Prof. Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSoftware Engineering and Programming Languages,Computer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems,Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
KeywordsMultimedia Communications, Haptics, Collaborative Environments, Ambient Intelligence

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityOttawa
InstitutionUniversity of Ottawa
InstituteSchool of Information Technology and Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ralf SteinmetzFachgebiet Multimedia Kommunikation, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2007

Programme(s)

2007Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor El Saddik is known as one of the leading research engineers in collaborative multimedia systems, namely hapto-audio-visual environments. He is a pioneer in research related to the use of haptics as a mechanism to identify and verify users. He developed an innovative approach to overcome the lack of a uniform controlling mechanism that will make full use of the functionalities of haptic devices according to each user's personal needs. With his German collaborators, he plans to investigate the design and development of an Ambient Intelligent haptics based framework that would allow interactivity and telepresence to be efficiently supported and managed on the Internet.

Publications (partial selection)

2011Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Mauricio Orozco, Mohammad Eid, Jongeun Cha: Haptics Technologies: Bringing Touch to Multimedia. Springer-Verlag, 2011