2008 IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games

Advance Program

Day Time Plenary SITE 2060 SITE 5077 TBD
Sat 08:30 AM-09:00 AM R1: Registration & Coffee      
  09:00 AM-09:45 AM   Opening & Keynote    
  09:45 AM-10:00 AM B1: Coffee Break      
  10:00 AM-12:00 PM   S1: Surgical and Medical Applications    
  12:00 PM-01:00 PM L1: Lunch (will be provided)      
  01:00 PM-02:40 PM   S2: Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environments and Games    
  02:40 PM-03:00 PM B2: Coffee Break      
  03:00 PM-04:20 PM   S3: Tele-presence and Augmented Reality    
  04:30 PM-05:45 PM     Demo Session, at the DISCOVER Lab http://www.discover.uottawa.ca  
  07:00 PM-10:00 PM       Gala Dinner
Sun 08:30 AM-09:00 AM R2: Registration & Coffee      
  09:00 AM-10:40 AM   S4: Human-Computer Interaction    
  10:40 AM-11:00 AM B3: Coffee Break      
  11:00 AM-01:00 PM   S5: Sensors, Displays, and Renderers    
  01:00 PM-01:50 PM L2: Lunch (will be provided)      
  01:50 PM-03:50 PM   S6: Motion, Shape, and Object Modeling    
  03:50 PM-04:00 PM   Closing & Best Student Paper Award    

Saturday, Oct 18

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

R1: Registration & Coffee

Room: Plenary

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Opening & Keynote

"Ambient Haptics: A Clinical Scenario", Kanav Kahol, Arizona State University, USA

Room: SITE 2060

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

B1: Coffee Break

Room: Plenary

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

S1: Surgical and Medical Applications

Room: SITE 2060
Virtual Reality Simulator for Scoliosis Surgery Training: Transatlantic Collaborative Tests
Melissa Cote (Ecole polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
Virtual Reality Based Training to resolve Visio-motor Conflicts in Surgical Environments
Mithra Vankipuram (Arizona State University, USA); Kanav Kahol (Arizona State University, USA); Aaron Ashby (Arizona State University, USA); Joshua Hamilton (Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, USA); John Ferrara (Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, USA); Marshall Smith (Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, USA)
Using a Haptic Belt to Convey Non-Verbal Communication Cues during Social Interactions to Individuals who are Blind
Troy McDaniel (Arizona State University, USA); Sreekar Krishna (Arizona State University, USA); Vineeth Nallure Balasubramanian (Arizona State University, USA); Dirk Colbry (Arizona State University, USA); Sethuraman Panchanathan (ASU, USA)
Mixed Reality Software for Dental Simulation System
Hiroshi Noborio (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan); Daisuke Sasaki (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan); Yusuke Kawamoto (Technical Group Laboratory Inc., Japan); Tomoaki Tatsumi (Technical Group Laboratory Inc., Japan); Taiji Sohmura (Osaka University, Japan)
Making eBooks Accessible to Blind Braille Readers
Ramiro Velazquez (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico)
Haptic and Visual Rendering of Virtual Bone Surgery: A Physically Realistic Voxel-Based Approach
Mohammadreza Arbabtafti (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Majid Moghaddam (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Ali Nahvi (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran); Mohsen Mahvash (Boston University, USA); Abbas Rahimi (Tehran University, Iran)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

L1: Lunch (will be provided)

Room: Plenary

1:00 PM - 2:40 PM

S2: Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environments and Games

Room: SITE 2060
An Auxiliary Area of Interest Management for Synchronization and Load Regulation in Zonal P2P MMOGs
Dewan Ahmed (University of Ottawa, Canada); Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
A Scalable Message Passing and Synchronized Technique for Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments Based on Peer to Peer Networks
Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada); Luqman Ahmad (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Virtual Environments, Data Fusion, and Video in Support of Remote Health Management Systems
Patrick Violante (NAVSEA Warfare Center, USA)
A Distributed Routing Architecture for Massively Multi-User Online Games
Behnoosh Hariri (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Saurabh Ratti (University of Ottawa, Canada); Shervin Shirmohammadi (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mohammad Reza Pakravan (Sharif University of Technology, Iran)
Generation of Rule-based Adaptive Strategies for Virtual Simulation Environments
Alejandro Lujan (SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada); Richard Pazzi (University of Ottawa, Canada); Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

B2: Coffee Break

Room: Plenary

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

S3: Tele-presence and Augmented Reality

Room: SITE 2060
Convergence Analysis of Tele-operation Systems with Unsymmetric Time-Varying Delays
Changchun Hua Hua (Carleton University, Canada); Peter Liu (Carleton University, Canada); Huanran Wang (Carleton University, Canada)
Augmented Reality-Based Audio/Visual Surveillance System
Mouhcine Guennoun (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Saad Khattak (University of Ontario IT, Canada); Bill Kapralos (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada); Khalil El-Khatib (UOIT, Canada)
An Experimental Study of Lossy Compression in a Real Telepresence and Teleaction System
Verena Nitsch (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany); Peter Hinterseer (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Eckehard Steinbach (Munich University of Technology, Germany); Berthold Faerber (University of the Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany); Lena Geiger (Federal Armed Forces University Munich, Germany)
Tele-Immersive Systems
Chi Leong (University of Ottawa, Canada); Nicolas D. Georganas (University of Ottawa, SITE, Canada)

4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Demo Session, at the DISCOVER Lab http://www.discover.uottawa.ca

Room: SITE 5077

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Gala Dinner

Room: TBD

Sunday, Oct 19

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

R2: Registration & Coffee

Room: Plenary

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM

S4: Human-Computer Interaction

Room: SITE 2060
A Comparison of Mamdani and Sugeno Fuzzy Inference Systems for Evaluating the Quality of Experience of Hapto-Audio-Visual Applications
Abdelwahab Hamam (University of Ottawa, Canada); Nicolas Georganas (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Haptic Cues for Effective Learning in 3D Mace Navigation
Gabriel Sepulveda-Cervantes (Research Center for Advanced Studies Mexico, Mexico); Vicente Parra-Vega (Research Center for Advanced Studies Saltillo Campus, Mexico); Omar Dominguez-Ramirez (Hidalgo State University, Mexico)
HugMe: An Interpersonal Haptic Communication System
Jongeun Cha (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mohamad Eid (University of Ottawa, Canada); Lara Rahal (University of Ottawa, Canada); Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Combining Integral Projection and Gabor Transformation for Automatic Facial Feature Detection and Extraction
Yisu Zhao (University of Ottawa, Canada); Xiaojun Shen (University of Ottawa, Canada); Nicolas Georganas (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Interactive 3D Carving using Combined Voxels and Mesh
Jeff Williams (University of Ottawa, Canada); WonSook LEE (University of Ottawa, Canada)

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

B3: Coffee Break

Room: Plenary

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

S5: Sensors, Displays, and Renderers

Room: SITE 2060
On-Shoe Tactile Display
Ramiro Velazquez (Universidad Panamericana, Mexico)
posVibEditor: Graphical Authoring Tool of Vibrotactile Patterns
Jonghyun Ryu (POSTECH, Korea); Seungmoon Choi (POSTECH, Korea)
A Multi-modal Floor-space for Experiencing Material Deformation Underfoot in Virtual Reality
Alvin Law (McGill University, Canada); Benjamin Peck (McGill University, Canada); Yon Visell (McGill University, Canada); Paul Kry (McGill University, Canada); Jeremy Cooperstock (McGill University, Canada)
Evaluation of Sensory Substitution to Simplify the Mechanical Design of a Haptic Wrist
Javier Martin (CEIT, Spain); Joan Savall (CEIT, Spain); Iñaki Díaz (CEIT, Spain); Josune Hernantes (CEIT, Spain); Diego Borro (CEIT, Spain)
Linear Velocity and Acceleration Estimation of 3 DOF Haptic Interfaces
Jilin Zhou (University of Ottawa, Canada); Xiaojun Shen (University of Ottawa, Canada); Emil Petriu (University of Ottawa, Canada); Nicolas D. Georganas (University of Ottawa, SITE, Canada)
A Pilot Study on Simulating Continuous Sensation with Two Vibrating Motors
Jongeun Cha (University of Ottawa, Canada); Lara Rahal (University of Ottawa, Canada); Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

L2: Lunch (will be provided)

Room: Plenary

1:50 PM - 3:50 PM

S6: Motion, Shape, and Object Modeling

Room: SITE 2060
Sound and Tangible Interface for shape Evaluation and Modification
Monica Bordegoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Francesco Ferrise (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Simon Shelley (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Miguel Alonso (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Dik Hermes (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Evaluating geometrical properties of virtual shapes using interactive sonification
Miguel Alonso (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Simon Shelley (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Dik Hermes (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Armin Kohlrausch (Philips Research Europe, The Netherlands)
Kernel Regression in HRBF Networks for Surface Reconstruction
Bellocchio Francesco (Università di Milano, Italy); Alberto Borghese (Università di Milano, Italy); Stefano Ferrari (Università di Milano, Italy); Vincenzo Piuri (University of Milan, Italy)
A Hybrid Watermarking Technique Using Singular Value Decomposition
Daniela Stanescu (Polytechnic University Timisoara, Romania); Daniel Borca (Polytechnic University Timisoara, Romania); Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa, Canada); Mircea Stratulat (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Motion Description with Local Binary Pattern and Motion History Image: Application to Human Motion Recognition
Ping Guo (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Zhenjiang Miao (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
Interactive Foreground Extraction for Photo Editing
Zhen Tang (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China); Bo Li (PhD candidate, P.R. China); Zhenjiang Miao (Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)

3:50 PM - 4:00 PM

Closing & Best Student Paper Award

Room: SITE 2060
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