From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (Jason Harrison)
Subject: CFP: CHI'96: Workshop on Manipulation in Virtual Environments
Date: 8 Nov 1995 15:56:31 -0800
Message-ID: <47rg3f$t0l@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada


From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (Jason Harrison)

(More information is available at 
 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/magic/projects/hands/home)

Workshop on Manipulation in Virtual Environments

Christine L. MacKenzie, Simon Fraser University
Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia

Sunday, April 14, 1996

Human-computer interaction issues with graphical and haptic user
interfaces are becoming increasingly important for research and
development of virtual and augmented computer environments. People
from many disciplines have become interested in means for grasping and
manipulating physical, virtual, and augmented objects in virtual
environments. These user interfaces and interactions may apply in
teleoperation, augmented environments, or virtual reality settings.

In keeping with the conference theme of Common Ground, our theme will
be Searching for Common Ground in Manipulation of Virtual
Environments.  Regardless of the scale and conditions of the
environment to be manipulated, there are elemental problems in action
selection, task and trajectory planning, obstacle avoidance, grasping,
object characteristics, task constraints, physical laws, mechanics of
manipulation, contacts and compliance, co-ordinate transformations,
representation, and rendering.

The goals of this workshop are:
o   identify common ground, issues, misconceptions, and problems
o   provide opportunities to learn, collaborate, and share solutions
    with one another
o   develop the beginnings of a common vocabulary for better communication
o   identify future directions for research and application

Among those working with manipulation of virtual objects, we seek
participants from different disciplines, geographic locations,
approaches, and work settings.  Participants should provide a one
paragraph biographical sketch and a two-page participation statement
on the challenges they face in their work on manipulation in virtual
environments.  The statement should include questions for they would
like to discuss. Statements will be used for participant selection and
will be distributed to other participants.

This one-day workshop is limited to 20 participants.

Contact:
Christine L. MacKenzie
Simon Fraser University
School of Kinesiology
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada
E-mail: christine_mackenzie@sfu.ca
Tel: +1 604-291-3004
Fax: +1 604-291-3040


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