12th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2006)
Interactive Technologies & Sociotechnical Systems:

New Developments and Solutions for Cultural Heritage, Healthcare, Gaming, Robotics and the Arts

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Oct. 18-20, 2006, Xian, China

 

Website: http://www.vsmm.org/2006/

E-mail: china2006@vsmm.org

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2006


VSMM2006, Xi’an, will present plenary sessions, invited talks, tutorials, panels, poster sessions, workshops, visits and an innovative technology exhibition. We hereby invite your submissions to the conference program in the formats listed below.

Papers

Full and short papers related to the following topical areas are solicited. However, any paper dealing with a pioneering or significant new development in virtual reality and multimedia is also encouraged.

RESEARCH and THEORY

  • VR theory and modeling of VR systems
  • Human-Centered design issues
  • Artificial life and dynamic worlds
  • Virtual/Augmented/Immersive Environments
  • Modeling and Rendering

CULTURAL HERITAGE

  • Virtual Heritage and Museum Environments
  • Virtual Reality in Archaeology and Historical Research
  • VR Tools and Mobile Devices for Heritage Interpretation and Preservation
  • Social dimensions of Virtual Heritage

EDUCATION

  • Education and remote classrooms
  • Effectiveness of VR for education
  • Life Long Learning
  • Collaborative Environments

APPLIED TECHNOLOGY

  • Robotics and industrial applications
  • 3D GIS: modeling and interpretation
  • 3D scanning and sensing
  • Medical applications
  • On-demand and mobile computing
  • Game engine applications

ART and ENTERTAINMENT

  • Media arts and creative technologies
  • Digital entertainment and performance
  • Traditional and mobile gaming
  • Edutainment for Culture Heritage

PROFESSIONAL GUIDELINES and ETHICS

  • Guidelines and International Charters
  • Socio-economic modeling of VR
  • Usability, Health, and Safety Issues
  • Ethics of the design and use of VR

Full papers should describe original and unpublished work related to the above listed tracks or closely related topics and should not exceed 10 pages single spaced in length including images, figures, tables and references.
Short papers should describe work in progress about the above or closely related topics and should not exceed 4 pages single spaced in length including images, figures, tables and references. Each short paper should be clearly identified as such.
Papers  should also include the title, , authornames, affiliations, postal addresses, e-mail addresses and the contact person for the paper.  Papers will be published in the 2006 proceedings,  by either Springer, IEEE, or SPIE (TBD).
Authors should submit a manuscript electronically as a Word or PDF file conforming to the paper template, which you can download here in Word format.

Papers presentations will be organized in thematic sessions (based upon the conference main topics) of 90 minutes each with 4 papers per session. Paper presentations should aim to be presented within 20 minutes to allow for sufficient discussion after each presentation.

Panels: Please submit a proposal that describes what you plan to discuss. The proposal should include the topic, the importance of the topic to the VSMM2006 attendees, originality and a brief position statement. It should be around 3 pages single spaced in length and submitted by email to the conference secretariat. Be sure to include the contact persons, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. Panels have a duration of 90 minutes in total and need to provide enough time for discussion.

Tutorials & Workshops: Please submit a proposal that describes what you plan to teach or workshop. The proposal must include a description of the objectives, duration, experience level and prerequisites of the intended audience, about 200-word abstract, outline of the content and the instructor's vita. Be sure to include the contact persons, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, and email address. Proposals should be around 3 pages single spaced in length and submitted by email to the conference secretariat. Tutorials and workshops can be half a day or a full day.

Important Dates
Papers (long & short) and Proposals for panels and workshops: June 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2006
Camera ready electronic paper: August 10, 2006
Conference: October 18-20, 2006

Information All inquiries about the submission of a paper, panel, tutorial, or workshop proposals should be made to:
VSMM2006 Conference Secretariat
email: china2006@vsmm.org
Conference website: http://www.vsmm.org/2006/

VSMM 2006 Organization

Conference Honorary Chairs

  • Qingping Zhao (Beihang University, MOE, China)
  • Takeo Ojika (Chubu Gakuin University, Japan)

Conference Chairs

  • Nanning Zheng (Xian Jiaotong University, China)
  • Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)

Program Co-chairs

  • Alonzo C. Addison (UNESCO World Heritage Centre - VHN)
  • Maurizio Forte (VHN, Italian NRC)
  • Hongbin Zha (National Lab on Machine Perception, Peking University)

Organizing Co-chairs

  • Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang Universtiy)
  • Yuehu Liu (Xian Jiaotong University)
  • Jiaxin Wang (Tsinghua University)

Conference Secretariat

  • Jianru Xue(Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.,China)
  • Xioahong Jiang,(VR Committee, CSIG, China)

Virtual Systems and Multimedia Society

  • Takeo Ojika (Honorary president)
  • Hal Thwaites (President)
  • Alonzo Addison (Vice President)
  • Scot Refsland (Vice President)
  • Robert Stone (Vice President)
  • Daniel Pletinckx (VSMM2006 conference adviser)
  • Mario Santana Quintero (Executive Officer)

　

 

VSMM 2006 International Program Committee:

  • Alfredo Andia (Florida International University, USA)
  • J-Angelo Beraldin (National Research Council, Canada)
  • Mark Billinghurst (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  • Onno Boonstra (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Marijke Brondeel (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Erik Champion (University of Queensland, Australia)
  • Chu-Song Chen (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, China)
  • Ling Chen (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Yung-Yu Chuang (National Taiwan University, China)
  • Dora Constantinidis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Jim Cremer (University of Iowa, USA)
  • Sabry El-Hakim (National Research Council, Canada)
  • Mercedes Farjas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
  • Dieter W. Fellner (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
  • Marco Gaiani (Dipartimento INDACO - Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  • Sanjay Goel (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India)
  • Armin Gruen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Susan Hazan (Israel Museum, Israel)
  • Pheng Ann Heng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
  • Zhiyong Huang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Yunde Jia (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
  • Charalampos Karagiannidis (University of Thessaly, Greece)
  • Sarah Kenderdine (Melbourne Museum, Australia)
  • Tomohiro Kuroda (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Yong-Moo Kwon (Korea Institute of Science & Technology (KIST), Korea)
  • José Luis Lerma Garcia (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
  • Hua Li (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China)
  • Riccardo Migliari (University of Roma, Italy)
  • Michael Nitsche (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Zhigeng Pan (Zhejiang University, China)
  • Robert Sablatnig (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  • Xukun Shen (Beihang University, China)
  • Altion Simo (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
  • Hanqiu Sun (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
  • Hiromi T. Tanaka (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
  • Daniel Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
  • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Harold Thwaites (Concordia University, Canada)
  • Yangsheng Wang (Institute of Automation, CAS, China)
  • Gangshan Wu (Nanjing University, China)
  • Hyun S. Yang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea)
  • Jiang Yu Zheng (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)
  • Bingfeng Zhou (Peking University, China)