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Centre for Immersive Technology and Creative (CITC) (http://citc.research.utar.edu.my) |
| Chairperson: | Dr. Aloysius Yapp |
| Description of Centre: | Heritage and Culture Preservation by Immersive and Creative Technology About CITC
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| No. | Name | Faculty | Member |
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| 1 | Abdul Malik Bin Ahmad | FCI | Full Membership |
| 2 | Ang Kok Yew | FCI | Full Membership |
| 3 | Annie Wong Kai Sze | FCI | Full Membership |
| 4 | Benedict Ng Boon Yew | FCI | Full Membership |
| 5 | Charanjit Kaur a/p Darshan Singh | FCI | Full Membership |
| 6 | Cheah Shu Xu | FCI | Full Membership |
| 7 | Chong Hwei Teeng | FCI | Full Membership |
| 8 | Chow Mee Mooi | FCI | Full Membership |
| 9 | Cynthia Lau Pui-Shan | FCI | Full Membership |
| 10 | Eugene Foo Shyang Eu | FCI | Full Membership |
| 11 | Foo Mei Lee | FCI | Full Membership |
| 12 | Goh Kiang Kuan | FCI | Full Membership |
| 13 | Jeevamalar a/p Kumarasamy | FCI | Full Membership |
| 14 | Kavitha a/p Subaramaniam | FCI | Full Membership |
| 15 | Lau Kah Foo | FCI | Full Membership |
| 16 | Lee Lih Su | FCI | Full Membership |
| 17 | Lim Soo Jin | FCI | Full Membership |
| 18 | Liong Mei Yin | FCI | Full Membership |
| 19 | Mohamad Azri Bin Haji Ahmad | FCI | Full Membership |
| 20 | Mohd Fairuz Bin Ali | FCI | Full Membership |
| 21 | Ng Chan Chai | FCI | Full Membership |
| 22 | Nik Norazira Binti Abdul Aziz | FCI | Full Membership |
| 23 | Santhidran a/l Sinnappan | FCI | Full Membership |
| 24 | Siew Pei Hwa | FCI | Full Membership |
| 25 | Suhaila Binti Ahmad Zaki | FCI | Full Membership |
| 26 | Tai Liang Kwang | FCI | Full Membership |
| 27 | Tan Han Keong | FCI | Full Membership |
| 28 | Tan Hwei Ping | FCI | Full Membership |
| 29 | Thanaseelen a/l K.P. Rajasakran | FCI | Full Membership |
| 30 | Thinavan a/l Periyayya | FCI | Associate Membership |
| 31 | Wan Irma Sabrina binti Idris | FCI | Full Membership |
| 32 | Wang Chain Khiang | FCI | Full Membership |
| 33 | Yang Suk Lan | FCI | Full Membership |
| No. | Date | Event |
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| 1 | 5-6 February 2020 | Wow the Wau . Gold Award at kNovasi 2020. Tenera Hotel .Bangi. |
| 2 | 21 October 2020 | Webinar on Preserving Culture Using Virtual Reality Technology |
| 3 | 18 November 2020 | A Research Talk on Immersive Technology (Webinar) |
| 4 | 21 November 2020 | First virtual UTAR R&D Colloquium (online/ MS TEAM) |
| 5 | 15 December 2020 | E Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair (KLESF) |
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| 1 | Gold Award for preserving Wau through mobile game
http://lkcfes.utar.edu.my/2020/02/27/gold-award-for-preserving-wau-through-mobile-game/ “Wow the Wau!” for another test. It was proven worthy when the trio won Gold Award at kNovasi 2020 held at Tenera Hotel, Bangi on 5 and 6 February 2020. Three lecturers from UTAR Faculty of Creative Industries (FCI) took their award-winning project titled “Wow the Wau!” for another test. It was proven worthy when the trio won Gold Award at kNovasi 2020 held at Tenera Hotel, Bangi on 5 and 6 February 2020. The lecturers were Mohd Fairuz bin Ali, Chong Hwei Teeng and Ng Perng Jeu The project, an Android-based application content, aimed to present the traditional Malaysian game called Wau. The research study aimed to educate people on the history and myth of Wau culture, while at the same time promoting the uniqueness and significance of Wau through mobile games. The project provided an ingenious solution to preserve the value of the traditional game, Wau. It also carried the national symbol, concordance with the evolving digital game technology worldwide. The overall execution of the Wau mobile game highlighted five main stages, including planning, game design, game development, testing and deployment. |
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| 2 | Webinar on Preserving Culture Using Virtual Reality Technology
https://news.utar.edu.my/news/2020/Nov/10/02/02.html UTAR Division of Community and International Networking (DCInterNet) and the School of Culture and Media, Xi’an Eurasia University (EU), China jointly organised a webinar titled “VR for Future” on 21 October 2020 via VOOV Platform. A total of 49 EU students participated in this webinar. The purpose of the webinar was to enable the participants to learn more about the current and future technology of virtual reality (VR) especially, in cultural preservation. The speaker, Dr Aloysius Yapp, was from the Faculty of Creative Industries and the chairperson of Centre for Immersive Technology and Creativity. |
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| 3 | A Research Talk on Immersive Technology
https://news.utar.edu.my/news/2020/Nov/23/01/01.html UTAR Centre for Immersive Technology and Creativity (CITC) Chairperson Dr Aloysius Yapp was invited by Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TAR UC) to give a research talk on “Immersive Technology for Heritage and Culture Preservation” on 18 November 2020 via Google meet. |
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| 4 | First virtual UTAR R&D Colloquium
https://news.utar.edu.my/news/2020/Nov/30/01/01.html?fbclid=IwAR3IN8SwCAUoAuWTdGISyobdoEyu9K4V_33dUawPsR0-yXSDmOkJfChAcKI UTAR R&D Colloquium 2020 was organised by the Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research (IPSR) on 21 November 2020 via Microsoft Teams. The annual event was first held in May 2014. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IPSR decided to organise the colloquium through a virtual platform this year. The objective of the colloquium was to serve as a platform for all researchers to share their research ideas and enhance more cross-disciplinary research collaborations among the research centres in UTAR. The initiative is in line with one of the action plans devised under Focus Area 3: Research and Development of the UTAR’s 10-year Strategic Plan 2013-2022 (i.e. Strengthening of Cross Disciplinary Research Centres). Centre for Immersive Technology and Creativity Chairperson Dr Aloysius Yapp and FCI academic Lim Chai Kim on “Development of a 3-Dimensional (3D) Virtual Guided Walkthrough (VGW)”. |
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| 5 | First virtual UTAR R&D Colloquium
Preserving Culture and Heritage with Immersive Technology https://news.utar.edu.my/news/2020/Dec/31/01/01.html In view of the current COVID-19 pandemic this year, the Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair (KLESF) has staged another comeback via online platforms. A series of virtual events filled with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workshops, webinars and quizzes were organised aimed to promote the interest in STEM of primary and secondary school students. To be in line with the e-KLESF events, a webinar titled “Immersive Technology for Heritage and Culture Preservation” was held on 14 December 2020 via ZOOM and Facebook Live. The webinar was aimed to introduce the importance of heritage and culture to the young generation and to share the making of immersive technology for heritage and culture preservation – Virtual Reality (VR) Longhouse the Walkthrough. |
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