Program

Humans are not walking, they are rolling! The objective of the talk is to give sense to this obscure statement. Indeed, the wheel may be a plausible model of bipedal walking. We report on preliminary results developed along three perspectives combining biomechanics, neurophysiology and robotics. From a motion capture data basis of human walkers we first identify the center of mass (CoM) as a geometric center from which the motions of the feet are organized. Then we show how rimless wheels that model most passive walkers are better controlled when equipped with a stabilized mass on top of them. CoM and head play complementary roles that define what we call the Yoyo-Man.

Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock and Mario Botsch

Sohaib Laraba, Joëlle Tilmanne and Thierry Dutoit

Durell Bouchard and Norman Badler

Clément Reverdy, Sylvie Gibet and Caroline Larboulette

Yingying Wang and Michael Neff

“Art challenges technology, and technology inspires the art.” These are the words John Lasseter used to describe his experience as an artist working with the technology leaders at Pixar three decades ago to pioneer what we know today as computer-generated animation. At the heart of this statement lies the idea that technology and art, when joined together, hold a unique and promising potential to amplify creativity. This very concept forms the central vision of the Animation and Games group at Disney Research Zurich. In this keynote talk, I will share our experiences as researchers working with Disney artists on technology to amplify creativity, including several tough challenges that art has given us, as well as a few successes in which we could inspire the art. Attendees can expect examples of recent research advances in animation, simulation, stylization, and, in Disney style, a little bit of singing.

Andrew Duchowski, Sophie Joerg, Aubrey Lawson, Takumi Bolte, Lech Swirski and Krzysztof Krejtz

Andrew Feng, Dan Casas and Ari Shapiro

Ana Lucia Cruz Ruiz, Charles Pontonnier, Jonathan Levy and Georges Dumont

Roel Duits, A. Frank van der Stappen and Arjan Egges

Rowan Hughes, Jan Ondrej and John Dingliana

Sybren A. Stüvel, Arjan Egges, Frank van der Stappen and Thijs de Goeij

Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos

Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos

Wouter van Toll, Norman Jaklin and Roland Geraerts

Maria Christoforou and Despina Michael

Fons Kuijk

Yu Ding and Catherine Pelachaud

Alessandro Canossa and Jeremy Badler

Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Adriana Braun, Jovani Brasil and Soraia Raupp Musse

Matthew Bett

Haris Zacharatos, Christos Gatzoulis, Anargyros Chatzitofis and Yiorgos Chrysanthou

Claudio Pedica, Karl Kristinsson and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

Francisco Garcia, Norman Badler and Mubbasir Kapadia

Marco Castorina and Eike Falk Anderson

Venustiano Soancatl

Zerrin Yumak and Arjan Egges

Eray Molla, Christian Arevalo and Ronan Boulic

Ronan Boulic, Utku Evci, Eray Molla and Phanindra Pisupati

Carlos Fuentes and Nuria Pelechano

Recent years have seen the emergence of game technology that involves and requires its users to be engaged through their body. In addition, studies in psychology have shown that our body expressions affect our emotional state, our cognitive abilities and our attitude towards the environment around us. This has generated an increased interest in understanding and exploiting this modality to automatically recognize, respond to and regulate users’ affective experience. In the first part of my talk, I will report on our studies aimed at understanding how body expressions and body movement can be used to modulate user experience in games and physical activity in real-life situations such as walking and physical rehabilitation. Then, I’ll discuss how emotional states can be automatically detected from body expressions, including muscle activity and touch behaviour. Examples from games and physical rehabilitation will be presented.

Carlos Antonio Dominguez, Yuya Ichimura and Mubbasir Kapadia

Kourosh Naderi, Joose Rajamäki and Perttu Hämäläinen

Mentar Mahmudi and Marcelo Kallmann

Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Wei-Lun Sun, François Faure, Marie-Paule Cani and James F. O’Brien

Haoran Xie and Kazunori Miyata

Thibault Lejemble, Amélie Fondevilla, Nicolas Durin, Thibault Blanc-Beyne, Camille Schreck, Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Paul G. Kry and Marie-Paule Cani

Quentin Galvane, Marc Christie, Christophe Lino and Rémi Ronfard

Marc Parenthoën, Fred Murie and Flavien Thery

Kevin Jordao, Panayiotis Charalambous, Marc Christie, Julien Pettre and Marie-Paule Cani

Samuel Carensac, Nicolas Pronost and Saida Bouakaz

Zumra Kavafoglu, Ersan Kavafoglu and Arjan Egges

Mark Miller, Daniel Holden, Rami Al-Ashqar, Christophe Dubach, Kenny Mitchell and Taku Komura

This “Games meet Academia” panel aims at stimulating an active debate between practitioners and researchers alike, in an effort to bridge the gap between advanced research and development in computer games, and fundamental research in interactive computer animation.

Participants:

Alex Champandard (AIGameDev)

Xiaomao Wu (Smartisense Gmbh, former Crytek)

Gilles Monteil (Ubisoft)

Bob Sumner (Disney Research Zurich)