From: goebel@igd.fhg.de
Subject: CONF: 1st EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL ENVIROMENTS
Date: Wed, 5 May 93 03:10:23 +0200



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 EURO-
GRAPHICS and is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (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:

JUNE 15     deadline for the submission of extended abstracts
JULY 1      notification of acceptance for the workshop
AUGUST 15   full papers must be received

Researchers in virtual environments and application developers are
invited to send four copies of an extended abstract (max. 4 pages)
or to fax or email it to:

MARTIN GBEL
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD)
Wilhelminenstrasse 7
D-6100 Darmstadt
Tel : (49) 6151 155 124 - Fax : (49) 6151 155 199
Email : goebel@igd.fhg.de

It is intended to publish the workshop proceedings. Invitations to
submit a revised version of the full papers will depend on the quality
of the contributions.  The participants edition of the proceedings
will include photocopies of the submitted papers.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Frank Bagiana (ESA, The Netherlands)
Massimo Bergamasco (ARTS Lab, Italy)
Steve Bryson (Nasa Ames, US)
Sabine Coquillart (INRIA, France)
Wolfgang Felger (IGD, Germany)
Roger Hubbold (Univ. Manchester, UK)
Robert Jacobson (WORLDESIGN, US)
Peter van Lieshout (TNO, Netherlands)
Jens Neugebauer (IPA, Germany)
Philippe Queau (INA, France)
Lawrence Rosenblum (ONR, US)
Jeffrey Shaw (ZKM, Germany)
Mel Slater (Univ. of London, UK)
Robert Stone (ARRC, UK)
Danielle Tost (Univ. Politechnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Jose Teixeira (Univ. de Coimbra, Portugal)
John Vince (Hughes Rediffusion,UK)

Workshop Chairperson:
Martin Gbel (IGD, Germany)

SCIENTIFIC PROGAM AND AIMS:

Virtual Environments are regarded as one significant step in Man
Maschine Communication. Following non-interactive, command-driven and
graphical-interactive sytems, virtual environments now allow an
easy-to-understand presentation and more intuitive interaction with
computer internal worlds. Simulation, presentation and interaction is
required in realtime. The integration of visual, auditory and further
stimuli are evidently needed in future man machine interaction.

The first generation of peripherals and software systems for building
virtual environments like gloves, helmets and commercial packages are
widely available now. The use of these tools in many applications is
now being evaluated.

Current research in this area is established at various levels of
immersion and interaction - from desktop virtual reality to fully
immersive systems. Research activities aim to overcome the limitations
and to improve the acceptance of the 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 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.

The workshop intends to establish a working group within EUROGRAPHICS
which enhances a continous information exchance between researchers
and developers at an institutional level.


EUROGRAPHICS'93 in Barcelona is the annual conference of the
Eurographics association. Since 1980, the EUROGRAPHICS conference took
place in different European countries.  The conference main topics are
computer graphics, visualization, imaging and related areas.