Program

8h30 Welcome Address
8h45 Session 1 - Perceptual Immersion
Session Chair: Teresa Chambel, Lasige Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
8h45 Development of a Simple and Low-Cost Olfactory Display for Immersive Media Experiences
Nicolas S. Herrera, Ryan P. McMahan
9h10 The Sensation of Taste in the Future of Immersive Media
Nimesha Ranasinghe, Kuan-Yi Lee, Gajan Suthokumar, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
9h35 ENF Signal Induced by Power Grid: A New Modality for Video Synchronization
Hui Su, Adi Hajj-Ahmad, Chau-Wai Wong, Ravi Garg, Min Wu
10h00 Coffee Break
10h30 Session 2 - Enabling Technologies and Applications
Session Chair: Rene Kaiser, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
10h30 On-Display Spatial Audio For Multiple Applications on Large Displays
Sachin Deshpande
10h45 Integration of a Precise Indoor Position Tracking Algorithm with an HMD-based Virtual Reality System
Jongkyu Shin, Gwangseok An, Kyogu Lee
11h00 Keynote Talk
Immersion, Imagination & Innovation: Media Immersion Matching the Power of the Imagination to Innovate the Future
Christopher Stapleton, MFA, @Simiosys, Real World Laboratory, USA
Session Chair: Teresa Chambel, Lasige Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
12h00 Lunch
2h00 Session 3 - Immersion Affect and Effect
Session Chair: Nimesha Ranasinghe, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
2h00
Transforming Lives Through Story Immersion
Christopher Stapleton, Janet Whiteside, Jim Davies, Dana Mott, Jennifer Vick
2h25 Sensory Fiction: A Design Fiction of Emotional Computation
Felix Heibeck, Alexis Hope, Julie Legault
2h50 GACE: Gesture and Appearance Cutout Embedding for Gaming Applications
Tam V. Nguyen, Jose Sepulveda, Yong He Tan
3h05:20 Mindful: A Platform for Large-Scale Affective Field Research
Guy Feigenblat, Jonathan Herzig, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, David Konopnicki
3h30 Coffee Break
4h00 Discussion & Demos - Immersive Media: the road around and ahead
5h15:5h30 Wrap Up