Programme April 23rd


09.00 - 09.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

09.30 -10.50 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
Anna Dubois, vice president of Chalmers University of Technology

VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT II: IMAGING AND THE HUMAN BODY
These sessions deal with different aspects of visualizing human beings, from digital image analysis for face recognition to human representation in virtual environments.

Moderator: Anders Ynnerman, Professor, Linköping University

Avatars in Virtual environments
Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, PhD. User experience designer at Telestream  AB, chairman of SIGRAD

Cognitive models for virtual characters
Pierangelo Dell Acqua, Associate Professor, Linköping University

10.50 - 11.15 COFFEE

11.15 - 12.30 FUTURE LEARNING II: GAMING AND SIMULATION
These sessions focus on didactic design and simulation. The first talk will give methodological and theoretical perspectives on different learning games. The second tells about research on using a ship´s bridge simulator for decision making The third one introduces the workshop and deals with a game about water resources, developed within an EU-project on sustainable development.

Moderator: Michael Christie, Centre for Competence and Knowledge Building in Higher Education, Chalmers

Learning in simulated practices - Didactic game design
Svend Ask Larsen, Senior Game Designer & Advisor, Zentropa Interaction, Danmark

Virtual ships for maritime safety
Margareta Lützhöft, Associate Professor,  Lighthouse - maritime competence centre, Chalmers

12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH

13.30 - 14.15 VIRTUAL DEVELOPMENT III: IMAGING AND THE HUMAN BODY

Quo vadis 3D Face Recognition?
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Eckhard Pfeiffer Professor, Computational Biomedicine Lab, University of Houston

14.15 - 14.45 FUTURE LEARNING III: GAMING AND SIMULATION
Speeches to the workshop “Visualizing Urban Futures"

Learning for sustainable development
John Holmberg, vice president of Chalmers University of Technology

Finding Sustainable Solutions: The water democracy game
Göran Ewald, Associate Professor, Lunds University Centre for Sustainability Studies

14.45 - 15.00 COFFEE

15.00 - 17.30 WORKSHOP: VISUALIZING URBAN FUTURES
Brainstorming and discussions around the role of visualization for the concept "Urban Future". Questions to deal with are: Which criteria are vital to design serious games about sustainable urban development in the future? Which scenarios could form an interesting start for further projects?

Moderator: Diana Uppman, Senior Consultant, Docere, Intelligence & Strategy

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Updated: 2008-04-19
Location
Sal KE, KC, KS2 Kemigården 4, Campus Johanneberg, Chalmers, Göteborg
Center of Visualization Göteborg is a membership organisation managed by Business Region Göteborg and Chalmers University of Technology. Center of Visualization Göteborg is one of two national Knowledge Arenas within the network VISARD, Visualisation in Sweden - Arenas for Research and Development.