TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Monday, July 10, 10:30AM-11:00AM
Opening Session, Chair: Richard J. Duro and Mel Siegel, Room: Sala Castelao
Monday, July 10, 11:30AM-1:00PM
Collaborative Distributed Virtual Environments, Chair: Richard J. Duro, Room: Sala Castelao
11:30AM     A Multimedia Framework for Collaborative Interaction of People and Robots Through the Web
Aquiles Burlamaqui, Anderson Souza, Joao Bezerra, Rummenigge Dantas and Claudio Schneider
11:55AM     A Dynamic Instrumentation Framework for Remote Operation of PC-Connected Devices
Aasmund Sand, Mike Stevens and Graeme Parkin
  12:20PM     Enhancing Remote Walkthrough for E-learning Environments on Mobile Devices over Heterogeneous Networks
Azzedine Boukerche and Richard Werner Nelem Pazzi
  12:45PM     pH Neutralization Through Internet
Kostas Tarchanidis, John Lygouras, Theodore Pachidis, Vassilios Kodogiannis and Christos Chatziandreoglou
Monday, July 10, 3:00PM-4:30PM
Haptic Interfaces, Chair: Vincenzo Di Lecce, Room: Sala Castelao
    3:00PM     Using Haptic Interfaces for User Verification in Virtual Environments
Mauricio Orozco, Matthew Graydon, Shervin Shirmohammadi and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
    3:25PM     Elastic Properties Exploration of In Vitro Cultured Microscopic Cells based on Haptic Sensing
Mehdi Boukallel, Maxime Girot and Stephane Regnier
    3:50PM     Haptic Aided Soft-touch Multi-material Product Design
Zhan Gao, Yonghua Chen and Lili Lian
Monday, July 10, 5:00PM-6:30PM
HCI and Soft Computing, Chair: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Room: Sala Castelao
    5:00PM     An Adaptive Visual Gesture Based Interface for Human Machine Interaction in Intelligent Workspaces
Abraham Prieto, Francisco Bellas, Richard J. Duro and Fernando Lopez-Pena
    5:25PM     A localization method based on infrared detectors for surveillance areas
Cornel Barna and Mircea Stratulat
    5:50PM     Objectively Evaluating TV Programs by Using a Viewer's Gaze Direction
Yasuhito Sawahata, Kazuteru Komine, Nobuyuki Hiruma, Takayuki Ito and Seiji Watanabe
    6:15PM     The Implementation of an Automatic Measurement Station for the Determination of the Calibration Intervals for a DMM
Claudio De Capua, Domenicantonio Grillo and Emilia Romeo
Tuesday, July 11, 9:30AM-11:00AM
Human Computer Interaction, Chair: Ying-Wen Bai, Room: Sala Castelao
   9:30AM     Dynamic Simulation for Grid Computing Systems
Vincenzo Di Lecce, Vincenzo Piuri, Alberto Amato and Marco Calabrese
   9:55AM     Intelligent Virtual Interface for Improving Performance in HPC Centers by Modelling Users and their Satisfaction
Juan Monroy, Jose Antonio Becerra, Francisco Bellas and Richard J. Duro
10:20AM     Designing Middleware System for Media Contents
Takuya Yamauchi
10:45AM     A self-calibrating Virtual Instrument for THD Measurements
Claudio De Capua, Grillo Domenicantonio, Bruno Piccolo and Emilia Romeo
Tuesday, July 11, 11:30AM-1:00PM
Implementation and Applications I, Chair: Fernando López Peña, Room: Sala Castelao
11:30AM     Design and Implementation of Monitoring Software Modules for Optical Protection Systems
Ying-Wen Bai and Chin-Tang Chen
11:55AM     Integrating Robust Technologies for Mixed-Signal System Level Test
Andres Mellik
  12:20PM     Tactile Retina for Slip Detection
Rocio Maldonado-Lopez, Fernando Vidal-Verdu, Gustavo Linan, Elisenda Roca and Angel Rodriguez-Vazquez
  12:45PM     Apparatus Based Experimental Study of Physics Phenomena
Theodore Pachidis, Kostas Tarchanidis and John Lygouras
Tuesday, July 11, 3:00PM-4:30PM
Virtual Environments, Chair: Giuseppe De Pietro, Room: Sala Castelao
    3:00PM     Interperception on Shared Virtual Environments
Samuel Azevedo, Aquiles Burlamaqui, Rummenigge Dantas, Claudio Schneider and Josivan Xavier
    3:25PM     A Scalable Hierarchical Architecture for large scale multi-user virtual environments
Aquiles Burlamaqui, Marlos Oliveira, Jauvane Oliveira, Guido Filho and Luiz Goncalves
    3:50PM     Algorithm for Efficiently Organizing and Searching Learning Objects in 3D Virtual Environments
ASM Mahfujur Rahman and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
    4:15PM     A Novel 3D Graphical Password Schema
Fawaz Alsulaiman and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Tuesday, July 11, 5:00PM-6:30PM
Plenary Poster Session: Poster Session, Chair: Emil Petriu, Room: Sala Castelao
          2001     User interface design for VCMMs: an approach to increase fidelity and usability
Nivaldi Calonego Junior, Alvaro Jose Abackerli and Luis Augusto Consularo
          2002     High-precision Geometric Modeling of 3D Artifacts for Virtual Restoration
Junta Doi, Kentaro Shimizu, Wataru Sato and Shinji Morishita
          2003     Virtual Hands for Risk Prevention Integration in Human-Computer Interactions
Mamy Pouliquen, Alain Bernard and Jacques Marsot
Wednesday, July 12, 9:30AM-11:00AM
Implementation and Applications II, Chair: Alvaro Jose Abackerli, Room: Sala Castelao
   9:30AM     Computer-Assisted Acquisition and Statistical Evaluation of Multifocal Visual Evoked Potentials
Anna Cysewska-Sobusiak, Arkadiusz Hulewicz, Andrzej Grzybowski and Michal Boltrukiewicz
   9:55AM     HumanPT: Architecture for Low Cost Robotic Applications
Theodore Pachidis, John Lygouras, Kostas Tarchanidis and Vassilis Kodogiannis
10:20AM     Modeling of Virtually Manufactured Components with a Multiphase Perfect Material
Ke-Zhang Chen, Feng Wang and Xin-An Feng
10:45AM     An Open-Source Software Architecture for Immersive Medical Imaging
Antonio Coronato, Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra
Wednesday, July 12, 11:30AM-12:30PM
Augmented and Virtualized Reality, Chair: Anna Cysewska-Sobusiak, Room: Sala Castelao
11:30AM     Innovae Emotional Trainer: An Interactive System to Measure People's Acting Skills
Andoni Beristain, Pablo Ayala, Mikel Pajares and Manuel Grana
11:55AM     Adaptive Quality Meshing for "on-the-fly" Volumetric Mesh Manipulations within Virtual Environments
Holger Graf, Sebastian Pena Serna and Andre Stork
  12:20PM     Emotions and Interactive Agents
Ildiko J Pelczer,, Francisco Cabiedes, Fernando Gamboa and Jose Luis Perez-Silva
Wednesday, July 12, 12:30PM-1:15PM
Closing Session, Chair: Vincenzo Di Lecce and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Room: Sala Castelao