From: Chris Hand Subject: CFP: UK VR-SIG Conference: 2nd CFP Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 1:48:39 GMT ---------------------------------------------------------- THE THIRD UK VR-SIG CONFERENCE De Montfort University, Leicester Wednesday 3rd July 1996 Second Announcement and Call for Participation *** Submission Deadline is 1st April 1996 *** ---------------------------------------------------------- Following on from successful conferences held previously in Nottingham and Reading, the 3rd UK VR-SIG conference is to be hosted by De Montfort University on its Leicester campus. This one-day conference will include presentations of refereed papers, poster sessions and an exhibition of commercial products and academic work. SUBMISSIONS (DEADLINE: 1-APR-96) Extended abstracts of 500-1000 words are invited on all topics relevant to Virtual Reality research, including (but not limited to): * Human Factors * Presence/Immersion * 3D Interaction * Virtual World Design * Sociological issues * Distributed VR * Applications * Tele-operation * VR and Hypermedia * 3D/Stereoscopic displays * Hardware and Software * Multimodal interaction Architectures The categories of submission are Full Paper, Short Paper and Poster. Full Papers will form the basis of the conference presentations. Short Papers and Posters are suitable for new work which may be controversial or not yet completed. Both Full Papers and Short Papers will appear in the proceedings. All submissions must be made electronically, either by e-mail (preferred) or by sending a 3.5" high density MS-DOS format floppy disk via snail-mail. All submissions must state clearly: - Category of Submission: Full paper, short paper, poster - Name, affiliation/organisation and VR-SIG membership number of each author (see below) - Postal address, e-mail address, Fax and phone number of contact person for the submission Acceptable formats for submissions are ASCII text, PostScript or Microsoft Word. E-mail submissions should be sent to cph@dmu.ac.uk (Word files should be sent as MIME attachments or uuencoded). Submissions on disk should be sent to: UK VR-SIG Conference c/o Chris Hand Department of Computer Science De Montfort University The Gateway LEICESTER LE1 9BH UK CONDITIONS OF SUBMISSION At least one author must be a member of the UK VR-SIG. Full papers are accepted on the condition that at least one author will attend the conference to make a presentation. Short papers will appear in the proceedings without presentation. Papers submitted should be previously unpublished. PROCEEDINGS Conference Proceedings will be produced electronically and made available via the World-Wide Web and anonymous FTP. Copies will also be available on disk to VR-SIG members with no Internet access. VR-SIG MEMBERSHIP Application forms to join UK VR-SIG are available from the chairman, Robin Hollands (e-mail: R.Hollands@shef.ac.uk). Membership is free of charge. REGISTRATION Although attendance at the conference is free of charge for UK VR-SIG members, the number of delegates is limited to 150. Further announcements regarding registration will be made in due course. EXHIBITS/DEMOS Please send proposals for exhibits and demos (including details of space required) to Chris Hand at the above address by 30th April. LEICESTER Leicester is located in the very centre of England. London is only 70 minutes away by train, while the Midland Main Line also extends North to Sheffield and Leeds. By road, Leicester is easily reached via the M1 (Jn20/21) or the M69. IMPORTANT DATES Extended Abstracts due ............ 1st April 1996 Notification of acceptance ........ 30th April 1996 Completed papers due .............. 25th June 1996 Conference ........................ 3rd July 1996 Further information on the conference is available on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/VRSIG96 or on the UK VR-SIG's web server at http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/ukvrsig