Conference Proceedings

Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008

Windsor, Ontario, Canada: 28 - 30 May 2008

© 2008. Published by Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. ISBN 978-1-56881-423-0.

Overview

The thirty-fourth Graphics Interface featured keynote speakers David Ebert, Purdue University, and Patricia M. Jones, NASA Ames Research Center. This year’s conference also provided an Achievement Award to Kellogg S. Booth, long-time president of CHCCS/SCDHM, and a Service Award to James Stewart. Abhijeet Ghosh was the recipient of the 2007 Alain Fournier Award.

Chairs

  • Chris Shaw
  • Lyn Bartram

Speakers

    David Ebert
    Mobiquitous Graphics and Visualization: More Than Just Fun and Games?
    Dr. Patricia M. Jones
    Looking Across NASA: A Perspective

Awards

Best Papers

Student Authors in Bold

    Jason Alexander, Andy Cockburn
    An empirical characterisation of electronic document navigation
    Takashi Ijiri, Mihoshi Yokoo, Saneyuki Kawabata, Takeo Igarashi
    Surface-based growth simulation for opening flowers

Acceptance Rate

Total Submitted85
Total Accepted35
Acceptance Rate41.2%

Proceedings (301 pages total)

    GI '08: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2008: Front Matter
Large Displays
    The effects of co-present embodiments on awareness and collaboration in tabletop groupware
    The effects of peripheral vision and physical navigation on large scale visualization
    Lightweight task/application performance using single versus multiple monitors: a comparative study
Image Input
    Dynamic correction of color appearance on mobile displays
    Background estimation from non-time sequence images
    A GPU-friendly method for high dynamic range texture compression using inverse tone mapping
Input
    A model of non-preferred hand mode switching
    Evaluating one handed thumb tapping on mobile touchscreen devices
    Perceptibility and utility of sticky targets
Visualization 1
    Single-pass GPU solid voxelization for real-time applications
    LiveSync++: enhancements of an interaction metaphor
    Context-controlled flow visualization in augmented reality
    Vector field contours
    25 Years ago I couldn't even spell Canadian, now I are one: momentos of collaborating on, with, and about technology
Evaluation
    Order and entropy in picture passwords
    An empirical characterisation of electronic document navigation
    Evaluation of techniques for visualizing mathematical expression recognition results
Shadows
    Layered variance shadow maps
    Quality scalability of soft shadow mapping
    Exponential shadow maps
Faces and Web
    A scalability study of web-native information visualization
    Effects of avatar's blinking animation on person impressions
    Interactive 3D facial expression posing through 2D portrait manipulation
Geometric Techniques
    Interactive global illumination based on coherent surface shadow maps
    Geometric displacement on plane and sphere
    Convex hull covering of polygonal scenes for accurate collision detection in games
    Multiresolution point-set surfaces
    PNG1 triangles for tangent plane continuous surfaces on the GPU
    Surface-based growth simulation for opening flowers
Pointing & Tracking
    SurfaceFusion: unobtrusive tracking of everyday objects in tangible user interfaces
    Semantic pointing for object picking in complex 3D environments
    Analyzing the kinematics of bivariate pointing
Visualization 3
    Cascaded treemaps: examining the visibility and stability of structure in treemaps
    Towards a model human cochlea: sensory substitution for crossmodal audio-tactile displays
    The cost of supporting references in collaborative augmented reality