From: Claudio Kirner <ckirner@POWER.UFSCAR.BR>
Subject: CFP: WORKSHOP ON VR - BRAZIL
Date:         Sat, 12 Jul 1997 17:43:34 -0200
Message-ID:  <199707121943.RAA14510@power.ufscar.br>



              I WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY - WRV97
             Federal University of Sao Carlos - UFSCar
           Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil, November 09 - 12, 1997



INTRODUCTION
The First Workshop on Virtual Reality is being organized
by the Virtual Reality Group of the Computer Science
Department - UFSCar, to serve as a forum for discussions
on VR projects being developed by the group and its partners,
sponsored by CNPq-PROTEM-Phase III, CNPq-RHAE, and FAPESP.
In order to disseminate information in this area, the workshop
is being extended to interested researchers.

Planned activities include: invited national and international
mini-courses, international tutorials, technical sessions, and
VR demonstrations of the work being developed.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit original papers related to
the various aspects of Virtual Reality. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the development of VR
software and hardware, man-machine 3D interaction, and VR
systems and applications. All accepted papers will be
presented at the technical sessions and published in the
Proceedings of the Workshop.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Researchers are invited to submit papers in English or in
Portuguese in the following format: A4 paper, single column,
3,5 cm for upper margin, 2 cm for bottom margin, 3 cm for
lateral margins, letter size 12, Times New Roman type, or
equivalent, simple space, and no page numbers. The first page
of the paper should contain the paper title, author(s) name(s),
complete address (phone, fax, e-mail) for all authors and
abstract. The text should start right after the abstract. The
paper should be limited to 10 pages. Papers may be sent by
regular mail or electronically (via e-mail or ftp).

To submit papers electronically, send an e-mail with the
postscript or .RTF version of the paper to:
        claudio@dc.ufscar.br

OR send a postscript or .RTF version via anonymous ftp:
        ftp tigre.dc.ufscar.br
        cd /incoming/wrv97
        put name-of-your-file

To submit papers via regular mail, send FOUR COPIES of
the paper to:
        Prof. Claudio Kirner (WRV97)
        DC-UFSCar
        C.P. 676
        13565-905 Sao Carlos - SP
        Brazil


SCHEDULE AND IMPORTANT DATES
Full Paper Due:                             August, 11, 1997
(August 11th is the arrival date by mail or e-mail)
Notification of Acceptance:                 August, 25, 1997
Camera Ready Version of Accepted Paper Due: September, 15, 1997
Workshop:                                   November 09-12, 1997


INFORMATION ON WRV97
Available through the WEB at:

        http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~grv/WRV97.html

To receive the latest information on the event, send
a mail to:

        majordomo@tigre.dc.ufscar.br

In the body of the message write:

        subscribe wrv97-l your-email-address


ORGANIZATION
Virtual Reality Group - GRV
Computer Science Department
Federal University of Sao Carlos


WRV97 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

GENERAL CHAIR
        Claudio Kirner - UFSCar
        e-mail: claudio@dc.ufscar.br
        Fone: +5 016 274 8232
        Fax:  +5 016 274 8233

Program Committee (preliminary):
        Andre L. Battaiola - UFSCar
        Antonio Helio Guerra Vieira - EPUSP
        Claudio Kirner - UFSCar (Chairman)
        Fernando Schirmbeck - SENAI-RS
        Junia C.A.Silva - UFSCar
        Marcio S. Pinho - PUC-RS
        Paulo E. Cruvinel - EMBRAPA-CNPDIA
        Raul S. Wazlawick - UFSC
        Regina B. Araujo - UFSCar
        Tereza G. Kirner - UFSCar
        Valentin O. Roda - IFSC-USP


Organization Committee:
       Andre L. Battaiola - UFSCar
       Andre Torre Neto - EMBRAPA-CNPDIA
       Ildeberto G. Bugatti - UFSCar
       Junia C.A.Silva - UFSCar
       Mario M. Kubo - UFSCar
       Regina B. Araujo - UFSCar
       Simone G. Santos - UFSCar
       Tereza G. Kirner - UFSCar
       Valeria F. Martins - UFSCar

SPONSORED BY THE BRAZILIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY-SBC, UFSCar, CNPq-PROTEM-CC,
CNPq-RHAE.

ABOUT SAO CARLOS

Sao Carlos is at the center of Sao Paulo state and has one of the
most enterprising high tech centers of the state, with more than 300
companies developing high technology products. Sao Carlos has two
public Universities which are ranked among the leading
Brazilian Universities for their level of national and
international excellence in research. One of them is the Federal
University of Sao Carlos, with research and teaching in 25
undergraduation courses and 15 postgraduation courses (http://www.
ufscar.br). The other is a campus of the Sao Paulo University, with
teaching and research in several areas ( http://www.icmsc.sc.usp.br)

For further information about Sao Carlos see http://www.icmsc.sc.usp.
br/Sao_Carlos