Newton Lee

Interview with Gabrielle Weinman at Team One

Gabrielle Weinman is the Creative Director of Interactive & Relationship Marketing for Team One in Los Angeles. She oversees all aspects of the creative work in both departments, integrating it with traditional advertising. Her biggest client is Lexus automobiles, and other clients have included Ritz Carlton Hotels, Flexjet, MTV, Air New Zealand, Infonet and Heal the Bay. Since technology constantly evolves and changes, her background in design, branding and traditional advertising gives her a distinct advantage. After working at Keith Bright & Associates and Hill Holiday, Gabrielle started as a Senior Art Director at Team One in 1992. In 1995, she agreed to spearhead the development of an interactive group at the strong protest of her headhunter who said she would never work in advertising again. Twelve years later, Gabrielle currently manages a staff of over 25 employees and a department that has won numerous awards including Cannes Cyber Lions, Clios and One Show pencils. In the video interview, you will hear Gabrielles answers to the following questions: 1. What is the project that you are working on at the AFI Digital Content Lab? 2. What is the greatest innovation that you have brought to the project? 3. What is your experience working with the AFI Digital Content Lab? 4. What suggestions do you have that would make the Digital Content Lab more innovative, useful, and rewarding? 5. What do you think about the future of new media? 6. What are the major challenges in Interactive TV? 7. What are some of the Interactive TV projects that you are working on? 8. Do you find it difficult to design good user interface for Interactive TV? 9. How do you see the future of Interactive TV? 10. If you can do whatever you want, what would you do?

Interview with Francois Pachet (May 7, 2008)

François Pachet, Civil Engineer (Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées), Ph.D. from University of Paris, and, until 1997, assistant professor in artificial intelligence and computer science at Paris University. In 1997, he set up the music research team at SONY Computer Science Laboratory (Paris), where he developed the concept that metadata can greatly enhance the musical experience in all its dimensions, from listening to performance. His team conducts research in interactive music-listening, computer-aided performance, and musical metadata, and developed several innovative technologies and award-winning systems (MusicSpace, constraint-based spatialization, PathBuilder, intelligent music scheduling using metadata, the Continuator for Interactive Music Improvisation, and EDS for audio feature geeneration). François Pachet is the author of over 80 scientific publications and 15 patents in the fields of musical metadata and interactive instruments. His website is www.csl.sony.fr/∼pachet/, François Pachet answers the following questions:

Interview with Tina Blaine: (October 19, 2006)

Tina Blaine is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon Universitys Entertainment Technology Center. Tina uses science and technology to explore new interface designs for gaming, collective music-making and interactive media with her graduate students. As a musical interactivist at Interval Research, she led a development team in the creation of a collaborative audiovisual instrument known as the Jam-O-Drum, now on permanent exhibit at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. An energetic composer and multiinstrumentalist, she has written music for NPR, video games, TV and documentary soundtracks. In the video interview, you will hear Tinas answers to the following questions: 1. What do you think about future human-computer interface in interactive media? 2. What do you think about using artificial intelligence to create new music or to mimic famous composers? 3. How do you see the future of music in 10 years? More new instruments, new sounds, or something entirely different? 4. If you have a 10-million dollar research fund to do anything you like, what would you do? 5. You are very much involved in volunteer service and community outreach, what is your favorite volunteer work?

CyberGames 2007: International Conference on Games Research and Development, September 10 -- 11, 2007, Manchester, U.K.

The Third International Conference on Games Research and Development 2007 (CyberGames 2007) will be held during 10-11 September 2007 at the Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

MOBILE HCI 07: Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, September 11 -- 14, 2007, Singapore

MobileHCI is a conference that provides practicioners and researchers a common forum to discuss about the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services.

IMMERSCOM 2007: The First International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications, October 10-12, 2007, Verona Italy

IMMERSCOM is the first international conference that focuses on bridging the traditional gap between immersive technologies and networking for the capturing, processing, analyzing, transmitting and enabling the remote fruition of objects, environments, and bio-entities.

EURO ITV 2007: 5th European Interactive TV Conference, May 24 -- 25, 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV conference in Amsterdam,the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.

Interview with Chris Kyriakakis: (August 10, 2007)

Chris Kyriakakis is Associate Professor of Audio Signal Processing at the University of Southern Californias Viterbi School of Engineering, and he is Deputy Director of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. He is also Chief Technology Officer/Founder of Audyssey Laboratories, Inc. a cutting-edge audio company that delivers algorithms for improving sound in homes, theaters, portable devices, and automobiles. He is the recipient of a 2006 World Technology Award. In the video interview, you will hear his answers to the following questions: 1. You have conducted research on the impact of music on perceived emotion of film. Can you tell us what it is about? 2. You are the co-founder of the Immersive Audio Laboratory at the USC Integrated Media Systems Center. What are some of the cutting-edge research projects at your Lab? 3. You have co-founded Audyssey Laboratories to commercialize your research projects. What is the biggest challenge in transforming research ideas into commercial products? 4. You won the 2006 World Technology Award last year. Congratulations! How do you envision changing the world for the better by means of new technologies?

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP)

Call for papers for Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications on Interactive Digital Television

Adrian David Cheok

Prof. Adrian David Cheok is Director of the Interaction and Entertainment Research Center, incorporating Mixed Reality Lab, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interaction, wearable computers and smart spaces, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics, and multi-modal recognition. He was IEEE Singapore Section Chairman 2003, and is presently ACM SIGCHI Chapter President. In the video interview, you will hear Adrians answers to the following questions:1. What is mixed reality entertainment?2. Can you tell us about your research on social and physical gaming such as Human Pacman and Age Invaders?3. Tell us about your work on the Internet Pajamas.4. What is your vision for the next generation entertainment technology?5. You are the founder of the Singapore Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, what do you like most about running the ACM chapter?