CONFERENCE PROGRAM PROGRAM at-A-GLANCE SATURDAY SUNDAY 7:00 Second Floor Lobby Second Floor Lobby Breakfast Breakfast 7:30 8:00 TUTORIALS WORKSHOPS TUTORIALS WORKSHOPS 3DUI 8:30 Zydeco Room Jazz Room Gospel Room Cajun Room Zydeco Room Jazz Room Gospel Room Cajun Room Blues Room Tutorial 1: Tutorial 2: Workshop 1: Workshop 5: Tutorial 3: Tutorial 4: Workshop 3: Workshop 2: Session 4: Wayfinding & Hands On with Hands On with Software Workshop Hands On with Conducting Massively Mul- Cloud-Mobile 9:00 3DUI Locomotion Commercial VR Physics Engines Engineering and on Virtual Blues Room Open/Free VR Human-Subject tiuser Virtual Convergence for Packages for VR Architectures Environments Introduction & Packages Experiments Environment Virtual Reality 9:30 (full day (full day (full day for Realtime for Business Session 1: Navi- with Virtual (MMVE) (full day Blues Room 8:30am-5pm) 8:30am-5pm) Interactive Sys- Applications 8:30am-5pm) and Augmented (full day 8:30am- gation Session 5: 10:00 tems (SEARIS) (half day Reality 8:30am- 5:30pm) Haptics & Multi- (full day 8:30am- (full day 5:30pm) modal 8:30am- 12:30pm) 8:30am-5pm) 10:30 5:30pm) Break Break 11:00 Blues Room Blues Room Session 2: Body Keynote Address 11:30 Interaction 12:00 Posters & Demos Fast Forward 12:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break 1:00 1:30 Lobby Area Extra Room Blues Room Posters & Demos Workshop 6: Session 6: Mixed 2:00 PIVE - Percep- Reality tual Illusion in Virtual Environ- 2:30 ments Best Paper Award (half day & Closing 3:00 1:30pm- 5:30pm) Break 3:30 Blues Room 4:00 Session 3: Perfor- mance Analysis 4:30 5:00 5:30 Exhbit Hall A Exhibitors Reception 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 2 MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Second Floor Lobby Second Floor Lobby Second Floor Lobby 7:00 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast 7:30 8:00 VR VR Festival Ballroom VR Festival Ballroom 8:30 Opening Remarks Festival Ballroom Panel: Latency in Festival Ballroom Keynote Address Virtual Environments 9:00 Systems Session 1: Haptics & Interaction 9:30 10:00 Break 10:30 Break Break Festival Ballroom Session 7: Clinical & Exhibit Hall A Exhibit Hall A Exhibit Medical Applications Festival Ballroom Festival Ballroom 11:00 Panel: VR and Art: Hyp- Sesion 4: Collaboration Exhibit Hall A Exhibit er- Reality? & Avatars 11:30 Lunch Break 12:00 Festival Ballroom 12:30 Session 8: Graphics & Lunch Break Lunch Break Modeling 1:00 Festival Ballroom Festival Ballroom 1:30 Demos Demos Demos Session 2: Displays & Session 5: Perception Festival Ballroom Tracking & Usability Session 9: Presence & 2:00 Perception 2:30 3:00 Break Break Break 3:30 Festival Ballroom Festival Ballroom Festival Ballroom Session 3: Augmented Session 6: Eye Gaze & Student Panel: Build- 4:00 Reality Olfactory Displays ing a Career in VR 4:30 Best Paper Awards & Closing Remarks 5:00 Research Research Research Lobby Area 5:30 Poster Session 6:00 6:30 Vermillionville 7:00 VGTC 2009 Awards & Conference Banquet 7:30 Please see www. vermilionville.org for 8:00 more information. Reception LITE 8:30 9:00 3 COMMITTEE MEMBERS VR CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Paul Fung, Louisiana Immersive Technologies 3DUI SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Enterprise, USA General Chairs Symposium Chairs Carolina Cruz-Neira, University of Louisiana at Steering Committee Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan Lafayette, USA Larry Hodges, Clemson University Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France William Sherman, Desert Research Institute, USA Ming Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Bowen Loftin, Texas A&M University, Galveston Program Chairs Canada William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina, Anthony Steed, University College London, UK 3DUI Poster Chairs Charlotte Dirk Reiners, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Raimund Dachselt, University of Magdeburg, USA Lawrence Rosenblum, National Science Founda- Germany tion Robert W. Lindeman, Worcester Polytechnic Insti- Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de Los Andes, tute, USA Susumu Tachi, University of Tokyo Colombia Benjamin Watson, North Carolina State University Panels Chairs Raphael Grasset, HITLabNZ, New Zealand Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota, USA International Program Committee 3DUI Demo Chairs Torsten Kuhlen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Laura Arns, Purdue University Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan Chris Harding, Iowa State University, USA Steffi Beckhaus, University of Hamburg Sabine Coquillart, INRIA, France Oliver Bimber, Bauhaus-University Weimar Tutorials Chairs Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto, Roland Blach, Fraunhofer IAO Laura Arns, Purdue University, USA Canada Christoph Borst, University of Louisiana at Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University, USA Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Lafayette Bruno Raffin, INRIA, France USA Ronan Boulic, EPFL Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Ed Lantz, Vortex Immersion, USA Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT Gabriel Zachmann, Technical University Clausthal, Moonho Park, Samsung, Korea Jian Chen, Brown University Germany Simon Richir, Laval Virtual, France Mary Cole, Landmark Diane Favro, University of California, Los Angeles, Workshops Chairs Sabine Coquillart, INRIA James Thomson, BP, USA USA Raimund Dachselt, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Andreas Gerndt, German Aerospace Center Paula Carson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Magdeburg USA (DLR), Germany Joan De Boeck, Expertise Center Digital Media - Program Committee Pedro Morillo, Universidad de Valencia, Spain UHasselt Oliver Staadt, University of Rostock, Germany Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research, USA Zhigang Deng, University of Houston Roland Blach, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany Posters Chair Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya Hector Garcia, VMASC, USA Pierre Dragicevic, INRIA, France Antonio Frisoli, Percro, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Bernd Froehlich, University of Weimar, Germany Video Chairs Bernd Froehlich, Bauhaus-University Weimar Ben Lok, University of Florida, USA Tovi Grossman, Autodesk, Canada Yasushi Ikei, Tokyo Metropolitan University/Inst. Martin Hachet, INRIA, France Kyle Johnsen, University of Georgia, USA Tech. Matthias Harders, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Research Demos Chairs Victoria Interrante, University of Minnesota Michitaka Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba, Canada USA Simon Julier, University College London Dan Keefe, University of Minnesota, USA Ed Lantz, Vortex Immersion, USA Hirokazu Kato, Osaka University Ernst Kruijff, TU Graz, Austria Moonho Park, Samsung, Korea Gerard Kim, Korea University Simon Richir, Laval Virtual, France Celine Latulipe, University of North Carolina at Young J. Kim, Ewha Womans University Charlotte, USA Diane Favro, University of California Los Angeles, Gudrun Klinker, TU Munich USA Joe LaViola, Brown University, USA Torsten Kuhlen, RWTH Aachen University Robert van Liere, Centrum Wiskunde & Infor- Andreas Gerndt, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong Germany matica, Netherlands Joseph LaViola, University of Central Florida Marcio Pinho, PUCRS, Brazil VR Content Showcase Chairs Tony-Yee Lee, National Cheng-Kung University Mary Whitton, University of North Carolina at Marty Altman, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Won-Sook Lee, University of Ottawa Chapel Hill, USA Enterprise, USA Mark Livingston, Naval Research Laboratory Chad Wingrave, University of Central Florida, Jackie Morie, Institute for Creative Technologies, Benjamin Lok, University of Florida USA USA Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab, University Hiroaki Yano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Student Volunteer Chairs of Geneva Simon Su, Princeton University, USA Betty Mohler, Max Planck Institute for Biological Dioselin Gonzalez, University of Louisiana at Lafay- Cybernetics ette, USA Laura Monroe, Los Alamos National Lab Exhibits Chairs Franck Multon, University Rennes 2 Skipp Rizzo, University of Southern California, USA Haruo Noma, ATR Stephen Diverdi, Adobe, USA Tetsuro Ogi, University of Tsukuba Andre Alfred, Agreco, USA Miguel A. Otaduy, URJC Madrid Finance Chair Zhigeng Pan, Zhejiang University Nicholas Polys, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, USA Wayne Piekarski, WorldViz Publications Chairs Bruno Raffin, INRIA Joe Laviola, University of Central Florida, USA Sharif Razzaque, InnerOptic Technology Eric Wernert, Indiana University, USA Dieter Schmalstieg, Graz University of Technology Local Arrangements Chairs Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, York University Marsha Miller, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Simon Su, Princeton University, USA Enterprise, USA Haruo Takemura, Osaka University Ryan Petticrew, Lafayette Downtown Development, Daniel Thalmann, EPFL USA Robert van Liere, Center for Mathematics and Karen Primeaux, Lafayette Visitors & Conventions Computer Science Bureau, USA Chad Wingrave, University of Central Florida Web Chairs Enhua Wu, University of Macau Marisol Gladding, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Yasuyuki Yanagida, Meijo University Enterprise, USA Gabriel Zachmann, Clausthal University of Tech- nology 4 PROGRAM DETAILS SATURDAY MARCH 14 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm n TUTORIALS Break 8:30 am - 5:30 pm 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Blues Room Zydeco Room n Session 3: Performance Analysis n Tutorial 1: Hands On with Commercial VR Packages Effects of Tracking Technology, Latency, and Spatial Jitter on Jazz Room Object Movement, Robert J. Teather, Andriy Pavlovych, Wolfgang n Tutorial 2: Hands On with Physics Engines for VR Stuerzlinger, I. Scott MacKenzie Selection Performance Based on Classes