Synthetic Characters and Virtual Worlds -- Engaging in a Conversation with Synthetic Characters Along the Virtuality Continuum -- Visualizing Emotion in Musical Performance Using a Virtual Character -- Knowledge in the Loop: Semantics Representation for Multimodal Simulative Environments -- Virtual Camera Planning: A Survey -- Generating Visual Displays -- Graphical Data Displays and Database Queries: Helping Users Select the Right Display for the Task -- Visualization Tree, Multiple Linked Analytical Decisions -- Structure Determines Assignment Strategies in Diagrammatic Production Scheduling -- Generation of Glyphs for Conveying Complex Information, with Application to Protein Representations -- Negotiating Gestalt: Artistic Expression by Coalition Formation Between Agents -- Text and Graphics -- Metrics for Functional and Aesthetic Label Layouts -- A Smart Algorithm for Column Chart Labeling -- 3D Interaction and Modeling -- Usability Comparison of Mouse-Based Interaction Techniques for Predictable 3d Rotation -- Multi-level Interaction in Parametric Design -- Intuitive Shape Modeling by Shading Design -- Automatic Cross-Sectioning Based on Topological Volume Skeletonization -- Novel Interaction Paradigms -- Interface Currents: Supporting Fluent Collaboration on Tabletop Displays -- Design of Affordances for Direct Manipulation of Digital Information in Ubiquitous Computing Scenarios -- 2D Drawing System with Seamless Mode Transition -- Poster Presentations and Demos -- Tentative Results in Focus-Based Medical Volume Visualization -- 3d Visualisation in Spatial Data Infrastructures -- From Artefact Representation to Information Visualisation: Genesis of Informative Modelling -- Computer-Assisted Artistic Pattern Drawing -- VR-Mirror: A Virtual Reality System for Mental Practice in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation -- Picturing Causality – The Serendipitous Semiotics of Causal Graphs -- Xface: Open Source Toolkit for Creating 3D Faces of an Embodied Conversational Agent -- Interactive Augmentation of 3D Statistics Visualizations.