From news@nexus.uiowa.edu Wed Jun 14 10:04:46 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA27326; Wed, 14 Jun 95 10:04:46 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA16530; Wed, 14 Jun 95 10:04:40 -0700 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by hitl.hitl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA07222 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:04:37 -0700 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyucq18339; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:04:26 -0400 Received: from nexus.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.6.10/19950309.1) on Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:02:48 -0500 id MAA37682 with ESMTP Received: by nexus.uiowa.edu (8.6.9/) on Wed, 14 Jun 1995 12:03:42 -0500 id MAA12711 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: herky.cs.uiowa.edu!cremer From: cremer@herky.cs.uiowa.edu () Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CONF: SIVE95 Program and registration info Date: 14 Jun 1995 17:03:39 GMT Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Lines: 348 Distribution: world Message-Id: <3rn4pb$cd5@nexus.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: cremer@herky.cs.uiowa.edu () Nntp-Posting-Host: herky.cs.uiowa.edu Status: OR Program, registration, travel, and accommodations info for the First Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments (SIVE95) are included below. Easier-to-read versions (Postscript, html), plus additional workshop information, are available on the workshop WWW page: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~cremer/sive95.html Space remains for only a few additional registrants. If you wish to attend, you must register by June 26. If you do intend to register, please let us know via e-mail as soon as possible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIVE95 --- PROGRAM, TRAVEL, AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION FIRST WORKSHOP ON SIMULATION AND INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, ACM Siggraph and The University of Iowa Center for Computer Aided Design The University of Iowa July 13-15, 1995 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: J. Cremer (Iowa), D. Manocha (UNC), G. Vanecek (Purdue) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: N. Badler (Penn), D. Baraff (CMU), P. Fishwick (Florida), J. Helman (SGI), L. Hodges (Ga. Tech), J. Kearney (Iowa), H. Ko (Iowa) M. Lin (NPS), D. Pai (UBC), Y. Papelis (Iowa), M. Raibert (MIT), A. Witkin (CMU), M. Zyda (NPS), D. Zeltzer (MIT) SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP -------------------------------------- This two-and-a-half day workshop will be a technical forum examining the state of the art and open research problems in simulation, geometry, scenario, and other supporting software technologies for virtual environments. It will include two keynote speeches, eight paper/panel sessions, two poster sessions, Iowa Driving Simulator demonstrations and demonstrations of participants' software. The paper/panel sessions will consist of 4-6 short talks, followed by a discussion period. The poster sessions will begin with each presenter speaking to the general audience for five minutes, followed by simultaneous poster presentations. Workshop proceedings will be distributed to all participants and also placed in a widely accessible ACM World Wide Web on-line proceedings repository. PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE -------------------- Thursday, July 13 8:30 - 9:00 Registration/coffee 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and opening remarks 9:15 - 10:00 Keynote speaker #1 - J. Rossignac (IBM) - "Virtual Reality as a Productivity Tool" 10:00 - 10:30 break 10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: Geometry for large scale virtual environments 12:00 - 1:30 catered lunch on-site (included) 1:30 - 2:15 Keynote speaker #2 - J. Hollerbach (Utah) "Haptic Interfaces for Teleoperation and Virtual Environments" 2:15 - 4:15 Session 2: Virtual environment modeling 4:15 - 5:45 Poster Session 1 (plus snacks - soda/cookies) 6:30 - ?? Reception/dinner (included) Friday, July 14 8:30 - 10:00 Session 3: Interactive dynamics simulation 10:00- 10:30 break 10:30 - 12:00 Session 4: Behavior and scenario modeling 12:00 - 1:30 lunch (on your own) 1:30 - 2:45 Session 5: Collision detection 2:45 - 3:15 break 3:15 - 4:45 Session 6: Applications/architectures 4:45 - 5:30 Poster session 2 (different posters) 5:30 - 7:30 Iowa Driving Simulator demos (enough time for about 1/3 of participants to drive) Saturday, July 15 9:00 - 10:30 Session 7: Humans in virtual environments 10:30 - 10:45 break 11:00 - 12:15 Session 8: Human-computer interaction/Human factors 12:30 - 3:30 Iowa Driving Simulator demos 12:30 - 3:30 Software demonstrations (at CS and/or IDS facility) 12:30 - 3:30 informal small group wrap-up sessions 3:30 - ?? picnic/cookout/activities at local park SESSION SPEAKERS (listed alphabetically, not by final speaking order) ---------------- SESSION 1: GEOMETRY FOR LARGE SCALE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Session chair - D. Manocha (UNC). 1. S. Kumar, S. Krishnas, D. Manocha (UNC), ``Fast Display of Complex CSG Environments'' 2. Naylor (AT\& Bell Labs), ``What Trees Can Do For Large Synthetic Environments'' 3. J. Oliver (Iowa State),"Unstructured Surface and Volume Decimation of Tessellated Domains'' 4. A. Varshney (UNC), P. Agarwal (Duke), F. Brooks (UNC), W. Wright (UNC), H. Weber (UNC), ``Automatic Generation of Multiresolution Hierarchies for Polygonal Models'' SESSION 2: VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT MODELING Session chairs: R. Deyo (E\&S), J. Helman (SGI) 1. R. Deyo, P. Isaacson (Evans and Sutherland), ``Pitfalls in Large-scale Real-time Simulation'' 2. S. Donikian (IRISA, France), ``Realistic Driving Simulations in Virtual Urban Environments for the Praxitele Project'' 3. J. Helman (SGI), ``A Framework for Real-Time Simulation and Interaction'' 4. M. McNeill, S. Lambourn, P. Lister, R. Grimsdale (U. Sussex, UK), "Knowledge-based Techniques in the Generation of Virtual Environments'' 5. Y. Papelis (Iowa), ``Logical Modeling of Roadway Environment to Support Real-time Simulation of Autonomous Traffic'' 6. M. Setas, M. Gomes, (INESC, Portugal) J. Rebordao, (INETI, Portugal), "Dynamic Simulation of Natural Environments in Virtual Reality'' SESSION 3: INTERACTIVE DYNAMICS SIMULATION Session Chair - J. Cremer (Iowa) 1. D. Baraff (CMU), "Physical Simulation with Contact: Approaches and Challenges'' 2. J. Chen, (IST, U. Central Florida), "Simulation and Synchronization of Fluids in a DIS'' 3. B. Mirtich (UC Berkeley), "Hybrid Simulation: Combining Constraints and Impulses'' 4. D. Pai, J. Siira, K van den Doel (UBC), ``Interactive Simulation of Physical Systems in Virtual Environments'' 5. J.-S. Pang (Johns Hopkins) and J. Trinkle (Texas A\&M), ``Dynamic Multi-rigid-body Systems with Concurrent Distributed Contacts'' SESSION 4: BEHAVIOR AND SCENARIO MODELING Session chair - J. Kearney (Iowa) 1. N. Badler, W. Becket, J. Granieri (Penn), ``Real-time simulation of synthetic human agents'' 2. P. Doenges (Evans and Sutherland), ``Behavior Simulation Requirements and Systems Approach for Real-time Virtual Environments'' 3. R. Fitzgerald (Evans and Sutherland), ``Facilitating Real-time Behavior Simulation in a Parallel Processing Environment'' 4. J. Kearney, J. Cremer (Iowa), ``Improvisation and Opportunism in Scenario Control for Virtual Environments'' 5. J. Laird (Michigan), ``Generating realistic behavior in VEs'' SESSION 5: COLLISION DETECTION Session chair - M. Lin (ARO/UNC) 1. P. Hubbard (Cornell), ``Real-time Collision Detection and Time-critical Computing'' 2. M. Ponamgi, J. Cohen, M. Lin, D. Manocha (UNC), ``Incremental Collision Detection for Polygonal Models'' 3. G. Vanecek, C. Gonzalez-Ochoa (Purdue), ``Representing Complex Objects in Collision Detection'' 4. G. Zachmann, W. Felger (FhG-IGD-Darmstadt, Germany), ``The BoxTree: Enabling Real-time and Exact Collision Detection of Arbitrary Polyhedra'' SESSION 6: APPLICATIONS/ARCHITECTURES Session chair - C. Cruz-Neira (Iowa State) 1. C. Cruz-Neira (Iowa State), P. Bash (Argonne Nat. Lab.), ``Integrating High Performance Computing and Communications with Virtual Reality for Interactive Molecular Modeling: The VIBE System'' 2. K. O'Connell, V. Cahill, A. Condon (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), ``The VOID Shell: A Toolkit for The Development of Distributed Video Games and Virtual Worlds'' 3. L. Piguet (NASA Ames), T. Fong (MIT), B. Hine (MIT), E. Nygren (MIT), ``VEVI: A Virtual Reality Tool For Robotic Planetary Explorations'' 4. R. Stiles, L. McCarthy, M. Pontecorvo (Lockheed Martin), ``Training Studio Interaction'' SESSION 7: HUMANS IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Session chair - H. Ko (Iowa) 1. A. Bruderlin, T. Calvert (Simon Fraser), ``Knowledge-based Animating of Human Figures'' 2. J. Hodgins, W. Wooten (Georgia Tech), ``Simulating the Motion of Human Athletes'' 3. H. Ko (Iowa), "Real-Time Animation of Human Locomotion'' 4. D. Reece (IST/Univ. Central Florida), ``Soldier Agents in a Virtual Urban Battlefield'' 5. D. Shawver (Sandia Nat. Lab.), ``VR/IS Lab Virtual Actor Research Overview'' 6. J. Troy, M. Vanderploeg (Iowa State), ``Interactive Simulation and Control of Planar Biped Devices'' 7. M. Waldrop, D. Pratt, S. Pratt, R. McGhee, J. Falby (Nav. Post. School), ``Real-time Upper Body Articulation of Humans in a Networked Interactive Virtual Environment'' SESSION 8: HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION/HUMAN FACTORS 1. C. Burnette (Univ. of the Arts), ``The Advanced Driver Interface Design/ Assessment Project'' 2. R. Kennedy (Essex Corp.), ``Incidences of Fatigue and Drowsiness Reports from Three Dozen Simulators: Relevance for Sopite Syndrome'' 3. T. Kesavadas (Iowa State), ``Virtual Interaction --- Tools for Robotic Manipulation in the Real World'' 4. Creve Maples (Sandia Nat. Lab.), ``MUSE: A Functionality-based, Human-Computer Interface'' 5. J. Vance (Iowa State), ``Research in Implementing a Virtual Environment for Engineering Design'' POSTER SESSIONS --------------- We have invited a number of people to give poster presentations and expect these to be excellent sessions. This list will be made available when we are more certain of these invitees' participation. IOWA DRIVING SIMULATOR DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------- Participants will have an opportunity to drive the Iowa Driving Simulator (IDS) --- an immersive driving environment incorporating real-time dynamics, advanced image generation, motion platform with dome and interchangeable auto cabs, force feedback, audio, very high resolution terrain databases, and reactive scenario traffic. IDS demonstrations will take place on Friday evening and mid-day on Saturday. Driving the IDS requires about 15 minutes per pair of people. Only about 1/3 of the participants will be able to drive on Friday evening --- the rest will drive on Saturday. ACCOMMODATIONS -------------- A block of rooms has been reserved at the Iowa House hotel, located within the Iowa Memorial Union (where the workshop will be held). Nightly rate: $60 per single or double room Phone: 319/335-3513 Fax: 319/335-0497 A small additional block of rooms has been reserved at the Holiday Inn in the center of Iowa City. The Holiday Inn is 5 blocks from the workshop site and the Iowa House hotel. The Holiday Inn is located on Iowa City's pedestrian mall, with shopping, cafes and restaurants, etc. The Holiday Inn also contains health club facilities, a pool, and so on. Nightly rate: $65/single, $70/double Phone: 319/337-4058 or 1-800-HOLIDAY Reservations must be made before June 15 to guarantee availability and the rates listed above. TRAVEL TO THE WORKSHOP ---------------------- Even though Iowa City is a small midwestern town, it is easily reached by air. The Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport is served by several major airlines including American, Delta, Northwest, TWA, United, and USAir. The airport is located between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, 20 miles from the workshop hotels. Airport limousine service is available from Airport Express for about $20 one way. Call 1-800-351-5224 (or 319-358-8000) for reservations. When you call tell them you are part of the SIVE workshop. They'll usually have a driver in the arrival area holding a sign saying ``UI SIVE''. If they pick up multiple SIVE participants at once, the first person will be charged $20, while additional people will be $5 each (you'll have to fight this out among yourselves!). The trip takes 25 minutes. Rental cars and taxis are also available. WORKSHOP WWW HOMEPAGE --------------------- Updated meeting information, a preliminary schedule, registration details, and further information about the workshop is available via the World Wide Web at URL: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/\verb~cremer/sive95.html More readable versions (Postscript and HTML) of this document and others are available on the WWW page. \end{center} REGISTRATION ------------ The registration fee is $100 for ACM members, $50 for students, and $125 for other participants. Included in this fee: lunch and dinner/reception the first day, and workshop proceedings and materials. To register, complete and return the form on the following page: REGISTRATION FORM - ACM SIVE95 First Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments The University of Iowa July 13-15, 1995 Name _______________________________________ Affiliation ________________________________ Address ____________________________________ City/State/Zip _____________________________ Country ____________________________________ Telephone __________________________________ FAX ________________________________________ Email ______________________________________ Social Security No.: _______________________ (optional --- The U of I requests this to help in the processing of registrations) REGISTRATION FEE: includes lunch and dinner/reception on Thursday, July 13, and conference materials and proceedings. ACM members: $100 Students: $50 Others: $125 Amount enclosed: $_____________ CREDIT CARD PAYMENT: Charge the following credit card: VISA ___ Mastercard ___ Expiration date: ________________________ Account number: _________________________ Signature:_______________________________ PAYMENT BY CHECK: Make check payable to: The University of Iowa MAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: SIVE95 Registration Computer Science Department MacLean Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 OR FAX IT TO: (319) 335-3624