Call for Papers: HAPTEX '05 - VR Workshop in Hanover, Germany On Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects December 1-2, 2005 Leibniz Haus, Hanover, Germany Important dates: Deadline for Submission: June 30 2005 Notification of Acceptance: August 15 2005 Deadline for Final Version: August 30 2005 Within the framework of the EU-HAPTEX project the Welfenlab, University of Hanover organizes a workshop on haptic and tactile perception. All submissions will be peer reviewed. The most interesting contributions to the workshop will be published in a special issue of The Visual Computer after the workshop took place. For details concerning the workshop and the submission, please see: http://www.gdv.uni-hannover.de/haptex05 Topics of interest: - Hardware for haptic/tactile interaction in Virtual worlds - Multimodal interaction system for presenting deformable materials - Modeling dynamics of deformable objects for haptic/tactile feedback - Dynamic simulation of soft tissues/deformable objects including textiles - Simulating the touching, the hearing and the visual of the virtual world - Haptic/tactile rendering - Presenting haptic feedback in multimodal interaction - Perception of material using haptic feedback - Application of Haptic/Tactile interface for soft/deformable objects - Human computing interaction Program and Workshop Co-Chairs HAPTEX '05: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann Franz-Erich Wolter Program Committee: Massimo Bergamasco, PERCRO Heinrich Bülthoff, MPI-Tuebingen Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa Sabine Coquillart, INRIA Eddy Flerackers, University of Limburg Tobias Höllerer, University of California Hiroo Iwata, University of Tsukuba Abderrahmane Kheddar, University of Evry Val d'Essonne HyungSeok Kim, University of Geneva Tadashi Kitamura, Kyushu Institute of Technology Frederic Fol Leymarie, University of London Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva Harriet Meinander, University of Tampere Ming Lin, University of North Carolina Annie Luciani, INPG Fabio Salsedo, PERCRO Makoto Sato, Tokyo Institute of Technology Ian Summers, University of Exeter Hong Tan, Purdue University Daniel Thalmann, EPFL Frederic Vexo, EPFL Pascal Volino, University of Geneva Alan Wing, University of Birmingham Peter Wriggers, University of Hanover Franz-Erich Wolter, University of Hanover For more information, please contact: Web: http://www.gdv.uni-hannover.de/haptex05 Email: Guido Böttcher Phone: +49 511 - 762 29 14 Fax: +49 511 - 762 29 11