Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences (ImmersiveMe 2015). Since 2013 in Barcelona, the workshop has been a meeting point of researchers, students, media producers, service providers and industry players in the area of immersive media environments, applications and experiences. After the successful first edition at ACM Multimedia 2013 and the consolidation of the theme and the team at Orlando in 2014, ImmersiveMe'15 aims at bringing to the stage new ideas and developments that keep this topic as appealing as in the previous editions. ImmersiveMe'15 takes place in Brisbane and, again, it will be a platform to present interesting and out-of-the-box new work that contributes to making the world more interactive, immersive and engaging. In addition, this forum provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to network and to setup future collaborations in this multidisciplinary area. As in the past, this third edition of the ACM ImmersiveMe Workshop managed to attract a considerable number of high quality submissions. Accepted papers cover a broad spectrum of relevant aspects, including approaches to audiovisual immersion, through panoramic image and video capture, coding and streaming; collaborative and participatory scenarios in augmented reality, for distributed theatre performances and 3D communication; and human aspects in immersive media experiences, through interactive technologies in digital humanities, and audience response with physiological sensors. We hope that all these visions will bring an interesting Immersive Media Experience to the workshop. The workshop will also be enriched by an invited talk by Pablo Cesar, leader of the Distributed and Interactive Systems group at CWI. His talk about Immersive Shared Experiences is grounded on the current scenario of confluence of social networking, multimedia, and computer-mediated interaction and presented ongoing work and challenges with a special focus on performing arts and personal communication. We encourage conference participants to join this keynote. This valuable and insightful talk can guide us to a better understanding of the future in the field.