The seminar "Multimodal perception & Interaction" is about the fascinating world of human visual, auditory and tactile perception and the use of its potential in designing novel interfaces for interacting with virtual worlds. The seminar consists of four building blocks: http://www.cs.uu.nl/education/vak.php?vak=INFOMMPI&jaar=2009

1. Designing virtual worlds for training purposes: cases, design issues and research challenges (teacher/guest presentations).
2. Basic knowledge on perception, navigation, manipulation and communication in VR (teacher presentations)
3. Student presentations and discussions of papers related to the topics under 2. Each participant presents his/her paper and discusses this paper with the group. We will read and discuss papers that address the following topics:
   - some basics of visual, auditory and tactile perception and the effects of combining them (multimodal presentation and interface design guidelines)
   - visual communication interfaces in virtual worlds (effects of non-verbal facial communication)
   - navigation interfaces in virtual worlds (head tracked visualization and disorientation issues)
   - manipulation in virtual worlds (traditional mouse-cursor interfaces versus virtual hand control)
   - virtual worlds through mobile displays (scrolling interfaces versus virtual windows)
   - emerging interface technology (synaesthetic media and brain machine interfaces)
4. Students will design and perform experiments on multimodal perception, affective appraisal in virtual worlds, or brain-machine interfaces.