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3rd EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP
on
V I R T U A L E N V I R O N M E N T S
Coexistence, Communication & Collaboration
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Call for contributions
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February 19-20th, 1996
Monte Carlo, Monaco
AIMS AND SCOPE:
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The Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments has become an
international forum of high quality for exchanging experience and
knowledge between people representing the Virtual Reality (VR) / Virtual
Environment (VE) communities.
Following the initial Workshop on VEs in Barcelona (Sept.93) and the second
in Monte Carlo (Jan.95), Eurographics is now organizing the third one which
is going to take place together with the annual IMAGINA Conference.
Virtual Environments are a significant step in Man Machine Communication.
Easy-to-understand audio-visual presentations and intuitive interaction with
computer generated worlds have been demonstrated and evaluated during the last
years. Today, the World Wide Information Highways encourage experimentation in
physically distributed but virtually shared virtual environments and
application scenarios are showing up in training, assembly and medical
research.
The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for a scientific and technical
discussion on coexistence, communication and collaboration issues in shared
Virtual Environments. The main topics of the workshop include:
- real time rendering and simulation,
- physical based modeling,
- audio-visual effects and synchronization
- haptic feedback,
- navigation, interaction, cooperation,
- synthetic actors and behaviour,
- facial expressions,
- guestures and languages,
- interaction paradigms for collaboration,
- system architecture, data consistency & interfaces,
- distributed hw/sw systems and experience,
- multi user experiments and acceptance,
- telecommunication requirements and experience.
CONTIBUTIONS:
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Authors are invited to send an extended abstract (about 4-5 pages) to the
workshop secretariat (see below for relevant deadlines). Abstracts submitted
after the deadline will still be considered, but will have a lower priority
for inclusion in the programme.
SCHEDULE:
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Nov 20th, 95: deadline for extended abstract
Dec 10th, 95 notification of acceptance / draft programme
Feb 10th, 96: full papers
Feb 19-20th, 96: workshop
VENUE and FEE:
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The workshop will be held in Monte Carlo together with the annual IMAGINA
Conference and Exhibition (21-23 Feb. 1996, http://www.ina.fr/INA/Imagina/).
Workshop participants may register to IMAGINA for reduced fee.
Participation to the workshop will be limited to 60 persons to encourage
discussion after each session and interaction between participants. Selection
of participants will take place on the basis of extended abstracts reviewed by
the programme committee. Participation without submitting an abstract may be
possible based on an expression of interest (EOI).
Full versions of all accepted papers will be published as EUROGRAPHICS
Technical Report and distributed among the participants as workshop
proceedings. It is also intended to publish the workshop proceedings.
Invitations to submit a revised version of the full papers will depend
on the quality of the distribution.
Attendance fees will cover the meeting facilities, coffee breaks and the workshop proceedings. The fee will be about 180 ECU for EG members and 250 ECU for non-EG members.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
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Peter Astheimer (DE)
Frank Bagiana (NL)
Jean Francis Balaguer (CH)
Klaus-Peter Beier (US)
Massimo Bergamasco (IT)
David Boyd (UK)
Steve Bryson (US)
Lennart Fahlen (SE)
Monika Fleischmann (DE)
Micheal Gervautz (AT)
Simon Gibbs (DE)
Michitaka Hirose (JP)
Bob Jacobson (US)
Hans Jense (NL)
Heedong Ko (KR)
Bowen Loftin (US)
Junji Nomura (JP)
Xavier Pueyo (ES)
Philippe Queau (FR)
Mel Slater (UK)
Jose Teixeira (PT)
Danile Thalmann (CH)
Rolf Ziegler (DE)
WORKSHOP CoCHAIRPERSONS
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Jaques David (FR), Martin Goebel (DE)
SEND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (preferably by email) to
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MARTIN GOEBEL
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD)
The Virtual Reality Demonstration Centre
Wilhelminenstr. 7
D-64283 Darmstadt
+49 6151 155-450; fax: +49 6151 155-199
email: goebel@igd.fhg.de
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