5TH EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

AIMS AND SCOPE

The EUROGRAPHICS WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS has become a well-known international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual environments and virtual reality.

Following the initial Workshop on VEs in Barcelona (Sep. 93), the two workshops in Monte Carlo (Jan. 95, Feb. 96), and the highly successful Virtual Environments Conference in Stuttgart (June 98), EUROGRAPHICS is now organizing a fifth event one which is going to take place together with the Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym'99) in Vienna, Austria.

This year a special focus is set on research, techniques and applications of AUGMENTED REALITY. Authors with outstanding contributions to this focus will be asked to publish an extended version of their paper in the planned special issue of COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS on Augmented Reality.

Besides Augmented Reality, stimulating research papers as well as case studies in the general field of virtual environments will be presented. Topics include, but are not limited to:

The workshop is planned to be organized as a single-track assembly of presentations of research papers and industrial applications. Enough time for discussion is scheduled after the talks and inbetween the sessions. Invited talks of renowed experts in the field will also be included. The scientific program will cover two days in May/June, 1999. For details see the schedule below.

SCHEDULE

1998, Nov. 30thSubmission deadline
1998, Jan. 15thNotification of acceptance
1999, Feb. 28thDeadline for camera ready copies
1999, May 31st and June 1stTwo days workshop



RELATED EVENTS

The following events will take place in conjunction with EGVE99:



PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are requested to prepare their paper (up to ten pages) according to the style guides for Springer publications. Instructions for authors are available via To submit your research paper or case study, please upload a PDF (preferred) or Postscript version (including no other fonts than Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol) of the full paper using FTP to Postscript files should be compressed with either ZIP (.zip) or gnuzip (.gz) After successfully uploading your paper, please send an email to indicating the title of the paper, list of authors and a contact address. Note, that we cannot accept any PDF or Postscript file which cannot be viewed/printed using ghostview - there are too many (incompatible) file formats around.

If you are not able to upload your paper as "ghostview"-compatible PDF or Postscript, you alternatively can send five copies of the full paper including figures and images by regular mail to

FEES

The fee for the workshop (including the book by Springer-Verlag, i.e., proceedings, coffee breaks, and the workshop reception) will be as follows:

ATS 2.900,-for EUROGRAPHICS members
ATS 4.000,-for non-members



VENUE AND ORGANIZATION

The workshop will be held in Vienna together with the Joint EUROGRAPHICS - IEEE TCCG Symposium on Visualization (26-29 May, 1999). This gives interested visitors a good oportunity to attend both events within one visit to Vienna.

Participation to the workshop will be open to all researcher, developers and interested people from industry. An industrial exibition is planned. EGVE99 will be held in Vienna, Austria. It will be organized by the virtual environment group at the Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, and the Austrian Academy of Science. The talks will be given in a technically well-equiped conference room right in the main building of the Academy. A social event featuring the beautiful city of Vienna will be included within the program.

WORKSHOP COCHAIRS

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COCHAIRS

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Peter Astheimer, DE
Ron Azuma, US
Jean-Francis Balaguer, CH
Massimo Bergamasco, IT
Mark Bilinghurst, US
David Boyd, UK
David Breen, US
Sabine Coquillart, FR
Carolina Cruz-Neira, US
Leonid Dimitrov, AUT
Steve Feiner, US
 Bernd Froehlich, DE
Martin Goebel, DE
Michitaka Hirose, JP
Hans Jense, NL
Gudrun Klinker, DE
HeDong Ko, Korea
Robert van Liere, NL
Bowen Loftin, US
David Mizell, US
Heinrich Mueller, DE
 Junji Nomura, Japan
Axel Pinz, AUT
Larry Rosenblum, US
Bill Sherman, US
Jaoying Shi, China
Gernot Schaufler, US
Dieter Schmalstieg, AUT
Jose Teixeira, PT
Daniel Thalmann, CH
Rolf Ziegler, DE

CONTACT

If you have any questions, please address them to:
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