Hi Anthony do you think this would be suitable for a paper on Piavca?
Marco On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Anthony Steed <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apologies for multiple postings. You cay also read this CFP online at > the Presence website: > > http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/pres > > Anthony > > -- > > Second Call for Papers Special Issue of Presence: Teleoperators and > Virtual Environments > > Reflections on the Design and Implementation of Virtual > Environment Systems > > Guest Editors: Anthony Steed, Dirk Reiners, and Marc Latoschik > > Virtual environment technologies are now being used by a wide range of > laboratories, industries, educational establishments and hobbyists > around the world. With the burgeoning power of home consoles, personal > computers and mobile devices, we are hardly limited by the power of our > technology, but we remain limited in the expressive power and ease of > use of our software. This is not for lack of software; there are > dozens, perhaps hundreds of virtual environment systems in use today, > ranging from Open Source tool kits maintained by the community through > networked game engines, both hobbyist and commercial through to > fully-fledged "VR" systems with very broad support for devices. However, > this range of software is also a potential achilles heel: there is a > huge amount of functional replication in these software, subtle and not > so subtle architectural differences which make porting a problem, and > incompatible libraries that can not be exchanged. > > In this special issue, we invite the community to reflect on what > features and design strategies have already or should underpin virtual > environment systems of the future. We acknowledge that the field is > broad, and it is not our intention to spark a debate on whether there > should be a unified architecture for VE systems. We do want to solicit > frank discussions about what features or conventions in existing > software have proved their worth. > > Thus, topics of interest would include: > - Comparisons between software architectures or classes of architecture > - Reports of user experience with software > - Analyses of reusability of application code > - Novel taxonomies of VE systems > - Programming models for VE systems > - Reflections of expressiveness of interaction description code > - Issues of code distribution over multiple processors > - Networking abstracting and issues > - Frank discussions on the failings or flaws of an existing system > - Approaches/experience for the integration/interoperability of > different architectures > - Extensibility of existing interactive application standards such as > X3D into the VR realm > > We would discourage authors from sending papers that describe new > software or architectures unless that software and the paper are based > on a critical analysis of a problem domain and contain critiques of > existing approaches. > > Submission Deadline: January 31, 2009 > > Please send documents in .pdf form to [email protected]. Email > attachments are preferred. > > Include contact information for the corresponding author in the body of > the email. Papers should conform to the submission guidelines available > at http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/pres > > Contact: > Anthony Steed > University College London > Dept. of Computer Science > Gower Street > London WC1E 6BT > United Kingdom > Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4435 > Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 1397 > Email: [email protected] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Opensg-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users >
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