From: felger@igd.fhg.de Subject: CFP: 1st Eurographics workshop on VR Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 22:51:12 +0100 ********** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********** First Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments - Advances in Research and Applications - Barcelona, 7th September 1993 Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Avda. Diagonal 647, Barcelona 08028 ORGANIZATION: The workshop will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on day prior to the annual EUROGRAPHICS'93 Conference. It will be organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Virtual Environments and sponsored by ONR, Europe. Local Organizer: For general informations about the workshop, please contact the local organizer Danielle TOST Email: dani@lsi.upc.es Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya Dept de Llaguatges i Sistemes d'Informatics - Seccio d'Informatic Grafica Av. Diagonal, 647, planta 8, (edifici ETSEIB) E-08028 Barcelona - Spain Tel (3) 401 66 67 - Fax: (3) 401 66 00 Fees: Attendance fees will be charged and will cover the participants edition of the proceedings and refreshment during the coffee breaks. The fees are 100 Sfr for Eurographics Members and 200 Sfr for non members. IMPORTANT DATES: May 31 deadline for the submission of extended abstracts June 15 notification of acceptance for the workshop August 10 full papers must be received Researchers in virtual reality and application developers are invited to send four copies of an extended abstract (3-5 pages) to: MARTIN GOEBEL FhG-IGD Wilhelminenstrasse 7 D-6100 Darmstadt Tel : (49) 6151 155 124 - Fax : (49) 6151 155 199 Email : goebel@igd.fhg.de Full papers will be published after review by Springer Verlag. The participants edition of the proceedings will include photocopies of the submitted papers. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Workshop Chairperson: Martin Gbel (Germany) SCIENTIFIC PROGAM AND AIMS: Virtual Reality (VR) is regarded as a significant step in Man Maschine Communication. Following the non-interactive, command-driven and graphical-interactive sytems, virtual environments allow an easy-to-understand presentation and more intuitive interaction with computer internal data. Further than graphical means in information exchange and realtime response are evidently needed in future man maschine interaction. The first generation of peripherals for buildig virtual environments (VE) like DataGloves and Head mounted Displays as well as Software Systems are in already use and under evaluation. Current research in this area is established at various levels of immersion and interaction - from desktop virtual reality to fully immersive systems. Research aims to overcome the limitations and to improve the acceptance of VR-techniques. New paradigms in future computer supported communication will be developed. Applications, now, are undertaking the first steps by adapting system prototypes to virtual environments. The accuracy, usability and effectiveness of this new technology is investigated. Further, application specific requirements and enhancements are defined and developed. The workshop aims to establish a working group within Eurographics which enhances a continous information exchance between researchers and developers at a European institutional level. The particular goal of this event is to identify the key research work and to stimulate application areas to use of VR techniques. The state of the art in advanced research and currrently applied techniques should also demonstrate gaps which could be covered by future R&D programs. EUROGRAPHICS'93 in Barcelona is the annual conference of the Eurographics association. Since 1980, the EUROGRAPHICS conference took place in different Europea countries. The conference main topics are computer graphics, visualization, imaging and related areas.