From news@holodeck.iss.nus.sg Mon Sep 12 00:08:49 1994 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.4/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30 ) id AA05562; Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:08:49 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx1.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.4/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30 ) id AA02320; Mon, 12 Sep 94 00:08:38 -0700 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA03340; Mon, 12 Sep 1994 00:07:22 -0700 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by rodan.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxgzs19141; Mon, 12 Sep 1994 03:08:30 -0400 Received: from bochap.iss.nus.sg by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxgzs19729; Mon, 12 Sep 1994 03:08:28 -0400 Received: from holodeck.iss.nus.sg.iss.nus.sg by bochap.iss.nus.sg (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05691; Mon, 12 Sep 94 15:10:41+080 Received: by holodeck.iss.nus.sg.iss.nus.sg (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09068; Mon, 12 Sep 94 15:10:38+080 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: gsingh From: gsingh@iss.nus.sg (Gurminder Singh) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CONF: Proceedings of VRST'94 Date: 12 Sep 1994 07:10:38 GMT Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS. Lines: 180 Message-Id: <350ute$8qa@holodeck.iss.nus.sg> Nntp-Posting-Host: raccoon.iss.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Status: Status: OR The proceedings of VRST'94 - Virtual Reality Software & Technology - conference are available from World Scientific. Ordering information and table of contents of the proceedings are as follows. Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Proc. of VRST'94, August 23-26, 1994, Singapore) Ordering Information: ISBN: 981-02-1867-2 Price: US$68 or UK Pounds 50 Orders (including credit card details where relevant) should be sent to: 1. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Farrer Rd PO Box 128, Sinagpore 9128, Rep of Singapore Tel: (65)382-5663 Fax: (65)382-5919 E-mail: worldscp@singnet.com.sg 2. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc. 1060 Main Street, River Edge NJ 07661 USA Tel: (1-800)227-7562/(1-201)487-9655 FAX: (1-201)487-9656 E-mail: wspc@scri.fsu.edu 3. World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd. 73 Lynton Mead, London N20 8DH England Tel: (44-81)446-2461 Fax: (44-81)446-3356 E-mail: wspc@wspc.demon.co.uk Table of Contents ----------------- Keynote Address =============== Facing the Challenge: Delivering Virtual Reality 1 Michael F. Deering Gestures ======== Natural Gesture in Virtual Environments 5 Alan Wexelblat Towards a Vision-Based Hand Gesture Interface 17 Francis K.H. Quek A Logical Hand Device in Virtual Environments 33 S. Augustine Su and Richard Furuta Modeling & Animation ==================== Steps and Ladders in Virtual Reality 45 Mel Slater, Martin Usoh and Anthony Steed Fuzzy Aggregation of Motion Factors for Human Motion Generation 55 Jiyun Lee and Kwangyeon Wohn A Geometric Modeling and Animation System for Virtual Reality 71 Sean Halliday and Mark Green Architectures ============= A User-Defned Virtual Environment Dialogue Architecture 87 Anthony Steed and Mel Slater Designing in Virtual Reality: Implementing Perceptual-Action Coupling with Affordances 97 Gerda J.F. Smets, Pieter Jan Stappers, Kees Overbeeke and Charles van der Mast The Virtual Workbench: Dextrous VR 111 Timothy Poston and Luis Serra Panel Session ============= Enabling Technologies for VR 123 Chair: Daniel Thalmann Panelists: Peter Astheimer, Luis Serra and Mel Slater Invited Talk ============ Virtual Reality Technologies and its Applications to Industrial Use 125 Junji Nomura Novel 3D Techniques and Devices =============================== Multisensory Scientifc Data Sensualization Through Virtual Reality Technology 145 Tetsuro Ogi and Michitaka Hirose An Inertial Head-Orientation Tracker with Automatic Drift Compensation for use with HMD's 159 Eric Foxlin and Nathaniel Durlach A New Ultrasonic Positioning Principle Yielding Pseudo-Absolute Location 175 Hugh L. Applewhite A Study on the Synthesis of Environmental Sounds 185 Michitaka Hirose, Shin'ya Komori and Toshiki Nagumo Invited Talk ============ Virtual Environments in Scientifc Visualization 201 Steve Bryson Designing Effective Virtual Worlds ================================== Managing Mutual Awareness in Collaborative Virtual Environments 223 Steve Benford, John Bowers, Lennart Fahlen and Chris Greenhalgh Real Time Graphics and VR for Driving Simulation in Urban Environments 237 Salvador Bayarri, Marcos Fernandez, Mariano Perez and Francisco Rosich Envisionments - Constructing Dramatic Virtual Worlds 251 Maggie Cooper and Ivor Benjamin Panel Session ============= Hands off my VR: The Role of Gestures in VR 267 Chair: Mark Green Panelists: Steve Bryson, Timothy Poston and Alan Wexelblat Collision Detection =================== Effcient Virtual Collision Detection for Multiple Users in Large Virtual Spaces 271 Kim Michael Fairchild, Timothy Poston and William Bricken Virtual and Real Object Collisions in a Merged Environment 287 Daniel G. Aliaga Level-of-Detail Generation and its Applications in Virtual Reality 299 Peter Astheimer and Maria-Luise P=94che Demonstrations & Videos ======================= University of Alberta 3D Modelling Tools 313 Mark Green, Sean Halliday, Jiandong Liang and Chris Shaw Interactive Visualization of a Beating Heart: A Medical Application of the Virtual Workbench 315 S. Meiyappan and Heng Pheng Ann The Virtual Environment Theater as an Architectural and Urban Design Review System 319 Peter C.C. Wong, Chet Dagit and Robert Jacobson Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies 321 Diane Gromala and Yacov Sharir Author Index 329 Color Plates 331 -- Gurminder Singh Email: gsingh@iss.nus.sg Institute of Systems Science GSingh.CHI@Xerox.com National University of Singapore Fax: +65 778-2571 Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511 Phone: +65 774-4998