18 Dec 2020

6th ICIDM 2020 – Day 1

6th International Conference on Interactive Digital Media 2020 (ICIDM 2020) is an international virtual conference organized by three universities from Indonesia and Malaysia, namely Telkom University (Tel-U), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). ICIDM 2020 was held for two days, from 14 December 2020 to 15 December 2020 with the theme “Technologies for Human Prosperity”. This activity invites researchers for new innovative discoveries in the fields of Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Image Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Animal Computer Interaction, Animation, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Web and Mobile Technology, and Games and Emerging Technology. A total of 65 papers sent by various authors have accepted and will be published to IEEE Xplore after the conference is over.

During the two days event, the conference was hosted by Mrs. Dita Oktaria M.T. as MC. The conference was opened by Mr. Satria Mandala, Ph.D. as the ICIDM 2020 general chair representation, and Mr. Prof. Dr. Wisnu Jatmiko as Chair of IEEE Indonesia Section by giving a welcoming speech. On the first day of the conference, the first session was filled by Mr. Scot Osterweil from MIT Education Arcade as keynote speech 1 with the topic of games for education entitled “What can games tell us about life during and after a pandemic?”. This first session was also guided by Mr. Eko Nugroho, M.T. as the session chair. After one hour of presentation and question and answer session with Mr. Scot, the activity was continued with parallel sessions for each author who had been scheduled to present their paper.

 

After the first parallel session and the break ended, the second session was started and filled by Dr. Farhan Mohamed from UTM as the 2nd keynote speech with a data visualization topic entitled “Metaphoric Visualisation.” The second session was also guided by Mr. Satria Mandala, Ph.D. as the session chair. After one hour of presentation and question and answer session with Dr. Farhan was finished, just like during the first session, the activities were continued with scheduled parallel sessions for each author.

 

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