[Air-L] FW: Synthetic Reality Symposium, Haifa, Jan 10th 2010

[Friedman Doron]

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> The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL), Sammy Ofer School of Communications
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> IBM Haifa Research Lab cordially invite you to a full-day seminar on
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> Synthetic Reality: The science and applications of virtual, mixed, and
> augmented reality to be held on Sunday, January 10, 2010.
> The seminar will take place at the HRL site on the Haifa University 
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> in the auditorium (room L100), from 09:30 to 18:00.
> Lunch and light refreshments will be served. Participation is free.
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> Please confirm your participation via the seminar website:
> http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/sr2010/program.shtml
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> Agenda:
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> 9:00  Registration
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> 9:30  Opening Remarks
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> 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
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> 11:00 The Matrix Challenge for Rehabilitation: Virtual Reality in the
Real
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>      Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss, Department of Occupational
Therapy,
>      Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of
Hiaifa
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> 11:30   Break
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> 11:45 Session 1: Science & Technology
>      Session chair: Benny Cohen, IBM
>      Virtual Reality, Brain & Enhancement of Human Capabilities:
Emerging
> Technological Applications,
>            Miriam Reiner, Technion
>            Natural Multisensory VE-GameEvokes 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
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> 13:15 Lunch
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>      During lunch interactive demos will be presented in the lobby:
>                -       Omek Interactive, Gersho Kultiroff: Depth
Camera
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>                -       David Burden and Hanan Gazit , Daden Limited,
>    MeraverSense system: Virtual  Worlds for Education: the joy of
>                   Creation PIVOTE system (http://ping.fm/AgQQU)
>                -       IDC, Virtual Studio howreel
>                -       IDC, Second Life Bots
>                -       IDC, Heart-ate riven HalfLife2
>                -       SenseGraphics, Haptic-Visual VR
>                -       Shachar Oz, Augmented Rality
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> 14:15 Session 2: Industry and Applications
>            Session Chair: Miriam Reiner, Technion
>      Augmented Reality for Gait  Improvement in Movement Disorders
> Patients, Yoram Baram, Technion
>            Museum Visits, Tsvi Kuflik and Eyal Dim University of Haifa
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> 15:45   Break
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> 16:00 Behavioral Neuroscience and VR Potential for Research and
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>            Dr. Maria Korman, Technion
> 16:30   Session 3: Social & Cultural Implications
>            Session Chair: Doron Freidman,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 on 3
Ladies
> in an Online Bingo Hall,Renard Gluzman,
>            Beit-Berl College & Bar Ilan University
>      Cultural Institutions Colonize Second Life, Susane Hazan, The
Israel
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>            The Post-Gutenberg Mind? The Differences Between Winners
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> Non-Winners Playing a Video Game
>            about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ronit Kampf, Tel
Aviv
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>            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
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> PDF version for printing (113 KB):  (See attached file:
> Synthetic_Reality_2010.pdf)
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> Gili Ginzburg (Aizen)
> Administration Team Leader
> Community Relations Coordinator
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> IBM R&D Labs in Israel
> Haifa University Mount Carmel
> Haifa 31905, Israel
> Tel: +972 4 8296203 Cell:+972 54 6976203 Fax:+972 4 8296112
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