<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message)</font></div><font face="Arial" size="2"><div> </div><div>#######################################<br>DIMEA 2008 Final Call for Participation<br>#######################################</div><div> </div><div>====================================================================<br>3rd ACM Int. Conference and Exhibition on Digital Interactive Media </div><div> in Entertainment and Arts<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> DIMEA 2008</div><div> </div><div> 10-12 September 2008<br> Athens Information Technology (AIT), Athens, Greece</div><div> </div><div> in cooperation with ACM SIG CHI<br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> Conference Web site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.dimea2008.org">http://www.dimea2008.org</a><br>====================================================================</div><div> </div><div>We cordially invite you to participate to the 3rd ACM Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts – DIMEA 2008 that will take place next week, during 10-12 September 2008, at Athens Information Technology premises, in Athens, Greece.</div><div> </div><div>DIMEA conferences target to the presentation of societal, business and technological advances and research results in cross-disciplinary areas related with digital interactive media in entertainment, arts and creative technologies.</div><div> </div><div>Keynote Talks will be given by Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Miralab, University of Geneva, Dr. Roberto Cencioni, Head of Unit INFSO.E2 Content and Knowledge, European Commission, Dr. Ioannis Mihalou(di)s, Visual Artist and Prof. Michael Meimaris, University of Athens.</div><div> </div><div>The conference program includes 17 regular oral sessions in a wide range of the DIMEA 2008 scientific and technological areas, including edutainment, games, interactive storytelling, digital art, enhanced visualization, collaboration spaces, virtual and augmented reality, advanced interaction, etc.</div><div> </div><div>Two Special Sessions in the areas of User Centric and Personalised Multimedia Service Platforms and Mobile Mixed Reality Games and a Technical Workshop on Pervasive Awareness applications: addressing their Aesthetic and Ludic aspects further enrich the conference technical program.</div><div> </div><div>The conference simultaneously hosts a Digital Art and Entertainment Exhibition including innovative digital interactive rich-media artistic and entertainment works.</div><div> </div><div>Participants may further opt to participate to one or more of the 5 half-day multi-thematic Tutorials on the first day of the conference, being: <br> 1. Inside and Outside the UpStage: Live Participative On-line Cyberformance</div><div> 2. Authoring Tools for Web Comics<br> 3. User Experience Design for Interactive TV<br> 4. Developing a videogame: from concept to your TV,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> 5. Developing play tactics in the Web 2.0 era</div><div> </div><div>The Foundation of the Hellenic World (<a href="http://www.fhw.gr">http://www.fhw.gr</a>) supports DIMEA 2008 with a "Virtual Cinema" Demo in the DIMEA 2008 Industrial Exhibition, that includes exhibitors such as Intralot, Vermantia Group, Intracom IT Services, Telmaco, SQLearn, HOL.</div><div> </div><div>Full program details and practical information may be found at the DIMEA 2008 conference website at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.dimea2008.org">http://www.dimea2008.org</a></div><div> </div></font><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Looking forward to welcoming you at DIMEA 2008 in Athens next week!</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">______________________________<br>Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou<br>Assistant Professor<br>Athens Information Technology - AIT<br>Multimedia, Knowledge and Web Technologies Group<br>Building B7, 0.8 km Markopoulo Ave., P.O. Box 68,<br>PEANIA 190 02, Athens, Greece<br>Tel: +30 210 6682804 (Int.: 5804)<br>Fax: +30 210 6682703<br>E-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sots@ait.edu.gr">sots@ait.edu.gr</a><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sofia@ieee.org">sofia@ieee.org</a><br>Web site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ait.edu.gr">www.ait.edu.gr</a><br></font></div></span></body></html>