From news@nexus.uiowa.edu Thu Mar 9 11:27:06 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA12204; Thu, 9 Mar 95 11:27:06 -0800 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA02258; Thu, 9 Mar 95 11:27:05 -0800 Received: by hitl.hitl.washington.edu; id AA08544; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 11:22:51 -0800 Received: from ns-mx.uiowa.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP id QQygiv01381; Thu, 9 Mar 1995 14:25:53 -0500 Received: from nexus.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (8.6.8.2/19950217.1) on Thu, 9 Mar 1995 04:40:26 -0600 id EAA09295 with ESMTP Received: by nexus.uiowa.edu (8.6.9/) on Wed, 8 Mar 1995 17:36:13 -0600 id RAA20024 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: herky.cs.uiowa.edu!cremer From: cremer@herky.cs.uiowa.edu () Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: CFP: WORKSHOP ON SIMULATION AND INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Date: 8 Mar 1995 23:36:09 GMT Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Lines: 172 Distribution: world Message-Id: <3jlf19$jhl@nexus.uiowa.edu> Reply-To: cremer@herky.cs.uiowa.edu () Nntp-Posting-Host: herky.cs.uiowa.edu X-Status: Status: OR NOTE: For easier-to-read announcements (HTML, Postscript with and without images, etc.) plus color posters, see the workshop's WWW homepage at URL: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~cremer/sive95.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS/PARTICIPATION FIRST WORKSHOP ON SIMULATION AND INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Sponsored by ACM Siggraph, the Office of Naval Research, and The University of Iowa Center for Computer Aided Design The University of Iowa July 13-15, 1995 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: James Cremer (Iowa), Dinesh Manocha (UNC), George 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 OF THE WORKSHOP --------------------- Virtual worlds should be rich, dynamic environments populated with objects that exhibit realistic (or at least interesting) behaviors and that interact convincingly with each other and human participants. Remarkable progress in graphics technology has not been paralleled by developments in real-time simulation and interaction software necessary to support many VE applications. Existing systems are often visually compelling but behaviorally dull; the underlying physical and behavioral models are simplistic and the user's freedom of interaction is severely restricted. Even simple everyday interactions --- grasping, opening and closing, and moving or knocking over things --- cannot be performed in ways people are accustomed to. Many potential VE applications will not be realized without fundamental advances in efficient and robust software for simulation, geometry, behavior and scenario authoring, and basic virtual environment ``backplanes''. THIS 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. One focus will be real-time interactive simulation. Virtual environments demand a new style of simulation software that adheres to real-time constraints but is also structured to respond to user-interaction, and to detect and resolve collisions and other on-line events. A second focus of the workshop will be the modeling, control, and authoring of action and scenarios within VEs. In training and entertainment applications, developers must be able to ``program the action'' --- to populate a VE with interesting entities and to specify scenarios that meet designers' expectations. VEs require both passive behavior, based on real-time simulation with collision and contact handling, and active behavior --- motor, task, and scenario control of complex entities such as humans, robots and animals. Tools for active behavior must facilitate creating and directing scenarios of interacting human and computer controlled agents, typically combining both reactive and orchestrated behavior components. ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP ---------------------------- The two-and-a-half day workshop will include two keynote speeches, presentations by approximately sixteen of the invited participants, and panel-led discussions. Facilities for demonstrations will be available. Workshop proceedings will be distributed to all participants and also placed in a widely accessible ACM World Wide Web on-line proceedings repository. IOWA DRIVING SIMULATOR DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------- Participants will be given a demonstration of and an opportunity to drive the Iowa Driving Simulator --- 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. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ * Real-time interactive simulation: - dynamics and kinematics - geometry support - collision detection - contact analysis - incremental, real-time, robust methods * Control and behavior: - coordination of multiple agents - authoring situations and scenarios, directing actions, plot and story - human body and behavior modeling - locomotion - control of high-degree-of-freedom entities * Human-computer interface - software aspects of force feedback, haptic displays - authoring tools and interaction paradigms * Real-time issues: - architectures for real-time simulation in VE - time-critical computing - distributed and parallel computing for VE * Interoperability * Database modeling PARTICIPATION AND TRAVEL SUPPORT -------------------------------- Please submit 3-6 pages summarizing your relevant research or activities in the area. Include email and U.S. mail address, and telephone and fax numbers. Not all invited participants will have a formal opportunity to speak. However, the workshop will be organized to provide ample opportunities for discussion. A limited amount of travel funds will be available to invited participants. A registration fee of \$100 (\$50 for graduate students, \$125 for non-ACM members) will be charged. Included in this fee: catered lunch on the first day, informal reception/barbecue during the first evening, and workshop proceedings. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We prefer electronic submission of either Postscript (preferred) or plain unformatted text to: cremer@cs.uiowa.edu If you prefer, you may send hard copy to: James Cremer Computer Science Department MacLean Hall University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 (telephone: 319-335-0736) (fax: 319-335-3624) IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submissions must be received by April 20, 1995. April 20, 1995 deadline for the submission of abstracts May 15, 1995 notification of acceptance for the workshop WORKSHOP WWW HOMEPAGE --------------------- Updated meeting information, tentative schedule, registration details, and further information about the organizers and participants will be available via the World Wide Web at URL: http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~cremer/sive95.html