Call for papers We are pleased to announce the eighth Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation VRIPHYS 2011. The workshop is hosted by the University of Lyon, France. It is organized in cooperation with Eurographics. VRIPHYS is one of the well-established international conferences in the field of computer animation and virtual reality. The workshop provides an opportunity for researches in virtual reality and computer animation to present and discuss their latest results and to share ideas for potential directions of future research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * animation, e. g. physically-based, vision-based, knowledge-based and geometric approaches * virtual and augmented reality * planning, learning, optimization for animation * interfaces for creating and editing animations * perception in animation * autonomous characters, group and crowd behavior * natural phenomena * mathematical foundations of animation * haptics * sound interfaces * related techniques, e. g. collision detection and contact handling * applications, e. g. in robotics, medicine, entertainment A “Best Paper Award” will be given to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the Organizing Committee. The “Best Paper Award” is a Tesla™ C2070 computing processor sponsored by NVIDIA. Important dates * July 8, paper submission * Sep 1, notification to authors * Sep 16, final version due * Sep 16, early-bird registration * Dec 5-6, conference Conference Chairs Jan Bender, University of Darmstadt, Germany Kenny Erleben, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Eric Galin, Université Lumière Lyon, France International Program Committee Jérémie Allard, INRIA Lille Bedrich Benes, Purdue University Jan Bender, University of Darmstadt Robert Bridson, UBC Christophe Chaillou, Université Lille 1 and INRIA Erwin Coumans, AMD Hervé Delingette, INRIA Sophia Antipolis John Dingliana, Trinity College Dublin Kenny Erleben, University of Copenhagen François Faure, Université de Grenoble Eric Galin, Université Lumière Lyon Fabio Ganovelli, National Research Concil Joachim Georgii, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen Laurent Grisoni, INRIA Lille – North Europe Takahiro Harada, AMD Thomas Jakobsen, Havok Research Copenhagen Lenka Jerabkova, INRIA Rhone-Alpes Torsten Kuhlen, RWTH Aachen Cesar Mendoza, Eden Games (Atari/Infogrames) Matthias Müller, NVIDIA Switzerland Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Honda Research Institute Miguel Otaduy, URJC Madrid Isaac Rudomin, Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico City Jonas Spillmann, ETH Zurich Jos Stam, Autodesk Inc. Matthias Teschner, University of Freiburg Gabriel Zachmann, University of Clausthal Instructions/submissions on <http://liris.cnrs.fr/vriphys2011> http://liris.cnrs.fr/vriphys2011