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        IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
                        Coimbra, Portugal
                      24 - 25 October 1994


               NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS 
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The IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
presents a high-quality international forum for virtual 
environments and its applications that will bring 
together researchers and practitioners for a two day program.


In the scientific world there has been a considerable effort 
at developing richer interactive systems. Independently of 
the application domain, there has been a common goal of 
creating more convincing representations of reality.  
Understanding the value of complete interactive representations 
of reality has led to the development of 3D graphic systems 
that allows the user to explore a 3D design space visually.


Virtual Environments can be identified as the ultimate form of 
interaction between human and machine. In a virtual environment 
the computer system provides sensorial feedback that responds 
to "visitor" movements with sights and sounds designed to create 
the illusion that the "participant" is immersed in a real world. 
The goal is to allow full-body participation in computer events 
that are so compelling that they would be accepted as real 
experience.

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KEY TOPICS:

      Human Factors of VE
      Software Architectures for VE
      Tools and Techniques for Modeling VE Systems
      VE Input and Output Devices
      Tactile and Force Feedback
      VE Interaction Techniques
      Distributed VE Systems
      Cooperative and Multiuser VE Systems
      Applications of VE
Other areas of interest will also be considered.


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EXTENDED ABSTRACTS:

Papers should be at most 6000 words or 12 pages. Submissions 
should consist of FOUR paper copies of an extended abstract 
(up to 3 pages, < 1000 words) giving a title, a description 
of the paper content, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), 
a contact address (e-mail and/or postal), telephone and/or 
FAX number.


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PROCEEDINGS:

Papers presented at the workshop will be published as 
proceedings by Springer-Verlag.


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IMPORTANT DATES:

      # Receipt of extended abstracts        10 June 1994
      # Notification of acceptance            1 July 1994
      # Final version of papers              30 September 1994
      # Workshop                          24-25 October 1994


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WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN:
       Prof. Doutor Jose Carlos Teixeira
       CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica, Coimbra

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Peter Bono, CGRG, USA
Pere Brunet, U Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Steve Bryson, NASA Ames, USA
Jose Encarnacao, GRIS, Germany
Bianca Falcidieno, IMA CNR, Italy
A. Dias Figueiredo, U Coimbra, Portugal
Michael Gigante, RMIT, Australia
Martin Goebel, Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany
George Grinstein, U Lowell, USA
Markus Gross, ZGDV, Germany
Roger Hubbold, Manchester, UK
R.A. Earnshaw, U Leeds, UK
T. Kunii, U Tokyo, Japan
Leo Magalhaes, U Campinas, Brasil
Joachim Rix, IGD, Germany
Jose Teixeira, CCG, Coimbra
Alan Wexelblat, MIT, USA


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PAPERS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO:
All responses, questions and submissions should be addressed to:

       
       Prof. Doutor Jose Carlos Teixeira
       CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica 
       R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq.
       3000 Coimbra - Portugal
       tel: +351 39 702646
       fax: +351 39 702647
       email: teixeira@mat.uc.pt

Extended abstracts (up to 3 pages) may be submitted via email
to teixeira@mat.uc.pt using RTF format for WinWord.
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LOCAL ORGANIZATION:

       Mauro Figueiredo, Paula Furtado, Carlos Martins, 
       Jurgen Bund, Anabela Lucio
       CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica 
       R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq.
       3000 Coimbra - Portugal
       tel: +351 39 702646
       fax: +351 39 702647
       email: mauro/bund@mat.uc.pt


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                CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica 
                R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq.
                3000 Coimbra - Portugal
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