May 8, 2003
8:45-9am
Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Metaxas
9-10:00am Chair: N. Badler
Invited Talk 1: Online socializing and virtual worlds
Will Harvey, Founder and Executive Vice President of There, Inc.
10:10-12noon Chair: N. Badler
Session 1: Social and Conversational Agents
- Towards a Simulation of Conversations with Expressive Embodied Speakers and Listeners
- - Thomas Rist, Markus Schmitt, Catherine Pelachaud, Massimo Bilvi
- Crafting the Illusion of Meaning: Template-based Specification of Embodied Conversational Behavior
- - Matthew Stone and Doug DeCarlo
- Language-driven nonverbal communication in a bilingual conversational agent
- -Scott A. King, Alistair Knott and Brendan McCane
- How Believable Are Real Faces? Towards a Perceptual Basis for Conversational Animation
- -Douglas W. Cunningham, Martin Breidt, Mario Kleiner, Christian Wallraven, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:30pm Chair: Dr. Metaxas
Session 2: Physics-Based Animation
- Improvements on a simple muscle-based 3D face for realistic facial expressions
- -The Duy Bui, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt
- Modeling Hair Using Level-of-Detail Representations
- -Kelly Ward, Ming C. Lin, Joohi Lee, Susan Fisher, Dean Macri
- Bi-Layered Mass-Spring Model for Fast Deformations of Flexible Linear Bodies
- -Thomas Di Giacomo, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
- Interactive Melting and Flowing of Viscous Volumes
- -Xiaoming Wei, Wei Li and Arie Kaufman
- ElasticPaint: A Particle System for Feature Mapping with Minimum Distortion
- -Christopher Carner and Hong Qin
3:30-4:30pm
Panel 1: Social Agents: Making Them Work
- Chair: N. Badler
- Panelists: Will Harvey, Daniel Thalmann and Barry Silverman
4:45pm-6:00pm Chair: H. Ko
Session 3: Interaction, Control and Planning
- A procedural approach to animate interactive natural sceneries
- `Sylvain Guerraz, Frank Perbet, David Raulo, Fran¸cois Faure, Marie-Paule Cani
- Expressive Gesture Animation Based on Non Parametric Learning of Sensory-Motor Models
- Pierre-François Marteau, Sylvie Gibet Valoria,
- Real-time Reach Planning for Animated Characters Using Hardware Acceleration
- -Ying Liu, Norman I. Badler
- Realistic Human Walking Paths
- -David C. Brogan, Nicholas L. Johnson
7pm RECEPTION:
- Invited Speaker 1: Sandy Ressler, NIST
- Beer Bellies, Big Butts and other Mysteries of the Human Form
- Invited Speaker 2: Ari Kaufman, SUNY, Stoney Brook
- Fantastic Voyage in the Colon
May 9, 2003
9-10:45am Chair: N. Magnenat-Thalmann
Session 4: AI-based Animation and Alife
- XSTEP: A Markup Language for Embodied Agents
- -Zhisheng Huang, Anton Eliens, and Cees Visser
- Bottom-Up Visual Attention for Virtual Human Animation
- -Christopher Peters, Carol O'Sullivan
- Agent Chameleons: Agent Minds and Bodies
- -Brian R. Duffy, Gregory M.P. O'Hare1, Alan N. Martin1, John F. Bradley1, and Bianca Schön1
- Modeling Virtual Ecosystems with the Proactive Guidance of Agents
- -Bedrich Benes and Enrique David Espinosa
11-12noon Chair: Dr. Metaxas
Invited Talk 2: Old Pyramids to New Paradigms: Simulation's Challenge to 4,000 years of Medicine
Dr. Steven L. Dawson, Harvard Medical School
Lunch
1:15-2:15pm D. Thalmann
Session 5: Modeling of Groups and Crowds
- Inserting Synthetic Characters into Live-Action Crowd Scenes
- Arunachalam Somasundaram, Rick Parent
- Modeling Individual Behaviors in Crowd Simulation
- Adriana Braun, Soraia R. Musse, Luiz P. L. de Oliveira and Bardo E. J. Bodmann
- Natural Pedestrian Navigation from Examples
- Ronald A. Metoyer, Jessica K. Hodgins
2:30-3:30pm
Panel 2: Virtual humans: past, present and future.
- Chair: N. Magnenat-Thalmann
- Panelists: Dimitris Metaxas, Rick Parent, Catherine Pelachaux, and
- Daniel Thalmann
3:30-4:15pm Chair: D. Pai
Session 6: Design Issues in Games and Virtual Environments
- Satisfying the Perceived Need for Free-Play in Pedagogically Oriented Interactive Dramas
- Barry G. Silverman, Michael Johns, Ransom Weaver
- Conceptual, Communicative and Pragmatic Aspects of Interaction Forms - Rich Interaction Model for Collaborative Virtual Environments
- Tony Manninen
4:15-6pm
CBIM CENTER and LAB TOUR AND DEMOS
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