From - Mon Nov 12 13:47:33 2001 Subject: EGVE2002 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 101 09:42:39 +0200 (METDST) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation EGVE '02 Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments May 30-31, 2002 Barcelona, Spain http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002 Aims and Scope We invite you to participate in the Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. This workshop is a well-known international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual environments and virtual reality. Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the event. Papers are invited that present research results from all areas of virtual environments. Case studies report on practical applications of virtual environments. This year a special focus is set on interaction with virtual environments. Authors with outstanding contributions to this focus will be asked to publish an extended version of their paper in a planned special issue of Computers & Graphics on Interaction with Virtual Environments. Topics Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to : 3D interaction techniques Innovative 3D input devices Augmented/mixed reality Multimodal interaction VR systems development Collaborative VR VE evaluation Virtual reality for scientific visualization Real-time graphics techniques for VE Haptic rendering and displays Interactive physical based simulation Case studies are invited from any application area, including: Industrial, marketing, e-commerce, entertainment, architecture. Workshop Venue and Format The event will be held in Barcelona. The event is open to all those with an interest in virtual environments. Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate. The two day workshop will be organized as an assembly of plenary presentations. Invited presentations will be included. Workshop co-chairs: Stefan Mueller, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University, Canada Local organizers: Carlos Andujar, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Pere Brunet, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Marta Fairen, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Jordi Regincos, University of Girona, Spain LLuis Solano, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Program Committee: Carlos Andujar, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Peter Astheimer, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Canada Allen Bierbaum, VRAC, Iowa State University, USA Mark Billinghurst, HITL, University of Washington, USA Doug A. Bowman, Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech., USA Pere Brunet, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Rudolph Darken, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Miguel Encarnacao, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, USA Thomas Ertl, Visualization and Interactive Systems Group, University Stuttgart, Germany Bernd Froehlich, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany Martin Goebel, GMD/IMK, Germany Robert van Liere, Center of Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands Mark Mine, Walt Disney Imagineering, USA Jordi Regincos, University of Girona, Spain Holger Regenbrecht, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Virtual Reality Systems and Research, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Important Dates Deadline for submission December 16, 2001 Notification of acceptance January 20, 2002 Camera-ready papers due February 24, 2002 Workshop May 30-31, 2002 Related Events EGVE '02 is preceeded by VisSym '02, the 4th joined Eurographics-IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization. This symposium will be held from May 27-29 in Barcelona at the same site. Paper Submission Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper. Publications should be submitted in PDF format electronically. More information on paper submission can be found on the EGVE'02 WWW page.