Dr Manfred Lau

Lecturer

Career Details

Academic Qualifications:

Doctor of Philosopy, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2009)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Yale University (2003)

Employment:

Lecturer, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, 2011 - Present

Postdoctoral Reseacher, JST Igarashi Design Interface Project, Tokyo, Japan, 2009 - 2011

Postgraduate Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2003 - 2009

Democratizing digital content creation using mobile devices with inbuilt sensors
Dev, K., Lau, M. 01/2015 In: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. 35, 1, p. 84-94. 11 p.
Journal article

Magnetic files: exploring tag based file systems using embodied files
Gullick, D., Coulton, P., Lau, M. 01/2015 In: TEI '14 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. New York : ACM p. 613-617. 5 p.
Paper

MixFab: a mixed-reality environment for personal fabrication
Weichel, C., Lau, M., Kim, D., Villar, N., Gellersen, H. 2014 In: CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : ACM p. 3855-3864. 10 p.
Paper

Enclosed: A Component-Centric Interface for Designing Prototype Enclosures
Weichel, C., Lau, M., Gellersen, H. 2013 In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '13). ACM p. 215-218.
Paper

Workshop on Personal and Pervasive Fabrication (PerFab 2013)
Lau, M., Weichel, C., Villar, N. 2013 In: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication. ACM p. 939-944. 6 p. ISBN: 9781450321396.
Conference contribution

Digital fabrication
Lau, M., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 12/2012 In: Computer. 45, 12, p. 76-79. 4 p.
Journal article

Situated Modeling: A Shape-Stamping Interface with Tangible Primitives
Lau, M., Hirose, M., Ohgawara, A., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 2012 In: TEI '12 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. New York : ACM p. 275-282. 8 p.
Paper

Sixth sense transport: challenges in supporting flexible time travel
Davies, N., Lau, M., Speed, C., Cherrett, T., Dickinson, J., Norgate, S. 2012 In: Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems 38; Applications. New York : ACM p. 8:1-8:6. 6 p.
Paper

Sketching and Prototyping Personalized Objects: From Teapot Lids to Furniture to Jewelry
Lau, M., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 2012 In: National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping & Manufacture.
Paper

Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors
Lau, M., Ohgawara, A., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 07/2011 In: ACM Transactions on Graphics. 30, 4
Journal article

SketchChair: An All-in-one Chair Design System for End Users
Saul, G., Lau, M., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 01/2011 In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI). New York : ACM Press p. 73-80. 8 p.
Paper

Automatic learning of pushing strategy for delivery of irregular-shaped objects
Lau, M., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 2011 In: Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE Xplore p. 3733-3738 . 6 p.
Paper

Modeling-in-Context: User Design of Complementary Objects with a Single Photo
Lau, M., Saul, G., Mitani, J., Igarashi, T. 06/2010 In: SBIM '10 Proceedings of the Seventh Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling Symposium. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland : Eurographics Association p. 17-24.
Paper

Scalable Precomputed Search Trees
Lau, M., Kuffner, J. 2010 In: Motion in Games Third International Conference, MIG 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 14-16, 2010. Proceedings. Dordrecht : Springer Verlag p. 70-81.
Paper

Face Poser: Interactive Modeling of 3D Facial Expressions Using Facial Priors
Lau, M., Chai, J., Xu, Y., Shum, H. 12/2009 In: ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29, 1
Journal article

Modeling spatial and temporal variation in motion data
Lau, M., Bar-Joseph, Z., Kuffner, J. 12/2009 In: ACM Transactions on Graphics. 28, 5
Journal article

Face Poser: Interactive Modeling of 3D Facial Expressions Using Model Priors
Lau, M., Chai, J., Xu, Y., Shum, H. 08/2007 In: SCA '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation. Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland : Eurographics Association p. 161-170. 10 p.
Paper

Animation Theatre piece on Behavior Planning
Lau, M., Kuffner, J., Mahler, M. 2007
Digital or Visual Products

Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation
Lau, M., Kuffner, J. 08/2006 In: SCA '06 . Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland : Eurographics Association p. 299-308. 10 p.
Paper

Footstep planning for the Honda ASIMO humanoid
Chestnutt, J., Lau, M., Cheung, G., Kuffner, J., Hodgins, J., Kanade, T. 09/2005 In: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005. ICRA 2005.. IEEE Press p. 629-634. 6 p.
Paper

Behavior planning for character animation
Lau, M., Kuffner, J. 08/2005 In: SCA '05 . New York : ACM Press p. 271-280.
Paper