SICSA MMI Workshop on Affective Interaction and Virtual Characters Monday June 17th 2011 Heriot Watt University Organisers: Oliver Lemon 9.15 coffee/welcome : Oliver Lemon, HWU : SLIDES 9.30-10.15 session 1: Robin Sloan and colleagues -45 min * Believable emotional agents, and story-driven interactive characters (University of Abertay) 10.15-11.00 session 2:ECHOES Oliver Lemon and Alyssa Alcorn - 45 min * The ECHOES project: Technology-Enhanced Learning with virtual characters (Heriot-Watt / Edinburgh / Dundee / Strathclyde) 11.00 - 11.15 COFFEE 11.15 - 11.45 session 3: KINECT (30 min) - M Kriegel and Xingkun Liu * The Kinect controller: APIs and tutorial (Heriot-Watt University) : SLIDES 11.45 - 12.30: session 4: LIREC , Ruth Aylett - 45 min * The LIREC project: digital and interactive companions (Heriot-Watt University) - with demo in lab : SLIDES 12.30 LUNCH 1.30 -2.00 session 5 : Help4Mood, Maria Wolters and Helen Hastie - 30 min * The Help4Mood project: virtual characters for healthcare (Edinburgh University and HWU) 2 - 2.30 session 6 - David Benyon - 30 min * The Companions project. 'Appropriate dialogues for human-companion relationships' (Napier University): SLIDES 2.30- 3.00 Workshop : Digital Story Lab (HWU) - Sandy Louchart, 30 min "Narrative engagement - Could we quantify affective responses to narrative experiences?" 3.00 coffee 3.30 Open discussion of emerging research themes. * Future collaborations and new funding opportunities |