Dear Colleagues, Apologies for multiple postings. Please send the following CFP to your friends. 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2006) November 29- December 1st, 2006 Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, P.R.China www.icat2006.org ICAT 2006 will run technical sessions covering conventional VR areas and new emerging areas related to Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing and Intelligent/Humanoid Robotics with a lineup of Invited Talks, Special Sessions, Tutorials, Workshops and Media Technology/ Art Exhibitions. Researchers are invited to submit full and short papers, and poster abstracts, on all aspects of innovative theory and application aspects of Virtual Reality and Telexistence.Topics include but are not limited to: *Artificial Reality / Virtual Reality *Teleoperation / Telexistence /Telepresences *Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality *Real Time Computer Simulation *Ubiquitous/Wearable Computing *Visual and Auditory Displays *Anthropomorphic Intelligent Robotics *Software Architecture for VR *Immersive Projection Technology *Tools and Techniques for Modeling VR Systems *Virtual Heritage *Motion Tracking *Communication with Realistic Sensations *Innovative Applications of VR *Haptics *Evaluation of VR Techniques and Systems *Multimodal Human Interfaces *VR Interaction and Navigation Techniques *Artificial Life *Distributed and Collaborative VR Systems *Retro-reflective Projection Technology *VR Input and Output Devices *Virtual Medicine and Health Science *Human Factors of VR *Interactive Art and Entertainment *VR and Media Art All accepted papers will be published in a computer science lecture notes published by Springer. We are currently contacting some journals to publish the best papers of this conference as special issues. Important Dates August 5, 2006 Deadline for papers (Extended deadline) Aug.25, 2006 Reviewing results due Sept.10, 2006 Camera-ready due Nov.27-28, 2006 Workshop/tutorial Nov.29-Dec.1, 2006 Conference Sponsored by: VRSJ (Japan) Zhejiang University of Technology In cooperation with: NSF in China / VR Committee of CSIG National University of Singapore / Zhejiang University General Honorary Chairs: Deren Li (Wuhan University,China) Susumu Tachi (University of Tokyo, Japan) General Co-Chairs: Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China) Hideo Saito (Keio University, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Adrian Cheok (Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore) Michael Haller (University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Rynson Lau (University of Durham, UK) Local Chair: Qingzhang Chen (Zhejiang University of Technology) Local Vice-Chairs: Huageng Wan(Zhejiang University) Decai Huang (Zhejiang University of Technology) Ronghua Liang(Zhejiang University of Technology) Publicity Chair: Ruigang Yang (The University of Kentucky) Publication Chair: Xiaohong Jiang(Zhejiang University) Workshop Chair: Takuya Nojima (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Demo Chair: Masahiko Inami (the University of Electro-Communications) Financial Chair: Hui Gu (Zhejiang University of Technology) --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------