Program 

List of Plenary Speakers

Thursday, May 12 - Vancouver Convention Centre West Level 3

4:30pm-9:00pm 

 

Registration/Check-in

West Level 3

 

4:30pm–6:00pm

Poster & Demo Set Up 

West Level 3

 

6:00pm–9:00pm

Opening Reception (with invitees from CHI 2011) featuring Poster & Demo Session 

West Level 3

Food service; no-host bar
Bill Buxton Exhibit - Room 201 - Open 6-9pm  

9:00pm–9:30pm Poster & Demo Tear Down West Level 3  

9:00pm–10:00pm

Dinner Meetings (optional)

Local restaurants

 

Friday, May 13 - Vancouver Convention Centre West Level 2

7:30am–8:30am

Breakfast

West Level 2

Buffet

8:30am–9:00am

Opening Remarks 

Room 220-222

Opening Remarks – Kellogg Booth

9:00am- 9:45am Plenary Speaker Bill Buxton
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Room 220-222  "Lessons from Keith" 
9:45am-10:30am
 
Discussion of Network Management Issues Room 220-222  

10:30am–12:00pm

2-Minute Madness 

Room 220-222

2-Minute presentations from each of the 34 projects within the GRAND network 

12:00pm–1:00pm

Lunch/Project Meetings 

 

Project
Meetings 1
 
Locations

 

Lunch / Project Meetings 1
(concurrent) (12pm-1pm)

MOTION; BELIEVE; PLATFORM; NEWS; HLTHSIM; SHRDSP; GRNCTY; CPRM

1:00pm-2:00pm

Lunch/Project Meetings 

 

Project
Meetings 2
 
Locations

Lunch/Project Meetings 2
(concurrent) (1-2pm)

SKETCH; EOVW; SIMUL; DINS; DIGLT; VIRTPRES; HCTSL; INCLUDE

2:00pm–3:30pm

Research Presentations Track 1
(4 concurrent sessions) 

Various

Track A: AESTHVIS; DIGLT; PLAYPR
Room 220-222

Track B: DIGILAB; PRIVNM; HDVID
Room 202-203

Track C: PLATFORM; HSCEG; ENCAD
Room 208-209 

Track D: NAVEL; MEOW
Room 224 

3:30pm–4:30pm

Network Meetings (Concurrent)

GRAND Operations Info & Q&A Session 

Various

Track A:  Network Investigator Meeting
Room 208-209

Track B: HQP Meeting
Room 220-222 

4:30pm–6:00pm

Research Presentations Track 2
(4 concurrent sessions)  

Various

Track A: CPRM; GAMFIT; INCLUDE
Room 220-222

Track B: SHRDSP; PROMO; VIRTPRES
Room 202-203

Track C: GRNCTY; HCTSL; HLTHSIM
Room 208-209 

Track D: BELIEVE; AFEVAL; EOVW
Room 224 

6:00pm +

Dinner meetings (optional)

Local restaurants 

 

Saturday, May 14 - Vancouver Convention Centre East Meeting Level
(at Canada Place/ The Sails)

7:30am–8:30am

Breakfast

East Meeting Level

Buffet

8:30am–9:15am

Plenary Speaker Chad Gaffield 
President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Rooms
1, 2 & 3

"From Teaching to Learning in the Digital Age"

9:15am–10:00am
Games Panel 

Rooms 
1, 2 & 3

"Games and Canada's Digital Economy"
Moderator: Jason Della Rocca
Panelists: Sean Gouglas, Bart Simon, Su Skerl

10:00am–11:30am

Research Presentations Track 3
(4 concurrent sessions)  

Rooms 
1, 2 & 3

Track A: CAPSIM; MOTION; SKETCH
Room 1, 2 & 3 

Track B: NEWS; DINS; PERUI
Room 11 

Track C: MCSIG; NGAIA; SIMUL
Room 8 

Track D: AMBAID; NEUROGAM
Room 10 

11:30am– 12:30pm

Lunch/Project Meetings

 

Project
Meetings 3
Locations 

Lunch/Project Meetings 3 (concurrent) (11:30-12:30pm)

HDVID; MCSIG; DIGILAB; GAMFIT; PLAYPR; ENCAD; PROMO; MEOW 

12:30am– 1:30pm Lunch/Project Meetings Project
Meetings 4 - Locations

Lunch/Project Meetings 4 
(concurrent) (12:30pm- 1:30pm)

HSCEG; PRIVNM; AFEVAL; AESTHVIS; PERUI; CAPSIM; NAVEL

1:30pm–2:15pm

Plenary Speaker David Dill
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Rooms 
1, 2 & 3

"Electronic Voting in the US: How Technologists Affected the Debate"

2:15pm–3:00pm Plenary Speaker Seth Cooper
Creative Director, Centre for Game Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Rooms 
1, 2 & 3

"Solving Challenging Problems with Games"

3:00pm–4:20pm

WIP Presentation Session 1 

Various

Track A: Information & Knowledge Management
Room 11 

Track B: Multi-Modal & Affective Interfaces
Room 8 

4:20pm-4:50pm

Break

 

 

4:50pm - 6:00pm

WIP Presentation Session 2 
Link to WIP Schedule (PDF) 

Various

Track A: Design, Graphics, Visualization
Room 11 

Track B: Games
Room 8 

3:00pm–6:00pm 

GRAND & NeuroDevNet Workshop

Room 10

By invitation only