May 8, 2003

8:45-9am
Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Metaxas

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

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

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
 

Lunch

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

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