CONF: ADVANCE PROGRAM for the IFIP Workshop on Virtual Environments
Mauro Figueiredo
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IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
Coimbra, Portugal
24 - 25 October 1994
ADVANCE PROGRAM
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The IFIP TC 5 WG 5.10 Workshop on VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
presents a high-qualIty international forum for
virtual environments and its applications that will
bring together researchers and practitioners for a
two day program.
In the scientific world there has been a consider-
able effort at developing richer interactive systems.
Independently of the application domain, there has
been a common goal of creating more convincing
representations of reality. Understanding the value
of complete interactive representations of reality has
led to the development of 3D graphic systems that
allows the user to explore a 3D design space visu-
ally.
Virtual Environments can be identified as the ul-
timate form of interaction between human and ma-
chine.
In a Virtual Environment the computer system
provides sensorial feedback that responds to "visitor"
movements with sights and sounds designed to cre-
ate the illusion that the "participant" is immersed in a
real world.
The goal is to allow full-body participation in
computer events that are so compelling that they
would be accepted as a real experience.
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WORKSHOP CHAIRMEN:
Prof. Doutor Jose Carlos Teixeira
CCG/ZGDV -Centro de Computacao Grafica,
Coimbra
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
P. Bono (FhG-CGRG, USA), P. Brunet (Univ. P. Catalunya, E),
S. Bryson (NASA, USA), R. Earnshaw (Univ. Leeds, UK),
J. Encarnacao (GRIS, D), B. Falcidieno (IMA, I),
A. Figueiredo (Univ. Coimbra, P), M. Gigante (RMIT, Australia),
M. Goebel (FhG-IGD, D), G. Grinstein (Univ. Massachusetts,
USA), M. Gross (ZGDV, D), R. Hubbold (Univ. Manchester, UK),
T. Kunii (Univ. Aizu, Japan), L. Magalhaes (Unicamp FEE-DCA,
Brasil), J. Rix (FhG-IGD, D), J.C. Teixeira (CCG/ZGDV, P),
A. Wexelblat (MIT, USA)
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CONFERENCE LOCATION:
CCRC - Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro
Rua Bernardim Ribeiro 80, COIMBRA - PORTUGAL
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ADVANCE PROGRAM
Monday, October 24th
09.00 Registration
10.00 Welcome to the participants
10.15 Invited Speaker
Interacting with Virtual Reality
Matthias Wloka (Brown University, USA)
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Invited Speaker
Overview of Applications in Immersive Virtual Reality
Pierre duPont (Division Limited, UK)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Telehaptic Research Laboratory
Presentation
Hands-on demonstration
Discussion
Kirk Woolford (Academy of Media Arts, Germany)
20:00 Workshop Dinner
Tuesday, October 25th
09:30 Simulation in Virtual Environments
Isaac: Building Simulations for Virtual Environments
George Vanecek, J. Cremer (Purdue Univ., USA)
Coping with Robot/Environment Interactions for Solving
Off-Road Vehicle Motion Planning
Moez Cherif (LIFIA - INRIA Rhone, France)
10:30 Interaction
Solid Modeling as a Framework in Virtual Environments
Mauro Figueiredo, J. C. Teixeira (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)
11.00 Coffee Break
11:15 Concepts and Tools
About Plato's Cave
Jose C. Teixeira, V. Murtinho (CCG/ZGDV, Portugal)
CYBERSPACE: Beyond Sensorial Immersion
Ana Almeida, L. Roque, A. D. Figueiredo (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal)
Polygon Rendering on a SIMD Processor Array
Joao Pereira, M. R. Gomes (INESC/IST Lisboa, Portugal)
12:30 Lunch
14.00 Virtual Environments for Production
Towards a Virtual Prototyping Environment
Uwe Jasnoch, H. Kress, J. Rix (FhG - IGD, Germany)
A Real-time Collaborative Working Environment for
Concurrent Engineering
Terrence Fernando, J. Maxfield, P. Dew (Univ. of Leeds, UK)
User Oriented Object Modelling in Virtual
Manufacturing - a personal view
Ozdogen Karagali (Loughborough Univ. of Technology, UK)
15.30 Virtual Environments Support
Network Requirements for Large Distributed Virtual
Environments
Regina B. Araujo, C. Kirner (Univ. F. Sao Carlos, Brasil)
Task Performance Using 3D Displays
Tim Bardsley, I. Sexton (DeMonfort Univ., UK)
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Computer Vision
Wilhelm Burger, M. J. Barth (Univ. of California, USA)
17.00 Coffee Break
17.15 Closing Session - Invited Speaker
Industrial Applications of Virtual Environments
Martin Goebel (FhG-IGD - Darmstadt, Germany)
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KEY TOPICS:
Human Factors
Software Architectures
Tools and Techniques
Input and Output Devices
Interaction Techniques
Distributed Systems
Co-operative and Multi-user
Systems
Applications
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SPONSORS:
Caixa Geral de Depositos
Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro
Fundacao Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Hewlett-Packard Portugal
Sistemas de Informatica e de Medida, S.A.
Junta Nacinal de Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica
Regiao de Turismo do Centro
SGvi - Sistemas Graficos de Visualizacao Interactiva, S.A.
Software AG Portugal- Alta Tecnologia Informatica, LDA.
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LOCAL ORGANIZATION:
Mauro Figueiredo, Carlos Martins,
Jurgen Bund, Anabela Lucio
CCG/ZGDV - Centro de Computacao Grafica
R. de Mocambique, 17 r/c Esq.
3000 Coimbra - Portugal
tel: +351 39 702646
fax: +351 39 702647
email: mauro/martins/bu...@mat.uc.pt
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