JEAN BOTEV

TALKS

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Sometime, Somewhere – Mediated Reality and Time Perception. Talk at the ChronoPilot Stakeholder Webinar, Online, March 8, 2024.

Mediated Reality. Invited talk and workshop at the Casino Display Artistic Research Lab (ARL), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, January 30, 2024.

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Demoscene and XR. Invited talks at the 16th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023), Sydney, Australia, December 13 & 14, 2023.

Human Perception and Immersive Mediated Reality – Human-Centric Research at the UL VR/AR Lab. Invited talk at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, December 8, 2023.

The Rallye Platform: Mobile Location-based Serious Games for Digital Cultural Heritage. Talk at the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2023) / 10th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 28, 2023.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Jean Botev on Endodrome and Virtual Reality. Invited talk and discussion at Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, March 17, 2023.

Mediated Reality x Storytelling. Invited talk at the Frozen Atlantis Workshop, Gothenburg, Sweden, January 21, 2023.

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A Dialogue on Socio-Technical Systems and Situation Awareness. Invited keynote conversation at the 12th IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA 2022), Salerno, Italy | Online, June 9, 2022.

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ChronoPilot – Modulating Time Perception. Talk and presentation at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2021), Taichung, Taiwan | Online, November 16, 2021.

Student Response Systems in Remote Teaching. Talk at the 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2021) / 8th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2021), Washington, DC, USA | Online, July 24, 2021.

Lifelike Computing Systems. Talk at the 2nd Lifelike Computing Systems Workshop (LIFELIKE 2021) at the 19th International Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021), Prague, Czech Republic | Online, July 19, 2021.

Design for Human-Machine Systems. Talk at the 5th Meeting on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY B5), Online, June 4, 2021.

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Self-Integration in Mediated-Reality Systems: a Socio-Technical Perspective. Talk at the 7th International Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2020) at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2020), Washington, DC, USA | Online, August 21, 2020.

Immersive Telepresence Framework for Remote Educational Scenarios. Talk at the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2020) / 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies (LCT 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark | Online, July 20, 2020.

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Mixed Reality – Potential and Pitfalls for Representing History. Invited talk at the International Workshop on Historicity of the Visuality and Image History: New Forms of Digital and Visual History/Humanities at the Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, November 15, 2019.

Immersive Mixed Reality Object Interaction for Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. Talk at the 11th International Workshop on Immersive Mixed and Virtual Environment Systems (MMVE 2019) at the 10th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2019), Amherst, MA, USA, June 18, 2019.

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Scientific Research on Self-Organising Systems – an Overview. Talk at the Self-Organising Systems in Art, Business and Science (SOS/ABS) workshop at the Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit (LuxLogAI 2018), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, September 19, 2018.

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Contour Drawing and Detection for Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. Talk at the 16th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2017), Larnaca, Cyprus, November 1, 2017.

High-Precision Gestural Input for Immersive Large-Scale Distributed Virtual Environments. Talk at the 9th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2017) at the 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2015), Taipei, Taiwan, June 23, 2017.

Collective Dynamics and Self-Optimisation in Large-Scale Networked Computer Systems. Keynote at the 5th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Organic and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAOS 2017) at the 30th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2017), Vienna, Austria, April 3, 2017.

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Efficient Self-Synchronization in Dynamic Networks. Talk at the International Workshop on Methods for Self-Organizing Distributed Systems (MeSoDiSy 2016), Ghent, Belgium, October 13, 2016.

The MMVE Workshop Series - Past, Present, Future. Introductory Talk and Closing Discussion at the 8th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2016) at the 7th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2016), Klagenfurt, Austria, May 12, 2016.

CollaTrEx – Collaborative Context-Aware Mobile Training and Exploration. Talk at the 1st International Conference on Design, Learning & Innovation (DLI 2016), Esbjerg, Denmark, May 2, 2016.

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Socio-Inspired Design Approaches for Self-Organizing Distributed Systems. Talk at the International Workshop on Methods for Self-Organizing Distributed Systems (MeSoDiSy 2015), Laubusch, Germany, October 6, 2015.

Socio-Inspired Design Approaches for Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Collaborative Systems. Talk at the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2015) at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2015), Cambridge, MA, September 25, 2015.

Structural Balance and Optimized Connectivity in Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments. Talk at the 7th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2015) at the 6th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2015), Portland, OR, USA, March 20, 2015.

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Anonymity, Immediacy and Electoral Delegation in Socio-Technical Networked Computer Systems. Talk at the 1st International Workshop on Socio-Informatics (Sozioinformatik 2013) at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society (INFORMATIK 2013), Koblenz, Germany, September 16, 2013.

Raising Social Awareness – Implications, Analysis and Design of Socio-Technical Systems. Invited Talk at the 1st International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2013) at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2013), Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 9, 2013.

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Universality and Self-Organization in Next-Generation Distributed Environments. Invited Talk at the FNR Science Career Matchmaking Workshop at the 2012 Luxinnovation Business Meets Research Forum (BMR 2012), Chamber of Commerce, Luxembourg, May 23, 2012.

Sociality and Self-Organization in Dynamic Overlay Modeling. Invited Talk at the 1st International Workshop on Complex Sciences in the Engineering of Computing Systems (CSECS 2012) at the 25th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2012), Munich, Germany, February 28, 2012.

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Sociality and Self-Organization in Next-Generation Distributed Environments. Dissertation Defense at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, December 20, 2011.

Getting Real – Self-Organized Resource Allocation on Second Life Avatar Traces. Talk at the 4th International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2011) at the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Haptic Audio-Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2011), Qinhuangdao, Hibei, China, October 15, 2011.

CoDE – An Application-Layer Framework for Confidentiality in Distributed Environments. Talk for the 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Social Computing (SocialComp 2011) at the 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2011), Orlando, FL, USA, October 15, 2011.

FloRA – Flock-Based Resource Allocation for Decentralized Distributed Virtual Environments. Talk at the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Simulation and Online Gaming (DISIO 2011) at the 4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2011), Barcelona, Spain, March 21, 2011.

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A Self-Organized Resource Allocation Scheme for Decentralized Distributed Virtual Environments. Talk at the 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, IL, USA, October 10, 2010.

The Urban Organism. Talk at the 3rd International PerAda-ASSYST Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems, Budapest, Hungary, September 26, 2010.

Decentralized Socio-Aware Adaptive Algorithms for Complex Networks. Talk at the 3rd International PerAda-ASSYST Summer School on Adaptive Socio-Technical Pervasive Systems, Budapest, Hungary, September 22, 2010.

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Collaborative Filtering via Epidemic Aggregation in Distributed Virtual Environments. Talk at the 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2009), Washington, DC, USA, November 14, 2009.

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HyperVerse – Towards a Self-Organizing and Sustainable Global-Scale Virtual Environment. Talk at the 4th Microsoft Academic Days (MSAD 2008), Berlin, Germany, November 15, 2008.