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November 19, 2008
| 14.00 - 16.45 Tutorial |
| 3D Audio in Virtual Environments, organized by Pablo F. Hoffmann, Aalborg University |
| 16.45 - 17.00 Coffee Break |
| 17.00 - 19.00 Special Session |
| Learning with new technologies: presence, telepresence and virtual presence at school, organized by Elena Pasquinelli, Compas |
November 20, 2008
| 08.30 - 09.00 Registration and Welcome |
| 09.00 - 09.15 Conference Opening |
| 09.15 - 10.15 Keynote Talk |
| Prof. Rolf Pfeifer, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich |
| Enactive cognition – the interaction of brain, body (morphology, materials), and environment |
| 10.15 - 11.05 Oral Session: Technology - Carlo Alberto Avizzano, PERCRO-SSSA |
| Online Passive Reconstruction Based Bilateral Control under Time-Varying Communication Delay and Packet-Loss; Ali Hosseini, Jordi Artigasy, Anja Brunbergz, Carsten Preusche and Gerd Hirzinger |
| Development of a Robotic Platform for Cognitive Studies on Human Navigation Based on Optical Flow; Umberto Olcese, Cornelia Beck, Alberto Montagner, Stefan Ringbauer, Rita Almeida, Antonio Frisoli, Heiko Neumann and Massimo Bergamasco |
| 11.05 - 11.20 Coffee Break |
| 11.20 - 12.35 Oral Session: Human Perception - Olivier Gapenne, UTC |
| Efficiency and Stability of Walking in (Non-) Natural Virtual Reality; Guérin Perrine and Bardy Benoit |
| Investigating the Role of Movement in the Constitution of Spatial Perception Using the Enactive Torch; Lorenzo Grespan, Tom Froese, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Anil K. Seth, Adam Spiers and William Bigge |
| Information-Action Model for Skills Transfer; Emanuele Ruffaldi,Carlo Alberto Avizzano and Massimo Bergamasco |
| 12.35 - 14.00 Lunch and Posters |
| 14.00 - 15.15 Oral Session: Theory - Elena Pasquinelli,Compas |
| Technical Mediation of Sensorimotor Coupling : a Minimalist Approach; Charles Lenay, Gunnar Declerck, Olivier Gapenne,Barthelemy Maillet, John Stewart and Indira Thouvenin |
| Kinesthetic Thinking: Heightening Enactive Experience; Haakon Faste, Elvira Todaro and Massimo Bergamasco |
| Embodied, Disembodied and Re-embodied Cognition: the Potentials and Obstacles for Elegant HumanComputer Interfaces; Rachel Zahn |
| 15.15 - 15.30 Coffee Break |
| 15.30 - 16.45 Hands on Demos |
| 16.45 - 18.00 Oral Session: Applications - Marcelo Wanderley, McGill University |
| A Multimodal and Enactive Interface for Aesthetic Shapes Evaluation; Monica Bordegoni and Umberto Cugini |
| Spatial Sound and Frequency Distortion for Enactive Transfer of Skills in Tai-Chi Movements to Visual Impaired People; Oscar Sandoval-González, Otniel Portillo-Rodriguez, Luis Montes-de-Oca, Paolo Tripicchio, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Carlo A. Avizzano and Massimo Bergamasco; |
| The voice painter; Amalia de Gotzen, Riccardo Marogna and Federico Avanzini |
| 20.30 - 23.30 Dinner and Concert |
November 21, 2008
| 09.15 - 10.15 Keynote talk |
| Prof. Kevin O’Regan, CNRS, University Paris 5 |
| How action helps solve the "hard problem" of consciousness |
| 10.15 - 11.05 Oral Session: Applications - Franco Tecchia, PERCRO-SSSA |
| SYSSOMO: A Pedagogical Tool for Analyzing Movement Variants Be-tween Dierent Pianists; Aristotelis Hadjakos, Erwin Aitenbichler and Max Mühlhäuser |
| The ENABLED Editor and Viewer Simple Tools for more Accessible on-line 3D Models; Charlotte Magnusson, Teresa Gutierrez and Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn |
| 11.05 - 11.20 Coffee Break |
| 11.20 - 12.35 Oral Session: Technology - Antonio Frisoli,PERCRO-SSSA |
| Mechanical Design of Novel Wearable Two-Finger Haptic Interface System; Marco Fontana, Federico Tarri, Simone Marcheschi, Fabio Salsedo and Massimo Bergamasco |
| Analysis of Percussion Grip for Physically Based Character Animation; Alexandre Bouenard, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Sylvie Gibet |
| Human-Scale Bimanual Haptic Interface; Thomas Hulin, Mikel Sagardia, Jordi Artigas, Simon Schaetzle, Philipp Kremer and Carsten Preusche |
| 12.35 - 14.00 Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.50 Oral Session: Applications - Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genova |
| A Low-Cost Gesture Recognition System for Rehabilitation and Movement Assessment; Paolo Tripicchio, Otniel Portillo-Rodriguez and Oscar O. sandoval-Gonzalez |
| Representation of Samba Dance Gestures, Using a Multi-Modal Analysis Approach; Luiz Naveda and Marc Leman |
| 14.50 - 15.05 Coffee Break |
| 15.05 - 16.20 Oral Session: Human Perception - Benoit Bardy,University of Montpellier I |
| The Learning Effect of Force Feedback Enabled Robotic Rehabilitation of the Upper Limbs in Persons with MS - a Pilot Study; Joan De Boeck, Geert Alders,Domien Gijbels, Tom De Weyer, Chris Raymaekers, Karin Coninx and Peter Feys |
| Cognitive Cooperation in Virtual Reality: an Haptic Enabled Experiment; Paolo Tripicchio, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Carlo Alberto Avizzano and Massimo Bergamasco |
| The Role of Visual Feedback when Grasping and Transferring Objects in a Virtual Environment; Andrea H. Mason and Brandon J. Bernardin |
| 16.20 - 16.30 Announcements and Conference Conclusion |
| 16.30 Demos at PERCRO laboratory in Pisa |
