Thursday May 9
21.00 Dinner/Meet and greet. Spagos Restaurant, Park Inn Alexanderplatz 7, 10178 Berlin Germany
Friday May 10
Venue: Regenbogenfabrik, Lausitzer str 21a, Kreuzberg. We will use the cafe facing the street until around 12.00 on Friday, and then use a room innermost in the backyard for the rest of the day. We have the cafe to ourselves the entire Saturday.
Skype link to join the webinar. Passcode: KcPJR9tw Meeting ID: 622 1422 6328
09.30 Coffee
09.45 Introduction
Chair: Anita Leirfall
10.00 The Visual Information Available in Virtual Reality (abstract)
Zuzanna Rucińska and Pawel Grabarczyk
10.40 In Defense of Virtual Veridicalism (abstract)
Yen-Tung Lee
11.20 Break
11.30 Perceptual Experience in Synthetic Realities (abstract)
John R. Sageng
12.10 Lunch
13.00 Alief & Belief in Virtual Worlds (abstract)
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal
13.40 Veridical Perception in Games and Virtual Worlds (abstract)
Tom Poljanšek
14.20 Break
14.30 Perspectives and Spatial Frames of References: Semiotic Spaces in Video Games (video presentation) (abstract)
Martin Thiering and Stephan Günzel
15.10 Break
15.20 What Is My Relationship with My Avatar? (video presentation) (abstract)
Cordelia Berz
16.00 Break
16.10 Video Games as Tourism (abstract)
Anh-Thu Nguyen
16.50 End of first day.
19.00 Common Gathering and Dinner. Proposal: Restaurant Panther, Waldemarstraße 119
Saturday May 11
Chair: Anita Leirfall
9.30 On Perceptions of the Other in Violent and Non-Violent Single-player Video Games (abstract)
Maciej Jemioł
10.10 Perceiving Cheating: Exploring Rule Violations in Games (abstract)
Marco Mazzocca
10.50 Break
11.00 Metaphysical Phenomenology and Mediation of Death as Space-time Paradoxy in Videogames (abstract)
Sebastian R. Richter
11.40 Perception in Game Space and Film Space (abstract)
Rune Klevjer
12.20 Break.
12.30 Spatial Adaptation of a Referencing Writing Style in Virtual Worlds (abstract)
Christina Zimmermann
13.10 Lunch
14.00 The Liveness of In-game Concerts: Notes on the Player/Audience Sonic Perception in Minecraft (abstract)
Karina Moritzen
14.40 Experiential Re-Living in VR (abstract)
Cody Turner
15.20 Break
15.30 Game States as Intent Vessels (video presentation) (abstract)
Malay Dhamelia
16.10 Closing Discussion and Planning Meeting
19.00 Dinner and Closing Party.
Proposal for restaurant: Umami at Schlesische Str. 5. For later we could either go to Klunkerkranich if it is sunny or Birgit & Bier if not.