From - Wed Sep 26 13:48:20 2001
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:53:39 GMT
Subject: CFP: Young VR (Korea)


Preliminary Call for Participation

Young Investigator's Forum in Virtual Reality (YoungVR, 2001)
December 18-20, 2001
KAIST, Daejon, Korea
vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001

Call for Participation

The Virtual Reality Research Center (VRRC) in Korea
(http://vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/) invites advanced graduate students (or any
individual with similar credentials) around the world to participate
in a forum to discuss the future of virtual reality.  VRRC,
established within KAIST, is one of the highly prestegious government
supported centers in Korea that specializes in the VR research.  This
year's forum will mark its first occurrence, and will also be first of
its kind, specifically inviting only advanced graduate students for
free form discussion on the future directions of virtual reality and
related technologies.  The forum hopes to provide an execellent
opportunity for the young researchers of VR around the world to
present, discuss, and cultivate new ideas.

An extended abstract of 2000 words are solicited on all aspects of
virtual reality, in particular on the future visions of VR and related
technologies.  The main contributor of the submission must be a
graduate student, preferably who has finished one's research proposal
toward one's PhD degree.  The nature of the forum is designed to be
small-scale, free form, higly interactive, and intensive, thus we will
only accept around 10 submissions.  All accepted participants will be
provided with all or partial expenses for travel and lodging (roundtrip
plane tickets to Korea, and room/meal).  For detailed format of the
forum, visit the forum web site at vrrc.kaist.ac.kr/yvr2001.  
The first two days will be consisted of presentations and discussion
rounds and during the final day, a social event is planned as an
opportunity for the participants to get to know one another more.

Submission deadline for the extended abstracts is October 1, 2001 with
notification of acceptance by November 1, 2001.  Please submit
abstracts (or inquiries) to: Gerry J. Kim at POSTECH, Korea
(gkim@postech.ac.kr).  The official language is English.

Program Chair: Prof. K. Y. Wohn, KAIST (Director of VRRC)
Program Coordinator: Gerry J. Kim, POSTECH
International Program Committee:
	Prof. Frederick Brooks, University of North Carolina
	Prof. Larry Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology
	Jerry Isdale, Hughes Research Laboratories / VR News
	Kenji Mase, ATR, Japan
	Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
	Kwangyeon  Wohn, KAIST, Korea.
Chris Shaw                Senior Research Scientist     GVU Center
cdshaw@cc.gatech.edu      College of Computing          Georgia Tech
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cdshaw