UIAH Media Lab's doctoral seminar

Date: Dec 16, 1999

Place: UIAH Media Lab's seminar room

Preliminary timetable

• 12:00

  Information for the new doctoral students

• 13:00

  Round table discussion on research

  • information on potentially relevant research projects and programmes
  • introductions of the research topics
  • connections in research content
  • connections in methodology
  • creation of interest groups

• 15:00

  Plans for the continuation

  • timetable for the spring 2000
  • opportunities at Media Lab
  • opportunities at UIAH
  • national and international collaboration (e.g. Nordic Interactive Multimedia Research School series)

Potential themes for seminars

• Emotional modeling and virtual characters
• Combining narrativity and interactivity
• Extended interaction and ubiquitous computing
• User diversity and personalisation
• Teaching and tools of creativity and understanding
• Cognitive processes in understanding images and languages
• Mathematics and computation for art and design

Events and announcements

Seminars and events in Helsinki and at UIAH

• Dec 17, 1999

  Representaatio.Symposio, Helsingin yliopisto, Merisali, Meritullinkatu 1B (3. kerros).

• May 25 - 27, 2000

  Knowledge Society and Cultural Industry, Cumulus conference at UIAH.

• August 1-5 and August 8-9, 2000

  Soft Computing in Intelligent Systems. Tutorial course (1-5) and intensive course (8-9).

Seminars and events in Finland

• May 8 - 11, 2000

  The 10th European - Japanese conference on information modelling and knowledge bases. Saariselkä, Lapland, Finland

  Deadline: January 15th.

Seminars and events abroad

• NIMRES workshops - announced later

• March 1-3, 2000

  Patterns of Disappearance Workshop held in conjunction with i3 Spring Days Conference Athens, Greece

  Interactive Learning Environments for Children

• 17-20 April, 2000

  Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and (Quasi-)Human Rights at AISB-00, the 2000 Convention of the AISB, University of Birmingham, England