selectparks - DIMEA 07 - Call for Participation.

Nur writes:

Call For Participation for the DIMEA 2007.

The Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts will be held on the 19th - 21st September 2007 in Perth, Western Australia.

Want to see the robot comedian PaPe-jiro? Take a look at the latest Game Sketching Project? Don't missed this years DIMEA 2007.

Read on for more info.

This Conference will provide professionals, researchers, and developers of digital media an opportunity for:

familiarizing themselves with the latest developments in the digital media industry
networking with top academic and industry practitioners and experts
exploring future business direction in digital media for entertainment and arts

Some Conference Highlights:

Keynotes:

Media Design Aesthetics: Emotional and Entertaining Experience Design for the Ubiquitous Society, by Professor Masa Inakage, Keio University, Japan

Research Collaboration for "Humorous Interaction" 2-Man Stand-Up Comedy (Manzai) with a Robot, by Junichi Osada (NEC Design, Ltd.) and Zenjiro (YOSHIMOTO KOGYO, Ltd.), Japan

Invited Session: Virtual Realities and New Entertainment

Some Accepted Presentations:

The BBC and its Web 2.0 Partners, by Ben Sutherland (BBC)

Unified Media Player UI Structure and Design for Mobile Multimedia Devices, by Timo-Pekka Viljamaa and Tuomas Vaittinen (Nokia Research Center)

Game Sketching, by Michael Agustin, Gina Chuang, Albith Delgado, Anthony Ortega, Josh Seaver and John Buchanan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Designing Interactive Music Mixing Applications for Mobile Devices, by Juha Arrasvuori and Jukka Holm (Nokia Research Center)

And many more......

Register early to get the early bird special. See http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/dimea/registration.html

For more details on the conference, go to http://www.dimea.org.