Enactive Virtuality Lab team and associated researchers present the on-going work

The mission of the Enactive Virtuality Lab is to study "Enactive Co-presence in Narrative Virtual Reality” by combining arts and sciences to explore how the viewer’s experience of co-presence can be controlled by parametrically modifying the behavior of a screen character or its context.

It is led by research professor Pia Tikka, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) & Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT), Tallinn University. EU MOBILITAS PLUSS TOP RESEARCHER PROJECT (2017–2022) FUNDED BY ETAG http://enactivevirtuality.tlu.ee

PROGRAM

9:15
Pia Tikka (Enactive Virtuality Team leader, MOBTT90)
Introduction
 
9:20 KEYNOTE
Ighoyota Ben Ajenaghughrure 30 min + Q&A (Visiting lecturer of Software Engineering @DT
Symbiosis in information society.
 
10:00 
Debora Conceição Firmino De Souza (MA Thesis @DT)
Exploring the affective states of an interviewee during a Q&A session

10:15
Abdallah Sham (doctoral student @DT)
Facial Expression Recognition in a Human-human dyadic setting

10:30
Valentin Siltsenko (associated artist) :
Blood, sweat, and tears of speech synthesis

10:45-11:00 coffee break (15 min)

11:00 
Robert McNamara (doctor in law (US); doctoral student @BFM)
Cinematic Narratives in Gaming Engines to Explore Compassion towards Refugees

11:15 
Ats Kurvet (computer graphics specialist)
Playing  with MetaHuman for "real" in narrative VR environment

11:30
Sampsa Huttunen (doctoral student @Helsinki University)
Psychophysiological Reactions to Human Face under Different Lighting Conditions: A Pilot Study

11:45
Mehmet Burak Yılmaz (doctoral student @BFM)
Affective functions of camera movements in cinematographic storytelling

12:00 -12:30 Discussion

Everyone who is interested can join via ZOOM!