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Submission deadline: Friday 18 December 1998

Laval International Virtual Reality Meeting 
International Scientific Workshop 
3-4 June 1999
Laval, France

                     
7th Workshop of the French Virtual Reality Group GT-RV
(PRC ALP-AFIG, I3, ISIS - CNRS / Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Recherche et de la Technologie) 

topic: VIRTUAL REALITY AND PROTOTYPING


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Co-organizers 

      Christophe Chaillou, Professor, GRAPHIX Team - LIFL, Lille, France 
      Jean-Luc Dugelay, Research Associate, Multimedia Communications Dept. - EURECOM, 
	Sophia Antipolis, France 
      Simon Richir, Professor, ISTIA-Innovation, Angers, France 
      Gérard Subsol, Expert Engineer, EPIDAURE Project - INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France 

Program Committee (being constituted)

      Jean-Francis Balaguer, Technology Manager, Artemedia, Lausanne, Switzerland 
      Olivier Balet, R&T Manager, Computer Graphics Department, CS-CISI, Toulouse, France 
      Grigore Burdea, Professor, Human-Machine Interface Lab, Rutgers University, Piscataway - 
	New-Jersey, USA
      Patrick Callet, Professor Productics Logistics Laboratory - ECP, Châtenay-Malabry, France 
      René Caubet, Professor, Image Synthesis Team - IRIT, Toulouse, France 
      Philippe Coiffet, Professor, Laboratoire de Robotique de Paris, Vélizy, France 
      Sabine Coquillart, Senior Researcher, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France 
      Hervé Delingette, Senior Researcher, EPIDAURE Project - INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France 
      Philippe Fuchs, Professor, Virtual and Augmented Reality Team - ENSMP, Paris, France 
      Enrico Gobbetti, Head of the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group - CRS4, Cagliari, 
	Italy 
      Alain Grumbach, Professor, Modèles Informatiques du Langage et de la Cognition, ENST, 
	Paris, France 
      Patrick Horain, Associate Professor, Signal & Image Processing Department, INT, Évry, 
	France 
      Jean-Pierre Jessel, Professor, Image Synthesis Team - IRIT, Toulouse, France 
      Roy Kalawsky, Professor, Advanced VR Research Centre - Loughborough University, UK
      Annie Luciani, ACROE, Grenoble, France 
      Bernard Taravel, Professor, ISTIA-Innovation, Angers, France 
      Daniel Thalmann, Professeur, Computer Graphics Lab. - EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 
      Jacques Tisseau, Professor, Laboratory of Software Engineering - ENIB, Brest, France 
      Pascal Vuylsteker, Webmaster, MediaPort Team - INA, Bry-sur-Marne, France 


WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

Virtual Reality can be defined as a set of hardware and software tools that allows the
realistic simulation of an interaction with virtual objects, which are a computer models of
real objects.  

Most often, we take an existing object, whose size can range from a molecule to a plant, and we
create a virtual version.  Nevertheless, it is also possible to reverse the concept, and to use
Virtual Reality to materialize an idea. For example, an architect or an engineer will be able
to display on their computer a project of a building or a mechanical part and to interact with
this virtual prototype. 

This international scientific workshop, organized within the Laval International Virtual
Reality Meeting with the scientific support of the French Virtual Reality Working Group (PRC
ALP-AFIG, I3, ISIS - CNRS / Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Recherche et de la
Technologie), will gather researchers from the academic and industrial communities to expose
new methods, to show the newest scientific results and to exchange ideas and information about
the applications of Virtual Reality in prototyping.  

The workshop topics are the following: 

      How to create a virtual prototype. How to model the geometry, physical and mechanical 
	behaviour. How to model in real time.
            Some keywords: digitization, CAD, virtual sculpting, modeler, rigid and deformable 
		physical behaviour, contact modelisation.

      How to interact with the virtual prototypes. Which senses to use - vision, hearing, touch,
	 which interfaces to use. What are are the ergonomical constraints. How to interact in 
	real time. 
            Some keywords: realistic image synthesis, stereoscopic visualisation, haptic 
		feedback, sound interface, ergonomy, human-computer interface, parallelism.

      How to augment reality with the virtual prototype. How to integrate it into a real
	 environment. 
            Some keywords: augmented reality, image registration, motion tracking.

      How to create and interact with a virtual prototype in groups. 
            Some keywords: collaborative work, concurrent engineering, distributed Virtual 
		Reality.

      Does the virtual prototype correctly simulate the reality. Is it possible to compare a 
	virtual prototype with a classical industrial prototype. 
            Some keywords : reverse engineering, fast prototyping

      What are the industrial applications of virtual prototyping.
      ...

The Friday morning will be dedicated to the topic of force and haptic feedback interfaces that
allow the design of and interaction with virtual prototypes.  

Thw workshop will be composed of 30 minute talks, and of two keynotes presentations given by
experts of the field: 

      "Virtual Reality and Prototyping" by Roy Kalawsky. Roy Kalawsky is the Director of the
Advanced VR Research Centre and Professor at Loughborough University, United-Kingdom. He
specializes in the exploitation of multi-sensory virtual environments in scientific and
engineering applications. He is the author of the book The Science of Virtual Reality and
Virtual Environments: a technical, scientific and engineering reference on virtual environment
published by Addison-Wesley.  

      "Force and Haptic Feedback Interface" by Grigore Burdea. Grigore Burdea is the Director
of the Human-Machine Interface Lab and Professor at Rutgers University, USA. He specialises in
force and haptic feedback interfaces and he is author or editor of 4 books on this topic (e.g.,
Virtual Reality Technology with Philippe Coiffet).  

Write-ups of talks and presentations will be published in proceedings that will be available
during the workshop. The best contributions will appear in a special issue of the journal
International Journal of Design and Innovation Research.

Demonstrations relating to talks could be given during the activities for the general public
that will be held on Saturday (for more details, consult the Web pages of Laval International
Virtual Reality Meeting).  

Participation in the scientific workshop will be free of charge but the audience will be
limited to 150 people.  


PROVISORY PROGRAMME

 Thursday June, 3 1999

10:00-11:00	Welcome
11:00-12:00	Keynote presentation: Virtual Reality and Prototyping 
		Roy Kalawsky, Advanced VR Research Centre, Longhborough University (UK)
12:00-13:00 	Session 1 (2 talks) 
13:00-14:30 	Lunch 
14:30-16:00	Session 2 (3 talks) 
16:00-16:30 	Coffee Break 
16:30-18:00 	Session 3 (3 talks)

 Friday June, 4 1999
                                                    
8:30-9:30 	Keynote Presentation: Force and Haptic Feedback 
		Grigore Burdea, Human-Machine Interface Lab, Rutgers University, USA 
9:30-10:30 	Session Force and Haptic Feedback (2 talks)
10:30-11:00 	Coffee Break 
11:00-12:30 	Session Force and Haptic Feedback (3 talks) 
12:30-14:00	Lunch 
14:00-16:00 	Session 4 (4 talks)


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers will be submitted in French OR English with the following format: 

      	- one page with title, author name(s) and affiliation(s) and keywords. 
      	- an abstract of 4 pages maximum, figures and references included. The definitive 
	version could be 10 pages long.  
	- font size 12 pt, single column, simple spacing. 

ONLY PAPER COPIES will be submitted. Papers must be sent in FOUR copies to the following
address before Friday December, 18 1998.  

                                           Gérard Subsol
                                       Projet EPIDAURE, INRIA
                                       2004, route des Lucioles
                                BP 93 06902 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Cedex
                                             FRANCE

Submitted papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Program Committee. Notification of
acceptance will be sent to authors on Tuesday February, 9 1999.  

Definitive versions will be EXCLUSIVELY in English and will follow a style format that will be
given later. Two paper and one electronic version (pdf format) will be sent before Friday
April, 30 1999.  

Submission deadline: 		Friday December, 18 1998
Notification of acceptance:	Tuesday February, 9 1999 
Receipt of definitive papers:	Friday April, 30 1999

For more information, please send an e-mail to Gérard Subsol <Gerard.Subsol@sophia.inria.fr>.