--> PRESENCE: Special Issue on Virtual Environments and Teleoperation
for Medicine
--> Call date: 1 November 95
--> ICAT/VRST '95
International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence '95
Conference on Virtual Reality Software and Technology '95
--> Call date: 15 June 95
--> PRESENCE: Call for Participation: "The Human Figure in VE Systems"
--> Call date: 15 May 95 (second announcement)
Please respond to the addresses in the Calls and not to this site.
PRESENCE: Call for Participation on a special issue on Virtual
Environments and Teleoperation for Medicine.
Presence will devote a special issue to the use of virtual environments
in medicine. Co-editors of this special issue are Martin Stytz of
the Air Force Institute of Technology and Gayl M. Godsell-Stytz, of
the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1) Discussions of the significant problems to be solved before the
medical use of virtual environments becomes commonplace. This includes
surveys of the nature of the progress made in the past few years and
descriptions of the significant problems that remain to be addressed.
2) Descriptions of virtual environments to aid in diagnosis and treatment
of disease, performing surgical procedures, radiology, education and training
of physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel, and telepresence for
emergency medical treatment.
3) Descriptions of user interfaces for medical virtual environments.
4) Reports of treatment results and comparative assessments of virtual
environment and non-virtual environment techniques for surgery and medical
telepresence.
Manuscripts dealing with other aspects of the use of virtual
environments for medicine are also sought. Survey papers and reviews are
welcome as are papers describing ongoing research.
Manuscripts should be in 12 point type with double spacing for all
text, including references. Additional information on manuscript format is
available in the "Instructions to Contributors" note on the inside back
cover of PRESENCE Vol. 3 No. 2 and later issues.
Manuscripts that are submitted must represent original material and
must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers will be reviewed for medical and virtual environment
content.
Send seven copies of each paper by 1 November 1995 to:
Lt. Colonel Martin R. Stytz, Ph.D.
PRESENCE Virtual Environments for Medicine Issue
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
AFIT/ENG
Building 640, Room 218
Air Force Institute of Technology
2950 P Street
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433
(513) 255-9270
[email protected]
or
Dr. Gayl M. Godsell-Stytz, D.O.
PRESENCE Virtual Environments for Medicine Issue
2380 Fieldstone Circle
Fairborn, OH 45324
[email protected]
We are NOT willing to review faxed submissions.
Please include an electronic mail address for acknowledgment of
manuscript receipt.
The firm deadline for submissions for this special issue is 1
November 1995. The 7 copies of the manuscript must arrive by that date in
order for us to have sufficient review time for our publication schedule.
Important deadlines:
-- Submission of papers: 1 November, 1995
-- Acceptance notification: 1 February, 1996
-- Submission of final, camera-ready papers: 1 April, 1996
CALL FOR PAPER, VIDEO AND TUTORIAL
ICAT/VRST '95
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International Conference on Artificial Reality and
Tele-Existence '95
Conference on Virtual Reality Software and Technology '95
November 20 - 22, 1995
Makuhari, Chiba, JAPAN
SPONSORED BY:
ACM/SIGCHI
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE)
Japan Technology Transfer Association (JTTAS)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun,Inc. (NIKKEI)
Welcome to ICAT/VRST '95!
ICAT is the first international conference on virtual
reality open to all who are interested in this field. For
the last four years, ICAT has had many speakers
from all over the world present their latest researches.
This year, the 5th ICAT conference will be
combined with VRST '95. VRST was first held in
Singapore last year. The program included papers,
panels tutorials, demonstrations, opening plenary
and invited talks. By combining the two events
together, we will be able to bring you the most
comprehensive coverage of VR.
Dates
November 20 - 22, 1995
Place
Makuhari, Chiba, Japan
Topics
+ Artificial Reality/Virtual Reality
+ Tele-Existence/Telepresence
+ Communication with Realistic Sensations
+ Real Time Computer Simulation
+ Intelligent CAD and IMS
(Intelligent Manufacturing System)
+ 3-D Visual and Auditory Displays
+ Tactile and Force Displays
+ Software Architectures for VR
+ VR Interaction and Navigation Techniques
+ Tools and Techniques for Modeling VR Systems
+ Distributed VR Systems
+ Motion Tracking
+ VR Input and Output Devices
+ Innovative Applications of VR
+ Human Factors of VR
+ Evaluation of VR Techniques and Systems
+ Anthropomorphic Intelligent Robots
+ Sensor Integration/Fusion
+ Interactive Art and Entertainment
+ Artificial Life
General Chair:
Susumu Tachi (University of Tokyo)
Program Co-Chairs:
Mark Green (University of Alberta)
Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo)
Program Committee:
Steve Bryson (NASA)
Stephen R. Ellis (NASA)
Yukio Fukui (AIST, MITI)
Martin Goebel (FIG)
Hiroshi Harashima (U Tokyo)
Toyohiko Hatada (Tokyo Inst. of Polytechnics)
Katsura Hattori (Asahi Shimbun)
Koichi Hirota (Toyohasi Univ. of Technology)
Takayuki Itoh (NHK )
Hiroo Iwata (Tsukuba University)
Robert Jacobson (World Design)
Fumio Kishino (ATR)
Myron Krueger (Artificial Reality)
Carl Loeffler (CMU)
Taro Maeda (U Tokyo)
Ryo Mochizuki (NHK Engineering)
Makoto Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Thomas Sheridan (MIT)
Gurminder Singh (ISS)
Robert Stone (NAR)
Gen Suzuki (NTT)
Haruo Takemura (NAIST)
Daniel Thyalmann (SFIT)
David Traub (Compec)
David Zeltzer (MIT)
Michael Zyda (NPS)
Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Haruo Takemura (NAIST)
Hiroo Iwata (Tsukuba University)
Video Co-Chairs:
Ryo Mochizuki (NHK Engineering)
Takayuki Itoh (NHK)
Secretariat:
Koichi Nakayama (JTTAS)
Yuji Ichige (NIKKEI)
Mayumi Kurebayashi (NIKKEI)
PAPERS
The organizing committee cordially invites you to submit
your technical work and experimental results in virtual
reality software and technology to this conference.
Papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings.
Papers should be at most 6000 words or 10 pages.
Submissions should consist of five copies of the paper
and a cover letter indicating the primary author's name,
affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail
address. The title page should include an abstract (less
than 200 words) and 5 keywords. Papers in hardcopy
form must be received no later than June 15, 1995 by:
Mark Green
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1
CANADA
[email protected]
+1 403-492-4584
+1 403-492-1071 (fax)
or
Michitaka Hirose
c/o Japan Technology Transfer Association
Daini Koujimachi bldg. 2F
4-2 Koujimachi Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102 JAPAN
[email protected]
+81 3-3238-5300
+81 3-3238-5388 (fax)
Papers Due: June 15, 1995
Notification: August 15, 1995
Camera Ready Due: September 15, 1995
VIDEOS
The organizing committee cordially invites you to submit
your experimental results, demonstrations, computer
graphics and animation in video tape format. Accepted
video tapes will be shown throughout the conference and
will be distributed as a video proceedings. The author
will also have an opportunity to give a short oral
presentation at the conference.
Please submit a single high quality copy of a 3 to 8
minute video segment in NTSC 1/2 inch VHS or 3/4 inch
Umatic format and one page cover sheet containing;
l The title of the video and the author's name.
l The author's address, phone and fax numbers and
e-mail address.
l 200 word abstract and five key words. (abstract
will be published in the conference proceedings).
l An indication of the categories the submitted video
should be included.
The video must be received no later than June 15, 1995
by:
Ryo Mochizuki
c/o Japan Technology Transfer Association
Daini Koujimachi bldg. 2F
4-2 Koujimachi Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102 JAPAN
+81 3-3238-5300
+81 3-3238-5388 (fax)
Video Due: June 15, 1995
TUTORIALS
Proposals for tutorial offerings by developers, research-
ers and educators are invited. Tutorials will be evaluated
on the basis of their relevance to the ICAT/VRST
attendees and on the technical quality of the tutorial. Past
experience and qualifications of the instructors, along
with overall balance of the tutorial program, are signifi-
cant factors.
Instructors must request tutorial proposal requirements
from the Tutorials Chair. Submissions in hardcopy must
be received no later than June 15, 1995. Send questions
and requests for submission form to:
Haruo Takemura
Graduate School of Information Science,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Tkayama-cho Ikoma-shi
Nara 530-01 JAPAN
[email protected]
+81 7437-2-5291
+81 7437-2-5299 (fax)
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Languages
English and Japanese will be the official working
Languages. Simultaneous translation will be provided.
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Information
All request for information should be addressed to:
Secretariat of ICAT/VRST '95
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc
[email protected]
+81 3-5255-2847
+81 3-5255-2860(fax)
PRESENCE: Call for Participation: "The Human Figure in VE Systems"
PRESENCE will devote a special issue to "The Human Figure in Virtual
Environment Systems". Co-editors of this special issue are David
Zeltzer of MIT and Michael Zyda of the Naval Postgraduate School.
The focus of this issue is on both hardware and software technologies
for integrating the human figure into VE systems, either as
"autonomous actors" under program control, or as "guided actors"
controlled by humans in a master/slave mode. Areas of interest
include, but are not limited to:
-- Applications that require or would benefit from the inclusion of
human figures;
-- Representing, controlling and interacting with autonomous human
agents;
-- Technology for instrumenting human VE participants; Software for
recording and interpreting human movements and managing interactions
with actors and objects in the virtual world;
-- Technologies that allow combinations of human participants and
autonomous or guided actors to jointly manipulate objects in the
virtual world, perhaps with force feedback.
Human figure simulation research has been ongoing for several
decades. We are particularly interested in papers that survey and
reflect on the "grand challenges" for human figure simulation and
interaction, including discussions of the nature of progress made in
the field in the intervening years, and the difficult problems that
remain unsolved. What will be the likely state-of-the-art of human
figure simulation in five years? In fifty years?
We are interested in technical papers, position papers surveying the
field and forum papers describing the frontiers of integrating the
human figure into VE systems. We have the complete issue to fill,
which means we desire�traditional research papers, lab reviews, and
"What's Happening" submissions. For the What's Happening section,
we request information on conference announcements, and other
VE/teleoperation events.
PRESENCE is the premier journal of teleoperation and virtual
environments. Manuscripts are accepted for consideration with the
understanding that they represent original material and are not
being considered for publication elsewhere.
Manuscripts should be in 12 point type, using double-spaced pages
for all text, including references. For more information, see the
"Instructions to Contributors" note on the inside back cover of
PRESENCE Vol. 3 No. 2 and later issues. Please include an electronic
mail address to which receipt acknowledgment can be sent. FAXed
submissions will NOT be accepted.
Send 7 copies of each submitted paper (one for each co-editor, and
one for each of 5 reviewers) to David Zeltzer at the following
address:
David Zeltzer
PRESENCE Human Figure Issue
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 36-763, 50 Vassar Street
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel: (617) 253-5995
FAX: (617) 258-7003
e-mail: [email protected]
The deadline for submissions to this special issue is May 15, 1995.
Submitted papers must be at MIT by that date in order for us to
have sufficient review time for our publication schedule.
Important deadlines:
-- Submission of papers: May 15, 1995
-- Acceptance notification: July 15, 1995
-- Submission of final, camera-ready papers: September 1, 1995