Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica

Abstract
Human computer interface (HCI) has been dominated by key-
boards and remote game controllers for three decades. Voice- 
and gesture-based interface have been intensively studied in
the last 20 years yet with limited success. There are two 
interesting recent developments in the HCI field. One is the
multi-touch screen technology, which has been used in Apple
iPhone and Microsoft Surface. It has a great potential to 
be used in e-book applications. Another new type of
interface devices based on motion acceleration sensing is 
adopted by the Wii game console and remote controller 
(called Wii-mote). The innovation of Wii brings back the
idea of "playing a game is simply for fun". Moving your 
body exactly like what you want to do in a game, making game
control more straightforward and intuitive. In this talk, I
will discuss the architecture of Wii console and Wii-mote,
and point out several new research topics in improving the
HCI experience and performance accuracy.

Biography of Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received the Ph.D. degrees from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He is now 
with the University of Southern California (USC) as Director 
of Signal and Image Processing Institute and Professor of EE,
CS and Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas
of digital media processing, multimedia compression,
communication and networking technologies, and embedded
multimedia system design. Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and 
SPIE. Dr. Kuo has guided 87 students to their Ph.D. degrees
and supervised 20 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, 
his research group at USC consists of around 30 Ph.D. 
students (see website http://viola.usc.edu), which is 
probably the largest academic research group in multimedia 
technologies. He is a co-author of about 140 journal papers, 
740 conference papers and 9 books.  
Dr. Kuo is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual 
Communication and Image Representation, and has served as 
Editor for 10 other international journals. Dr. Kuo received 
the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
(NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 
and 1993, respectively. He received the Northrop Junior 
Faculty Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of 
Engineering in 1994. He received the best paper awards from
the multimedia communication Technical Committee of the 
IEEE Communication Society in 2005, from the IEEE Vehicular 
Technology Fall Conference (VTC-Fall) in 2006, and from IEEE 
Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia 
Signal Processing (IIH-MSP) in 2006. He was an IEEE Signal
Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2006, and a 
recipient of the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2007.