[General] CFP: Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2006

*** DEADLINE APPROACHING *** CALL FOR PAPERS Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2006 (In Cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH - pending) May 8-10, 2006 Lisboa, Portugal http://immi.inesc.pt/egve CFP Deadline: December 16 2005 Aims and Scope of the Symposium ------------------------------- We invite you to participate in the Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE), previously known as the Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments held in the previous eleven years. EGVE is an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual environments and virtual reality. EGVE 2006 will provide an opportunity for VE and VR researchers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations of their work, and discuss emerging directions for the field. Original, unpublished papers documenting new research contributions, practice and experience, or novel applications, from all areas of virtual environments, are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Interaction techniques for VR - Immersive projection technologies - Haptics, sound and multimodal interaction - VR system architecture and development - 3D input and output devices - Augmented and mixed reality - Collaborative and distributed VR - Human factors and cognition - Interactive rendering, modeling and simulation - VR applications (e.g. scientific visualizaiton, medicine, education and training, etc.) Special Issue ------------- Revised and extended versions of the selected papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal Computers and Graphics (Elsevier). Symposium Venue and Format -------------------------- The event will be held in Lisboa. The event is open to all those with an interest in virtual environments. Students, in particular, are encouraged to participate. The two day symposium will be organized as an assembly of plenary presentations. Invited presentations and posters presenting work-in-progress on novel applications of VE or new VE projects will be included. EGVE'06 will take place in the Congress Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It will be co-located with EuroVis'2006 and just before EG Symposium in Parallel Graphics in Visualization to take place in University of Minho, Portugal. Important Dates: --------------- Electronic paper abstract due: Dec 9, 2005 Electronic paper submission deadline: Dec 16, 2005 Notification of paper acceptance: Feb 17, 2006 Electronic poster submission deadline: Feb 24, 2005 Notification of poster acceptance: Mar 8, 2006 Camera-ready copy of paper due: Mar 13, 2006 Camera-ready two-page poster due: Mar 20, 2006 Symposium Dates May 8-10, 2006 Authors are requested to prepare their contribution as a full paper in English using Eurographics syposium/workshop proceedings template. Submissions must be prepared as a PDF file according to the Eurographics Submission Instructions. The length of submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings series, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH (agreement pending). Submitted papers will be carefully reviewed by members of the International Program Committee and selected external reviewers. Rejected submissions with great potential will be invited as combined Poster/Demo presentations at a dedicated "Work in Progress" session; an accompanying two-page description will be compiled into a separate proceedings document with restricted distribution. Poster Presentations -------------------- Two-page submissions for the poster presentation/live demonstration are also encouraged (see important dates above). More information will be available on the symposium website soon. Format guidelines and copyright forms can be found at the symposium webpage. Symposium Chair Joaquim Jorge, Instituto Superior Ticnico, Portugal IPC Co-Chairs Ming Lin, USA Roger Hubbold, UK Local Co-Chair Miguel Dias, ADETTI, Portugal Industrial Track Chair Luciano Pereira Soares, Portugal International Program Committee Members Anthony Steed, UK Bernd Froehlich, DE Carol O'Sullivan, IE Carolina Cruz-Neira, USA Daniel Thalmann, CH David Roberts, UK Didier Stricker, DE Dieter Schmalstieg, AT George Baciu, HK Gerard Kim, KR Grigore Burdea, USA Heinrich Mueller, DE Henry Fuchs, USA Iwata Hiroo, JP Joao Pereira, PT Larry Hodges, USA Mark Billinghurst, NZ Martin Goebel, DE Miguel Otaduy, ES/CH Miguel Salles Dias, PT Ming Ouhyoung, TW Nuno Correia, PT Pere Brunet, ES Robert van Liere, NL Rynson Lau, HK Sabine Coquillart, FR Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, CA Yiorgos Chrysanthou, CY