9:00 am

Registration

9:15 am

Welcome

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote

• Perceptive Agents and Systems in Virtual Reality
  Demetri Terzopoulos, New York University

10:50 am - 0:20 pm

• Partitioning Crowded Virtual Environments
  Anthony Steed, and Roula Abou-Haidar, University College London, United Kingdom
• Significant Facet Retrieval for Real-Time 3D Sound Rendering in Complex Virtual Environments
  Chris Joslin, and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Time-Critical Collision Detection Using an Average Case Approach
  Jan Klein, University of Paderborn, Germany, and Gabriel Zachmann, University of Bonn, Germany

1:30 - 3:30 pm

• Real-Time Reflection on Moving Vehicles in Urban Environments
  Alexandre Meyer, and Celine Loscos, University College London, United Kingdom
• Real-Time Rendering of Woven Clothes
  Neeharika Adabala, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, and Guangzheng Fei, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Incremental Rendering of Deformable Trimmed NURBS Surfaces
  Gary K.L. Cheung, Rynson W.H. Lau, and Frederick W.B. Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• A realtime shadow approach for an Augmented Reality application using shadow volumes
  Michael Haller, Stephan Drab, Werner Hartmann, and Juergen Zauner, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

3:50 - 5:20 pm

• Interactive Modeling of Trees by using Growth Simulation
  Katsuhiko Onishi, Shoichi Hasuike, Yoshifumi Kitamura, and Fumio Kishino, Osaka University, Japan
• A Comparative Study on User Performance in the Virtual Dressmaker Application
  Markus Wacker, Michael Keckeisen, and Stanislav L. Stoev, Wolfgang Straßår, university of Tqdingen, Germany
• Information-Rich Virtual Environments: Theory, Tools, and Research Agenda
  Doug A. Bowman, Chris North, Jian Chen, Nicholas F. Polys, and Pardha S. Pyla, Virginia Tech, USA

Lab. Tour / Welcome Reception

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote

• Virtual Unreality: Storytelling in Virtual Environments
  Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside

10:50 am - 0:20 pm

• The ANIMUS Project: A Framework for the Creation of Interactive Creatures in Immersed Environments
  Daniel Torres, and Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada
• Alternative Reality: a New Platform for Virtual Reality Art
  Marc Cavazza, Simon Hartley, Jean-Luc Lugrin, and Mikael Le Bras, University of Teesside, United Kingdom
• Tele-sports and Tele-dance: Full-Body Network Interaction
  Benjamin Schaeffe, Hank Kaczmarski, Lance Chong, Mark Flider, and Luc Vanier, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

1:30 - 3:00 pm

• Towards Virtual Environment Authoring Tools for Content Developers
  Mark Green, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• A Novel Method for Supporting Collaborative Interaction Management in Web-based CVE
  Qingping Lin, Weihua Wang, Liang Zhang, and Tian Fook Choo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Mimicking Video : Real-Time Morphable 3D Model Fitting
  Kazuhiro Hiwada, Akiko Nakashima, and Atsuto Maki, Toshiba Corp., Japan

3:20 - 4:50 pm

• The Role of Structural Reflection in Distributed Virtual Reality
  Paul M. Okanda, and Gordon S. Blair, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• Deployment Issues of a VoIP Conferencing System in a Virtual Conferencing Environment
  R. Venkatesha Prasad, Richard Hurni, H. S. Jamadagni, and H. N. Shankar, Indian Institute of Science, India
• A Scalable Load Balancing Scheme for Large-Scale Multi-Server Distributed Virtual Environment Systems
  Kyungmin Lee, and Dongman Lee, Information and Communications University, South Korea

9:30 - 10:30 am

Keynote

• Recognition of Human's Motion and It's Application to Live CG Animation
  Koichi Omura, Takarazuka University of Art and Design

10:50 am - 0:20 pm

• Super Wide Viewer Using Catadioptrical Optics
  Hajime Nagahara, Yasushi Yagi, and Masahiko Yachida, Osaka University, Japan
• Performance Evaluation of Programmable Graphics Hardware for Image Filtering and Stereo Matching
  Kaoru Sugita, Takeshi Naemura, and Hiroshi Harashima, University of Tokyo, Japan
• The Optical Tweezers: Multiple-Point Interaction Technique
  Sergey V. Matveyev, and Martin Goebel, Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Germany

1:30 - 3:00 pm

• A Haptic Feedback Device based on an Active Mesh
  Andrea Mazzone, Christian Spagno, and Andreas Kunz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
• Novel Actuators for Haptic Displays based on Electroactive Polymers
  Andrea Mazzone, Rui Zhang, and Andreas Kunz, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
• The CAT for efficient 2D and 3D interaction as an alternative to mouse adaptations
  Martin Hachet, Pascal Guitton, Patrick Reuter, and Florence Tyndiuk, University of 1, France

3:00 - 4:30 pm

• Visual Attention Based Information Culling for Distributed Virtual Environments
  Ashweeni Kumar Beeharee, Roger Hubbold, and Adrian J West, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• A Model of Dynamic Interest Management: Interaction Analysis in Collaborative Virtual Environment
  Dawei Ding, and Miaoliang Zhu, Zhejiang University, China
• Design and Evaluation of Team Work in Distributed Collaborative Virtual Environments
  Gernot Goebbels, Vali Lalioti, and Martin Goebel, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany