Best regards,
Francesco Toninelli

I’m very pleased to hear that you have such an interest in the INSCAPE application. Your purpose to use INSCAPE in the domain of rehabilitation and to develop an interactive application for the communication need of your patient is very interesting for us. Since it consists both in a new way to use the INSCAPE application and a whole new application domain, i think it deserves some particular attention and support from us.

Touchscreens, and more generally tactile input, are one of the interaction areas we are investigating, so you can be sure that we will be able to find working solutions…

You can contact me directly by Email (matthieu.dautricourt@c-s.fr), you can also contact our Italian partner from Digital video in Rome : Claudio Mattei, claudio@toonz.com

Very best regards,

Matthieu Dautricourt

Project Technical director

The developed stories can be submitted right after the course to the INSCAPE OC Special Award of the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards at http://www.toptalent.europrix.org.

Multimedia and e-contents
EUROPRIX Academic Network Conference 2007
organised by the European Academy for Digital Media
supported by Austrian Ministry of Science and Research

CALL FOR PAPERS

November 23 - 24, 2007.
Graz, Austria

Scope of Call and Purpose of Conference
Multimedia and e-contents are a rapidly growing field of academic instruction and professional training ranging from creative design to innovative ICT applications. The EUROPRIX Academic Network Conference focuses on developments in teaching and learning the best use of the new technologies. Invited are for instance instructors in interactive media, art and design schools, professors from technical universities and ICT teachers from the applied sciences.

At the conference you will present your analyses on current trends in the industry and markets, new developments in demands from students and effects of teaching practices. The conference invites submissions that present scientific ideas and technological state-of-the-art inquiries, new techniques and teaching methods, successful cases in course developments, evaluation reports on teaching effects etc. The submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee.

Program
The conference includes also 5 panel discussions to given themes. The program will be completed by presentations of Top Talent Professors and Nominees presenting their institutes, their courses and their lecture praxis.

The conference also includes the yearly strategy session of the EUROPRIX Academic Network for planning activities in the upcoming year.

Call for Papers

We are inviting papers on the general theme of the conference and for the following topics:
1. Smart Interfaces – intuitive use of augmented and mixed realities
2. Mobile Paradigm for content development
3. Virtual versus real world - Second Life and other social services
4. Teaching Interactive Story Authoring
5. Mega trends in e-content – what do they mean for education?
Publication
Abstracts and full papers accepted for the conference will be published in the DUV -Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Germany in the Series on “Smart Media and Applications Research” edited by Peter A. Bruck. Papers can only be published when also be presented at the conference.
Schedule
August 30 Submission deadline for abstracts

September 10 Notification of acceptance

October 15 Submission deadline for full papers (camera ready)

November 23-24 Conference

Abstracts should be at most 50 lines plus references, papers should be 12 to 15 pages.
All abstracts and papers must be submitted as an email attachment to egger@icnm.net.

Program Board
• Peter A. Bruck – Austrian Research Centers, Vienna
• Daniel Kapelian – University of Paris 8
• Melissa Lee Price – Staffordshire University
• Ursula Maier Rabler – University of Salzburg
• Cai Melakoski – Tampere Polytechnic Univ. of Applied Sciences
• Rodica Mocan – Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
• Alexander Nischelwitzer – University of Applied Scienes Joanneum, Graz – Local Chair
• Michael Haller – Univ. of Applied Scienes Hagenberg
• Richard Vickers – Hull School of Art & Design

For registrations, questions or further information please contact Mrs Jana Egger: egger@icnm.net

Thank you Eku for the great job :-)

>Logically, interactive storytelling is being the speaker and the audience at >the same time.

>With the home cinema, the TV screens in the back of the car and now
>3G mobiles, movies became more and more individual. The idea of >interacting with the story will make the movie screening an individual >experience too. Or is it not?

Hi Andreg - several points that i feel have been avoided:

1 Perhaps there needs to be a distinction between passive interfaces ie the book page, the movie screen, the narrator and active/dynamic interfaces such as the computer interface, early opera (throwing cabbages and booing), traditional storytellers (who moderated the story in response to their audience) - surely an interactive storytale is one that involves some form of participant feedback and the possibility of modifiying the story. A book based novel can be interpreted in many forms but the material text remains unchanged whereas the interactive story has potential for the story to be modified in reponse to the reader.

2 In regards the social aspects of entertainment media: one could argue that home cinema has the potential to increase sociability ie a gathering of friends to enjoy a movie. Also, i wonder how social mechanisms like drive-in movies were if we are to believe the nostalgic notion that many couple went to the drive-in movie to ‘get it on’ which in itself is a private activity. Individual or intimate technologies can be used for individual activities but they have potential for a number of forms of social interaction such as games (i use the term broadly which i realise is problematic). Surely sociablilty is not wholly dependent on the physical attributes of the medium.

3 Surely the consumption of a medium is a medium in itself. Technologies can be absorbers or deflectors depending on the intent of the designer and subsequent use in the hands of users (sms for instance). That people use mobile devices as a means of private passive consumption (video, music, web browsing) is perhaps more a reflection on the services offered rather than the technology itself.

4 Could interactive storytelling be defined as: story instantiation where active modification of the underlying narrative direction and outcomes is effected by events external to the story’s narrative structure and/or medium.

John

John Paul Bichard
Backseat Playground
http://www.tii.se/mobility/BSP
http://www.hydropia.org/john

We have the INSCAPE Beta version coming up this Autumn and then there will be plenty of opportunity for you to try out the software and to develop scenarios.

We look forward to the release of the Beta and to all the feed-back from our Open Community members!

Best regards,
Michael

I would like to join the team and participate especially
in scenarios building process of this fantastic idea.

Please let me know what to do
as soon as possible.

Many BRAVO to all of you.

Yannis

“I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.”

From a work in progress: three more short animations, based on sections of Wallace Stevens’ famous poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, are now online. The first three were completed in February, and there should be more to come a bit later in the year.

http://www.edwardpicot.com/blackbird/

- Edward Picot
http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website

New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for March 2007: a review of ‘The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One’, edited by N Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland.

“The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (ELC1 for short) contains some extremely powerful, beautiful, clever, amusing and moving pieces of work, but it isn’t entirely without flaws…”

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