Doctoral Consortium

Pre-Conference: Program III (Doctoral Consortium)
4th July, 2012, Wednesday, Seminaris Campus Hotel, Room 5, 10:30 – 18:00

Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Marianna Obrist, Newcastle University, UK George Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
11:00-11:15	Welcome & Overview on the Day
11:15-11:30	Speed Dating: Get to know each other
11:30-12:00	Mark Lochrie (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
12:00-12:30	Evelien D’heer (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-14:15	Invited Talk: Ingredients for a successful PhD
14:15-14:30	Interactive Part: Challenges and Experiences
14:30-15:00	Leticia Capanema (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
15:00-15:30	Dionysios Marinos (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	Thomas P. B. Smith (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
16:30-17:00	Milena Szafir (15min Talk / 15min Discussion)
17:00-17:30	Final Questions & Feedback Round
17:30-18:00	Possibility for individual Experience Exchange
18:00	End of Workshop
19:00-20:30	Welcome Reception

Participants

Dionysios Marinos (University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, Germany)
Towards a Generic Method for Creating Interactivity in Virtual Studio Sets without Programming

Thomas P. B. Smith (School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK)
Providing Optimal and Involving Video Game Control

Evelien D’heer (IBBT-MICT-Ghent University, Belgium) [selected as Best PhD Paper]
The remediation of television consumption: Public audiences and private places

Mark Lochrie (School of Computing and Communications, Infolab21, Lancaster University, UK)
The Role of Smartphones in Mass Participation TV

Leticia Capanema (Pontificia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Transmedia Narrative in Brazilian Fiction Television

Milena Szafir (Universidade Sao Paulo, Brazil)
The ‘State of Art’ at Online Video Issue [notes for the 'Audiovisual Rhetoric 2.0' and its application under development]

Panel Members

In order to provide the PhD candidates profound feedback on their projects, we invited experts from academia and industry to our Doctoral Consortium panel: