eCAADe06 Schedule

Wednesday 6th of September

8:30-9:15 Registration
9:15-9:45 Welcome by the University of Thessaly, Faculty of Engineering, eCAADe President and conference organisers
9:45-10:30

Plenary Keynote Session
main auditorium -
Richard Coyne

Lecture Room A2
Lecture Room A3
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  Session 1 (Henri Achten)
COMMUNICATING SPACES
Session 2 (Rivka Oxman)
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS 1
11:00-11:15

Architectural Design Spaces and Interpersonal Communication-Changes in Design Vocabulary and Language Expression
Ivanka Iordanova, Lorna Heaton, Manon Guite

Interactive Simulation of Architecture in Virtual Environments
Joachim Kieferle, Uwe Wossner, Martin Becker
11:15-11:30 Hybrid Experience Space for Cultural Heritage Communication
Niels Einar Veirum, Mogens Fiil Christensen, Mikkel Mayerhofer
Development and Evaluation of a Close-range View Representation Method of Natural Elements in a Real-time Simulation for Environmental Design
Tomohiro Fukuda, Kazuhiro Sakata, Wookhyun Yeo and Atsuko Kaga
11:30-11:45 Ethics of Virtuality… Virtuality of Ethics
Aghlab Al-Attili, Leonidas Koutsoumpos

Evaluating Relative Impact of Virtual Reality System Variables on Architectural Design Comprehension and Presence
Loukas N. Kalisperis, Katsuhiko Muramoto, Bimal Balakrishnan, Dragana Nikolic, Nevena Zikic
11:45-12:00 Enhanced and Continuously Connected Environment for Collaborative Design
Shotaro Yamashita, Yoshitaka Miyake, Yuji Matsumoto, Ryusuke Naka, Shigeyuki Yamaguchi

The Impact of Virtual Environments on Design Collaboration
Leman Figen Gul and Mary Lou Maher
12:00-12:10

Imagineering-A phenomenology of image, as an aesthetic mechanism of experimental media landscapes
Katerina Karoussos

Development of the Environmental Design Tool "Tablet MR" on-site by Mobile Mixed Reality Technology
Tomohiro Fukuda, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Wookhyun Yeo and Atsuko Kaga
12:10-12:30 Discussion Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break at the Tsalapatas "Skouteliko"
  Session 3 (Michael Mullins)
DESIGN SUPPORT METHODS 1
Session 4 (Bob Martens)
PERVASIVE, UBIQUITOUS & MOBILE COMPUTING 1
14:15-14:30

Critical points for change - A vital mechanism for enhancing the conceptual design process
Panagiotis Parthenios

Communicating with Space and People - Smart Interface Design for Enhancing User Awareness and Interactions
Mao-Lin Chiu, Binsu Chiang
14:30-14:45 Feature clusters for online recognition of graphic units in drawings
Henri Achten

City information delivered to Mobile Digital devices - Reflection on contemporary potentials and problems
Andre Brown, Michael Knight, Yu-Horng Chen and Ghousia Saeed
14:45-15:00 3D Motion Tracking in Architecture - Turning Movement into Form - Emerging Uses of a New Technology
Urs Hirschberg, Allen Sayegh, Martin Fruhwirth, Stefan Zedlacher

Contextual awareness in mobile information processing
Alexander Koutamanis

15:00-15:10

15:00-15:15

Abstractions as a Means of Interacting with the Environment
Stavros Vergopoulos, Apostolos Kalfopoulos

Spatializing the Internet: new types of hybrid mobile communication environments and their impact on spatial design within the urban context
Dimitris Charitos

15:10-15:20

15:15-15:30

Real-time remote 3D digitizing and modelling
Stelios Th. Kouzeleas, Kimon D. Papadimitriou

Digital Territories and the Design Construction Continuum
Dimitris Papalexopoulos

15:20-15:30

15:30-15:40

Towards a Sketching Tool for Architects: 3D Reconstruction of Polyhedron
Francois Guena, Louis-Paul Untersteller
Teaching Pervasive Computing for Architects - A simple but powerful building simulator explaining the potential and power of pervasive computing through hands-on exercises
Odilo Schoch
15:40-16:00 Discussion Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
  Session 5 (Tadeja Zupancic)
DIGITAL DESIGN EDUCATION 1
Session 6 (Loukas Kalisperis)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
16:30-16:45

A Critical Review of Problem Based Learning in Architectural Education
Alan Bridges

Complex design strategies using building information models - Evaluation and interpretation of boundary conditions, supported by computer software
Dirk Donath, Christian Tonn
16:45-17:00

Teaching Tectonic Design Studio with A Digital Design Approach
Mao-Lin Chiu, Chien-Rung Lou

eCAADe: An Educational Commendation Mechanism for the Adaptive Semantic Web to Use in the Architectural Design Environment
Ji-Hyun Lee, Shu-Feng Pan
17:00-17:15 Educating the Digital Design Thinker - What Do We Teach When We Teach Design
Rivka Oxman
Managing the Changes within the Architectural Practice - The Effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Hannu Penttila
17:15-17:30 Architectural Parametric Designing
Marc Aurel Schnabel

Testing 3D Building Modelling Framework In Building Renovation
Marko Rajala, Hannu Penttila

17:30-17:45

17:30-17:40

Towards a Better Understanding of the Case-Based Reasoning Paradigm in Architectural Education and Design
Katharina Richter, Dirk Donath

ILUDS - An Interactive Land Use Database System for Intelligent Cities
Ahmad Rafi

17:45-18:00

17:40-17:50

Sharing hidden power - Communicating latency in digital models
Jane Burry, Mark Burry
Web-based virtual models in knowledge exchange forum - The reconstruction and restitution support techniques in WWW
Robert Barelkowski, Marcin Sajdak

18:00-18:15

17:50-18:00

The Visualization – Visual Comparative Analysis of Early Romanesque Churches
Robert Barelkowski, Jerzy Chodor
The use of ICT – Information and Communication Technologies to support decisions in the area of heritage and landscape preservation
Eduardo Sampaio Nardelli
18:15-18:30 Discussion Discussion
18:45-19:45

Plenary Technical Keynote Session
Lars Hesselgren KPF
Alistair Brook AutoDesk

20:00-22:00 Cocktail

For more information, please contact ecaade06@arch.uth.gr