| Wednesday November 30th |
| 9:00-9:15 |
Opening |
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| 9:15-10:15 |
INVITED
SPEAKER |
Steve K. Feiner
- Columbia
University, NY, USA
"A Moving
Experience: Mobile Augmented Reality and Entertainment"
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| 10:15-11:15 |
Session
1
LONG PAPERS |
Let's Come
Together – Social Navigation Behaviors of Virtual and Real
Humans
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André, Michael Nischt
Interacting
with a Virtual Rap Dancer
Dennis Reidsma, Anton Nijholt, Rutger Rienks, Hendri Hondorp
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| 11:30-13:30 |
Session
2
LONG PAPERS |
Geogames:
A conceptual framework and tool for the design of location-based games
from classic board games
Christoph Schlieder, Peter Kiefer, Sebastian Matyas
Squidball: An
Experiment in Large-Scale Motion Capture and Game Design
Christoph Bregler, Clothilde Castiglia, Jessica De Vicenzo, Roger Luke
DuBois, Kevin Feeley, Tom Igoe, Jonathan Meyer, Michael Naimark,
Alexandru Postelnicu, Michael Rabinovich, Sally Rosenthal, Katie Salen,
Jeremi Sudol, Bo Wright
Generating
Ambient Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan
Schaeffer, Matthew Mc Naughton, Thomas Roy, Curtis Onuczko, Mike
Carbonaro
Telepresence
Techniques for Controlling Avatar Motion in First Person Games
Henning Groenda, Fabian Nowak, Patrick
Rößler, Uwe D. Hanebeck
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| 15:00-18:00 |
Poster
session
SHORT PAPERS |
Entertainment
Personalization Mechanism through Cross-Domain User Modelling
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik , Francesco Ricci
User
Interview-Based Progress Evaluation of Two Successive Conversational
Agent Prototypes
Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær
Adding Playful
Interaction to Public Spaces
Amnon Dekel, Yitzhak Simon, Hila dar, Ezri
Tarazi, Oren Rabinowitz, Yoav Sterman
Report on a
Museum Tour Report
Dina Goren-Bar , Michela Prete
A Ubiquitous
and Interactive Zoo Guide System
Helmut Hlavacs, Franziska Gelies, Daniel Bloosey,
Bernhard Klein
Styling and
Real-Time Simulation of Human Hair
Yvonne Jung, Christian Knöpfle
Motivational
Strategies for an Intelligent Chess Tutoring System
Bruno Lepri, Cesare Rocchi , Massimo Zancanaro
Balancing
Narrative Control and Autonomy for Virtual Characters in a Game Scenario
Markus Löckelt, Elsa Pecourt, Norbert
Pfleger
Web content
Transformed into Humorous Dialogue-based TV-program-like Content
Akiyo Nadamoto, Adam Jatowt, Masaki Hayashi,
Katsumi Tanaka
Content
Adaptation for Gradual Web Rendering
Satoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Minakuchi, Katsumi
Tanaka
Getting the
Story Right: Making Computer-Generated Stories More Entertaining
K. Oinonen, M. Theune, A. Nijholt, D. Heylen
Omnipresent
Collaborative Virtual Environments for Open Inventor Applications
Jan Peciva
SpatiuMedia:
Interacting with Locations
Russell J. Savage
Singing with
your Mobile : From DSP Arrays to Low-cost Low-power Chip Sets
Barry Vercoe
Bringing
Hollywood to the driving school: Dynamic scenario generation in
simulations and games
I. H. C. Wassink, E. M. A. G. van Dijk, J.
Zwiers, A. Nijholt, J. Kuipers, A. O. Brugman
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| 14:30-19:00 |
Chess
competition
LIVE EVENT |
Woman
creativity challenges computer reasoning.
A chessmatch among
champions
Grandmaster Almira
Skripchenko holder of the European Women's Champion title
challenges
Deep
Junior the 2004 world computer chess champion.
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Thursday December
1st
|
| 9:00-10:15 |
INVITED SPEAKERS |
Shay
Bushinsky
"Fundamental algorithms in
computer chess"
Almira Skripchenko
"In the mind of a
chessmaster"
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| 10:15-11:15 |
Session
3
LONG PAPERS |
Disjunctor
Selection for One-Line Jokes
Jeff Stark, Kim Binsted, Ben Bergen
Laughter
abounds in the mouths of computers:Investigations in Automatic Humor
Recognition
Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava
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| 11:30-13:30 |
Design Garage
An interactive hands on
experience
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|
| 15:00-17:00 |
Session
4
LONG PAPERS |
Discovering
the European Heritage Through the ChiKho educational Web Game
Francesco Bellotti, Edmondo Ferretti, Alessandro De Gloria
Performing
physical objects references with Migrating Virtual Characters
Michael Kruppa, Antonio Krüger
Drawings as
Input for Handheld Game Computers
Mannes Poel, Job Zwiers, Anton Nijholt, Rudy de Jong, Edward Krooman
Learning using
Augmented Reality Technology: Multiple Means of Interaction for
Teaching Children the Theory of Colours
Giuliana Ucelli, Giuseppe Conti, Raffaele De Amicis, Rocco S ervidio
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| 17:00-20:00 |
DEMOS
Session |
Webcrow: a
web-based crosswords solver
Giovanni Angelini, Marco Ernandes, Marco Gori
COMPASS2008:
The Smart Dinig Service
Ilhan Aslan, Feiyu Xu, Jörg Steffen,
Hans Uszkoreit, Antonio Krüger
DaFEx:
Database of Facial Expressions
Alberto Battocchi, Fabio Pianesi, Dina Goren-Bar
PeaceMaker: A
Video game to Teach Peace
Asi Burak, Eric Keylor, Tim Sweeney
A
Demonstration of the ScriptEase Approach to Ambient and Perceptive NPC
Behaviors in Computer Role-Playing Games
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan
Schaeffer, Mattew McNaughton, Thomas Roy, Curtis Onuczko, Mike
Carbonaro
Multi-User
Multi-Touch Games on DiamondTouch with the DTFlash Toolkit
Alan Esenther, Kent Wittenburg
Enhancing
social communication through story-telling among high-functioning
children with autism
E. Gal, D. Goren-Bar, E. Gazit, N. Bauminger, A.
Cappelletti, F. Pianesi, O. Stock, M. Zancanaro, P. Weiss
Tagsocratic:
Learning Shared Concepts on the Blogosfere
Dina Goren-Bar , I. Levi, C. Hayes, P. Avesani
Delegation
based Multimedia Mobile Guide
Ilenia Graziola , Cesare Rocchi , Dina Goren-Bar
, Fabio Pianesi, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro
Personalized
Multimedia Information System for Museums and Exhibitions
Jochen Martin, Christian Trummer
Let's Come
Together – Social Navigation Behaviors of Virtual and Real
Humans
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André,
Michael Nischt
Automatic
Creation of Humorous Acronyms
Oliviero Stock, Carlo Strapparava
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| Friday December
2nd |
| 9:00-10:00 |
INVITED SPEAKER |
Elisabeth
Andre - Lehrstuhl für
Multimedia-Konzepte und Anwendungen, Institut für Informatik
Universität
Augsburg, Germany
"Towards
Emotional
Sensitivity in
Interactive Entertainment and Educational Games"
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Session
5
LONG PAPERS |
COMPASS2008:
Multimodal, multilingual and crosslingual interaction for mobile
tourist guide applications
Ilhan Aslan, Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Antonio
Krüger, Jörg Steffen
Grounding
Emotions in Human-Machine Conversational Systems
Giuseppe Riccardi, Dilek
Hakkani-Tür
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| 11:30-13:30 |
Session
6
LONG PAPERS |
Parallel
Presentations For Heterogeneous User Groups – An Initial User
Study-
Michael Kruppa, Ilhan Aslan
Ambient
Intelligence in Edutainment: Tangible Interaction with Life-Like
Exhibit Guides
Alassane Ndiaye, Patrick Gebhard, Michael Kipp,
Martin Klesen, Michael Schneider, Wolfgang Wahlster
Multiplayer
gaming with mobile phones – enhancing user experience with a
public screen
Hanna Strömberg, Jaana Leikas, Riku Su
omela, Veikko Ikonen, Juhani Heinilä
Presenting in
Virtual Worlds: Towards an Architecture for a 3D Presenter explaining
2D- Presented Information
Herwin van Welbergen, Anton Nijholt , Dennis
Reidsma, Job Zwiers
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| 15:00-16:30 |
Session 7
LONG PAPERS |
Al-mediated
Interaction in Virtual Reality Art
Jean-luc Lugrin, Marc Cavazza, Mark Palmer, Sean
Crooks
Ambient
Browser: Web Browser for Everyday Enrichment
Mitsuru Minakuchi, Satoshi Nakamura, Katsumi
Tanaka
Water,
temperature and proximity sensing for a mixed reality art installation
Isaac Rudomin, Marissa Diaz, Benjamín
Hernández, Daniel Rivera
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| 16:30-17:45 |
Keynote Speech and Demo
+
Conference Closing |
Don
Marinelli - Carnegie
Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, USA
"Give
Kids The World" Project - Creation and Installation of Mixed
Interactive / Linear Show Control System and Animated Movie Titled "The
Big Surprise"
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