Accelerating Progress in Perceptive Animated
Interfaces and Virtual Humans Workshop Agenda
DAY ONE
7:30
Breakfast & Registration Salon D-E
8:30
Welcome and self introduction of participants (Ron Cole & Terry
Durham)
8:45
Welcome (Mary Harper)
9:00
Workshop Goals & Review of Agenda (Ron Cole)
9:15 Invited Talks (Order to be
announced)
- David McNeill, Janet Bavelas,
Susan Duncan -- The Social Dynamics of Face to Face Communication
McNeill -- Natural Gestures: Content and Context
Bavelas -- Hand gestures and facial displays in
dialogue
Duncan -- Gesture mechanics and
meaning
- Clifford Nass Co- Learners
10:30 Break
10:45
Invited Talks Continued
- Norm Badler -- Challenges in the
Control of Realistic Perceptive Agents
- Tim Bickmore -- Social Agents
- Wayne Ward -- Conversational
Systems
- Erika Rosenberg -- Measuring facial
movement with FACS: technique and emotion interpretation
12:00 Open Demo Session
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch Garden
Terrace
2:30 Virtual Humans in the
Mission Rehearsal Exercise (Justine
Cassell and Jonathan Gratch)
3:00 Models for Accelerating
Progress (Javier Movellan, Ron
Cole)
3:30 Selection of Topics for
Breakout Session (Justine
Cassell)
3:45 Breakout Group
Discussions
5:00 Adjourn
5:00 Meeting of Organizing
Committee
7:00 Shuttles Depart for
Dinner meet in lobby
DAY TWO
7:30 Breakfast
Salon D-E
8:30 Reports
from Breakout Sessions (Jonathan
Gratch, Session Chair)
9:15 Sanity
check, Review Workshop
Objectives, Topics and Logistics for next round of breakout group
discussions (Ron
Cole)
9:00 Breakout
Group Discussions
11:30 Breakout
presentations and Plenary
Feedback (Session Chair: to be named)
12:00 Lunch Garden
Terrace
1:30 Plenary
Session: Generate
Workshop Recommendations, Outline final report and assign sections.
Strategize
about building community, stimulating new research initiatives,
marketing the
report… (Eric Hamilton, Session Chair)
3:30 Thanks
to All, Adjourn
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