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Sidney Fels

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • University of British Columbia (UBC), Human Communication Technologies Laboratory, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) Institute International

Location:


  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bio:

  • SIGGRAPH 2022

    Sid Fels is a Professor of ECE and Distinguished University Scholar at UBC (2004-). He is internationally known for his work in human-computer interaction, biomechanical modeling, neural networks, new interfaces for musical expression and interactive arts with over 400 scholarly publications.

    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015

    Dr. Sidney Fels, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Ph.D., Toronto. Sid has worked in HCI, neural networks, intelligent agents and interactive arts for over ten years. He was visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories (1996/7). His multimedia interactive artwork, the Iamascope, was exhibited world-wide. Sid created Glove-TalkII that maps hand gestures to speech. He was co-chair of Graphics Interface ’00. He leads the Human Communications Technology Laboratory and was Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (2001-2012). Sid co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014

    Dr. Sidney Fels, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering. Ph.D., Toronto. Sid has worked in HCI, neural networks, intelligent agents and interactive arts for over ten years. He was visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories (1996/7). His multimedia interactive artwork, the Iamascope, was exhibited world-wide. Sid created Glove-TalkII that maps hand gestures to speech. He was co-chair of Graphics Interface ’00. He leads the Human Communications Technology Laboratory and is Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre. Sid co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

    SIGGRAPH ASIA 2013

    Dr. Sidney Fels has worked in HCI, neural networks, intelligent agents and interactive arts for over ten years. He was visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories (1996/7). His multimedia interactive artwork, the Iamascope, was exhibited world-wide. Sid created Glove-TalkII that maps hand gestures to speech. He was co-chair of Graphics Interface ’00. He leads the Human Communications Technology Laboratory and is Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre. Sid co-founded the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

    SIGGRAPH Asia 2010

    Sidney Fels, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of British Columbia, earned his PhD at the University of Toronto. He leads the Human Communications Technology Laboratory and is Director of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre. He has worked in human-computer interaction, neural networks, intelligent agents, and interactive arts for over 10 years. He was visiting researcher at ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories (1996-1997). His multimedia interactive artwork, the Iamascope, was exhibited worldwide. He created Glove-TalkII, a system that maps hand gestures to speech. He was co-chair of Graphics Interface ’00. He was also a co-founder of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference.

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