The emergence of new media technologies in combination with enhanced information sharing functionality offered by the Web provides new possibilities for cross-media annotations. This in turn raises new challenges in terms of how a true integration across different types of media can be achieved and how we can develop annotation services that are sufficiently flexible and extensible to cater for...

In this paper we discuss our work on applying media theory to the creation of narrative augmented reality (AR) experiences. We summarize the concepts of remediation and media forms as they relate to our work, argue for their importance to the development of a new medium such as AR, and present two example AR experiences we have designed using these conceptual tools. In particular, we focus on l...

This paper introduces how geographically distributed virtual prototyping, a new Internet technology, can be designed to facilitate designer-customer communication in product development of small electronic devices, such as mobile telephones. The research approach to understand how cooperative work happens in conceptual design is discussed with an example of requirements focusing on communicatio...

We study a Randall-Sundrum cosmological scenario consisting of a domain wall in anti-de Sitter space with a strongly coupled large N conformal field theory living on the wall. The AdS/CFT correspondence allows a fully quantum mechanical treatment of this CFT, in contrast with the usual treatment of matter fields in inflationary cosmology. The conformal anomaly of the CFT provides an effective t...

I came to the United States in 1973 because the then Chair of Bacteriology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the late Philip Manire, did a sabbatical at the Lister Institute in London where I was working on my Ph.D. “What are you going to do when you finish?” he asked. I was one of those students that my current Chair berates for not having thought about l...