Call for Participation
EGVE '02
Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments
May 30-31, 2002
Barcelona, Spain
http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002
Aims and Scope
We invite you to participate in the Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual
Environments. This workshop is a well-known international forum for the
exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers
concerned with virtual environments and virtual reality.
Papers and case studies will form the scientific content of the event.
Papers are invited that present research results from all areas of
virtual environments. Case studies report on practical applications of
virtual environments.
This year a special focus is set on interaction with virtual environments.
Authors with outstanding contributions to this focus will be asked to
publish an extended version of their paper in a planned special issue
of Computers & Graphics on Interaction with Virtual Environments.
Topics
Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to :
3D interaction techniques
Innovative 3D input devices
Augmented/mixed reality
Multimodal interaction
VR systems development
Collaborative VR
VE evaluation
Virtual reality for scientific visualization
Real-time graphics techniques for VE
Haptic rendering and displays
Interactive physical based simulation
Case studies are invited from any application area, including: Industrial,
marketing, e-commerce, entertainment, architecture.
Workshop Venue and Format
The event will be held in Barcelona. The event is open to all those with
an interest in virtual environments. Students, in particular, are
encouraged to participate. The two day workshop will be organized as
an assembly of plenary presentations. Invited presentations will be
included.
Workshop co-chairs:
Stefan Mueller, Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University, Canada
Local organizers:
Carlos Andujar, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Pere Brunet, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Marta Fairen, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Jordi Regincos, University of Girona, Spain
LLuis Solano, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Program Committee:
Carlos Andujar, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Astheimer, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland
Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Canada
Allen Bierbaum, VRAC, Iowa State University, USA
Mark Billinghurst, HITL, University of Washington, USA
Doug A. Bowman, Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech., USA
Pere Brunet, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France
Rudolph Darken, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Miguel Encarnacao, Fraunhofer Center for Research in Computer Graphics, USA
Thomas Ertl, Visualization and Interactive Systems Group, University
Stuttgart, Germany
Bernd Froehlich, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Martin Goebel, GMD/IMK, Germany
Robert van Liere, Center of Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands
Jordi Regincos, University of Girona, Spain
Holger Regenbrecht, Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany
Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Virtual Reality Systems and Research, Naval Research
Laboratory, USA
Dieter Schmalstieg, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Important Dates
Deadline for submission December 16, 2001
Notification of acceptance January 20, 2002
Camera-ready papers due February 24, 2002
Workshop May 30-31, 2002
Related Events
EGVE '02 is preceeded by VisSym '02, the 4th joined Eurographics-IEEE TCVG
Symposium on Visualization. This symposium will be held from May 27-29 in
Barcelona at the same site.
Paper Submission
Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper.
Publications should be submitted in PDF format electronically. More
information on paper submission can be found on the EGVE'02 WWW page.
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