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GI 2006 Advance Program

Poster Session:

  • June 9, 8:30am - 12:00pm

    Technical Paper Sessions:

    Wednesday, 7 June 2006

    (8:45) Keynote: Alyn Rockwood

    Papers: FINGER AND HAND INPUT

    (10:00) Multi-finger Cursor Techniques
  • Tomer Moscovich, Brown University
  • John F. Hughes, Brown University

    (10:30) Concurrent Bimanual Stylus Interaction: A Study of Non-Preferred Hand Mode Manipulation
  • Edward Lank, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  • Jaime Ruiz, Computer Science Department, San Francisco State University
  • William Cowan, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

    (11:00) TNT: Improved Rotation and Translation on Digital Tables
  • Liu Jun, University of Saskatchewan
  • David Pinelle, University of Saskatchewan
  • Samer Sallam, University of Saskatchewan
  • Sriram Subramanian, University of Saskatchewan
  • Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan

    (11:30) symTone: Two-Handed Manipulation of Tone Reproduction Curves
  • Celine Latulipe, University of Waterloo
  • Ian Bell, Luminand Imaging Science
  • Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo
  • Craig Kaplan, University of Waterloo
  • Papers: ANIMATION

    (1:30) Style Components
  • Ari Shapiro, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Yong Cao, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Petros Faloutsos, University of California, Los Angeles

    (2:00) Realistic and Interactive Simulation of Rivers
  • Peter Kipfer - Technische Universität München
  • Rüdiger Westermann - Technische Universität München

    (2:30) Particle-Based Immiscible Fluid-Fluid Collision
  • Hai Mao, University of Alberta
  • Yee-Hong Yang, University of Alberta

    (3:00) Spherical Billboards and their Application to Rendering Explosions
  • Tamas Umenhoffer, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Gabor Szijarto, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Papers: INTERACTION AND PERFORMANCE

    (3:45) Performance Measures of Game Controllers in a Three-Dimensional Environment
  • Chris Klochek, York University
  • I. Scott MacKenzie, York University

    (4:15) Human On-Line Response to Visual and Motor Target Expansion
  • Andy Cockburn, University of Canterbury
  • Philip Brock, University of Canterbury

    (4:45) Generating Custom Notification Histories by Tracking Visual Differences between Web Page Visits
  • Saul Greenberg, University of Calgary
  • Michael Boyle, University of Calgary

  • Thursday, 8 June 2006

    Papers: GEOMETRIC MODELING

    (8:30) Early-Split Coding of Triangle Mesh Connectivity
  • Martin Isenburg - University of California at Berkeley
  • Jack Snoeyink - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    (9:00) Compression of Time Varying Isosurfaces
  • Ilya Eckstein - Univ. of Southern California
  • Mathieu Desbrun - Caltech
  • C.C. Jay Kuo - Univ. of Southern California

    (9:30) Surfacing By Numbers
  • Steve Zelinka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Michael Garland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    (10:00) Streaming Compression of Tetrahedral Volume Meshes
  • Martin Isenburg - University of California at Berkeley
  • Peter Lindstrom - Lawrence Livermore National Labs
  • Stefan Gumhold - Technische Universitaet Dresden
  • Jonathan Shewchuk - University of California at Berkeley
  • (11:00) Keynote: Elizabeth Mynatt

    Papers: DISPLAYS

    (1:30) Evaluation of Viewport Size and Curvature of Large, High-Resolution Displays
  • Lauren Shupp, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Robert Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Beth Yost, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • John Booker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Chris North, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

    (2:00) The Importance of Accurate VR Head Registration on Skilled Motor Performance
  • David Sprague, The University of British Columbia
  • Barry Po, The University of British Columbia
  • Kellogg Booth, The University of British Columbia

    (2:30) Increased Display Size and Resolution Improve Task Performance in Information-Rich Virtual Environments
  • Tao Ni, Virginia Tech
  • Doug Bowman, Virginia Tech
  • Jian Chen, Virginia Tech
  • Papers: GESTURE AND INTERACTION

    (3:30) Phrasing Techniques for Multi-Stroke Selection Gestures
  • Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Research
  • Francois Guimbretiere, University of Maryland
  • Maneesh Agrawala, Microsoft Research
  • Georg Apitz, University of Maryland
  • Nicholas Chen, University of Maryland

    (4:00) Fluid Inking: Augmenting the Medium of Free-Form Inking with Gestures
  • Robert Zeleznik, Brown University
  • Timothy Miller, Brown University

    (4:30) Superflick: a Natural and Efficient Technique for Long-Distance Object Placement on Digital Tables
  • Adrian Reetz, University of Saskatchewan
  • Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan
  • Tadeusz Stach, University of Saskatchewan
  • Miguel Nacenta, University of Saskatchewan
  • Sriram Subramanian, University of Saskatchewan

    (5:00) Hinge Slicer: Interactive Exploration of Volume Images Using Extended 3D Slice Plane Widgets
  • Tim McInerney, Ryerson University
  • Sara Broughton, Ryerson University

  • Friday 9 June 2006

    Papers: LIGHTING

    (8:30) Image Synthesis using Adjoint Photons
  • R. Keith Morley - Princeton University
  • Solomon Boulos - University of Utah
  • Jared Johnson - University of Central Florida
  • David Edwards - University of Utah
  • Peter Shirley - University of Utah
  • Michael Ashikhmin - SUNY Stony Brook
  • Simon Premoze - ILM

    (9:00) Light Animation with Precomputed Light Paths on the GPU
  • Laszlo Szecsi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Laszlo Szirmay-Kalos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  • Mateu Sbert, University of Girona
  • Papers: GPU RENDERING

    (10:00) Implementing the Render Cache and the Edge-and-Point Image On Graphics Hardware
  • Edgar Velázquez-Armendáriz - Computer Science Department, Cornell University
  • Eugene Lee - Computer Science Department, Cornell University
  • Bruce Walter - Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
  • Kavita Bala - Computer Science Department, Cornell University

    (10:30) Modelling and Rendering of Geometry with Relief Textures
  • Xavier Décoret - Artis/GRAVIR
  • Lionel Baboud - Artis/GRAVIR

    (11:00) Fast GPU Ray Tracing of Dynamic Meshes using Geometry Images
  • Nate Carr, Adobe
  • Jared Hoberock, UIUC
  • Keenan Crane, UIUC
  • John Hart, UIUC

    (11:30) Cycle Shading for the Visualization and Assessment of Shape in One and Two Codimensions
  • Daniel Weiskopf - Simon Fraser University
  • Helwig Hauser - VRVis
  • Papers: Menus, Webs, and Tools

    (1:30) Faster Cascading Menu Selections with Enlarged Activation Areas
  • Andy Cockburn, University of Canterbury
  • Andrew Gin, University of Canterbury

    (2:00) The Impact of Task on the Usage of Web Browser Navigation Mechanisms
  • Melanie Kellar, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University
  • Carolyn Watters, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University
  • Michael Shepherd, Faculty of Computer Science Dalhousie University

    (2:30) A Case-Study of Affect Measurement Tools for Physical User Interface Design
  • Colin Swindells, University of British Columbia
  • Karon E. MacLean, University of British Columbia
  • Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia
  • Michael Meitner, University of British Columbia
  • Sponsored by the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society