 INSCAPE is a unique integrating collaborative tool supporting a wide range of devices and media formats to enable digital content creators to plan, build, experience and publish interactive multimedia stories
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Consortium - Staff
Georges Fisse (CS) - Project Director 
Dr Georges Fisse is heading the CS' VR Department since its creation. His main areas of technical expertise include Remote Sensing, GIS, Earth Observation, Image Processing, and also sales and marketing. He was formerly heading the Imagery Department of the CS' Earth Observation Division where he was in charge of projects such as VGT (vegetation) and SCARAB instrument Image Quality systems, POLDER data processing chain, SPOT "DownStream" programme (image correction, image rectification, geocoding, panchromatic/multispectral data fusion, mosaic generation, supervised and automatic classification, cartography and GIS, Environment), EU's MARS programme (Monitoring Agriculture by Remote Sensing), ESA's MEGACITIES (valorisation of ESA data on Mega City user segment), CNES Synthetic aperture radar simulation (SIROS and MISTRAL simulators), SAR image generation and processing (including new generation modes: spotlight, scanSAR, focus) and SAR interferometry, or Helios Imagery Programme. He received his Ph.D. in computer science (Image Processing specialisation) from the Toulouse III University, France.
Dr. Olivier Balet (CS) - Scientific Director / Peer Reviewer 
Dr Olivier Balet is the Technical Director of CS' Virtual Reality Department. His main areas of expertise include virtual reality, virtual prototyping and virtual storytelling, 3D interaction, multi-modal computer-human interfaces, cooperative working, and physical simulation. Prior to his current position, he has conducted research on 3D interaction at the Toulouse III University. He received his diploma (M.S.) and Ph.D. in computer science (VR specialisation) from the Toulouse III University, France. He is the author and has been the Project Manager of several European funded projects (CAVALCADE, VISIONS, V-Man, V-Planet, VISTA, etc.) projects.
He has been an active expert to the European Commission for activities under FP5 KA3 and KA4 (Virtual Reality, Simulation, Multimedia and Collaborative Working Action lines) and FP6 (FET, Cultural Heritage). He is VR assistant professor at both the Toulouse III University and the ENSICA high school, program committee member or reviewer for international conferences (Eurographics, ICVS, VRIS, Minitrack, TIDSE, etc.), and the author of more than 25 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.
Jérôme Duchon (CS) - Project Manager  Jérôme Duchon is a senior engineer and project director in the Virtual
Reality Department of the CS company. His main fields of expertise include simulation techniques and methods, software engineering, formal specification for multimedia applications and 3D simulation. Mr. Duchon received his Master of Science and his DEA in computer science from the Université de Toulouse III, France. He is in charge of developing industrial business related to 3D simulation and Virtual Reality and was project manager on several industrial projects for the European and French Space Agencies, Airbus, Peugeot Citroën, the French Atomic Authority, etc. Within European FP4 and FP5, he conducted the Cavalcade and V-Man consortiums.
Monique Geyres (CS) - Project Manager assistant  Monique Geyres is Project Manager assistant in CS. Mrs Geyres received a Degree of Trilingual Director's Assistant: English and Spanish. She has been working at CS for more than 20 years in different areas such as human resources, accounting, sales, marketing. She has been working during 5 years as a coordinator assistant on the European ESPRIT projects. From 1999 to 2004, she was the assistant of the Regional General Director. After a 2 year break spent in the US, and while resuming at CS in August 2006, she joined the INSCAPE project and replaced Rachel Thiebaud.
Matthieu Dautricourt (CS) - Technical Manager 
Matthieu Dautricourt is a R&D engineer for CS’Virtual Reality Division. He previously worked on virtual reality Post Traumatic therapy and military training and simulation on PTSD and FlatWorld projects, at the Institute for Creative Technologies / University of Southern California. As an application engineer at Techviz SA he was in charge of pre-sale and technical support. His main field of interest include virtual reality immersive system for training and simulation. He received his Master Degree on Numerical Modelisation and Virtual Reality from ISTIA in Laval.
Eric Menou (CS) 
Eric Menou is a developement engineer in CS's Virtual Reality Departement.
He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Paul Sabatier
University in 1999. He was Assistant Professor at the PSU for 3 years and is
currently a PhD student. He is in charge of CS V-Man Character Animation
system for which he developped most Motion Adaptation algorithms. His main
fields of interest include Character Animation and 3D Simulation.
Joël Joly (CS) 
Joël Joly is a 3D engineer at CS' Virtual Reality Division. He worked on a simulation of airplane's cockpit for EADS. He also participated to a software devised to help building prototypes of interactive 3D content where he was in charge of the sophisticated rendering for the Non Photorealistic Rendering effects. He received his Master Degree on Robotics and a post graduate in Numerical Images from the Université Toulouse III.
Cyril Romain (CS) 
Cyril Romain is a 3D engineer at CS' Virtual Reality Division.
He worked previously on a photorealistic body and facial animation
project for precomputed CG animation movies. He also participated to the
VMan European project where he was in charge of the real-time facial
animation engine. His main areas of expertise also include robotics,
artificial intelligence and signal processing. He received his Master
Degree on Robotics and a post graduate in Numerical Images from the
Université Toulouse III.
Christophe Chartier (I) 
He graduates in Industrial Data Processing in 1990. In 1991 he won the competition to participate at IBM's sales departments training, he also attended in the same year the school of Industrial Marketing. Since 1995 he travels regularly in Europe and USA to qualify on new product lines and improve his relationship with constructors. Actually he is the President of Immersion SAS.
Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière (I) 
Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière is project manager at Immersion. He received
his Ph.D. in computer science from the Bordeaux I University, France.
Since his master degree, his research interests evolve around interaction
and visualisation techniques for Virtual Reality. More specifically, he
worked on real-time video analysis techniques to help interaction in large
display systems.
Claudio Mattei (DV) 
Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1984
1984-1986, Software Engineer in SBP Spa in charge of software development in a
post-production environment.
1986-1990, Technical Director of CGI Dpt
1990-1993, Director of R&D at SBP Spa. Project Manager of Eureka95 and ADTT1187,
R&D Italian Goverment funded projects.
1993 -2004, Managing Director of Digital Video. Project Manager of
Paperless and NEWS, IST Projects.
Angelo Moriconi (DV) 
Angelo Moriconi is a researcher in DV R&D division.
He received his Master Degree on Computer Science at the
University of Rome "La Sapienza" with a work on 3D mobile graphics.
He previously worked in collaboration with the HMI department of
University of Rome "La Sapienza" for AD4 European project
to provide HMI research and development.
Ronald Mallet (RV) 
Ronald Mallet is Technical Leader in charge of calibration and 3D reconstruction at REALVIZ SA. He worked for various companies in image & video processing, such as Matra Communications and Thomcast. He participated in some european project such as TALISMAN for realtime digital video watermarking. He graduated from Institut Superieur d'Electronique de Paris, with image analysis specialization.
Dominique Pouliquen (RV) 
Mr Pouliquen has spent his career in the computer graphics industry after graduating from Ecole Superieure d'Electronique de l'Ouest, Angers, France in 1986. From 1994 to early 1998, Mr. Pouliquen managed the Technology Department at MEDIALAB, a subsidiary of Canal+, Paris, France. His team of software engineers, marketers and sales personnel developed and successfully sold CLOVIS, a real-time performance animation and virtual reality application being used at many large animation and entertainment production companies in France, UK, Spain, Japan and the USA. From 1986 to 1994, Mr. Pouliquen also worked for Sogitec, a subsidiary of Dassault Aviation, where he headed the Visualization Department that developed real-time 3D graphics applications for military aircraft and helicopters.
Luc Robert (RV) 
Luc Robert is Chief Technology Officer at REALVIZ and was one of the founders of the company. Robert received a PhD in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 1993. The research, conducted at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, focused on multi-camera geometry, stereo reconstruction and camera calibration. After a one year post-doctorate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University working on stereovision for autonomous robot navigation, he joined INRIA as a Research Scientist and developed algorithms and systems for image-based modeling, image-based rendering and camera tracking. Since March 1998 he has been in charge of the technical development of the REALVIZ product portfolio.
Felicity Becker (ZGDV) 
Felicity Becker works as a freelance for the Department of Digital Storytelling at the ZGDV Darmstadt. She is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Mainz, where she also received her M.A. in Film Studies, Psychology and Communication. Her main field of interest are story models and character development.
Axel Feix (ZGDV) 
Axel Feix holds a diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His
special interests are computer games and storytelling based edutainment applications. From 1994 to 2002 he
has been working as supplementary staff at Fraunhofer IGD within the Virtual Reality department. Since
2002 he is working as full staff at ZGDV Darmstadt e.V. within the Digital Storytelling Group. Here, he has
been the technical project leader for the Senckenberg project, where ZGDV has develop two dinsaur
applications for both museum staff (scientists, palaeontology) and visitors (especially young visitors, kids,
pupils).
Dr. Stefan Göbel (ZGDV) 
Dr. Stefan Göbel received a diploma in computer science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
in 1997. Then he started to work as a researcher in the GIS department at the Fraunhofer Institute for
Computer Graphics. The topic of his graduation deals with graphic-interactive user guidance to geospatial
data archives. Since July, 2002 he is head of the Digital Storytelling department at ZGDV Darmstadt e.V.
Here, he is the project leader of numerous activities and projects within the research field of interactive
digital storytelling and edutainment applications. Since 2003 he chairs the international conference
"Technologies in Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment" (TIDSE) and the Forum for Knowledge
Media Design (KMD-Forum) as speaker.
Ido Aharon Iurgel (ZGDV) 
Ido Aharon Iurgel has a master degree in philosophy, social psychology and linguistics from the Ruhr-University of Bochum, and a master in computer sciences from the "Technische Universität Darmstadt". His special interests are concepts for the integration of humanistic sciences and computer science.
Rainer Malkewitz (ZGDV) 
Rainer Malkewitz has graduated in the field of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1992. From 1993 - 2000 he has been working as full time researcher at Fraunhofer IGD, before he was heading the department 'E-Business & Information Visualization' at ZGDV Darmstadt. Since 2005 he is working in the 'Digital Storytelling' group at ZGDV.
Steve Benford (NU) - Peer Reviewer 
Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing. His research concerns new technologies to support social interaction across computer networks. Recently, this has focussed on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) and has addressed issues such as socially inspired spatial models of interaction, user embodiment, information visualisation and mixed reality interfaces.
Paul Kafno (NU) 
A graduate of Oxford University, Paul worked as producer and director for BBC, Thames TV, and as MD of HD Thames, winning international prizes (PrixItalia, BAFTA, RTS, Golden Gate). He developed technology for the creative industries through CINENET, VISIONS, VISTA, V-MAN, THALIA, ELECTRONIC THEATRE, CROSS-MEDIA CONTENT, CELLULOID TO SILICON. He is a member of the IBC Council and British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Boriana Koleva (NU) 
Dr Koleva's research is in the field of HCI with an emphasis on mixed reality interfaces. Her PhD thesis focused on developing the technique of mixed reality boundaries - a new way of joining together physical and virtual spaces. She has worked with artists to explore new forms of interactive art and has developed mixed reality technologies for public settings such as museums and schools.
Brian Logan (NU) 
Brian Logan is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Nottingham where he leads the Intelligent Agents Group. His research interests include the specification, design and implementation of agent-based systems, and applications of agents in virtual environments.
Duncan Rowland (NU) 
Duncan Rowland received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of St Andrews where he developed techniques to manipulate (age, gender swap) images of faces. He joined a company in New Jersey that specialised in 3D facial animation, and then spent two years developing computer games for Codemasters in the U.K. He is currently investigating new areas of game/play and entertainment technologies.
Ella Tallyn (NU) 
Ella completed a PhD on interactive narrative that focused on character development in computer games, and examined how aspects of interface and event structure influence a participant's level of engagement. She has worked as an interaction specialist on a variety of commercial and academic projects, and is interested in issues of user engagement in both educational and recreational experiences.
Yngve Sundblad (KTH) 
Yngve Sundblad is professor in Computer Science, esp. Human-Computer
Interaction, and Director of the multidisciplinary competence centre CID
(Centre for User Oriented IT Design) at KTH, the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm.
His research and education interests include Methods for user involvement in
design, Environments for computer supported cooperation, Interactive media,
Interaction forms for all senses and Object oriented methods for design and
development of programs and interaction.
Gustav Taxén (KTH) 
Gustav Taxén, Lic., M.Sc. Ph.D. student, Human-Computer Interaction at the
Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science,
The Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Björn Thuresson (KTH) Helena Tobiasson (KTH) Vasco Branco (UA) 
Vasco Branco earned a Master on Computers and Digital Systems in 1987 and a PhD in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering, area of Computer Graphics and HCI in 1997 at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto. At the same time he earned a Plastic Arts Bachelor in Painting at the Superior School of Fine Arts of Porto. He was Director of the Design Programme at the University of Aveiro for 1996/2001 and Head of the Department of Communication and Arts also at the University of Aveiro for 1998/99. He is currently, Associated Professor at the University of Aveiro, Director of the MSc Degree in Design, Materials and Product Management at the University of Aveiro and Director of the Research Unit of Communication and Arts.
Nelson Zagalo (UA) 
Nelson Zagalo is a researcher currently working at the University of Aveiro on his Ph.D. in Science and Communication Technology area with his work entitled, "Convergence between Cinema and Virtual Reality". Being an interdisciplinary research, it makes use mostly of Film Theory and New Media studies but it also involves art theory, computer science and psychology. The research intends to create an access on how to convey storytelling in a virtual environment with "film like" emotion effect. This knowledge will form a framework of concepts and methodologies to support the creation and development of emotional storytelling within virtual reality.
Ana Torres (UA) 
Ana Torres is a psychologist researcher at the Research Unit of Communication and Arts of the University of Aveiro. She is developing emotional meaningful digital environments and characters. She is also working on her master degree on Psychiatry and Mental Health field at Medical Sciences Faculty of the University of Oporto. Her master degree efforts are related with the research of the Cognitive stimulation capacities of Videogames in Elderly.
Marius Raschip (UA) 
Marius Raschip graduated Computer Science in 2003 and in 2006 he obtained a M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics. He is working as a freelancer for the Communication and Art Research Unit of Aveiro University. His main interests are kept in Natural Language Processing domain - discourse processing, anaphora resolution, automatic summarization.
Daniel Porta (DFKI) 
Daniel Porta worked from June '04 to February '07 as a research student
for the DFKI. In that time he contributed to projects like SAMT,
SPECTER, SHAREDLIFE and MOOVE. He recently finished his study of
computer science at saarland university and is now Junior Researcher at
the Intelligent User Interfaces lab. He is currently involved in the
projects MOIN and - of course - INSCAPE, where he replaces Dirk
Fedeler.
Elsa Pecourt (DFKI) 
Elsa Pecourt is a researcher at the Intelligent User Interfaces department at DFKI since 2002. She contributed previously to the projects GETESS and SmartKom as a research student, working in the areas of Anaphora Resolution and Dialogue Management. She has been in charge for the Action Planning module of the MIAMM project. She received her Masters in German and English Philology at the University of Barcelona (UB).
Dr. Norbert Reithinger (DFKI) 
Dr. Norbert Reithinger is a Principal Researcher and Research Fellow at DFKI GmbH . His research areas are multimodal interaction systems, dialogue processing, and machine translation. He participated in the German large-scale research projects Verbmobil, SmartKom and Smartweb as scientific manager and work-pakage leader for dialogue processing, and was local coordinator in the EU funded projects MATE, NITE, and MIAMM. He co-organized various conferences and workshops and regularly reviews for major conferences and journals.
Dr. Xavier Marichal (AFC) 
Dr. Xavier Marichal is co-founder and CTO of Alterface. Electrical engineering (M.S.) and Ph.D. in electricity from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1994 and 1998. Bachelor Degree in Arts (Western Philosophy, 1994), PostGraduation in Management (1999) and university certificate in Innovation Management (2002). Xavier is interested in all new interaction paradigms and technologies.
Fabrice Frances (N6K) 
Fabrice Frances is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science Department at ENSICA.
His research activities deal with the quality of service and the performance
evaluation of embedded networks.
His current work focuses on new-generation aeronautical networks, such as
switched networks, for which deterministic properties must be based on
strong mathematical proofs.
Tanguy Pérennou (N6K) 
Tanguy Pérennou is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Computer
Science Department at ENSICA. His research interests range from distributed
computing to wireless networks. His teaching activities also include
object-oriented and 3D programming as well as Web services. He is currently
involved in characterization of losses in wireless networks and IP-level
wireless networks emulation.
Birgit Berger (ICNM) 
After education and professional experience in the Austrian high class hotel business in organizing conferences she was the leader of the organizational department for the Salzburg Research GmbH and project manager of the Austrian national award for multimedia.
She also worked as a project manager for marketing projects for Kiska, the biggest Austrian design company. As business manager she is responsible for the administrative and organizational management of the ICNM.
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck (ICNM) 
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Bruck, MA, Ph.D.
He is the honorary President of the ICNM - International Center for
New Media, Salzburg, the chairman of the Board of the European Academy of Digital Media-EADiM, Netherlands, and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Summit Award. He has over 25 years of experience in research and consulting in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada. He has founded the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and headed research institutes at universities and national research organisations in Canada and Austria. Peter A. Bruck has initiated EUROPRIX, Europe's leading multimedia award and a number of national best practice competitions and awards in Western and Eastern Europe. Within the framework of the UN World Summit on Information Society, Bruck has organised the World Summit Award in e-content and creativity as a global event and process.
Jana Egger (ICNM) 
Mrs. Egger graduated from studies in journalism and communication sciences with a particular field of interest in comparative media systems and new technologies. She has five years professional experience in management of European projects and has been a key administrator in the European Multimedia Award, EUROPRIX. .She has been involved in the development of EADiM and has facilitated the network of mm producers and experts. In addition, Mrs. Egger has been organizing the EUROPRIX Summer Schools since 1999.
Michael E. Jeppesen (ICNM) 
Michael E. Jeppesen is a project assistant at ICNM, where his job functions are support for international multimedia projects, technical organisation of various project events (jury meetings, exhibitions, festivals, gala events and workshops), internal IT support and webmaster of the WSA website. He got a HND in Electronic Engineering in 1996 and has worked in the field of HW and SW support, maintenance and development as well as being a course instructor giving classes in Mac OS and Database Development.
Gilles Deschamps (ZV) 
French, graduated from the E.N.I. Tarbes; has a complete technical background in CFAO, CAO and GPAO engineering. Key account manager of Interactive 3d environment projects for large retail organisations.
Christian Grosjean (ZV) 
Swiss, graduated in Industrial Design in Toronto, Canada where he also acquired practical experience as a designer and 3d specialist in the fields of products, way finding, computer games, internet and multimedia.
Eric Bron (ZV) 
Swiss, senior software developer. Since the early 80s he has been involved on numerous interactive 3D graphics projects as main developer and team leader.
His achievements include a software realtime 3D rendering engine.
Sarah Barber (UNEW) 
Sarah Barber is the Operations Manager of the new Culture Lab initiative, and the multi-disciplinary Research Institute Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (NIASSH) at Newcastle University. She has organised conferences and seminars, and has previously worked in the Research Grants and Contracts office at the University.
Dr Sally Jane Norman (UNEW) 
Dr Sally Jane Norman is a performing arts theorist and practitioner, director of creative performance platforms using digital tools at the International Institute of Puppetry (Charleville-Mézières), Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (Amsterdam), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), European Festival of Young Digital Creation (Valenciennes), Ecole supérieure de l'image (Angoulême/Poitiers). Previous Director General of ESI, she became Director of Newcastle University's new "Culture Lab" interdisciplinary research facility in September 2004.
Martyn Dade-Robertson (UNEW) 
Martyn Dade-Robertson is a Research Associate working in Culture Lab at the Newcastle University. Martyn originally did an architecture degree in Newcastle before becoming interested in Information Architecture and is currently finishing his PhD. at Cambridge University entitled ‘Information Spaces in Screen Based Virtual Environments’. Martyn has worked on a range of multimedia and software projects most recently working for Microsoft Research where he worked on Information Visualization.
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