Schedule

morning session: 9.00 - 12.30

9.00 - 9.15: Welcome by the organizers

9.15 - 9.30: Hannes Pirker (ÖFAI): NECA -- Architecture, Rich Representation Language & more
NECA RRL: specifications

9.30 - 9.40 Brigitte Krenn (ÖFAI): Developing the NECA gesticon: generalizations versus player dependence
NECA

9.40 - 9.55 Thomas Rist (DFKI,Saarbücken): PlayerML -- > a modification of NECA RRL for the Virtual Human Project
The Virtual Human Project

9.55 - 10.15 Catherine Pelachaud (Universite de Paris 8):From Generic to Individual GRETA
homepage C.P.

10.15 - 10.35 Isabella Poggi (University of Rome 3): The Italian Gestionary. Representing signals and meanings of gestures (slides presented by Catherine Pelachaud)

10.35 - 11.10: coffee break

11.10 - 11.30 Stefan Kopp (University of Bielefeld): Modelling gestures in the MAX system
MAX

11.30 - 11.50 Arjan Egges (MIRALab - University of Geneva): Intuitive Body Movement Control of Virtual Humans (abstract)

11.50 - 12.10 Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Doron Friedman (University College London): Behavioural animation for virtual humans in different visualization engines
Presencia
The IRC project Equator
Symposion on Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments

12.10 - 12.30 Stephane Donikian (Irisa - Campus de Beaulieu Rennes): Motion synchronization and blending and behaviour coordination (abstract)

Paper: F. Lamarche and S. Donikian. Automatic orchestration of behaviours through the management of resources and priority levels. Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent systems. Bologna, Italy, July 2002, ACM Press.pdf

Paper: S. Menardais, F. Multon and B. Arnaldi. A global framework for motion capture. Research report INRIA, No. 4360, 2002. pdf



12.30 - 14.30: lunch break


afternoon session: 14.30 - 17.30


14.30 - 15.00: summary of important topics from morning session

15.00 - 17.00: open discussion

17.00 - 17.30: summary of day, round up






More Links:



Links to the NITE project

Berlin Dictionary of Everyday Gestures

Description of non-verbal behaviour in Cape Fear

Ronan Boulic

R.B's homepage

WALK Engine

Sylvie Gibet

S. G's homepage