Wednesday - June 4 | |
12:00 Registration Starts | |
Introduction | |
1:40-1:45 | Welcome
Teenie Matlock, University of California, Merced |
1:45-2:00 | Introduction to UC Merced
Jeff Wright, Dean of Engineering - University of California, Merced |
Session 1 - Virtual Humans
Session Chair: Victor Zordan - University of California, Riverside | |
2:00-2:45 | Keynote 1: The Quest for Real-Time Virtual Human Control Norman Badler - University of Pennsylvania talk given by: Jan Allbeck - University of Pennsylvania (last-minute change) |
2:45-3:10 | Modeling and Animating the Gesture Style of Particular Individuals Michael Neff - University of California, Davis |
3:10-3:35 | Embodied Conversational Agents With Realistic Speech And Language: Science and Applications Dom Massaro - University of California, Santa Cruz |
3:35-4:00 break | |
Session 2 - Perception and Control
Session Chair: Shawn Newsam - University of California, Merced | |
4:00-4:25 | Exploring Human Body Shape and Motion James Davis - University of California, Santa Cruz |
4:25-4:50 | Motion Aftereffects Without Motion: Engaging the Human Motion Perception System With Still Photographs Jonathan Winawer - Stanford University |
4:50-5:15 | Transformationed Social Interaction: Avatars Animated According to Our Optimal Selves Jeremy Bailenson - Stanford University |
5:15-5:40 | Control of Humanoid Systems Luis Sentis - Stanford University |
5:40-7:00 Poster Session - program | |
7:30-8:30 Dinner | |
Thursday - June 5 | |
Session 3 - Cognition and Motion
Session Chair: Paul Maglio - IBM Almaden Research Center | |
8:30-9:15 | Keynote 2: Embodied Cognition Dana Ballard - Univerity of Texas at Austin |
9:15-9:40 |
Motion Planning for Virtual Humans
Marcelo Kallmann - University of California, Merced |
9:40-10:05 |
Humanoid Push Recovery Through Simple Models and Learning Ambarish Goswami - Honda Research Institute USA |
10:05-10:30 break | |
Session 4 - Reusing and Modeling Character Motion
Session Chair: Marcelo Kallmann - University of California, Merced | |
10:30-10:55 |
Just Noticeable Differences in Motion Transitions
Bobby Bodenheimer - Vanderbilt University |
10:55-11:20 |
Using Motion Capture in Control for
Physical Characters Victor Zordan - University of California, Riverside |
11:20-11:45 |
Animating Virtual Character Locomotion and Other Oscillatory Motions
Paul Kry - McGill University |
11:45-12:10 |
Integrated Virtual Humans for Embodied Cognition
Patrick Kenny - USC Institute for Creative Technologies |
12:30-2:00 Lunch | |
Session 5 - Animation and Cognition
Session Chair: Bobby Bodenheimer - Vanderbilt University | |
2:00-2:45 | Keynote 3: Autonomous Virtual Humans: From Biomechanics to Cognition Demetri Terzopoulos - University of California, Los Angeles |
2:45-3:10 | Emergent Teamwork Craig Reynolds - Sony Computer Entertainment |
3:10-3:35 |
SteerBench: A Framework for Evaluating Steering Behaviors
Shawn Singh - University of California, Los Angeles |
3:35-4:00 break | |
Session 6 - Closing Session
Session Chair: David Noelle - University of California, Merced | |
4:00-4:25 |
UC Discovery Grants Mona D. Lee - Industry-University Cooperative Research Program, University of California (last-minute update: cancelled talk) |
4:30-5:45 | Discussion Panel
Lead by Michael Spivey - University of California, Merced |
End | |