From: Doug Bowman <bowman@vt.edu>
Date: June 2, 2003 8:16:40 AM EDT
To: 3dui List <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>
Subject: Fwd: SVR2003 deadline extended to June 23

SVR2003's page:
http://webmail.unicoc.com.br/~svr/.
Best regards

Claudio Kirner
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CFP

VI Symposium on Virtual Reality – SVR 2003

Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, October 15 – 18, 2003
Call for Papers

The Symposium on Virtual Reality is an international forum,
sponsored by the Brazilian Society of Computing (SBC), which
brings together researchers, practitioners, students, and
other professionals concerned with the advances and
applications of virtual reality, for the exchange of
experience and knowledge in this field.

The first five symposia were held in São Carlos (1997),
Marília (1999), Gramado (2000), Florianópolis (2001), and
Fortaleza (2002).

This year, the sixth SVR will be held in Ribeirão Preto,
located in the state of São Paulo in southeast Brazil.

The activities planed for SVR 2003 consist of invited talks,
tutorials, short courses, technical sections for the
presentation of selected papers, panel sections, poster
sections, demonstrations, a contest of Virtual Worlds, and a
Workshop of thesis on Virtual Reality.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
You are invited to participate by submitting your work
dealing with important aspects of virtual reality, which
include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Artificial life;

· Augmented reality;

· Collaborative Virtual Environments;

· Hardware and software for virtual reality;

· Human-computer interaction in 3D virtual environments;

· Multi-resolution modeling and rendering;

· Networked virtual reality systems;

· Real-time graphics techniques;

· Real-time simulation, animation and visualization;

· Social, economical and technical impacts of virtual
reality;

· Virtual humans and avatars;

· Virtual reality for scientific visualization;

· VR applications in entertainment, architecture,
education, medicine, industry, e-commerce, marketing, etc.;

· VR systems development.

After the peer review process, the selected papers will be
published in the conference proceedings and presented in the
technical sections of the symposium.

Full papers, short papers and posters must be submitted
electronically and can be written either in English or
Portuguese. The final format and iinstructions to the authors
are available in the homepage of the event.

Full papers must be at most 12 pages long, the short papers
must be 3 pages long, and posters must be 1 page long, and
must be sent in either pdf or postscript.
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Important dates
· Deadline for submission: June 23th, 2003

· Notification of acceptance: August 15th, 2003

· Camera-ready papers and posters due: September 1st, 2003

· Symposium: October 15 - 18, 2003
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ORGANIZATION CHAIRS
César Teixeira - cesar.teixeira@coc.com.br

Cláudio Kirner - ckirner@unimep.br

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Cláudio Kirner - ckirner@unimep.br

Creto Augusto Vidal – cvidal@lia.ufc.br

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Albert Rizzo – USC, USA

Alejandro C.F. Orgambide – UFPE, Brazil

Alexandre Cardoso – UFU, Brazil

Amitabh Varshney – UMD, USA

Bianchi S. Meiguins – UFPA, Brazil

Carolina Cruz-Neira – IASTATE, USA

Claudio Kirner – UNASP & UNIMEP, Brazil

Claudio Pinhanez – IBM, USA

Claudio T Silva – OGI, USA

Creto A. Vidal – UFC, Brazil

Daniel Thalmann – EPFL-LIG, Switzerland

Dinesh Manocha – UNC, USA

Doug Bowman – Virginia Tech, USA

Edgard Lamounier – UFU, Brazil

Ednaldo B. Pizzolato – UFSCar, Brazil

Fernando F. de Toledo – Embraer, Brazil

Fernando Shirmbeck – SENAI-RS, Brazil

Gernot Goebbels – Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany

Joaquim B. Cavalcante Neto – UFC, Brazil

Jorge A. Trindade – IPG, Portugal

José C. Teixeira – Univ. de Coimbra, Portugal

Judith Kelner – UFPE, Brazil

Liliane dos Santos Machado – USP, Brazil

Luciana P. Nedel – UFRGS/PUC-RS, Brazil

Marcelo Cohen – PUC-RS, Brazil

Marcelo Kallmann – UCS, USA

Marcelo K. Zuffo – EPUSP, Brazil

Márcio S. Pinho – PUC-RS, Brazil

Maria A F. Rodrigues – UNIFOR, Brazil

Martin Goebel – GMD, Germany

Michael Schnaider – ZGDV, Germany

Nivaldi Calônego Junior – UNIME, Brazil

Prem K. Kalra – Indian Inst. Tech., Delhi, India

Raul S. Wazlawick – UFSC, Brazil

Romero Tori – USP, Brazil

Rosa M. Costa – UERJ, Brazil

Rui Bastos – nVidia, USA

Sergio R. M. Pellegrino – ITA, Brazil

Tereza G. Kirner – UNASP & UNIMEP, Brazil

Terrence Fernando – Salford University, UK

Veronica Pantelidis – ECU, USA

Verônica Teichrieb – UFPE, Brazil

ORGANIZATION
Faculdades COC
Ribeirão Preto - SP, Brazil
Sponsor
SBC – Brazilian Society of Computing

INFORMATION
Homepage: http://www.sbc.org.br/svr
http://www.faculdadescoc.com.br/svr2003
E-mail: cvidal@vdl.ufc.br and ckirner@unimep.br

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