From: kiyo@crl.go.jp
Date: September 8, 2003 7:01:27 PM EDT
To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Call for papers: ICAT 2003
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

I C A T 2 0 0 3

Deadline for Submission: Sep. 15, 2003
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13th International Conference on
Artificial Reality and Telexistence

December 3-5, 2003
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

http://www.ic-at.org/

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ORAL PAPERS
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The organizing committee cordially invites you to submit your technical
workand experimental results in Virtual Reality to this conference.
Papers will be subject to review, and accepted papers will be
published in the conference proceedings. (6 pages to 8 pages)

In ICAT 2003, you can select oral presentation style only.

Authors who wish to submit a paper should upload a two-page extended
abstract that is formatted as described here.

Please submit manuscripts in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) on
the paper submission page. If you have a video file related to your work,
you can also upload an mpeg format file (.mpg or .mpeg), whose file
size should be less than 10Mbyte.

The manuscripts must be uploaded no later than September 15, 2003 .

If you have any technical questions about submission, please feel free
to contact info@ic-at.org.

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TOPICS
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* Artificial Reality / Virtual Reality
* Telexistence / Telepresence
* Communication with Realistic Sensations
* Real Time Computer Simulation
* Intelligent CAD and IMS
* Visual and Auditory Display
* Tactile and Force Displays
* Software Architecture 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
* Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality
* Internet and VRML Application of VR
* Immersive Projection Technology
* Retro-reflective Projection Technology
* Tele-robotics / Networked Robotics
* Medical Applications of VR

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SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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1. Initially, authors should create an account and entry on the paper
submission page to fill application form before September 15, 2003.

2. Authors should upload their extended Abstracts no later than
September 15, 2003 from the paper submission page along with the format
described here.

3. Authors will receive acceptance (or rejection) by October 15, 2003.

4. Accepted authors should upload full paper (6 pages to 8 pages) by
November 10, 2003.

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ORGANIZATION
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General Chairs:
Susumu Tachi (The University of Tokyo)
Michitaka Hirose (The University of Tokyo)

Program Chairs:
Haruo Takemura (Osaka University)
Fumio Kishino (Osaka University)
Yasushi Ikei (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology)

International Liaison Chair:
Makoto Sato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Local Arrangement Chair:
Hideo Saito (Keio University)

Local Arrangement Committee Members:
Koichi Hirota (The University of Tokyo)
Takeshi Naemura (The University of Tokyo)
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa (Osaka University)
Kazuya Sawada (Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.)
Shoichi Hasegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Jun Yamashita (The University of Tokyo)
Naoki Kawakami (The University of Tokyo)
Dairoku Sekiguchi (The University of Tokyo)

Program Committee Members:
Mark Billinghurst (University of Washington)
Steve Bryson (NASA)
Micheal Cohen (University of Aizu)
Sabine Coquillart (INRIA)
Tomas A. Defanti (Unversity of Illinois at Chicago)

Stephen R. Ellis (NASA)
Henry Fuchs (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University)
Yukio Fukui (Tsukuba University)
Martin Goebel (FIG)

Mark Green (City University of Hong Kong)
Hiroshi Harashima (The University of Tokyo)
Shigeo Hirose (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Larry Hodges (GVU Center)
Hiroo Iwata (Tsukuba University)

Robert Jacobson (Siemens / Modern Visualization)
Fumio Kishino (Osaka University)
Yoshifumi Kitamura (Osaka University)
Myron Krueger (Artificial Reality)
Jurgen Landauer (GFT Technologies AG)

Susan J. Lederman (Queen's University)
Pei-Suei Lee (IAMAS) Christine L. MacKenzie (Simon Fraser University)
Taro Maeda (NTT)
Paul Milgram (University of Toronto)

Tetsuro Ogi (TAO)
Ming Ouhyoung (National Taiwan University)
Marc Raibert (BDI)
Warren Robinett (University of North Carolina)
S. K. Semwal (University of Colorado)

Thomas Sheridan (MIT)
Robert Stone (Virtual Presence Ltd.)
Daniel Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Andries van Dam (Brown University)
KwangYun Wohn (KAIST)

Yasuyoshi Yokokohji (Kyoto University)
Tsuneo Yoshikawa (Kyoto University)
Hyun S. Yang (KAIST)
Michael Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Application form Due:
17:00 (PST) on September 15, 2003 [9:00 (JST) on September 16]

Abstract Due:
17:00 (PST) on September 15, 2003 [9:00 (JST) on September 16]

Notification:
on October 15, 2003

Full Paper Due:
17:00 (PST) on November 10, 2003 [9:00 (JST) on November 11]


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Kiyoshi KIYOKAWA, Ph.D. <kiyo@acm.org>
Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Toyonaka Educational Training Center 517
1-32 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
Tel: +81-6-6850-6821 / Fax: +81-6-6850-6829
(PGP FP: A314 67B6 C1B2 7016 2C43 CF6C 3456 0225 3CD7 7AB7)