From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Marcio Serolli Pinho [pinho@inf.pucrs.br] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 1:58 PM To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: CFP - Workshop on Virtual Reality ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY - WRV 2000 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: May 21th, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------ 3rd WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY - WRV 2000 - C A L L F O R P A P E R S ------------------------------------------------------ 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-papers@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 wrv2000@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 (pinho@inf.pucrs.br) Ricardo Reis, UFRGS (reis@inf.ufrgs.br) Program Chairs Luciana Porcher Nedel, UFRGS (nedel@inf.ufrgs.br) Raul S. Wazlawick, UFSC (raul@inf.ufsc.br) INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION Jacob Scharcanski, UFRGS jacobs@inf.ufrgs.br Fernando Shirmbeck, SENAI-RS fernando@dr.rs.senai.br ELECTRONIC ART EXHIBITION Diana Domingues (UCS) diana@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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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