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Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL)

Synthetic Reality: The science and applications of virtual, mixed, and augmented reality

Organizers: The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL), Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, in cooperation with the IBM Haifa Research Lab Leadership Seminar Series, 10 January, 2010

Read an article about the conference: "Synthetic reality check" by Hanan Singer

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. We also welcome papers concerning the philosophical foundations, social aspects, and cultural implications of these technologies.

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Program

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
	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:
	Virtual Worlds for Education: the Joy of Creation - PIVOTE System David Burden and Hanan Gazit , Daden Limited and MetaverSenseVirtual Studio showreel - IDC Second Life Bots - IDC Heart-rate driven HalfLife2 - IDC Haptic-Visual VR - SenseGraphics Augmented Reality Instructions Editor Shachar Oz & Gady Yosef, ARIE, Guide Yourself

14:15	Session 2: Industry and Applications Session Chair: Miriam Reiner, Technion

	Augmented Reality for Gait Improvement in Movement Disorders Patients Yoram Baram, Technion
	A computer Game Environment for Assessment of Self-Intimated Behavior and Measurement of It's Neural Correlates Using fMRI Son Preminger, Weizman Institute of Science, Tal Harrmelech, Offir Laufer, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Amos Arieli, Rafi Malach
	Memoraze Yaniv Altshuler
	Tracks/Virtual Collaborator Tal Ben Haim
	Omek Interactive Amit Bleiweiss
	PIVOTE system: Virtual Worlds for Effective Training & Simulation David Burden and Hanan Gazit, Daden Limited, MetaverSense Ltd
15:45	Break
16:00	Invited Talk: Behavioral Neuroscience and VR - Potential for Research and Applications Dr. Maria Korman, Technion

16:30	Session 3: Social & Cultural Implications Session Chair: Doron Friedman, IDC

	Acclair and the Neurocapital Model: Exploring the Economy of the Brain through Fictional Reality Eyal Fried, Acclair Neurocapital services
	Practicing Control in Video Games - All You Need to Know about 3 Ladies in an Online Bingo Hall Renard Gluzman, Beit-Berl College & Bar Ilan University
	Cultural Institutions Colonize Second Life Susane Hazan, The Israel Museum
	The Post-Gutenberg Mind? The Differences Between Winners and Non-Winners Playing a Video Game about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Ronit Kampf, Tel Aviv University
	Fabricating Space: Creating Virtual Spaces through Understanding the Human-Space Relationship in Cinematic Space H. Arad, Sonnino & S.Karlinsky, The Colman College of Management
	Comments and Philosophical Perspective Ayal Donenfeld, independent researcher, philosophy of cyberspace
17:30	Concluding remarks
18:00	Pancakes