The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL), Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, in cooperation with the IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Synthetic Reality is a symposium that combines keynote addresses, presentations of research papers, poster sessions, technical demonstrations, an industrial track, and tutorials. The event will provide an opportunity for researchers from multiple disciplines to discuss the science and applications of synthetic realities.
Full Program (see here) (main site)
9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening remarks
10:00 Keynote: Embodied Media and Mixed Reality for Social and Physical Interactive Communication
Prof. Adrian David Cheok, Director of Mixed-Reality Lab, National University of Singapore
11:00 Invited Talk: Technology Supported Collaboration Paradigms for Rehabilitation: From Physical to Virtual
Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss,
Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa
11:30 Break
11:45
Session 1: Science & Technology
Session chair: Benny Cohen, IBM
Virtual Reality, Brain & Enhancement of Human Capabilities: Emerging Technologies Applications
Miriam Reiner, Technion, Son Preminger, Weizmann Institute of Science
Natural Multisensory VE-Game Evokes Behavioral & Neural Enhancement
Irit Birnboim, Technion
In-Place Augmented Reality
Nate Hagbi, Oriel Bergig, Jihad El- Sana, Klara Kedem, Ben Gurion University. Mark Billinghurst, Uni. Of Canterbury, New Zealand
Virtual Worlds: State of Standards Q4 2009 Yesha Sivan, Shenkar College of Eng. and Design & Metaverse Labs
Social Signal Processing: Tracking Group Interaction in Mixed Reality
Eyal Dim and Tsvi Kuflik, Uni. Of Haifa
13:15 Lunch
During lunch interactive demos will be presented in the lobby
– David Burden and Hanan Gazit , Daden Limited, MetaverSense,Virtual Worlds for Education: The Joy of Creation PIVOTE System
– IDC, Virtual Studio showreel
– IDC, Second Life Bots
– IDC, Heart-rate driven HalfLife2
– SenseGraphics, Haptic-Visual VR
– Shachar Oz, Augmented Reality
14:15
Session 2: Industry and Applications
Session Chair: Miriam Reiner, Technion
Augmented Reality for Gait Improvement in Movement Disorders Patients
Yoram Baram, Technion
