Overview
MAGIC is an interdisciplinary research lab with research projects in Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp), HCI, systems, and multimedia. Current areas of interest include an exploration of large screen public displays, work on mobile multimedia services, vision techniques including perosn, object and gesture recognition, multi-modal interfaces for large screen displays, and middleware abstractions for ubiquitous computing systems.
Current Projects
- Participatory Sensing
- Automatic analysis and partitioning for Cloud deployment
- DiVA
- Public Screens & Personal Interaction (PSPI)
- 00 and the underlying IoT platform MAGIC Broker 2
- Multi-Camera Sports Viewing
- Visual Analytics
- Rhetorical Strategies of the Gaming World
- Ubiquitous Capture and Augmented Access (UbiCA)
- UBC Mobile Campus
- Joint projects with the ICICS hosted Human Communication Technology (HCT) Lab are here.
Past Projects
- Personal Sustainability (MyEverdayEarth project)
- Mobile Technologies for Older Adults
- Robot Project
- GRASSP
- An Intelligent Instrument
- Gesture Based Interaction
- Table-based Large Screen Interaction
- REST Broker
- The Fugitive
- PlaceMedia
- Large Screen Collaboration in the Home
- MAGIC Board
- MAGIC/REST Broker
- Mobile Multimedia Urban Shared Experience (MUSE)
- Scheherazade
- Ubicomp Common Model
Industry Projects
These projects were carried out with Western Economic Development (WD) funding as part of the New Media Initiative.