Symposium

Thinking Within

Organised by Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen Environmental Research
Date

Thu 13 April 2023 09:00 to 18:00

Venue Gaia, building number 101
Droevendaalsesteeg 3
101
6708 PB Wageningen
+31 (0) 317 - 48 17 00
Room 1 & 2

Programme

9:00 Doors open, coffee & tea
9:55 Opening & Welcome Alexander Klippel
10:00-11:00 Extended Realities for Agricultural Digital Twins Will Hurst - Information Technology, Wageningen University and Research
Delivering or Going Beyond Reality: A Paradigm Shift in Spatial Information Science Jiayan Zhao - Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research
Thinking with and without an Extended Version of Reality: Forms of Visuospatial Knowledge Representation and their Effects on what we know Arzu Çöltekin - Institute of Interactive Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
11:00-11:30 Coffee & tea break
11:30-12:30 Utilizing Immersive Virtual Technology to Better Understand and Measure Eating Behavior Travis Masterson - Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Director of the Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory Institute for Computational and Data Sciences - Affiliate The Pennsylvania State University
Challenges of Virtual Reality Environments for Scientific Applications Michal Koutek – The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Intro to demos
12:30-14:00 Lunch break and demos & posters Special Guests: Arno Freke, VR Zone, TU Delft
Demos: WANDER, WUR Game Hub
14:00-15:00 Serious Gaming to Explore Resilience in Contested Agro-forested Landscapes Erika Speelman Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research
Location-based Gaming Remco Veltkamp - Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University
Digital Twins for the Ocean Igor Mayer - Breda University of Applied Sciences, Academy for AI, Games and Media & Tilburg University, Organization Studies
15:00 Coffee and tea break
Continuation in Omnia
16:00 Inaugural lecture: A Spatial Perspective on the Wageningen Metaverse Alexander Klippel
17:00 Reception