This is a draft program. It may change up until the seminar, so make sure to check for the latest version. Use this form to register participation in the dinner gatherings.
Thursday September 11
21.00 Dinner/Meet and greet. Mundo Tapas - Checkpoint Charlie, Zimmerstraße 19
Friday September 12
Venue: University of Europe for Applied Sciences, room 2.65.
This is the teams link for the seminar. The same link will work for both days and does not require a passcode.
09.30 Coffee
10.20 Introduction
Chair: Martin Thiering
10.30 The Spatial Apriori of Virtual Reality (abstract)
Stephan Günzel
10.50 Comments and Reflections on the Spatial Apriori in Virtual Reality
Anita Leirfall
11.10 Common discussion.
11.30 What Counts as Perception in Synthetic Worlds? (abstract) (slides)
John R. Sageng
12.00 Lunch. Parliament Canteen Bring passport/id and preferably not a bag.
Chair: Anita Leirfall
13.10 Quasi-Bodies in VR – On the Perception of Embodied Presence in AI-Controlled Avatars (abstract)
Sebastian Lühring
13.40 The Plurality of Perception: Gaming Cognition as a Perceptual Ecology (video presentation) (abstract)
Joshua Hunt
14.10 Break
Chair: Stephan Günzel
14.20 “It was foul, and I loved it”: Perverse Play in Virtual Worlds (abstract)
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal
14.50 The Magic Circle as Enso: A Zen Buddhist Approach to Perception and Virtual Worlds (video presentation) (abstract)
Nash Meade
15.20 Break
15.30 What is the Form of Play? Ludic Form and the Development of Movement in Virtual Space (abstract)
Christopher Lukman
16.10 End of first day.
19.00 Common Gathering and Dinner. MAMA COOK in Berlin Kreuzberg, Hedemannstraße 10, 10969 Berlin
Saturday September 13
Venue: The Kino, Regenbogenfabrik, Lausitzer str 21a, Kreuzberg.
This is the teams link for the seminar. The same link will work for both days and does not require a passcode.
Chair: Pawel Grabarczyk
9.30 “If It Drives Like a Car…”: Towards a Partialist Account of Virtual Objects (abstract)
Jesper Juul and Dooley Murphy
10.00 Why VR experience is nonveridical (video presentation) (abstract)
Rami El Ali
10.30 Break
10.40 Are there illusions in VR? (abstract)
Zuzanna Rucinska
11.10 Verisimilitude in Videogames: Aesthetical Aspect of “game-player” - Interaction and Semiotics Tools of Maintaining (abstract)
Sergei Voronov
11.40 Break.
11.50 Sensorimotor Contagion. Virtual Literacy Bleeding Into Real-Life Perception (abstract)
Nele Van de Mosselaer & Jimena Clavel Vazquez
12.20 Lunch. We originally planned on using Cafe Cutie Pie, but it is occupied. We'll just improvise.
Chair: Zuzanna Rucinska
13.20 Tom Poljansek might join with his presentation over video.
13.50 Immersive Identification - Observations on the Relationship between POV and Interface (abstract)
Silvia Vivi Golder
14.20 Break
Chair: Anita Leirfall
14.30 Class-Based Discrimination in the Perception of Video Game Artwork (video presentation) (abstract)
Emerson Bodde
15.10 Body as Battlefield: Rethinking Avatarhood in Real-Time Strategy Games (abstract)
Yen-Tung Lee
15.40 Break
15.50 Closing Discussion and Planning Meeting
19.00 Dinner and Closing Party.
Proposal for restaurant: Restaurant Panther, Waldemarstraße 119, 10997 Berlin.
For later we could e.g. either go to Klunkerkranich or Club der Visionaere if it is warm or Birgit & Bier if not.