CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Virtual Reality 2009 Workshop
Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments (PIVE)
March 15th, 2009 (changed)
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
http://pive.uni-muenster.de
Virtual environments (VEs) provide humans with synthetic worlds in which they can interact with their virtual surrounding. However, while interacting in a VE system, humans are still located in the physical setup: they move through a laboratory space or […]

Call for Papers:
MMI-Interaktiv, Issue 12, March 2007
ISSN: 1439-7854
MMI In Virtual Environments: Recent Developments and Industrial Applications
This special issue of the open access online journal MMI-Interaktiv invites relevant papers on recent developments and industrial applications in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality (VR, MR, AR) from the perspective of Human-Machine Interaction and Human Factors. Topics could include, […]

Recent research in evolutionary computation has demonstrated the ability for automatic design of engineering products. Despite these results, it is not clear if stochastic search algorithms based on random variations can reach the high complexities necessary for practical design projects. The ultimate success of search algorithms as tools for design automation is critically dependent on […]

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences.

The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: […]

City University of Hong Kong is looking for the following position in the school.
Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in New Media and Interactivity, School of Creative Media

City University of Hong Kong is one of eight higher education institutions directly funded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region through the University Grants Committee (Hong Kong). […]

The symposium will focus on research issues in the practice of the generative arts. These issues fall in areas such as art making, art theory, digital media and human-computer interaction.
It will address recent research and future directions in generative art practice, considering issues such as:
* The specific nature of generative practice
[…]

From the 3DUI list:
If you are willing to fill out a short survey (5 minutes or less) about the current state of VR and AR applications, please read on.
In 1994 and again in 1999, Fred Brooks conducted a survey of the state of the art in VR. In particular, he focused on finding […]

Post Doc Position Available at USC - If you have an interest in Aging and Alzheimer’s and VR applications, there are 5 NIA post-doc positions available here at the USC School of Gerontology.

Skip Rizzo says:

I just got word that I can have one of these slots to supervise a Post Doc to do some VR […]

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This paper introduces a shading model for light diffusion in multi-layered translucent materials. Previous work on diffusion in translucent materials has assumed smooth semi-infinite homogeneous materials and solved for the scattering of light using a dipole diffusion approximation. This approximation breaks down in the case of thin translucent slabs and multi-layered materials. We present […]

Procedural modeling of cities.
Modeling a city poses a number of problems to computer graphics. Every urban area has a transportation network that follows population and environmental influences, and often a superimposed pattern plan. The buildings appearances follow historical, aesthetic and statutory rules. To create a virtual city, a roadmap has to be designed and a […]