Event Programme

Monday 15th September

09.00 - 09.50 REGISTRATION South Cloisters South Cloisters
09.50 - 10.00 Conference Co-Chairs Stephen R. Ellis and Mel Slater Welcome Notes
10.00 - 11.00 Keynote Speaker Frederick P. Brooks Jnr Human Motion in Virtual Environments for Team Training -- Slides
11.00 - 11.45 Invited Speaker Karl-Friedrich Kraiss Hierarchically Structured Nonintrusive Sign Language Recognition --- Slides
11.45 - 12.30 Invited Speaker R. W. Allen, D. T. McRuer Virtual Reality Training of Hierarchically Structured --- Slides
12.30 - 14.30 LUNCH South Cloisters South Cloisters
14.30 - 15.15 Invited Speaker Arthur Grunwald How inverse dynamics makes users smart --- Slides
15.15 - 16.00 Invited Speaker Antonio Pedotti Intelligent models in bioengineering
16.00 - 16.30 BREAK South Cloisters South Cloisters
16.30 - 17.15 Invited Speaker Ronald Kruk Behaviour in Synthetic Entities --- Slides
17.15 - 18.00 Invited Speaker Maartan Sierhuis   Subsumption archetures in AI --- Slides

 

Tuesday 16th September

09.00 - 09.45 Invited Speaker Frank Cardullo Telerobotic Surgery: An Intelligent Systems Approach to Mitigate the Adverse Effects of Communication Delay --- Slides
09.45 - 10.30 Invited Speaker Andras Kemeny Motion fidelity and intelligent vehicles in driving simulation
10.30 - 11.15 Invited Speaker Paul Milgram and Wenbi Wang Optimising Viewpoint Control in Virtual Environments -- Slides
11.15 - 11.30 BREAK South Cloisters South Cloisters
11.30 - 12.15 Invited Speaker

W. Lewis Johnson

Expression, Intention, and Context in Animated Agents --- Slides
12.15 - 13.00 Invited Speaker Witold Kosinski Pavlovian, Skinner and other behaviourists contribution to AI --- Slides
13.00 - 14.15 LUNCH South Cloisters South Cloisters
14.15 - 15.00 Invited Speaker Daniel Wolpert Human motion models --- Slides
15.00 - 15.45 Invited Speaker John Buchanan (Teleconference Commentary by Bill Budge ) Video Games: Where do we go now? --- Slides
15.45 - 16.30 Short Presentations 1. Xiangyang Ju
2. Richard Kennaway
3. Caroline Jay		  
16.30 - 17.00 BREAK South Cloisters South Cloisters
17.00 - 18.00 Teleconference Keynote Raymond Kurzweil The Emergence and Impact of Intelligent Machines --- Slides

The Conference Dinner will be held at the Imperial-China restaurant in China Town. The committee has arranged for your transport to the venue by coach. Attendees should assemble by the gate between 18.30 - 18.45.


Wednesday 17th September

09.00 - 10.00 Keynote Thomas Sheridan Goal Setting and Control Vetting: Hierarchy, Constraint and Virtual Intelligence --- Slides
10.00 - 10.45 Invited Speaker Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann Creating Smart Personalities
10.45 - 11.00 BREAK South Cloisters South Cloisters
11.00 - 11.45 Invited Speaker Daniel Thalmann Intelligent Virtual Humans Behavior --- Slides
11.45 - 12.30 Short Presentations 1. Richard Kennaway
2. Cristoph Guger
3. Robert Leeb		  
12.30 - 13.45 LUNCH South Cloisters South Cloisters
13.45 - 14.30 Invited Speaker Norman Badler Meaningful motion--- Slides
14.30 - 15.15 Invited Speaker Mel Slater The Illusion of Sentience In Virtual Environments --- Slides
15.15 - 16.00 Discussion    
16.00 - 16.30 Conference Outcomes and Publications    
16.30 - 17.00 Tea, Visit to UCL's Immersive VR Lab and Closing of the Conference South Cloisters South Cloisters

 

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