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