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Preface
These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 09). The first edition of this conference, organised in Madonna di Campiglio, saw the gathering of a diverse audience with broad and varied interests. With presentations on topics ranging from underlying technology to intelligent interaction and entertainment applications, several inspiring invited lectures, a demonstration session and a hands-on design garage, that first edition of INTETAIN generated a lot of interaction between participants in a lively atmosphere. We hope that we have managed to continue this direction with the third edition, which will take place in Amsterdam, following the second edition held in Cancun. The submissions for short and long papers this year show a certain focus on topics such as emergent games, exertion interfaces and embodied interaction, but also cover important topics of the previous editions, such as, affective user interfaces, story telling, sensors, tele-presence in entertainment, animation, edutainment, and (interactive) art. The presentation of the accepted papers, together with the many interactive demonstrations of entertainment and art installations, and other participative activities to be held during the conference, should go some way towards recreating the open and interactive atmosphere that has been the goal of INTETAIN since its beginning. In addition to the aforementioned papers and demonstrations, we are happy to present contributions from three excellent invited speakers for INTETAIN 09. Matthias Rauterberg of Eindhoven University, in his contribution titled âEntertainment Computing, Social Transformation and the Quantum Fieldïżœïżœ?, takes a broad view as he discusses positive aspects of entertainment computing regarding its capacity for social transformation. Michael Mateas, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, talks about his work in interactive art and storytelling. Antonio Camurri, of InfoMus Lab, Genova, discusses an approach to Human Music Interaction that assigns a more active role to users listening to and interacting with music, in his contribution titled âNon-verbal full body emotional and social interaction: a case study on multimedia systems for active music listeningïżœïżœ?
Visualisation of the information resources for cell biology
Intelligent multimodal interfaces can facilitate scientists in utilising available information resources. Combining scientific visualisations with interactive and intelligent tools can help create a âhabitableâ information space. Development of such tools remains largely iterative. We discuss an ongoing implementation of intelligent interactive visualisation of information resources in cell biology
A Review of Verbal and Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactive Communication
In this paper, an overview of human-robot interactive communication is
presented, covering verbal as well as non-verbal aspects of human-robot
interaction. Following a historical introduction, and motivation towards fluid
human-robot communication, ten desiderata are proposed, which provide an
organizational axis both of recent as well as of future research on human-robot
communication. Then, the ten desiderata are examined in detail, culminating to
a unifying discussion, and a forward-looking conclusion
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