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INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

University of Ulster, Magee; Aberfoyle House; ROOM MI-022

March 26th, 2003; 9.15 AM - 5.30 PM


 9.15 ``Introduction''
        Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt, 
        University of Ulster, Magee

SESSION-I: Storytelling
Session Chair: Justin Magee
 9.30 ``Confucius: an intelligent multimedia interpretation &
        presentation system''
        Minhua (Eunice) Ma
        University of Ulster, Magee

10.00 ``Homer: a creative story generation system''
        Dimitrios Konstantinou
        University of Ulster, Magee

10.30 ``Motion in virtual worlds''
        Justin Magee
        University of Ulster, Magee

11.00  Discussion & refreshments

SESSION-II: Mobile Intelligent MultiMedia
Session Chair: Kevin Curran
11.30 ``The use of Dynamically Reconfigurable Protocol Stacks 
        for Streaming MultiMedia to Mobile Devices''
        Prof. Gerard Parr & Kevin Curran 
        University of Ulster, Magee

12.00  ``TeleMorph & TeleTuras: bandwidth determined mobile
         multimodal presentation''
        Tony Solon
        University of Ulster, Magee

12.30 ``Mobile Edutainment & Mobile Multi-Modal Interaction''
        Dr. Rainer Malaka
        European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

 1.00 ``FACE: Future Adaptive Communication Environment''
        Prof. Paul Dalsgaard
        Aalborg University, Denmark

 1.30   LUNCH


SESSION-III: Intelligent MultiMedia Interfaces
Session Chair: Anton Hutton
 2.00 ``Generating quantifiers from raw data''
        Dr. Norman Creaney 
        University of Ulster, Coleraine

 2.30 ``The physical environment on a web page: what do people do''
        Anton Hutton 
        EyeSpyFX & University of Ulster, Magee

 3.00 ``Handling error in spoken dialogue systems''
        Prof. Mike McTear 
        University of Ulster, Jordanstown

 3.30 ``Novel user interfaces based on eye tracking''
        Mohsen Farid & Prof. Fionn Murtagh 
        The Queen's University, Belfast

 4.00 ``Max, our agent in the virtual world''
        Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth 
        University of Bielefeld, Germany

 4.30 ``Psyclone: A Growing Software Platform for Distributed A.I.
        Development''
        Thor List 
        University of Edinburgh, Scotland

SESSION-IV: Intelligent MultiMedia General Discussion
Session Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt
5.00    Discussion, refreshments & wrap up

 5.30   CLOSE


 7.00   INAUGURAL PROFESSORIAL LECTURE (MD-108)
        ``Waiting for Artificial Intelligence:
          Desperately seeking intelligent multimedia''
        Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt
        University of Ulster, Magee

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