From diderot@hitl.washington.edu Mon Jan 23 09:37:14 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA28609; Mon, 23 Jan 95 09:37:14 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW94.10/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA15942; Mon, 23 Jan 95 09:37:14 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA01679; Mon, 23 Jan 1995 09:33:19 -0800 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 09:33:19 -0800 X-Sender: diderot@hitl.washington.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: scivw@hitl.washington.edu From: Blake Hannaford (by way of diderot@hitl.washington.edu (Toni Emerson)) Subject: ASCII version of VRAIS '95 advance program Status: OR Toni, Here is the FINAL version... Please post to sci.vw asap. THanks Blake ******************************************************************* ** VRAIS '95 ** IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium March 11-15, 1995 Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Sponsored by The Virtual Reality Technology Committee of the IEEE Neural Networks Council The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics In Cooperation With SPIE and Society for Computer Simulation ************************ ** PROGRAM INFORMATION ** REGISTRATION AND HOUSING FORMS ** ** PAPERS ** PANELS ** TUTORIALS ** EXHIBITS ** VR LAB TOURS ** ************************ ==== INVITATION FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR ==== After the past few years of rapid growth, high excitement, frequent introductions of new technologies and new companies, and appalling misinterpretation by the media, virtual reality now seems to be emerging, not only as a technology with a broad range of potential applicability, but also as a rich and fascinating area of multidisciplinary investigation. VR research and development is influenced by and sometimes influences several scientific fields, including computer graphics, human-computer interfaces, computer architecture, human factors research, and computational geometry. VRAIS was conceived as a forum for the researchers and engineers studying and developing virtual reality to exchange and evaluate new ideas and approaches. The sponsoring IEEE organizations are determined to establish VRAIS as the premier technical conference on VR. Judging from the rigor of the refereeing process and the papers selected for VRAIS '95, we are well on our way. I anticipate an excellent set of papers and panel sessions at VRAIS '95, as well as a carefully-selected choice of tutorials on the weekend preceding the conference, and outstanding paper and video proceedings. Our invited lecturers this year are Prof. Henry Fuchs of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who has been a leader in VR research for many years, and who is perhaps best known for leading the prototyping of the "Pixel Planes" and "Pixel Flow" parallel computer graphics architectures, and Prof. Bowen Loftin of the University of Houston/Downtown, who had lead responsibility for one of the most significant applications of VR to date: training NASA personnel for the Hubble repair mission. In addition, following the conference reception, we are going to try an experimental format for invited speakers -- a dialogue on a variety of VR topics between two of the most original thinkers in the field: Prof. Fred Brooks of UNC and Jaron Lanier, formerly of VPL, Inc. During the first two evenings of the conference, we will take advantage of the Research Triangle location and provide tours of the highly-regarded VR research labs at the University of North Carolina and at Research Triangle Institute. It is my pleasure to invite you to attend VRAIS '95. David Mizell ==== PROGRAM SUMMARY ==== ======== Saturday, March 11th TUTORIALS (see below for tutorial descriptions): ----8:00am-12:00pm: 1A: An Introduction to Virtual Reality 1B: Merging Supercomputers with Virtual Reality ----8:00am-5:00pm: 1C: Multimedia Systems and Applications ----1:00pm-5:00pm 1D: Advanced Issues in Virtual Reality Systems Design 1E: Human Factors in Virtual Reality Development ======== Sunday, March 12th TUTORIALS (see below for tutorial descriptions): ----8:00am-12:00pm: 2A: Virtual Reality in Medical Practice & Training 2B: Fundamentals of Optics in Head-Mounted Displays 2C: Direct Manipulation in Virtual Reality ----1:00pm-5:00pm: 2D: Gibsonian Perception for the Design of Virtual Environments 2E: Tutorial on the Psychophysics & Technology of Virtual Acoustic Displays 2F: User Interface Issues for Virtual Systems ---- 6:00pm-7:30pm: Conference Reception ---- 7:30pm-8:30pm: Welcome and Opening Introductions ---- 8:30pm-9:30pm: Dialogue on Virtual Environments Fred Brooks and Jaron Lanier ======== Monday, March 13 ---- 9:00am-10:15am: Invited Speaker Research Challenges in Virtual Environments: The Race Between Achievements and Expectations Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ---- 10:45am-12:45pm: Human Factors Realizing the Full Potential of Virtual Reality: Human Factors Issues Which Could Stand in the Way K. Stanney, University of Central Florida Implications of Balance Disturbances following Exposure to Virtual Reality Systems R. Kennedy, Essex Corporation M. Lilienthal, Defense Modeling Simulation Office The Use of Sketch Maps to Measure Cognitive Maps of Virtual Environments M. Billinghurst, S. Weghorst, University of Washington Virtual-Reality Monitoring H. Hoffman, K. Hullfish, S. Houston, University of Washington ---- 2:15pm-3:45pm: Perception and Presence Quantification of Perceptual Adaptation to Visual Displacement in See-Thru Head-Mounted Displays J. Rolland, F. Biocca, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill T. Barlow, North Carolina State University A. Kancherla, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Visual Resolution and Spatial Performance: The Trade-off Between Resolution and Interactivity G. Smets, K. Overbeeke, Delft University of Technology Exploratory Studies on the Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments as a Function of Visual and Auditory Display Parameters C. Hendrix, W. Barfield, University of Washington ---- 4:15pm-5:45pm: Calibration and Registration Using Texture Maps to Correct for Optical Distortion in Head-Mounted Displays B. Watson, L. Hodges, Georgia Institute of Technology Ultrasonic Calibration of a Magnetic Tracker in a Virtual Reality Space M. Ghazisaedy, D. Adamczyk, D. Sandin, R. Kenyon, T. DeFanti University of Illinois, Chicago Dynamic Registration Correction in Augmented-Reality Systems M. Bajura, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill U. Neumann, University of Southern California ======== Tuesday, March 14 ---- 9:00am-10:15am: Invited Speaker The Use of Virtual Environments for Training the Hubble Space Telescope Flight Team Bowen Loftin, University of Houston and NASA Johnson Space Center ---- 10:45am-12:45pm: Haptic Interfaces Integration of the Rutgers Master II in a Virtual Reality Simulation D. Gomez, G. Burdea, N. Langrana, Rutgers University Intermediate Representation for Stiff Virtual Objects Y. Adachi, T. Kumano, K. Ogino, Suzuki Motor Corporation Simulation and Presentation of Curved Surface in Virtual Reality Environment Through Surface Display K. Hirota, M. Hirose, University of Tokyo Pen-Based Force Display for Precision Manipulation in Virtual Environments P. Buttolo, B. Hannaford, University of Washington ---- 2:15pm-3:45pm: Panel: Haptic Displays W. McNeely, Boeing Computer Services (chair) B. Hannaford, University of Washington M. Hirose, University of Tokyo S. Jacobsen, University of Utah K. Salisbury, MIT S. Tachi, University of Tokyo ---- 4:15pm-6:15pm: Techniques Model Based Vision as Feedback for Virtual Reality Robotics Environments E. Natonek, T. Zimmerman, L. Flu"ckiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Human Figure Synthesis and Animation for Virtual Space Teleconferencing K. Singh, J. Ohya, R. Parent ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories Off-Line Production and Real-Time Playback of Human Figure Motion for 3D Virtual Environments J. Granieri, J. Crabtree, N. Badler University of Pennsylvania A Simple and Efficient Method for Accurate Collision Detection among Deformable Polyhedral Objects in Arbitrary Motion A. Smith, Y. Kitamura, H. Takemura, F. Kishino ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories ======== Wednesday, March 15 ---- 9:00am-10:30am: Tools Design and Applications of a High Resolution Insert Head Mounted Display A. Yoshida, Universita"t Mannheim J. Rolland, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill J. Reif, Duke University A Vision-Based Head Tracker for Fish Tank Virtual Reality: VR without Head Gear J. Rekimoto Sony Computer Science Laboratory Intelligent Assistance for Intravascular Tele-Surgery and Experiments on Virtual Simulator F. Arai, M. Ito, T. Fukuda, M. Negoro, Nagoya University T. Naito, Kinjo Gakuin University ---- 11:00am-12:30am: Distributed VR Infrastructure Exploiting Reality with Multicast Groups: A Network Architecture for Large Scale Virtual Environments M. Macedonia, M. Zyda, D. Pratt, P. Barham Naval Postgraduate School EM---An Environment Manager for Building Networked Virtual Environments Qunjie Wang, Mark Green, Chris Shaw University of Alberta BrickNet: Sharing Object Behaviors on the Net G. Singh, L. Serra, W. Png, A. Wong, H. Ng National University of Singapore ---- 2:15pm-3:45pm: Distributed VR Applications Interacting in Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environments W. Broll, German National Research Center for Computer Science An Application of Virtual Reality to Situational Training S. Stansfield, N. Miner, Sandia National Laboratories D. Shawver, D. Rogers, University of New Mexico Distributed Virtual Environments for Concurrent Engineering J. Maxfield, T. Fernando, P. Dew, University of Leeds ---- 4:15pm-5:45pm: Panel: Networked Virtual Environments M. Zyda, Naval Postgraduate School (chair) R. Grossweiler, University of Virginia J. Morrison, MaK Technologies S. Singhal, Stanford University M. Macedonia, Naval Postgraduate School ==== GENERAL INFORMATION ==== ==== LOCATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS ==== North Carolina is characterized by its beautiful landscape. With 300 miles of beaches, islands and inlets along the Atlantic Ocean, and the breathtaking Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains it is a destination worth visiting. In the 1950's and '60s, a large part of North Carolina's southeast Durham evolved into Research Triangle Park, now the world's largest university-related research park and the namesake for the vast Triangle Region. The City of Durham encompasses 75% of Research Triangle Park, with Raleigh to the southeast end of the Triangle, and Chapel Hill found in the southwest corner. The Symposium will take place at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, located in the heart of Research Triangle Park, just minutes away from Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Special Rates for VRAIS '95 Registrants: Single or Double - Hotel Level = $95.00, Single - Concierge Level = $123.00, Double - Concierge Level = $133.00 To guarantee your reservation, you MUST make your reservation with payment directly to the hotel to cover the first night's stay by check or credit card using the official reservation form below. ** DEADLINE FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS: February 18, 1995 ** ==== AIRLINE TRANSPORTATION ==== Bristol Travel has been named the official travel agency for VRAIS '95 and can assist you with all your travel needs. To make your reservations call Bristol Travel at 1-800-762-2746 or (714) 285-1145 and ask about special fares for VRAIS '95. ==== TRANSPORTATION FROM THE AIRPORT ==== The Sheraton Imperial provides complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport for guests of the hotel every 30 minutes. You may also request a shuttle pick-up at the Sheraton Imperial courtesy phone located in the Baggage Claim area. Taxi fare runs between $8 and $10. ==== EXHIBITS ==== There will be an exhibits area at VRAIS '95. Vendors and publishers will be displaying the latest technology in Virtual Reality. Exhibits are open to all conference participants. For exhibit information, contact: Karen Haines Dept. of EECE, UNM Albuquerque, NM 87131 Email: Karen@eece.unm.edu (505)254-9974 ==== VR LABORATORY TOURS ==== Tours of University of North Carolina's Graphics and Image Lab and Research Triangle Institute's Applied Virtual Reality Lab will be available to conference participants. Please see course registration form for tour time and date selection. Bus transportation for each tour is $8.00. ==== FOR MORE INFORMATION === Please contact the VRAIS '95 Symposium office if you have questions or require further information about any aspect of the conference. VRAIS '95 Symposium Office 2603 Main Street, Suite 690 Irvine, CA 92714 USA 714-752-8205 (Telephone) 714-752-7444 (Fax) E-mail Address: 74710.2266@compuserve.com ==== REFUND POLICY ==== If your registration must be canceled, your fee will be refunded less $50 U.S. administration costs. You must notify us in writing by February 15, 1995. No refunds can be given after this date. ==== VRAIS '95 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM ==== Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center Research Triangle Park, North Carolina March 11-15, 1995 Last Name _______________________________________________________________ First Name/Middle _______________________________________________________ IEEE Membership # _______________________________________________________ (must be entered to qualify for discount) Mailing Address _________________________________________________________ City _________________________ State ___________ Postal Code ____________ Country _________________ E-mail ________________________________________ Office Telephone ________________________________________________________ Fax _____________________________________________________________________ TO APPEAR ON BADGE Name: ___________________________________________________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________________ City/State: _____________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES ENCLOSED (includes one set of Proceedings) Before Feb 10, 1995 After Feb 10, 1995 IEEE Member _____ $ 350 _____ $ 420 Non Members _____ $ 435 _____ $ 525 *Students _____ $ 95 _____ $ 110 * Students must include letter from Dept. Head stating full-time student status I WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL PROCEEDINGS: Number of Copies _______ X $35 = TOTAL $_________ VR Laboratory Tours ($8 per tour): UNC Demo ____ Monday (6pm - 9pm) ____ Monday (8:30pm - 11:30pm) ____ Tuesday (6pm - 9pm) ____ Tuesday (8:30pm - 11:30pm) RTI Demo ____ Monday (6pm - 9pm) ____ Monday (8:30pm - 11:30pm) ____ Tuesday (6pm - 9pm) ____ Tuesday (8:30pm - 11:30pm) Tutorial Registration Fees: Tutorials will be held on Saturday, March 11th and Sunday, March 12th. Tutorials may be canceled if there is an insufficient number of registrants. Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Only registered conference participants may register for Tutorials. Full day tutorials count as two tutorials. Students who supply a letter from Dept. Head stating full-time student status are charged half the appropriate IEEE Member price for tutorial registration. IEEE Member IEEE Member Non-Member Non-Member by Feb.10 after Feb.10 by Feb.10 after Feb.10 One Tutorial $150 $190 $185 $225 Two Tutorials $200 $250 $250 $300 Three Tutorials $250 $310 $315 $375 Four Tutorials $275 $340 $350 $410 Tutorial Selection Please indicate tutorial #'s (e.g., 1A, 2C) Tutorial # Alternate ____ One Tutorial ____ ____ ____ Two Tutorials ___ ___ ____ ____ Three Tutorials ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ Four Tutorials ___ ___ ___ ___ ____ Payment Enclosed: Registration Fees: $________________ Tutorial Fees: $________________ Additional Proceedings: $________________ Professional Tours ($8 per tour) $________________ GRAND TOTAL ENCLOSED: $________________ Please enclose checks payable to VRAIS '95 Check # ____________ Amount $ ____________ OR...... Credit Card # ____________________________________ Exp. Date __________ Please indicate Credit Card: VISA ____ MC____ AMEX ____ Authorized Signature __________________________________________ (FOREIGN PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE BY DRAFT ON A US BANK IN US DOLLARS) Mail conference registration form to : VRAIS '95 Symposium Office 2603 Main Street, Suite 690 Irvine, CA 92714, USA Telephone: 714-752-8205 Fax: 714-752-7444 ==== VRAIS '95 HOTEL RESERVATION FORM ==== Please reserve before the February 18, 1995 deadline. After that time, rooms are subject to availability. Mail hotel reservation form to: Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center P.O. Box 13099 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709