IEEE Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Steve T. Bryson
**** IEEE 1993 Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality
October 25-26 1993, Red Lion Inn, San Jose, CA
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics
In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH
Held as part of IEEE Visualization '93
A D V A N C E P R O G R A M
Preliminary Program
Monday, October 25
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
Steve Bryson, CSC/NASA Ames Research Center;
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
9:00-10:00 Keynote Address
Hype and Hope---What is Real?
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:30-12:00 Paper Session: Technology
DIVER: A Distributed Virtual Environment Research Platform
Rich Gossweiler, Chris Long, Shuichi Koga, and Randy Pausch,
University of Virginia
Volume Haptization
Hiroo Iwata and Haruo Noma, University of Tsukuba
Interactive Collision Detection
Philip M. Hubbard, Brown University
12:00 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel
Evaluation of VR Systems: Experience and Advice
Randy Pausch (Chair), University of Virginia; James C. Chung,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Robert Eggleston,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Tom Piantanida, SRI International
3:30-5:15 Paper Session: Human Factors
Calibration and Evaluation of Virtual Environment Displays
Kenneth Nemire, San Jose State University Foundation and NASA Ames
Research Center; Stephen R. Ellis, NASA Ames Research Center
A User Study Comparing Head-Mounted and Stationary Displays
Randy Pausch, M. Anne Shackelford, and Dennis Proffitt, University of
Virginia
Perceptual Decomposition of Virtual Haptic Surfaces
Louis B. Rosenberg, Stanford University; Bernard D. Adelstein,
NASA Ames Research Center
Understanding Synthetic Experience Must Begin with the Analysis of
Ordinary Perceptual Experience
Jack M. Loomis, University of California at Santa Barbara
6:15-7:00 Poster Session
X11 in Virtual Environments
Phillip Dykstra, Army Research Laboratory
An Eye Tracking Computer User Interface
Arie E. Kaufman, Amit Bandopadhay, and Bernard D. Shaviv,
SUNY at Stony Brook
Robots and Simulated Environments---First Steps Towards Virtual
Robotics
Berthold Kirsch, Uwe Schnepf, and Ipke Wachsmuth, GMD
Is "Presence" a Training Issue?
Lyn Mowafy, Trish Russo, and Lori Miller, University of Dayton
Research Institute
Case Study: A Virtual Environment Architecture
David A. Southard, John P. Lee, and Richard B. Mitchell, The MITRE
Corporation; Georges G. Grinstein, The MITRE Corporation and
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
7:00-9:30 Buffet and Reception
Tuesday, October 26
9:00-10:00 Invited Talk
VR As a Forcing Function: Software Implications of New Paradigms
Andries van Dam, Brown University
10:30-12:00 Paper Session: Applications
Scientists in Wonderland: A Report on Visualization Applications in the
CAVE Virtual Reality Environment
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Jason Leigh, Mike Papka, Craig Barnes, Steven M.
Cohen, Sumit Das, Roger Engelmann, Randy Hudson, Trina Roy, Lewis
Siegel, Christina Vasilakis, Thomas A. DeFanti, and Daniel J. Sandin,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Applying Virtual Reality in Education: A Prototypical Virtual Physics
Laboratory
R. Bowen Loftin, University of Houston-Downtown; Mark Engelberg, LinCom
Corporation; Robin Benedetti, University of Southern California
Cosmic Explorer: A Virtual Reality Environment for Exploring Cosmic
Data
Deyang Song and Michael L. Norman, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications
On Recording Virtual Environments
John C. Hart, Washington State University
12:00 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel
Effective Nonspeech Audio for Virtual Reality
Meera M. Blattner (Chair), University of California at Davis and
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Robin Barger, NCSA and
University of Illinois; Gregory Kramer, Clarity and the Santa Fe
Institute; Julius O. Smith, Stanford University; Elizabeth M. Wenzel,
NASA Ames Research Center
3:30-5:00 Paper Session: Sound in Virtual Worlds
Virtual Gain for Audio Windows
Michael Cohen, University of Aizu; Nobuo Koizumi, Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corporation
Auditory Distance Perception by Translating Observers
Jon M. Speigle and Jack M. Loomis, University of California at Santa
Barbara
What you See is What you Hear---Acoustics Applied in Virtual Worlds
Peter Astheimer, Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics
Symposium Co-Chairs
Steve Bryson, CSC/NASA Ames Research Center
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
Program Committee
Dov Adelstein, NASA Ames Research Center
Mark Bolas, Fake Space Labs
Kellogg Booth, University of British Columbia
William Bricken, University of Washington
Carolina Cruz-Neira, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nathaniel Durlach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Felger, Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics
Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Green, University of Alberta
Randy Pausch, University of Virginia
Tom Piantanida, SRI International
Larry Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research
Larry Stark, University of California at Berkeley
Susumu Tachi, University of Tokyo
Andries van Dam, Brown University
Elizabeth Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
David Zeltzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The IEEE 1993 Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality
is held as part of Visualization '93. You use the Visualization '93
registration form (below) to register for the VR symposium. If you
register for the Symposium only, you get:
Symposium Attendance
2 Symposium Lunches
Symposium Reception
Demonstrations
For further information about the IEEE Visualization '93 Conference
call (510) 423-9368 or email: Vi...@llnl.gov
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Information of related interest:
There will be a tutorial on Virtual Reality for Visualization held
as part of Visualization '93 on Sunday Sept. 24:
Vis '93 Tutorials
Tutorial 1
Sunday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Virtual Reality for Visualization
Instructors:
Steve Bryson, CSC/NASA Ames Research Center
Steve Feiner, Columbia University
Course Description:
This course will survey the theory and development of
interactive visualization systems based on virtual reality
interface techniques. These techniques encompass a variety
of hardware and software technologies and allow natural
display and control in three-dimensional interactive
environments. These technologies will be surveyed with a
focus on applications in scientific visualization.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for those who are interested in
developing systems which will use virtual reality technology
for scientific visualization. Familiarity with three-
dimensional computer graphics and basic scientific
visualization techniques will be assumed. No previous
experience with virtual reality technology will be necessary.
Instructor:
Steve Bryson is an employee of Computer Sciences
Corporation working under contract for the Applied Research
Office of the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation Systems
Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Steve Feiner is an
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University.
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Red Lion Hotel
The final date to make reservations at the IEEE
Visualization '93 group rate is Sunday, October 3, 1993 at
5:00 pm Pacific Standard Time. Reservations requested after
the cutoff date are subject to availability.
The Red Lion Hotel in San Jose, California is the site of the IEEE
Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality. This hotel offers
complimentary transportation to and from the nearby San Jose airport. The
hotel boasts three eating establishments, a pool, spa, and health club. A
nearby light- rail system provides service to the Bay Area.
Red Lion Hotel
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
(408) 453-4000 FAX: (408) 437-2883
Special IEEE Visualization '93 Rates at the Red Lion Hotel:
Single $103 Triple $123
Double $113 Quad $123
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Information on the San Jose,
California area.
San Jose is in "Silicon Valley" at the sunny
southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, 30 miles
from San Francisco. It is surrounded by rolling
hills with numerous wineries. Popular local
attractions in the area are Great America Theme
Park, Winchester Mystery House, Rose Gardens,
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium,
and Lick Observatory. Take the opportunity to
visit your favorite computer hardware or
software vendor in Silicon Valley while you are
in the area. Visit colleagues at Stanford, UC
Berkeley, San Jose State, and Santa Clara
University while attending Vis'93. Ocean
beaches, Santa Cruz mountains, and San
Francisco are within a 1 hour drive. The
Carmel/Monterey area is a 1-1/2 hour drive
south, and Muir Woods and Marin County are a
1-1/2 hour drive north. The Napa-Sonoma wine
country is 130 miles north, and Yosemite is 180
miles east. A large factory outlet center is
located in Gilroy, an hour away. Please take the
time to enjoy this lovely area. The hotel has
extended the rates listed above to at least 3 days
prior to and 3 days after the conference to
accommodate those who wish to extend their
visit. The average temperature in San Jose
during October is 74 F during the day and 51 F at
night (but the temperature has been as high as
97 F and as cold as 31 F in late October).
--
Steve Bryson
MS T045-1
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, Ca. 94035
(415) 604-4524
bry...@nas.nasa.gov