*Okay, they're calling their workshop "Ubiquitous Virtual Reality," but it's amazing these workshop attendees could settle on a name at all, given that they are from Finland, New Zealand, Korea, India, Germany and Austria.
The fourth International Workshop on
Ubiquitous Virtual Reality
(IWUVR2010)
May. 17, 2010 - Helsinki, Finland
We invite you to the fourth International Workshop on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. IWUVR2010 will be held as part of the Pervasive 2010 conference (http://www.pervasive2010.org/).
This Workshop on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality aims to bring together researchers working in both pervasive computing and mixed reality to explore the convergence between the two domains. (((Just in case you weren't confused enough already.)))
Emerging new computing paradigms accelerates the convergence among different technologies and thus makes the border between the real and virtual worlds indistinguishable. (((Especially when it's spot-welded into your contact lenses.)))
In addition, mobile (or handheld) devices with integrated sensors have been established as an important platform for both Pervasive Computing and Augmented Reality that have become part of our daily lives. (((Out of the lab, into the purses and pockets.)))
This workshop has the theme "Mobile AR life in Dual (connected Real and Virtual) Spaces".
We invite papers in the following areas:
· Computer vision for Augmented Reality
· Ubiquitous VR/AR, Augmentation Anywhere
· Mobile/Wearable Computing for UVR
· Ambient Interface for UVR
· Multimodal User Interface for AR/VR environment
· Affective Agents for UVR
· Context-aware Mobile Augmented Reality (((pray you never find yourself in the midst of any militarized Context-aware Mobile Augmented Battlespace Reality)))
· UVR Applications
The workshop will offer a unique window into the state of the art through the participation of a range of researchers, designers and builders who exchange both fresh research ideas and real-world case experiences. Participants will be asked to present position papers or demonstrations related to main theme of this workshop.
The goals of the workshop are to: (1) better understand the concept of "mobile AR life in dual spaces" (2) identify research issues that are unique to "mobile AR life in dual spaces" (3) aid those developing possible new applications by sharing ideas and designs.
Organizers
Prof. Mark Billinghurst, HITLabNZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof. Woontack Woo, GIST, Republic of Korea
Program Committee
Anind K. Dey CMU, United States
Antonio Krüger University of Muenster, Germany
Blair MacIntyre Geogia Tech College, United States
Bruce Thomas University of South Australia, Australia
Daniel Wagner Technische Unversitaet Graz, Austria
Deepak D Rao Samsung India Software Operation, India
Haruo Takemura Osaka Univ., Japan
Hedda R. Schmidtke GIST, Korea
Jonathan Gratch Univ. of Southern California, United States
Kari Pulli Nokia Research, United States
Michael Haller Upper Austria University of Applied Science, Austria
Sehwan Kim UCSB, United States
Youngho Lee GIST CTI, Korea
Vincent Lepetit EPFL, Switzerland
Xun Luo Qualcomm, USA
Zhigeng Pan Zhejiang Univ. China
Author Guidelines
Authors are requested to submit either a full paper (max. 5 pages) or a position paper (max. 2 pages) in PDF, Springer LNCS format.
Position papers may present work in progress, results found, ideas and concepts for future research, as well as questions on topics relevant to the workshop.
Full papers should present novel contributions relevant to the topic of the workshop and must not overlap strongly with other papers previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Submissions should be made via email to Mark Billinghurst
[[email protected]] by February 1st, 2010.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by the workshop program committee, and
at least one author for each paper accepted is expected to attend the workshop.
Important Dates
1st February 2010: Paper submission deadline
5th March 2010: Notification of acceptance
16th April 2010: Final paper versions due
Contact
For more information please contact:
• Prof. Mark Billinghurst, [email protected]
• Prof. Woontack Woo, [email protected]
