Kher Hui (Marina) Ng

Contact

• workRoom BA36 Block B
  Malaysia Campus
  Jalan Broga
  43500 Semenyih
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia
• work+6 (03) 8725 3412
• Marina.Ng@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr Marina Ng is an Associate Professor and research member of the Mixed Reality Lab (MRL) UK and Mixed Reality Hub, Malaysia. She is also the Associate Dean - Admissions, Recruitment and Marketing of the Faculty of Science & Engineering (FOSE).

Dr Marina Ng began her research journey in 2000 through her final year project at Multimedia University, Malaysia, resulting in several journal and conference publications, a patent application and university grants. Awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship, she pursued her postgraduate studies in the UK, where she joined the renowned Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham, obtaining a Master of Research (MRes) in 2002. She completed her PhD within a 3-year timeframe under the supervision of Prof Steve Benford and Prof. Boriana Koleva. It was awarded without conditions (one of the few in the school's history to have achieved this).

She is now based in University of Nottingham Malaysia; advancing Human-Computer Interaction research and championing STEAM research and education in Malaysia.

She is the recipient of the Lord Dearing Award 2022 in recognition of her outstanding performance and excellence in teaching. She was also conferred the Vice Chancellor's Medal 2022 for her exceptional contribution to students and the local community.

Expertise Summary

Dr Marina Ng's research expertise is in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specialising in mobile, mixed reality and Internet of Things (IoT). She has been developing novel interactive technologies - merging physical and digital interactions to explore new ways of living, playing and working. She has extensive experience in conducting interdisciplinary research, employing ethnography, user-centred design, iterative prototyping and participatory design approach, and also deploying and studying them 'in the wild'.

Teaching Summary

Dr Marina Ng is the module convenor of the following modules: COMP2025 - Human-Computer Interaction (2nd year module). COMP3042 - Fundamentals of Information Visualisation and COMP3045 - Information… read more

Research Summary

Digital Cultural Heritage

• An interdisciplinary research collaboration to preserve and promote cultural heritage using AI and immersive technologies.

Adaptive Learning System for Malaysian Schools

• An industry research collaboration to explore the development of a personalised and engaging learning system to cater for the diverse learning styles and needs of students.

Developing IoT Toolkit for making cultural serious games

• The 3D serious game maker toolkit allows users to create 3D environments and games without any programming experience.

AI Storytelling Authoring Toolkit

• A research collaboration with the School of Education, UNM to improve literacy learning among students through AI Storytelling.

Using Serious Games for creating awareness in Epilepsy

• A research collaboration with University of Malaya Hospital to develop serious games to educate patients, families and the public on Epilepsy.

Personalised Nutrition App for Cancer patients

• An interdisciplinary research collaboration to develop an adaptive mobile app for cancer patients to manage and monitor their health through recommended plant-based diet.

Recent Publications

• MUHAMMAD ALIF DANIAL BIN SAHIDON, HAI HUANG and KHER HUI NG, 2024. Proto.IoT: supporting IoT prototype ideation for non-experts in the classroom Interactive Learning Environments. 1-18
• YEN YI LOO, NAUFAL RAHMAN AVICENA, NOAH THONG, ABDULLAH MARGHOOBUL HAQUE, YENZIWE TEMAWELASE NHLABATSI, SAFA YOUSIF ABDALLA ABAKAR, KHER HUI NG and EE PHIN WONG, 2024. WildTechAlert: Deep Learning Models for Real-Time Detection of Elephant Presence Using Bioacoustics in an Early Warning System to Support Human-Elephant Coexistence In: In: Ren, J., et al. Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(). 14374. 385-399
• KHER HUI NG, HANISAH MOHD RADZI and KEAN WAH LEE, 2023. Augmented Storytelling: Impact of Making on Students’ Interest in Literacy Technology, Pedagogy and Education.
• SHEKINAH DALAYYA, SALMA TAMER FATHY AHMED ELSAID, KHER HUI NG, TIEN LII SONG and JOANNE BEE YIN LIM, 2023. Sentiment Analysis to Understand the Perception and Requirements of a Plant-Based Food App for Cancer Patients Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 2023, 8005764

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Dr Marina Ng is the module convenor of the following modules: COMP2025 - Human-Computer Interaction (2nd year module). COMP3042 - Fundamentals of Information Visualisation and COMP3045 - Information Visualisation Project; and COMP3047 - Schools Experience (Final Year modules).

Past Research

Designing for Cultural Reflection

• A research collaboration between Baba Nyonya Heritage Museum, Malacca and University of Nottingham to develop museum interactive installations to promote cultural reflection

Augmenting learning with personal mobile technology

• A research collaboration between Royal Selangor Pewter and University of Nottingham to augment learning and visitor experience through the development of Internet of Things (IOT)-enabled pewter objects

Mobile Garden Guide based on Artcodes

• A research collaboration between Crops for the Future (CFF) and University of Nottingham to support informal learning experience in public setting based on Artcodes, a new visual recognition system.

Using Serious Games for Teaching and Learning Immunology

• An interdisciplinary project that aims to develop and evaluate serious games as a means to teach human immunology.

TraceIT

• A research project in partnership with Dyslexia Centre Malaysia to develop an air tracing reading tool for children with Dyslexia.

Understanding Underutilisation

• A research collaboration between UNMC, Crops for the Future (CFF) and Horizon UK to understand why people buy/ or not buy underutilised fruits and vegetables.

Motivating Mobility

• A multi-centre interdisciplinary project to develop novel interactive systems to promote physical activity for recovery of upper limb function post-stroke

E-Science Usability for Schools

• Worked in a multi-partner interdisciplinary project to create a usable and reusable toolkit that supports teachers in creating new learning experiences

Fairground THRILL

• Worked in a multi-partner interdisciplinary project to explore the relation between thrill and pleasure using wearable, wireless telemetry systems
• Involved in the design and staging of a series of public exhibition and evaluation in Science Museum London

INSCAPE

• Team member of an European Integrated Project involving interdisciplinary multi-partners that aimed to develop a software suite for authoring, publishing and experiencing interactive multimedia stories and content

EQUATOR

• A £10million project bringing together researchers from eight UK institutions which focused on the integration of physical and digital interaction
• Carried out PhD research, by extending Pin&Play infrastructure, in collaboration with EQUATOR partner, to develop a tangible pin-board with actuated pins

Situated Hybrid Assemblies in Public Environments (SHAPE)

• A multi-partner interdisciplinary project combining social and computer science expertise to develop and evaluate assemblies of hybrid, mixed reality artefacts in public place

Virtual Learning Environment Terminal (VLET)

• Research into the development of multimedia textbook for engineering courses with extension to integrate multi-modal interfaces

• MUHAMMAD ALIF DANIAL BIN SAHIDON, HAI HUANG and KHER HUI NG, 2024. Proto.IoT: supporting IoT prototype ideation for non-experts in the classroom Interactive Learning Environments. 1-18
• YEN YI LOO, NAUFAL RAHMAN AVICENA, NOAH THONG, ABDULLAH MARGHOOBUL HAQUE, YENZIWE TEMAWELASE NHLABATSI, SAFA YOUSIF ABDALLA ABAKAR, KHER HUI NG and EE PHIN WONG, 2024. WildTechAlert: Deep Learning Models for Real-Time Detection of Elephant Presence Using Bioacoustics in an Early Warning System to Support Human-Elephant Coexistence In: In: Ren, J., et al. Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems. BICS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(). 14374. 385-399
• KHER HUI NG, HANISAH MOHD RADZI and KEAN WAH LEE, 2023. Augmented Storytelling: Impact of Making on Students’ Interest in Literacy Technology, Pedagogy and Education.
• SHEKINAH DALAYYA, SALMA TAMER FATHY AHMED ELSAID, KHER HUI NG, TIEN LII SONG and JOANNE BEE YIN LIM, 2023. Sentiment Analysis to Understand the Perception and Requirements of a Plant-Based Food App for Cancer Patients Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 2023, 8005764
• KAH KIT NG, HAFEEZ ULLAH AMIN, KHER HUI NG, JESSICA PRICE and AHMAD RAUF SUBHANI, 2023. EEG Feature Extraction based on Fast Fourier Transform and Wavelet Analysis for Classification of Mental Stress Levels using Machine Learning Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal. 8(6), 46-56
• CHOONG YI FONG, PEIYI LOW, KHER HUI NG, HOCK SIN HENG, AUDREY SHUK LAN CHONG, LAI CHOO ONG, YUSMA LIYANA MD YUSOF, AZIRAH ADNAN, LIMIN LI and WEI KANG LIM, 2023. The effectiveness of epilepsy educational intervention using computer game-based epilepsy educational program (Epigame) among Malaysian children with epilepsy: A prospective cohort study Epilepsy and Behavior. 149, 109536
• SONG NING TAN and KHER HUI NG, 2022. Gamified Mobile Sensing Storytelling Application for Enhancing Remote Cultural Experience and Engagement International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
• MOSTAFA OSAMA MOSTAFA ABDULRAZIC, MIRZA RAYANA SANZANA and KHER HUI NG, 2022. Integrating Internet of Things (IoT) in Cultural Game Authoring Tool: An Innovative Approach in Maker Education In: 9th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications.
• MIRZA RAYANA SANZANA, MOSTAFA OSAMA MOSTAFA ABDULRAZIC, JING YING WONG, KHER HUI NG and SHAMS EL GHAZY, 2021. Lecture-based, VR game-based and their combination, which is better for higher education? Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education.
• CHIA YI QUAH and KHER HUI NG, 2021. Systematic Literature Review on Digital Storytelling Authoring Tool in Education: January 2010 to January 2020 International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 38(9), 851-867
• CHLOE HUE TUNG SAN and KHER HUI NG, 2021. Interactive Tangible Game for Collaborative Play between Children with Cerebral Palsy In: International Visual Informatics Conference 2021. 13501. 65-76
• CHIA YI QUAH and KHER HUI NG, 2020. Tale-It: A tangible storytelling authoring toolkit for Malaysian students In: National Symposium of Human Computer Interaction.
• HAI HUANG, KHER HUI NG, BENJAMIN BEDWELL and STEVE BENFORD, 2020. A card-based internet of things game ideation tool for museum context Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 12(10), 9229-9240
• HAI HUANG and KHER HUI NG, 2020. Designing for cultural learning and reflection using IoT serious game approach Personal Ubiquitous Computing. 25(3), 509-524
• CHENG YEE YAP, KHER HUI NG, YUNGEN CHEAH, SUK YEE LIM, JESSICA PRICE and MARIEKE DE VRIES, 2019. App4Autism: An Integrated Assistive Technology with Heart Rate Monitoring for Children with Autism In: IVIC 2019. 498-512
• KOHILAH MIUNDY, HALIMAH BADIOZE ZAMAN, ALIIMRAN NOSRDIN and KHER HUI NG, 2019. Evaluation of Visual Based Augmented Reality (AR) Learning Application (V-ARA-Dculia) for Dyscalculia Learners International Journal on Informatics Visualisation. 3(4), 343-354
• KOHILAH MIUNDY, HALIMAH BADIOZE ZAMAN, ALIIMRAN NORDIN and KHER HUI NG, 2019. Early Intervention Through Identification of Learners with Dyscalculia as Initial Analysis to Design AR Assistive Learning Application In: Advances in Visual Informatics. 110-122
• KOHILAH MIUNDY, HALIMAH BADIOZE ZAMAN, ALIIMRAN NORDIN and KHER HUI NG, 2019. Screening Test on Dyscalculia Learners to Develop a Suitable Augmented Reality (AR) Assistive Learning Application Malaysian Journal of Computer Science.
• HAI HUANG, WEI HONG LO, KHER HUI NG, TIM BRAILSFORD and CLAIRE O'MALLEY, 2018. Enhancing reflective learning experiences in museums through interactive installations In: 13th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS'18), London, UK June 23-27, 2018. 2. 776-783
• KHER HUI NG, HAI HUANG and CLAIRE O'MALLEY, 2018. Treasure codes: Augmenting learning from physical museum exhibits through treasure hunting Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 22(4), 739-750
• CHOONG YI FONG, JEN CHUN FOO, ANN NIE KONG, AHMAD MUHAMMAD RITHAUDDIN, AZIRAH ADNAN, PEI LIN LUA and KHER HUI NG, 2018. Improving awareness, knowledge and attitude of epilepsy using an Interactive Animated Epilepsy Education Programme (IAEEP) among Malaysian teachers and students Neurology Asia. 23(4), 293-302
• WEI HONG LO and KHER HUI NG, 2017. Designing an Interactive Mural for Cultural Reflections In: 5th International Visual Informatics Conference (IVIC 2017). 10645. 570-581
• KHER HUI NG, HAI HUANG, SHANKER SELVAMURTHY, MASHARRAT JUZAR, NURUL ASSYIFA AHMAD SABRI and CLAIRE O'MALLEY, 2016. Augmenting learning from physical museum exhibits with personal mobile technology In: Transforming Learning, Empowering Learners: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2016. 2. 1261-1262
• KHER HUI NG and SHAZIA PARAS SHAIKH, 2016. Design of a Mobile Garden Guide based on Artcodes In: 4th International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr) 2016.
• KHER HUI NG, VICTORIA SHIPP, RICHARD MORTIER, STEVE BENFORD, MARTIN FLINTHAM and TOM RODDEN, 2015. Understanding Food Consumption Lifecycles Using Wearable Cameras Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 19(7), 1183-1195
• TIARA TZYY LI TEH, KHER HUI NG and BEHRANG PARHIZKAR, 2015. TraceIt: An Air Tracing Reading Tool for Children with Dyslexia In: 4th International Visual Informatics Conference (IVIC) 2015. 356-366
• KHER HUI NG, VICTORIA SHIPP, ANYA SKATOVA and BENJAMIN BEDWELL, 2015. What's cooking: A digital intervention to encourage sustainable food behaviour using mobile and wearable technologies In: Mobile HCI'15 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct. 1058-1061
• SHIPP, VICTORIA, COUGHLAN, TIM, MARTINDALE, SARAH, NG, KHER HUI, EVANS, ELIZABETH and MORTIER, RICHARD, 2014. Wearables or Infrastructure: Contrasting Approaches to Collecting Behavioural Data in the Home In: HomeSys 2014. Adjunct Proceedings of ACM UbiComp 2014.
• RENNICK EGGLESTONE, S., AXELROD, L., NIND, T., TURK, R., WILKINSON, A., BURRIDGE, J., FITZPATRICK, G., MAWSON, S., ROBERTSON, Z., HUGHES, A.M., NG, K.H., PEARSON, W., SHUBLAQ, N., PROBERT-SMITH, P., RICKETS, I. and RODDEN, T., 2009. A design framework for a home-based rehabilitation system: identifying the key components. In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 1-8
• PETA WYETH, HILARY SMITH, KHER HUI NG, GERALDINE FITZPATRICK, ROSE LUCKIN, KEVIN WALKER, JUDITH GOOD, JOSH UNDERWOOD and STEVE BENFORD, 2008. Learning Through Treasure Hunting: The Role of Mobile Devices In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning 2008. 27-34
• KHER HUI NG, BORIANA KOLEVA and STEVE BENFORD, 2007. The iterative development of a tangible pin-board to symmetrically link physical and digital documents Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 11(3), 145-155
• WALKER, B., SCHNÄDELBACH, H., RENNICK EGGLESTONE, S., CLARKE, A., NG, K.H., WRIGHT, M., RODDEN, T., BENFORD, S. and FRENCH, A., 2007. ACE '07: Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology In: 115 - 122
• KHER HUI NG, STEVE BENFORD and BORIANA KOLEVA, 2005. PINS push in and POUTS pop out - creating a tangible pin-board that ejects physical documents In: CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems April 02-07, 2005. 1981-1984
• FRASER, M.C., STANTON, D., NG, K.H., BENFORD, S.D., O'MALLEY, C., BOWERS, J., TAXN, G., FERRIS, K. and HINDMARSH, J., 2003. Assembling history: achieving coherent experiences with diverse technologies In: Proceedings of European Ccomputer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) 2003. 179-198
• STANTON, D., O'MALLEY, C., FRASER, M.C., NG, K.H. and BENFORD, S.D., 2003. Situating historical events through mixed reality: adult-child interactions in the storytent In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2003. 293-302
• KHER HUI NG and RYOICHI KOMIYA, 2002. A Global Multimedia Test-bed: Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2002. 2359-2463
• KHER HUI NG and RYOICHI KOMIYA, 2002. Multimedia textbook for virtual education environment Engineering Science and Education Journal. 11(2), 73-39
• KHER HUI NG and RYOICHI KOMIYA, 2001. Multimedia Textbook for Engineering Courses In: 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances 2001.
• KHER HUI NG and RYOICHI KOMIYA, 2000. Introduction of Intelligent Interfaces for Virtual Learning Environment In: MMU International Symposium on Information, Communications and Technologies.