CFP - Workshop on Virtual Reality
Marcio Serolli Pinho
3rd WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY - WRV 2000 -
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Submission Deadline: May 21th, 2000
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3rd WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY - WRV 2000 -
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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Gramado-RS, October 16-18, 2000
http://www.sbc.org.br/wrv
Call for Papers
The Third Workshop on Virtual Reality (WRV 2000) is main event in
Virtual Reality in Latin Amarica. Its scope is to serve as a forum
for discussions and dissemination of studies, research projects,
and applications in relevant areas of virtual reality. WRV 2000 will
be held in October 16-18 on the mountains of the Rio Grande do Sul
state (south of Brazil), in the touristic city of Gramado, near Porto
Alegre. Gramado is characterized by the influence of the German
immigration in the region. With its Bavarian architectural style
and surrounded by beautiful mountains, Gramado provides an excellent
environment for conferences and meetings.
The planned activities for the WRV 2000 include: tutorials, invited
talks, poster exhibition, technical sessions for presentation of
selected papers, and demonstration of virtual reality devices and
applications.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Authors are invited to submit original papers on concluded and
on-going works, related to the main aspects of Virtual Reality.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Hardware and software for virtual reality;
· Virtual reality distributed systems;
· Virtual humans and avatars;
· Augmented reality;
· Real-time graphics techniques;
· Multi-resolution modeling and rendering;
· Hardware graphics acceleration;
· Virtual reality for scientific visualization;
· Innovative 3D input and output devices;
· 3D human computer interaction;
· Internet-based 3D applications;
· Networked virtual environments;
· VRML and Shout 3D;
· VR systems development;
· Tele-collaboration and teleoperation;
· Real-time simulation, animation and visualization;
· Artificial life;
· CVE (Collaborative Virtual Environments);
· VR applications in entertainment, architecture, education, medicine,
industry, e-commerce, marketing, etc.;
· Social, economical and technical impacts of virtual reality.
SUBMISSION
Contributions should be in one of the following categories:
· FULL PAPERS, presented as technical lectures and published in the
Proceedings as 12-page papers. Full papers should be original and
unpublished development on VR or its applications, describing clearly
the methodology used, the results obtained, and a brief comparison with
other similar applications, if it is the case. The paper should'nt be a
survey.
· TECHNICAL POSTERS, presented in a special session and published in the
Proceedings as 2-page papers. Technical posters could be technical on
going work without final results or descriptions of experiences on using
virtual reality techniques to solve specific problems with or without
scientific contribution. In this kind of contribution, the authors shoud
briefly describe the experience or the product developed and, if
possible, which are the users and the results of the application on
these users.
· TUTORIALS, about classical or timely topics, at advanced or elementary
level. Tutorials proposals will be evaluated for relevance to the area
and the lecturers' qualification. For tutorials submission, it will be
used the same rules applied by the SIBGRAPI 2000 tutorials committee
(http://www.sbc.org.br/sibgrapi/tutorial-e.html).
GUIDELINES
Submitted papers should be in English (recommended) or in Portuguese, in
the following format: A4 paper, single column, 3,5 cm for upper margin,
2,5 cm for bottom margin, 3 cm for lateral margins, letter size 12,
Times type or equivalent, simple space, and no page numbered. The first
page of the paper should contain the paper title, without any indication
of authorship or author location (refereeing will be double blind), and
an abstract. The text should start right after the abstract.
The papers will be reviewed by researchers and practitioners from
virtual reality area. All accepted papers will be presented at the
technical sessions and published in the Proceedings of the Workshop. The
authors of the best full papers in English will be invited to submit a
revised and extended version to be published at a special issue of the
journal "Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada" (RITA), which is
edited by the Informatics Institute of the Federal University of Rio
Grande to Sul (UFRGS).
Contributions should be eletronically sent by e-mail. The message body
should contain the manuscript title, category (full papers or technical
poster), abstract, and the full names, postal addresses, phone numbers,
fax numbers, and email addresses for all authors. One author should be
designated the contact author for subsequent correspondence. The paper
should come as attachment in pdf, Word 97 or postscript format. Please,
send your contributions to both:
Luciana Nedel and Raul Wazlawick
wrv2000...@sbc.org.br
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: May 21th, 2000
Notification of acceptance: July 23th, 2000
Camera-Ready: August 27th, 2000
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.sbc.org.br/wrv
wrv...@sbc.org.br
WRV 2000 - Secretariat
UFRGS - Instituto de Informática
Caixa Postal 15064
CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
Phone: +55- 51 3166166
Fax: +55 - 51 3191576
General Chairs
Márcio S. Pinho, PUCRS (pi...@inf.pucrs.br)
Ricardo Reis, UFRGS (re...@inf.ufrgs.br)
Program Chairs
Luciana Porcher Nedel, UFRGS (ne...@inf.ufrgs.br)
Raul S. Wazlawick, UFSC (ra...@inf.ufsc.br)
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
Jacob Scharcanski, UFRGS
jac...@inf.ufrgs.br
Fernando Shirmbeck, SENAI-RS
fern...@dr.rs.senai.br
ELECTRONIC ART EXHIBITION
Diana Domingues (UCS)
di...@visao.com.br
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Antonio Carlos Sementille - UNESP-Bauru
Cesar A. C. Teixeira - Universidade de Salvador
Claudio Kirner - F. Eurípides de Marília/UFSCar -SP
Edgard Lamounier - UFU
Gernot Goebbels - GMD/Germany
Jose Carlos Teixeira - Univ. de Coimbra - Portugal
Jorge A. Trindade - Inst. Polit. da Guarda - Portugal
Judith Kelner - UFP
Marcelo K. Zuffo - USP
Márcio Serolli Pinho - PUCRS
Maria de Lurdes Camacho - ICAM - Portugal
Paulo E. Cruvinel - EMBRAPA-CNPDIA
Prem Kalra, Indian Institute of Technology, Índia
Ricardo Reis - UFRGS
Rodolfo P. da Luz - UFSC
Rui Bastos - nVidia, USA
Sérgio R. M. Pellegrino - ITA
Tereza G. Kirner - UFSCar
Sponsored by:
SBC - BRAZILIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY
ORGANIZED BY:
Instituto de Informática - UFRGS
Faculdade de Informática - PUCRS
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Marcio Serolli Pinho, Associate Professor
Informatics School, PUCRS - Catholic University
Virtual Reality Group http://grv.inf.pucrs.br
http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~pinho
Mail Address: Av Ipiranga, 6681, Prédio 16. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
CEP:90619-900 - Phone:+55 51 320 3558 - Fax:+55 51 320 3758