From: "Your VE info source" Subject: CFP: Latest InfoBahn Calls for Participation ... Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:26:04 -0700 From: "Your VE info source" The following are some of the latest Infobahn Calls for Participation: --> Computer Animation '96 --> Call for Participation: Call Date: 1 December 95 --> 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments --> Call for Participation: Call Date: 20 November 95 --> CHI '96 Workshop on Psychological Issues of Virtual Environment Interfaces --> Call for Participation: Call Date: 16 Feb 96 --> "Internet 2001" IEEE Computer Society Press Call for Papers (for a special topic book) IEEE Computer Companion Issue Call for Papers --> Call Date: 8 January 1996 --> A tenure track position in Computer Science specializing in VR! --> See job ad at back for position at NPS. **************************************************** * Computer Animation '96 * * Geneva, Switzerland * * June 3-5, 1996 * **************************************************** The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) is pleased to announce COMPUTER ANIMATION'96 in Geneva. This eighth conference on Computer Animation is organized jointly by the University of Geneva, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and CGS. Call for Papers --------------- Contributions are solicited describing original research results and applications experience to the following areas of computer animation: - Paint systems - Animation for scientific visualization - Motion control - Animation in engineering - Keyframe animation - Motion blur and temporal antialiasing - Path planning - A.I.-based animation - Mechanics-based animation - Robotics and animation - Synthetic actors - Virtual reality - Image rendering in animation - Autonomous characters - Animation languages/systems - Sound and speech synchronization - Behavioral animation - Special hardware for animation - Artificial Life - Recording techniques Four copies of full papers in English are due December 1, 1995. Authors will be notified by January 10, 1996. Camera-ready papers are due by February 10, 1996. All accepted papers will appear in a book published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Conference cochairs: Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann (Switzerland) Program Committee: Norman Badler (USA), Tat-Seng Chua (Singapore), Michael Cohen (USA), David Haumann (USA), Tosiyasu L. Kunii (Japan), Gavin Miller (USA), Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (Switzerland), Fred Parke (USA), Alex Pentland (USA), Larry Rosenblum (USA), Sung Yong Shin (Korea), Peter Stucki (Switzerland), Yasuhito Suenaga (Japan), Demetri Terzopoulos (Canada), Daniel Thalmann (Switzerland), Lance Williams (USA) Call for Computer-Generated Films --------------------------------- The Ninth Computer-Generated Film Festival of Geneva will contain a selection of outstanding computer graphic animation. Submit your latest work in computer animation by February 28, 1996. Selected films will be shown on public screening. Several awards including the Award of the City of Geneva will be decerned by an international panel of judges. Films should be submitted in video VHS or preferably UMATIC (PAL or NTSC) or Betacam (PAL only). Please include film credits and complete description of the work. Send papers, films and requests for information to: Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann MIRALab, CUI 24 rue du General-Dufour CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland tel: +41-22-705-7769 fax: +41-22-705-7780 Email: thalmann@cui.unige.ch ======================================================================== 3rd EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP on V I R T U A L E N V I R O N M E N T S Coexistence, Communication & Collaboration ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for contributions ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 19-20th, 1996 Monte Carlo, Monaco AIMS AND SCOPE: --------------- The Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments has become an international forum of high quality for exchanging experience and knowledge between people representing the Virtual Reality (VR) / Virtual Environment (VE) communities. Following the initial Workshop on VEs in Barcelona (Sept.93) and the second in Monte Carlo (Jan.95), Eurographics is now organizing the third one which is going to take place together with the annual IMAGINA Conference. Virtual Environments are a significant step in Man Machine Communication. Easy-to-understand audio-visual presentations and intuitive interaction with computer generated worlds have been demonstrated and evaluated during the last years. Today, the World Wide Information Highways encourage experimentation in physically distributed but virtually shared virtual environments and application scenarios are showing up in training, assembly and medical research. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for a scientific and technical discussion on coexistence, communication and collaboration issues in shared Virtual Environments. The main topics of the workshop include: - real time rendering and simulation, - physical based modeling, - audio-visual effects and synchronization - haptic feedback, - navigation, interaction, cooperation, - synthetic actors and behaviour, - facial expressions, - guestures and languages, - interaction paradigms for collaboration, - system architecture, data consistency & interfaces, - distributed hw/sw systems and experience, - multi user experiments and acceptance, - telecommunication requirements and experience. CONTRIBUTIONS: ------------- Authors are invited to send an extended abstract (about 4-5 pages) to the workshop secretariat (see below for relevant deadlines). Abstracts submitted after the deadline will still be considered, but will have a lower priority for inclusion in the programme. SCHEDULE: --------- Nov 20th, 95: deadline for extended abstract Dec 10th, 95 notification of acceptance / draft programme Feb 10th, 96: full papers Feb 19-20th, 96: workshop VENUE and FEE: -------------- The workshop will be held in Monte Carlo together with the annual IMAGINA Conference and Exhibition (21-23 Feb. 1996, http://www.ina.fr/INA/Imagina/). Workshop participants may register to IMAGINA for reduced fee. Participation to the workshop will be limited to 60 persons to encourage discussion after each session and interaction between participants. Selection of participants will take place on the basis of extended abstracts reviewed by the programme committee. Participation without submitting an abstract may be possible based on an expression of interest (EOI). Full versions of all accepted papers will be published as EUROGRAPHICS Technical Report and distributed among the participants as workshop proceedings. It is also intended to publish the workshop proceedings. Invitations to submit a revised version of the full papers will depend on the quality of the distribution. Attendance fees will cover the meeting facilities, coffee breaks and the workshop proceedings. The fee will be about 180 ECU for EG members and 250 ECU for non-EG members. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: ---------------------------------- Peter Astheimer (DE) Frank Bagiana (NL) Jean Francis Balaguer (CH) Klaus-Peter Beier (US) Massimo Bergamasco (IT) David Boyd (UK) Steve Bryson (US) Lennart Fahlen (SE) Monika Fleischmann (DE) Micheal Gervautz (AT) Simon Gibbs (DE) Michitaka Hirose (JP) Bob Jacobson (US) Hans Jense (NL) Heedong Ko (KR) Bowen Loftin (US) Junji Nomura (JP) Xavier Pueyo (ES) Philippe Queau (FR) Mel Slater (UK) Jose Teixeira (PT) Danile Thalmann (CH) Rolf Ziegler (DE) WORKSHOP CoCHAIRPERSONS ----------------------- Jaques David (FR), Martin Goebel (DE) SEND EXTENDED ABSTRACTS (preferably by email) to ------------------------------------------------ MARTIN GOEBEL Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) The Virtual Reality Demonstration Centre Wilhelminenstr. 7 D-64283 Darmstadt +49 6151 155-450; fax: +49 6151 155-199 email: goebel@igd.fhg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CHI'96 Workshop on Psychological Issues of Virtual Environment Interfaces April 14 & 15, 1996 ( Submission deadline February 16, 1996 ) Organizers: Casey Boyd, University of Colorado, Boulder Rudy Darken, Naval Research Laboratory This workshop provides a common ground for the diverse research on the psychology of virtual environments (VEs). It encompasses an intersection of 1) psychological issues, 2) designing and evaluating for usability, and 3) VE interfaces. The central questions are: What are the components - of human, task, and system - that are relevant to usability and how are their roles understood? Topics include: o spatial orientation and wayfinding in VEs, o designing VEs to leverage on human perceptual abilities, o affordances for navigating and acting in VEs, o designing the controlling inputs to take advantage of human physical abilities and adapt to disabilities, o evaluating 3D interfaces, experiences with usability testing of whole systems, o the interdependence between task features and interfaces. We invite the participation of researchers and practitioners whose work is on these topics (though possibly not all working directly with VE systems), from perspectives including Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Perceptual and Ecological Psychology, Urban Planning and Architecture, and Industrial Engineering. Interested persons should submit a short (2-4 page) position statement describing their research or practice experiences related to the topic and the contribution they would make to the workshop, and a brief description of their background, including past experience with CHI and other workshops. Participants will be chosen on the basis of the relevance of their research, quality of their proposal, and balance of approaches. Submissions must be received by February 16. Participants will be notified by March 11. This two-day workshop is limited to 15 participants. The registration fee is $100. For more information about the workshop, see: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~cboyd/chi96/workshop.html ( For more information about CHI'96, see: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/ ) Contact: or: Casey Boyd Rudy Darken, Code 5707 Dept. of Computer Science, CB 430 Naval Research Laboratory University of Colorado 4555 Overlook Ave. SW Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA Washington, D.C. 20375 E-mail: cboyd@cs.colorado.edu Email: darken@enews.nrl.navy.mil Phone: +1-303-492-4800 Fax: +1-303-492-2844 ************* "INTERNET 2001" CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************* *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Book: IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS Focus Issue: IEEE COMPUTER MAGAZINE [Internet 2001] Editors: Don Brutzman, Mike Macedonia and Mike Zyda Advisors: Steve Deering and Ted Lewis Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California 93943-5000 USA 408.656.2149/401.453.6363/408.656.2903 voice, 408.656.3679 fax brutzman@nps.navy.mil, mmacedon@crcg.edu, zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil Internet 2001 will be the theme of the August 1996 issue of IEEE COMPUTER and a companion IEEE Computer Society Press book. Internet 2001 will provide a comprehensive forward-looking overview of the rapidly evolving global network of networks. Many articles and books currently discuss the current state of the Internet. None describe the Internet at the turn of the century. This special issue and book will provide a road map to the future, showing where everything is going and the likely paths to get there. In the special focus issue of IEEE COMPUTER we expect to print two to three dozen single page extended abstracts, each focused on a single area of interest identified in the accompanying table. Simultaneously we plan to edit and publish full-length versions of submitted papers in a companion book through the IEEE Computer Society Press. The review process is likely to be highly competitive. We hope to attract papers of the highest caliber which present crucial concepts and defining issues. We expect this reference to enjoy wide distribution and provide value for years to come. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Internet Size, Connectivity, Bandwidth and Access o Who pays, who controls, who can connect, who can't o Topology and network management, local and global o Ubiquitous computing, distributed systems, latency o Digital convergence: computer networking, cable television, telephony o Satellite coverage, new technologies, perceived limits to growth o Connecting everyone to everything * Routing and Protocols o Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and beyond o Low-level protocols, new transmission media o Wireless networks o Multicast o Entity/Application-Layer communication protocols o High performance networking: B-ISDN, ATM, SONET, etc. * Information Content and Context: the World-Wide Web (WWW) o HyperText Markup Language (html) o HyperText Transfer Protocol (http) o Virtual Reality Modeling Language (vrml) o Global databases and digital libraries o Electronic publishing, content indexing, searching * Applications in Cyberspace o Agents and Artificial Intelligence (AI) o Cooperative workspaces o Information appliances, robots, teleoperation o Virtual environments (VEs) * Commerce o Paying money over the network o Entertainment o Enterprise networking o Virtual corporations o Information economies * Security, Privacy and Authentication o Encryption and Digital Signatures o Hacking and cracking: individual and global vulnerabilities * Global and National Information Infrastructure o Internationalization and connecting the third world o Education and distance learning o Conduct of scientific research o Governmental and social change, democratization and empowerment o Public health and medicine * Standards and Internet Development o Professional societies and standards organizations o Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are asked to identify driving forces, key bottlenecks, notable failures and open challenges in specific subject areas. Each article will be organized to describe one aspect of the present-day Internet, where we want it to be in the year 2001, and how we might get there. Perceived limits to growth and the ability to scale up indefinitely are of particular interest. The deadline for papers is January 8, 1996. Referees are also encouraged to volunteer. Both short (1 magazine page, 900-1000 words) and long (6-8 manuscript pages, 3300-4400 words) versions of each paper must be submitted for review. Color figures will be accepted and reproduced as appropriate. For complete information and to submit papers, contact Don Brutzman (brutzman@nps.navy.mil), Mike Macedonia (mmacedon@crcg.edu) or Mike Zyda (zyda@trouble.cs.nps.navy.mil), Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California 93943-5000 USA, 408.656.2149/401.453.6363/408.656.2903 voice, 408.656.3679 fax. Sage advice and adult supervision are provided by Steve Deering (deering@parc.xerox.com) and Ted Lewis (lewis@cs.nps.navy.mil). The IEEE COMPUTER Web page for author information is http://info.computer.org:80/pubs/computer/edguide.htm. Note that this style guide applies to the one-page summary version. We will put a pointer to the Computer Society Press style guide when it is online. Information on the next-generation Internet Protocol (IPng, IPv6) is available at http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/ipng-main.html This call for papers is at http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/2001 We look forward to receiving your paper submission. Last update: 28 OCT 95 ****************************************************************************** Position in Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School The Computer Science Department invites applications for tenure-track faculty at all ranks. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related field and be committed to high-quality teaching and research. Of particular interest are the fields of Image Understanding, Computer Networks, Formal Methods in Software Engineering and Computer Graphics/Virtual Reality. Outstanding applicants in other research areas will also be considered. Senior applicants must have distinguished research records. Applicants for short-term faculty positions will also be considered. The Department consists of 29 full-time faculty and offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science. Students are highly motivated military officers or civilian employees of the U.S. Department of Defense and allied countries, and are fully supported by their sponsoring organizations during their studies. The Department plays a very active role in DoD research in artificial intelligence/robotics, computer communications, computer graphics/virtual reality, computer security, computer systems/architecture, databases/ data engineering, parallel computing, and software engineering/real-time systems with a growing research budget that exceeded three million dollars in FY94. Departmental facilities (supported by ten full-time computer professionals) include seven research and instructional laboratories equipped with extensive state-of-the-art workstations including multi-processor SGI and Sun machines. The Computer Science Department has the inherent advantage of having an intimate relationship with military and governmental sponsors. In addition, NPS has industrial and non-government research sponsors. The School has easy access to Silicon Valley companies, and Monterey Peninsula area provides a pleasant coastal. climate. Send full resume and an abstract of a 45 minute talk to Prof. Yutaka Kanayama Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Computer Science Department, Code CS, Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA. 93943-5118 Telephone: 408-656-2449/2095 Fax: 408-656-2814 E-mail: kanayama@cs.nps.navy.mil The Naval Postgraduate School is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.