Friday, March 14, 2008
10:00 - 10:20	Registration
10:30 - 10:50	Welcome
11:00 - 12:00	Keynote Presentation: Chris Crawford
12:00 - 1:45	*Social Lunch
2:00 - 3:40	Roundtable Discussions and Testbed Session I
4:00 - 5:00	Workshop I
5:00 - 7:00	*Social Dinner
7:30 - 9:00	StoryBox jam

Saturday, March 15, 2008
9:00 - 9:50	Breakfast
10:00 - 11:40	Roundtable Discussions and Testbed Session II
12:00 - 1:30	*Social Lunch
2:00 - 4:00	Showcase Exhibition (open to general public)
4:30 - 5:30	Workshop II
6:00 - 8:00	*Social Dinner
8:30 - 10:30	StoryBox jam

Sunday, March 16, 2008
9:00 - 10:00	Workshop III
10:20 - 12:00	Roundtable Discussions and Testbed Session III
12:00 - 2:00	*Social Lunch
2:30 - 3:00	Closing Session

* These meals are off-site and the cost is not covered by the conference. The Saturday morning breakfast is free for attendees and made possible through the generous support of the National Center for Simulation..

Details
The conference will take place March 14 - 16, 2008, and will consist of the following core events:

• Keynote address: Chris Crawford, author of Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling
• Roundtable discussions and testbed experiments to test theories of interactive narrative
• Public showcase to share new technologies and projects
• Creative workshops
• Nighttime StoryBox jams for creative exploration
• Social time

Roundtable Discussions and Testbed Sessions
Attendees should bring their questions and ideas about interactive performance to the conference.  At the roundtable discussion sessions, you will have the benefit of expert interdisciplinary minds to explore your questions and bring new perspectives to your theories regarding interactive narrative. Attendees are encouraged to pose topics and join in the discussion of others. The outcome of these discussions will be concepts and theories to put on their feet in the testbed sessions.

These sessions will provide an opportunity to test interesting theories and narrative concepts inside the StoryBox: a black box interactive performance stage, complete with cameras, lights, and the ambient sound engine. Bringing the StoryBox to life will be the UCF Interactive Performance Team, a team of inter-actors trained in acting, improvisation, story, psychology, and technology. In this fluid and adaptable testbed environment, ideas generated in the roundtable discussions will be explored in real time, giving the attendees the opportunity to make modifications that will have immediate, observable results.

Showcase Exhibition
The showcase is an opportunity for industry leaders and academic researchers, to present technology that is exploring new forms of narrative and human interaction.  All guests are invited to bring an example of existing technology that could be a platform for, or augmentation of, interactive performance. Possible examples include a virtual worlds platform; a robot controlled by artificial intelligence; or part of an interactive theme-park show. In addition to our Conference attendees, the Showcase will be open to other local guests from industry and academia.