
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEICE Society Conference 2020. Yun S, Moekoe C, Sirithummarak P, Liang Z. (2020) Leveraging cloud-based learning technologies for developing professional communication skills in a collaborative learning environment. (presented by Mr. Yun) [16 Sep 2020]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEICE Society Conference 2020. Moekoe C, Yun S, Sirithummarak P, Liang Z. (2020) Building technical communication skills of engineering students using authentic materials and tasks. (presented by Mr. Moekoe) [16 Sep 2020]
A big welcome to Ms Pataranit Sirithummarak for joining our lab. She will focus on developing new wearable technologies for pulse diagnosis. [9 Sep 2020]
Our following short papers was published in the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conf of Japanese Society for Information and Systems in Education. Liang Z (2020) Leveraging ubiquitous learning technologies for collaborative online learning. (presented by Dr. Liang) [3 Sep 2020]
Our following short papers was published in the Proceedings of the 19th IPSJ Forum of Information Technology. Liang Z (2020) Engaging students in online virtual classroom using web application Sutori. (presented by Dr. Liang) [1 Sep 2020]
A big welcome to Ms Lauriane Bertrand and Mr Nathan Cleyet-Marrel, two interns from Department of Computer Science, Université de Toulouse, France. They will virtually stay in KUAS from June to August to work on research projects about stress prediction and meal time detection using wearable technologies. [June 2020]
Our following full paper was published in PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), a top journal in computing technology. This was a joint-research with Dr. Bernd Ploderer (specialized in HCI) at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Liang Z, Ploderer B. (2020) “How does Fitbit measure brainwaves”: a qualitative study into the credibility of sleep-tracking technologies. [March 2020]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceeding of IEICE General Conference. Liang Z, Andersen LE, Tatha O. (2020) Towards automatic analysis of relationship between perceived stress and physical activity with self-tracking technologies. (presented by Dr. Liang) [10 March 2020]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceeding of the 82th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan. Liang Z, Chapa-Martell MA. (2020) Leveraging consumer activity trackers for sleep stage prediction. (presented by Dr. Liang) [5 March 2020]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Educational Technology. Liang Z, Chapa-Martell MA. (2020) Towards the visualization of classroom orchestration. (presented by Dr. Liang) [29 Feb 2020]
Our following short paper was published in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Educational Technology. Smith M, Liang Z, Piumarta I, Tabata O, Takeda K. (2020) Design of faculty development training program for English medium instruction in engineering. (presented by Dr. Liang) [29 Feb 2020]
Our following paper was published in the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Health Informatics. Liang Z, Chapa-Martell MA. (2020) A two-stage imbalanced learning method to sleep stage classification using consumer activity trackers. [24 Feb 2020]
Dr. Liang gave a talk entitled "Sleep health in digital age: from wearable sensing to personal informatics" at KUAS-NCIS Technical Exchange Seminar ~ The Future of Simulation and Data Science ~ [17 Jan 2020]