Graphics Interface 2011 Schedule

 

Wednesday, May 25th 

Time

Session

8:30-10:00

Session 1: Opening Remarks

Keynote: Carl Gutwin, "Spatial Memory in User Interfaces"

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Session 2: Animation (Chair: Pierre Poulin)

Formation Sketching: An Approach to Stylize Groups in Crowd Simulation -- Qin Gu, Zhigang Deng

A Hybrid Interpolation Scheme for Footprint-driven Walking Synthesis -- Ben van Basten, Sybren Stüvel, Arjan Egges

Physically Based Baking Animations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics -- Omar Rodriguez-Arenas, Yee-Hong Yang

Mid-level Smoke Control for 2D Animation -- James McCann, Alfred Barnat, Zeyang Li

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:30

Session 3: Target Acquisition & Interaction (Chair: Kellogg Booth)

Target Following Performance in the Presence of Latency, Jitter, and Signal Dropouts -- Andriy Pavlovych, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger

Pop-up Depth Views for Improving 3D Target Acquisition -- Guangyu Wang, Michael McGuffin, Francois Berard, Jeremy Cooperstock

3D Sketching Using Interactive Fabric for Tangible and Bimanual Input -- Anamary Leal, Laurel Schaefer, Doug Bowman, Francis Quek, Clarissa Stiles,

2D Similarity Transformations on Multi-Touch Surfaces -- Behrooz Ashtiani, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger

Syntherella : A Feedback Synthesizer for Efficient Exploration of Virtual Worlds using a Screen Reader -- Bugra Oktay, Eelke Folmer

3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-5:30

Session 4: Modeling (Chair: Minglun Gong)

Occlusion Tiling -- Dorian Gomez, Pierre Poulin, Mathias Paulin

Approximative Occlusion Culling Using the Hull Tree -- Tim Suess, Clemens Koch, Claudius Jaehn, Matthias Fischer

Component-based Procedural Modeling of Complete Buildings -- Luc Leblanc, Jocelyn Houle, Pierre Poulin

Data Structures for Interactive High Resolution Level-Set Surface Editing -- Manolya Eyiyurekli, David Breen

 

Thursday, May 26th

Time

Session

8:30-10:30

Session 5: Visualization Interfaces (Chair:Jeremy Cooperstock)

Visual Encodings that Support Physical Navigation on Large Displays -- Alex Endert, Christopher Andrews, Yueh Hua Lee, Chris North

AppMap : Exploring User Interface Visualizations -- Michael Rooke, Tovi Grossman, George Fitzmaurice,

Towards Ideal Window Layouts for Multi-party, Gaze-aware Desktop Videoconferencing -- Sasa Junuzovic, Kori Inkpen, Rajesh Hegde, Zhengyou Zhang

Best Student Papers

Structure-preserving Stippling by Priority-based Error Diffusion -- Hua Li, David Mould

Ubiquitous Cursor: A Comparison of Direct and Indirect Pointing Feedback in Multi-Display Environments -- Robert Xiao, Miguel Nacenta, Regan Mandryk, Andy Cockburn, Carl Gutwin

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Keynote: John C. Hart, "Assistive Technology for the Aesthetically Impaired"

12:00-1:30

Lunch, steering committee meeting, and Poster Session

1:30-2:50

Session 6: Rendering (Chair: Bill Cowan)

Implicit and Dynamic Trees for High Performance Rendering -- Nathan Andrysco, Xavier Tricoche

A Computational Complexity Reduction Framework for Closed-Form Single Scattering with a Generic Representation of Angular Distributions -- Vincent Pegoraro, Mathias Schott, Philipp Slusallek

Sample-Space Bright Spots Removal Using Density Estimation -- Anthony Pajot, Loïc Barthe, Mathias Paulin

Render-Time Procedural Per-Pixel Geometry Generation -- Jean- Eudes Marvie, Pascal Gautron, Patrice Hirtzlin, Gael Sourimant

2:50-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Session 7: Graph Interaction (Chair: Christopher Collins)

Improving Revisitation in Graphs through Static Spatial Features -- Sohaib Ghani, Niklas Elmqvist

The Effect of Animation, Dual-View, Difference Layers and Relative Re-Layout in Hierarchical Diagram Differencing -- Loutfouz Zaman, Ashish Kalra, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger

4:00-5:00

CHCCS Meeting & Break

 

Friday, May 27th

Time

Session

8:30-9:30

Session 8: Image Compositing and Ordering (Chair:David Mould)

Edge-Constrained Image Compositing -- Martin Eisemann, Daniel Gohlke, Marcus Magnor

Data Organization and Visualization using Self-Sorting Map -- Grant Strong, Minglun Gong

9:30-10:00

Break

10:00-11:00

Keynote: Brian Wyvill, " Announcing the Sad Death of the Triangle Mesh"

11:00-12:00

Session 9: Video Games (Chair: Kori Inkpen)

Effects of View, Input Device, and Track Width on Video Game Driving -- Scott Bateman, Andre Doucette, Robert Xiao, Carl Gutwin, Regan Mandryk, Andy Cockburn

Investigating Communication and Social Practices in Real-Time Strategy Games: Are In-Game Tools Sufficient to Support the Overall Gaming Experience? -- Phillip McClelland, Simon Whitmell, Stacey Scott

Pet-N-Punch: Upper Body Tactile/Audio Exergame to Engage Children with Visual Impairments into Physical Activity -- Tony Morelli, John Foley, Lauren Lieberman, Eelke Folmer

12:00-1:30

Lunch