Call for Papers: HAPTEX '05 - VR Workshop

[Haptex 2005 Workshop]

  Call for Papers:
  HAPTEX '05 - VR Workshop
  in Hanover, Germany

  On Haptic and Tactile Perception of Deformable Objects

  December 1-2, 2005
  Leibniz Haus, Hanover, Germany


Important dates:

    Deadline for Submission:    June 30 2005
    Notification of Acceptance: August 15 2005
    Deadline for Final Version: August 30 2005

Within the framework of the EU-HAPTEX project the Welfenlab, University
of Hanover organizes a workshop on haptic and tactile perception. All
submissions will be peer reviewed. The most interesting contributions to
the workshop will be published in a special issue of The Visual Computer
after the workshop took place.

For details concerning the workshop and the submission, please see:
http://www.gdv.uni-hannover.de/haptex05


Topics of interest:
- Hardware for haptic/tactile interaction in Virtual worlds
- Multimodal interaction system for presenting deformable materials
- Modeling dynamics of deformable objects for haptic/tactile feedback
- Dynamic simulation of soft tissues/deformable objects including textiles
- Simulating the touching, the hearing and the visual of the virtual world
- Haptic/tactile rendering
- Presenting haptic feedback in multimodal interaction
- Perception of material using haptic feedback
- Application of Haptic/Tactile interface for soft/deformable objects
- Human computing interaction

Program and Workshop Co-Chairs HAPTEX '05:
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Franz-Erich Wolter

Program Committee:
Massimo Bergamasco, PERCRO
Heinrich Bülthoff, MPI-Tuebingen
Antonio Bicchi, University of Pisa
Sabine Coquillart, INRIA
Eddy Flerackers, University of Limburg
Tobias Höllerer, University of California
Hiroo Iwata, University of Tsukuba
Abderrahmane Kheddar, University of Evry Val d'Essonne
HyungSeok Kim, University of Geneva
Tadashi Kitamura, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Frederic Fol Leymarie, University of London
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva
Harriet Meinander, University of Tampere
Ming Lin, University of North Carolina
Annie Luciani, INPG
Fabio Salsedo, PERCRO
Makoto Sato, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ian Summers, University of Exeter
Hong Tan, Purdue University
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL
Frederic Vexo, EPFL
Pascal Volino, University of Geneva
Alan Wing, University of Birmingham
Peter Wriggers, University of Hanover
Franz-Erich Wolter, University of Hanover


For more information, please contact:

Web:   http://www.gdv.uni-hannover.de/haptex05
Email: Guido Böttcher <boettch at gdv.uni-hannover.de>
Phone: +49 511 - 762 29 14
Fax:   +49 511 - 762 29 11



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