From bowman@cc.gatech.edu Thu Mar 18 16:10:15 1999 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA25905 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu [128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA24612; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:12:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by asbestos.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA08058 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:11:34 GMT Received: from lennon.cc.gatech.edu (bowman@lennon.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.9.20]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA24576 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:11:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bowman@localhost) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA25899 for 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:09:39 -0500 (EST) From: bowman@cc.gatech.edu (Doug Bowman) Message-Id: <199903182109.QAA25899@lennon.cc.gatech.edu> Subject: An interesting opportunity To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu (3D UI List) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:09:39 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Status: RO Greetings everyone, I wanted to talk about 2 things with all of you. First, thanks to everyone who gave us feedback and help with our tutorial for IEEE VR '99. Joe, Ernst, Ivan, and I presented a full-day tutorial this past Saturday at the conference entitled "The Art and Science of 3D interaction". We were the best-attended tutorial at the conference, and received high marks from the attendees. We drew the material not only from our own work, but also from the work of many of you on the list, and we thank you for that. We plan to put our materials online soon - you can see an outline and bibliography that grew out of this now at the 3dui web page. Second, I have a question for everyone. Bowen Loftin, the IEEE VR chair for this year, presented a proposal to me and the steering committee of the conference that they add a symposium specifically on the issue of 3D interaction to the conference. For those familiar with the IEEE Visualization conference, this would be similar to the InfoViz symposium that they do - a more focused symposium within the larger scope of the conference. My question for you is this: Would you be interested in publishing & presenting research at such a symposium? Would such a symposium make you interested in attending the VR conference if you don't already? I know that many of you are not regulars at this conference, for whatever reason, and the leaders of the conference would like to attract more work in our field, because they see it as a very important growth area. (On this note, Fred Brooks in his keynote at the conference identified interaction issues as one of the top 8 or 9 challenges facing VR researchers today). There may be some concern that such a symposium would be in direct competition with the interactive 3D graphics symposium, but it is my feeling that this meeting is more focused on rendering, algorithms, and other "hard-core graphics" issues. Do you agree? Send responses directly to me, and not to the list. I will compile the results and send them to Bowen. Also, as this is still in the very early pre-planning stages, please do not disseminate this information widely. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Bowman, Ph.D. Candidate College of Computing, GVU Center, Georgia Tech Room 388 CRB, (404) 894-5104 bowman@cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bowman/