Local chapters
Braga, PORTUGAL
Venue
Auditório do Centro de Multimédia, IEC
Universidade do Minho
4710-057 Braga – Portugal
Registration
Braga PROGRAM
September 24 |
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Conference opening |
15:00 |
A Second Life First Year Experience
Peter Duffy and Paul Penfold |
15:30 |
GeLive: Requirement Collection for Student Software Engineering Projects in a Virtual World
Vincent Ng and Zoe Tang |
15:50 |
ArchHouseGenerator – A Framework for House Generation
Nuno Carlos Sousa Rodrigues, Luís Magalhães, João Moura, Filipe Santos, Leonel Morgado and Alan Chalmers |
16:10 |
Isla de la Salud Project, a Second Life tool of the Spanish Society of Family and Community
Jose Antonio Prados Castillejo, Marta Sánchez-Celaya del Pozo and Albano Cruz Zúñiga |
16:30 |
Consumers in virtual worlds: is there an actual relation with brands?
Sandra Oliveira and Nelson Zagalo |
16:50 |
Coffee break |
Digital-Virtual Living Space (ECODI) RICESU: A Net Experience with Second Life Metaverse Technology
Eliane Schlemmer, Daiana Trein and Helena Soares |
17:20 |
The Ontological Aspects of Puzzles into Metaverses
Cristiano N. Tonéis and Luís Carlos Petry |
17:40 |
Second Life: Offering Marginalized Youth a Second Chance
Sneha Veeragoudar Harrell and Dor Abrahamson |
18:00 |
Ontological-cognitive structures of the Metaverses
Luís Carlos Petry |
18:20 |
MKAC, Museum Karura Art Centre Project
ina Karura and Noke Yuitza |
18:40 |
Coffee break |
Weathering In / Com Tempo: An Intervention towards Participatory Multi-modal Self-organizing Inter-corporeal
Isabel Valverde and Todd Cochrane |
19:20 |
Deviance in virtual worlds: The ethical and legal dilemmas of living a Second Life
Dimitrios Akrivos |
19:40 |
Brands and Consumption in Virtual Worlds
Ioanna Nikolaou, Shona Bettany and Gretchen Larsen |
20:00 |
A phenomenographic study about the future of the electronic commerce in the Second Life
Martine Bernardo and Leonel Morgado |
20:20 |
Exploring Customer perceptions of e-service quality in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs): the case of emotionally expressive avatars
Eman Gadalla |
20:40 |
Exploring Second Life for online role-playing training
Joao Afonso, Luis Pedro, Pedro Almeida, Fernando Ramos and Arnaldo Santos |
21:00 |
Day closing |
September 25 |
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Day opening |
Film Projection - Second Skin by Juan Carlos Pineiro-Escoriaza |
13h30 |
Proposed Theoretical Framework for Virtual World Adoption
Shalini Chandra, Yin Leng Theng, May 0’Lwin and Schubert Foo Shou-Boon |
15:20 |
Virtual Reality: PolyU Library in Second Life
Mei Li |
15:40 |
Multimedia Design Manipulation Using Second Life in Education
Newman Lau and Ben Wong |
16:00 |
Digital Guqin Museum from a Virtual World to the Real World :Conception and design of an ongoing cultural sim
Shuen-git Chow |
16:20 |
Open Science Project
Noke Yuitza |
16:40 |
Coffee break |
Universidade do Brasil Virtual – The use of Second Life to share knowledge in Graphic Design, Game Design and Visual Arts classrooms
Marcos Pereira |
17:20 |
Building Knowledge in the Virtual World – Influence of Real Life Relationships
Ana Loureiro and Teresa Bettencourt |
17:40 |
From urban places of the cities to virtual places in cyberspace: reproduction and / or appropriation of the practices of soccer sociability
Rebeca Recuero Rebs |
18:00 |
Democratization of Creativity and Cultural Production in Virtual Worlds. A Challenge for Regulation and Cultural Management
Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguayo |
18:20 |
Who am I - and if so, where? A Master Thesis on Personality in Virtual Realities
Benjamin Aas, Katharina Meyerbröker and Paul M. G. Emmelkamp |
18:40 |
Coffee break |
Metaverse - The Affective and Aesthetic Systems and its Digital Morphologies in Virtual Environments
Donizetti Louro, Tânia Fraga and Mauricio Pontuschka |
19:20 |
3D3C Identity: A Key Force in Theory, Practice, and Infrastructure
Yesha Sivan |
19:40 |
Metaverse - The Learning in the Immersive Worlds
Luciana Correa Louro |
20:00 |
Virtual Learning for the management of successful SMEs in Europe
Clara Rodrigues, Dalila Coelho, Leonel Morgado, João Varajão, Aura Haidimoschi, Gerhard Doppler, Hillevi Koivusalo, Paivi Jokinen, George Velegrakis, Chiara Sancin and Valentina Carmenini |
20:20 |
Conference closing - Live Music Concert |
20:40 |
Local Organization
Nelson Zagalo (Coordination)
Leonel Morgado (Coordination)
Ana Oliveira
Nelson Ramos
Marta Noronha
Andreas Vilela
Tiago Ribeiro
William Jeniaux
Hugo Paredes,
Benjamim Fonseca
Paulo Martins
Maps
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
For maps of the Campus and City, click here.
Transportation
The Auditório CM is located in Campus de Gualtar, Braga. See location here.
by car:
Braga is connected to the major european motorway network.
by train:
Braga is accessible by train from the major european railways.
by plane:
There are three international airports in Portugal, however we advise you to use Porto airport.
Porto Airport (OPO) - (57 Km to Braga):
by train
Use the Metro (subway), line E to get to Campanhã railway station (download pdf).
about 35 min. and an expected cost of about 1.45 euros.
from the Campanhã railway station find a train to get to Braga (from: porto - campanha / to: braga).
about 45 min to 1h10 min. and an expected cost from 2.5 (urbanos) to 18 euros (alfa-pendular).
find a taxi (4.6 Km to the conference place) with an expected cost of about 6 euros (night, weekends and holidays is 20% more).
by bus
find a taxi to Central de Camionagem (bus station), Rua Alfredo Magalhães
about 20 min. and an expected cost of about 20 euros (night, weekends and holidays is 20% more).
from the Central de Camionagem find a bus to Braga (Partidas: Porto / Destinos: Braga)
about 1h15 min and an expected cost of about 6 euros.
find a taxi (4.4 Km to the conference place) with and expected cost of about 6 euros (night, weekends and holidays is 20% more)
by taxi
from the Porto airport to the conference place the expected cost is of about 60 euros (night, weekends and holidays is 20% more).
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