INTETAIN 2008 Advance Program

8:45–9:15 Registration

9:15–9:30 Welcome

9:30–10:30 Keynote: “The Illusion of Life, Revisited”
Ken Perlin, NYU Media Research Lab

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Papers: Games

AI Opponents with Personalities in Überpong
Carlos Delgado-Mata and Jesus Ibanez-Martinez
Developing an Augmented Reality Racing Game
Ohan Oda, Levi Lister, Sean White and Steven Feiner
A Testbed Environment for Interactive Storytellers
Federico Peinado, Álvaro Navarro and Pablo Gervás

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–2:30 Refereed Demos

Sight Quest: A Mobile Game for Paper Maps
Oliver Rath, Johannes Schöning, Michael Rohs and Antonio Krueger
Trackside DEIRA: A Virtual Horse Race Reporter
Almer Tigelaar, François Knoppel, Danny Oude Bos, Thijs Alofs, Zsófia Ruttkay and Anton Nijholt

2:30–3:30 Open Demos

3:30–3:45 Break

3:45–4:45 Late-Breaking Results: Interactivity

Bluetaps—Transforming Cell Phones into Expressive Gestural Musical Instruments
Gil Weinberg and Benedikt Loesch
The Madeleine Effect
Melissa Berman
The Search Support System Using User Web Browsing Behavior Information
Yukio Hori, Yoshiro Imai and Takashi Nakayama

9:30–10:30 Invited Talk: Expanding the Musical Experience: From the Physical to the Digital... and Back
Gil Weinberg, Georgia Tech

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Papers: Story

Toward Intelligent Support of Authoring Machinima Media Content: Story and Visualization
Mark Riedl, Jonathan Rowe and David Elson
Managing Emergent Character-Based Narrative
Ruth Aylett, Sandy Louchart, Anders Tychsen, Michael Hitchens and Rui Figueiredo
Generation of Dilemma-Based Interactive Narratives with a Plot Arc
Heather Barber and Daniel Kudenko

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–3:00 Panel: Issues in Narrative and Story for Interactive Entertainment (Chair: Mark Riedl)

3:00–3:15 Break

3:15–4:35 Late-Breaking Results: Signals and Systems

Modeling Context Using Brain Signal Interpretation
Suzette Stoutenburg and Sudhanshu Semwal
Musical Sequences Generated by Genetic Algorithms
Donggang Jung and Keechul Jung
The Networked Emotional Edutainment Service Robot : Mon-e and Porong-bot
Woo Yung Lee, Hyun Ho Kim and Young Myoung Kim
Carassius Auratus Pop: Leveraging Aesthetics and Calm using Living Organisms in Ambient Displays
Alex Olwal and Albin Karlsson

4:35–4:45 Break

4:45–5:30 Open Demos

7:00 Banquet

9:30–11:00 Papers: HCI

A Survey of Human-Computer Interaction Design in Science Fiction Movies
Michael Schmitz, Christoph Endres and Andreas Butz
Consigalo: Multi-User Face-to-Face Interaction with Adaptive Audio on an Immaterial Display
Alex Olwal, Ismo Rakkolainen, Tobias Hollerer and Stephen DiVerdi
Physical Shortcuts for Media Remote Controls
Alois Ferscha, Simon Vogl, Bernadette Emsenhuber and Bernhard Wally

11:00–11:30 Break

11:30–12:30 Panel: The Face of Intelligence—Anthropomorphic Interfaces in Entertainment (Chair: Andreas Butz)

12:30–2:00 Lunch

2:00–2:30 ITIS Workshop Report (Chair: Heather Barber)

2:30–2:45 Break

2:45–4:15 Papers: Modeling

Phase-based Gesture Motion Parametrization and Transitions for Conversational Agents with MPML3D
Klaus Bruegmann, Hannes Dohrn, Helmut Prendinger, Marc Stamminger and Mitsuru Ishizuka
User Loyalty and Online Communities: Why Members of Online Communities are not Faithful
Petter Bae Brandtzæg and Jan Heim
Modelling Conducting Behavior in a Virtual Conductor
Mark ter Maat, Rob Ebbers, Dennis Reidsma and Anton Nijholt

4:15–4:30 Conference Close and Best Paper Awards