Conference Program

Time Thursday 22 March

16h00 Inauguration
16h30 Charlotte Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden, about Crossmedia
17h00 Claes Nilsson, AVID
18h30 Presentation material and equipment testing
20h30 Dinner at Hemavan´s Högfjällshotell

Friday 23 March

09h00 Christy Dena, University of Sydney, Australia, “Patterns in Cross-Media Interaction Design: It’s much more than a URL… (Part 1)”
10h00 Kalle Jegers, Umeå University, Sweden, “Usability Evaluation and Cross Media Entertainment”
10h40 Coffee
11h00 Lars Gaustad, The National Library of Norway, Mo i Rana, Norway
11h45 Lunch
12h45 Free time
16h00 Jarmo Röksä, Midgard Lab, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway “Trends in computer games design”
16h45 Johan Bornebusch and Mattias Arvola, Södertörn University College, Sweden, “Early explorations of interaction design for nature experience”
17h30 Break
17h45 Tommy Strandvall and Susanne Sperring, Media City, Vasa, Finland, “Set-Top Box Interactivity vs. Mobile Phone Interactivity in an Interactive play-along TV game show”
20h30 Dinner at Hemavan´s Wärdshus

Saturday 24 March

09h00 Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
10h00 Karin Danielsson, Umeå University, “Cross-Media Learning: Design of an Entertaining Educational Computer Game - a case study”
10h40 Coffee
11h00 Eric Voigt and Maykel Hanekamp, Noordelijke Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, “The Ins and Outs of the Minor-CrossMedia”
11h40 Tommy Strandvall presents “The Space Trainees” Edutainment format for language training
12h00 Lunch at Stella Polaris in Fjällparken
13h00 Free time
16h00 Mikael Malanin, Helsinki University of Technology, “New paradigms of print - associating print media to the digital media and user generated community products”
16h45 Jak Boumans, Electronic Media Reporting, Almere, The Netherlands, “Cross-media: an operational term for city and regional development policy”
17h30 Break
17h45 Charlotte Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden
18h20 Heather Desurvire, Behavioristics Inc. CA, USA, “Master of the Game: The Crucial Role of Accessibility in Future Game Design”
20h30 Dinner at Hemavan´s Högfjällshotell

Sunday 25 March

09h00 Mikael Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden, “Midgets: Exploring the Design Space for Truly Liquid Media”
10h00 Monique de Haas, Dondersteen Media, The Netherlands, “How to get a story across”
10h40 Coffee
11h00 Panel debate
12h30 Conclusion by Charlotte Wiberg
13h00 Lunch at the hotel