David Murphy
Senior Researcher, Mixed RealityNRC Helsinki
Background
I started as an NRC Helsinki trainee during the summer of 2003, and joined the Data Drive Applications team full-time in August 2004, after getting my Bachelors in (computer) engineering from Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin). After giving the noodles and frozen pizza lifestyle a break for a while, I returned to part-time studentdom in autumn 2006 as an Information and Computer Science student at Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), graduating with an MSc in Computers and Information Science.
My work has focused mostly on mixed and augmented reality, I am currently a Senior Mixed Reality Researcher with the Mixed Reality Solutions program at NRC Helsinki, Finland.
Research Interests
Mobile Mixed and Augmented Reality
Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
Mixed Reality User Interfaces
Mixed Reality Content and Content Creation
Research Projects
I worked on client development and concept prototyping on Nokia City Scene, a mixed reality "Mirror World" browser, allowing users to browse a 3D replica of the world on mobile and desktop. I have also worked on using Nokia City Scene as a content creation tool for mixed and augmented reality, both 2D images freely placed and aligned with building facades, and textured 3D models. Nokia City Scene was released as a public beta for Nokia N9.
I worked on the Mobile Augmented Reality client that complimented the Image Space Mixed Reality Social Media Sharing Service. The service was in public beta.
Mobile Augmented Reality (MARA)
I worked on mobile-device based augmented reality from August 2004 until June 2007, with the MARA project (formerly "Virtual View"). Somehow the (outdoor) testing phase always seemed to happen in December. It was picked up by MIT Technology Review magazine, who selected it as one of their ten emerging technologies from 2007. We revisited MARA in 2008 with the release of the Nokia Navigator, Nokia's first phone with an embedded compass.
I worked on web client development for the Nokia Tej business service, while it was in the experimental phase in NRC with the Self Provisioned Services Team.
A meta-data based personal visual content management system which got some good press for it's cell-id based geo-tagging, bluetooth tagging, and easy internet uploading. All of which were rather novel in 2004-2005.
Personal Information
Personal mobile augmented reality blog.
Other Information
Reviewer IEEE’s Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2012
Organising Committee for worshop on Enabling Large Scale Outdoor Mixed and Augmented Reality at ISMAR 2011
Member of the Programme Committee for the 1st Edition of the Mobile Augmented Reality Workshop at MobileHCI 2011.
Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE & ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2010), Science and Technology track
Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE & ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2010), Arts and Humanities track.
Member of the Program Committee of the of the IEEE & ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009), Science and Technology track
Member of IEEE
Publications
Conference Proceedings
Vlad Stirbu, David Murphy, Yu You, "Open and Decentralized Platform for Visualizing Web Mash-ups in Augmented and Mirror Worlds", WWW 2012
David J Murphy, Markus Kähäri, Ville-Veikko Mattila 2010 "An Augmented Reality View on Mirror World Content, with Image Space", In Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 (abstract)
Workshops
Saija Lemmelä, Tom, Ahola, David Murphy 2010 "It is Just Behind the Corner - ‐ Multimodal Exploration of Augmented Reality Environments", In Proceedings for the workshop Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation held at Pervasive 2010
David Murphy, Petros Belimpasakis (2009) "Where-Others-Walked: A Solution for Sharing Experiences in an Augmented Reality Environment", Proceedings of the Mobile HCI 2009 workshop on Sharing Experiences with Social Media, Bonn, Germany, September 2009. (paper)
Demonstrations
David Murphy, Esa Koskinen, Yu You, Ville-Veikko Mattila, Radek Grzeszczuk - "Nokia City Scene". At the 10th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (2011). (Demos page)
"Nokia Image Space Mobile Browser" At the 9th Annual IEEE VR 2010 (2010)
"Nokia Image Space Mobile Browser" At the 9th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (2009)
Markus Kahari, David Murphy (2008) "Sensor-fusion Based Augmented Reality with off the Shelf Mobile Phone" Annual IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.
Markus Kahari, David Murphy (2006) "MARA - Sensor Based Mobile Augmented Reality System for Mobile Imaging". At the 5th Annual IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. (submission)
Presentations
"Mirror Worlds and Mixed Reality" at Scandar 2011
"Al Hazen + Ivan Sutherland = AR" at Etela Suomalainen Osakunta Autumn 2011
"Mirror Worlds and Mixed Realities" at Augmented Reality Event 2011
"The Ins and Outs of Developing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications on Nokia Devices" at Augmented Reality Event 2010
"Mirror Worlds" at ScandAR 2010
"Assisting The Tourist" at Mobile Magic Wand Workshop, ISMAR 2009
"Mobile Mixed Reality" at Augmented Reality Special, PICNIC 2008
