From news@gnu.mat.uc.pt Fri Sep 30 07:33:54 1994 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.4/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30 ) id AA24712; Fri, 30 Sep 94 07:33:54 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.9/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30 ) id AA07419; Fri, 30 Sep 94 07:32:47 -0700 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA01208; Fri, 30 Sep 1994 07:31:25 -0700 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by rodan.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxjpi15209; Fri, 30 Sep 1994 10:33:15 -0400 Received: from gnu.mat.uc.pt by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxjpi29383; Fri, 30 Sep 1994 10:32:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (news@localhost) by gnu.mat.uc.pt (8.6.5/8.6.5) id PAA28359; Fri, 30 Sep 1994 15:32:26 +0100 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: mat!mauro From: mauro@mat.mat.uc.pt (Mauro Figueiredo) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: ADVANCE PROGRAM for the IFIP Workshop on Virtual Environments Date: 30 Sep 1994 14:32:26 GMT Organization: Dep. Matematica Universidade de Coimbra Lines: 216 Message-Id: <36h7hq$rbi@gnu.mat.uc.pt> Reply-To: mauro@mat.uc.pt Nntp-Posting-Host: matuc2.mat.uc.pt X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Status: Status: OR Dear Colleagues We would appreciate if you could forward this ADVANCE PROGRAM for the IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS to be held in Coimbra, Portugal (24 - 25 October 1994). Thank you for your collaboration. Mauro Figueiredo ______________________________________________________________ IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Coimbra, Portugal 24 - 25 October 1994 ADVANCE PROGRAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ______________________________________________________________ The IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS presents a high-qualIty international forum for virtual environments and its applications that will bring together researchers and practitioners for a two day program. In the scientific world there has been a consider- able effort at developing richer interactive systems. Independently of the application domain, there has been a common goal of creating more convincing representations of reality. Understanding the value of complete interactive representations of reality has led to the development of 3D graphic systems that allows the user to explore a 3D design space visu- ally. Virtual Environments can be identified as the ul- timate form of interaction between human and ma- chine. In a Virtual Environment the computer system provides sensorial feedback that responds to "visitor" movements with sights and sounds designed to cre- ate the illusion that the "participant" is immersed in a real world. The goal is to allow full-body participation in computer events that are so compelling that they would be accepted as a real experience. ------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN: Prof. Doutor Jose Carlos Teixeira CCG/ZGDV -Centro de Computacao Grafica, Coimbra ------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Bono (FhG-CGRG, USA), P. Brunet (Univ. P. Catalunya, E), S. Bryson (NASA, USA), R. Earnshaw (Univ. Leeds, UK), J. Encarnacao (GRIS, D), B. Falcidieno (IMA, I), A. Figueiredo (Univ. Coimbra, P), M. Gigante (RMIT, Australia), M. Goebel (FhG-IGD, D), G. Grinstein (Univ. Massachusetts, USA), M. Gross (ZGDV, D), R. Hubbold (Univ. Manchester, UK), T. Kunii (Univ. Aizu, Japan), L. Magalhaes (Unicamp FEE-DCA, Brasil), J. Rix (FhG-IGD, D), J.C. Teixeira (CCG/ZGDV, P), A. Wexelblat (MIT, USA) ------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE LOCATION: CCRC - Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro Rua Bernardim Ribeiro 80, COIMBRA - PORTUGAL ------------------------------------------------------------- ADVANCE PROGRAM Monday, October 24th 09.00 Registration 10.00 Welcome to the participants 10.15 Invited Speaker Interacting with Virtual Reality Matthias Wloka (Brown University, USA) 11.15 Coffee Break 11.30 Invited Speaker Overview of Applications in Immersive Virtual Reality Pierre duPont (Division Limited, UK) 12:30 Lunch 14:00 Telehaptic Research Laboratory Presentation Hands-on demonstration Discussion Kirk Woolford (Academy of Media Arts, Germany) 20:00 Workshop Dinner Tuesday, October 25th 09:30 Simulation in Virtual Environments Isaac: Building Simulations for Virtual Environments George Vanecek, J. Cremer (Purdue Univ., USA) Coping with Robot/Environment Interactions for Solving Off-Road Vehicle Motion Planning Moez Cherif (LIFIA - INRIA Rhone, France) 10:30 Interaction Solid Modeling as a Framework in Virtual Environments Mauro Figueiredo, J. C. Teixeira (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal) 11.00 Coffee Break 11:15 Concepts and Tools About Plato's Cave Jose C. Teixeira, V. Murtinho (CCG/ZGDV, Portugal) CYBERSPACE: Beyond Sensorial Immersion Ana Almeida, L. Roque, A. D. Figueiredo (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal) Polygon Rendering on a SIMD Processor Array Joao Pereira, M. R. Gomes (INESC/IST Lisboa, Portugal) 12:30 Lunch 14.00 Virtual Environments for Production Towards a Virtual Prototyping Environment Uwe Jasnoch, H. Kress, J. Rix (FhG - IGD, Germany) A Real-time Collaborative Working Environment for Concurrent Engineering Terrence Fernando, J. Maxfield, P. Dew (Univ. of Leeds, UK) User Oriented Object Modelling in Virtual Manufacturing - a personal view Ozdogen Karagali (Loughborough Univ. of Technology, UK) 15.30 Virtual Environments Support Network Requirements for Large Distributed Virtual Environments Regina B. Araujo, C. Kirner (Univ. F. Sao Carlos, Brasil) Task Performance Using 3D Displays Tim Bardsley, I. Sexton (DeMonfort Univ., UK) Virtual Reality for Enhanced Computer Vision Wilhelm Burger, M. J. Barth (Univ. of California, USA) 17.00 Coffee Break 17.15 Closing Session - Invited Speaker Industrial Applications of Virtual Environments Martin Goebel (FhG-IGD - Darmstadt, Germany) ------------------------------------------------------------- KEY TOPICS: Human Factors Software Architectures Tools and Techniques Input and Output Devices Interaction Techniques Distributed Systems Co-operative and Multi-user Systems Applications ------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS: Caixa Geral de Depositos Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro Fundacao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento Hewlett-Packard Portugal Sistemas de Informatica e de Medida, S.A. Junta Nacinal de Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica Regiao de Turismo do Centro SGvi - Sistemas Graficos de Visualizacao Interactiva, S.A. Software AG Portugal- Alta Tecnologia Informatica, LDA. ______________________________________________________________ LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Mauro Figueiredo, Carlos Martins, Jurgen Bund, Anabela Lucio CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq. 3000 Coimbra - Portugal tel: +351 39 702646 fax: +351 39 702647 email: mauro/martins/bund@mat.uc.pt (Please, cut here) ================================================================== I intend to attend to the IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS in COIMBRA, PORTUGAL, on October 24-25, 1994, and would like to receive more information. Name: ________________________________________________ Organization: ________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Telephone: ________________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________________ email: ________________________________________________ Return form to: Prof. Doutor Jose Carlos Teixeira CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq. 3000 Coimbra - Portugal fax: +351 39 702647