Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:12:51 -0500 From: "Nicholas F. Polys" Subject: Web3D 2002 Symposium Announcement & Keynotes Sender: To: <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu> Reply-to: "Nicholas F. Polys" Message-id: <01c1a441$f410b650$367b958d@jahbepraised> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Authentication-warning: torch.hitl.washington.edu: majordom set sender toowner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu using -f X-Priority: 3 (Normal) GREAT program this year!!! Web3D 2002 Symposium Announcement 7th International Conference on 3D Web Technology http://Web3DSymposium.org February 24-February 28, 2002 Tempe, Arizona, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH and the WEB3D CONSORTIUM in cooperation with Eurographics ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium Outline: The symposium will focus on the frontiers of 3D technologies and multimedia. The annual Web3D Symposium is a major event in the Web3D community which unites researchers, developers, experimenters, and artists in a dynamic learning environment. Attendees share and explore methods of using, enhancing or creating new 3D web technology such as MPEG4, VRML, X3D, and Java3D. The program includes technical and commercial presentations, tutorials, workshops, trade show and web3d art show. Keynote Speakers: Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Peter Ryce, Macromedia Inc., USA Michael Kaplan, Adobe Systems Inc., USA Symposium Topics: - High performance 3D graphics for distributed environments and teleoperation systems. - 3D graphics for wireless PDAs & cellular phones. - Animated humanoid figures and complex reactive characters. - Specifications, languages, or abstractions for specifying 3D geometry and their behaviors. - Methods for designing, representing, interacting with and visualizing complex geometry and structure. - Geometry/object behaviors in web3D settings. - 3D simulation & haptic systems to enable medical treatment, rehabilitation & training over distances. - Interaction methods for web based 3D graphics systems. - Innovative user interface paradigms for navigating real-time 3D graphics environments and virtual worlds. - Multimodal user interaction in virtual worlds. - 3d e-commerce and product visualization. Important Dates: Pre-advance Registration December 31, 2001 Advance Registration and Hotel Cut-Off Jannuary 24, 2002 Web3D Symposium 2002 February 24-28, 2002 For more information, please visit http://Web3DSymposium.org. ------------ MPEG4 -- VRML -- X3D -- Java3D -- and more -------------- Below is the abstract of the Ben Shneiderman's keynote at the Web3d Symposium 2002 in Tempe, AZ, which is a must see for everybody interested in how to improve the usability of 3d applications. His talk is scheduled for Wednesday morning. Please be aware that advance registration for the Web3d Symposium ends soon! For registration and hotel reservation, please visit http://Web3DSymposium.org. See you at the Symposium! 3D or Not 3D: When and Why Does it Work? ---------------------------------------- Keynote by Ben Shneiderman Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies & Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Wishful thinking about the widespread adoption of three-dimensional interfaces has not helped spawn winning applications. Success stories with three-dimensional games do not translate into broad acceptance of head-tracking immersive virtual reality. To accelerate adoption of advanced interfaces, designers must understand their appeal and performance benefits as well as honestly identify their deficits. We need to separate out the features that make 3D useful and understand how they help overcome the challenges of dis-orientation during navigation and distraction from occlusion. Does spatial memory improve with 3D layouts? Is it true that 3D is more natural and easier to learn? Careful empirical studies clarify why modest aspects of 3D, such as shading for buttons and overlapping of windows are helpful, but 3D bar charts and directory structures are not. 3D sometimes pays off for medical imagery, chemical molecules, and architecture, but has yet to prove beneficial for performance measures in shopping or operating systems. This talk offers a taxonomy of 3D features and applications, and advocates systematic empirical studies. BEN SHNEIDERMAN is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ ), and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (3rd ed. 1998) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/ . He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information visualization helped spawn the successful company Spotfire http://www.spotfire.com/ . He is an advisor for http://www.smartmoney.com/ where his treemap visualization is used for stock market data, and for http://www.Clockwise3D.com which has developed a 3D front end for Windows. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). Leonardo's Laptop (MIT Press) will appear in Summer 2002. SEE YOU THERE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Chair: Michael G. Wagner, UMA Information Technology AG, Vienna, Austria Conference Co-Chairs: K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA Christian Bouville, France Telecom, Fra