VSMM 2010

 

             The 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia

 

                                                                             Oct 20-23, 2010    COEX Seoul Korea 

            Transdisciplinary Creativity - TransMedia in Art, Science, and Heritage in 21C

                           

    

Conference Committee

 

  Honorary Chairs: 

  Lewis Lancaster    Executive Director, ECAI (Electronic Culture Atlas Initiative);

                                  Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

  Jeffrey Shaw          Founding Director, ZKM Institute of Visual Media;

       Director of i-Cinema UNSW, Sydney;

       Dean of the School of Creative Media, City Univ. of Hong Kong

  Lizbeth Goodman:   Chair of Creative Technology Innovation;

                                  Director, SMARTlab Digital Media Institute & MAGIC Gamelab

                                  University of East London 

 

 General Chairs: 

  Hyun Seung Yang:     Dean of Research KAIST;

                                  Director of KAIST-Microsoft Research Collaboration Center (KMCC)

  Alonzo C. Addison:    Special Advisor, UNESCO World Heritage Centre;

                                  Vice President, ICOMOS ICIP

  Michitaka Hirose:       Professor, the Univ. of Tokyo;

                                  President, VR Society of Japan

 

Organizing Chairs: 

  Harold Thwaites:       President, Int’l Society on VSMM

                                   Dean, Faculty of Creative Multimedia

                                   Chair, Center for VR & Immersive Technology

                                   Multimedia Univ. Malaysia

  Myung Joon Kim:        Senior Vice President,

                                   ETRI (Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute)

  Hideo Saito:               Professor,  Keio Univ.;

                                   General Co-Chair of ICAT2006, ICAT2008

             ( Int’l Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence)

 

Program Chairs: 

  Kiyoharu Aizawa:        Professor, the Univ. of Tokyo

  Fabio Remondino:       Research Scientist, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

  Hongbin Zha:              Professor of Peking University, China

   

Workshop Chair:    

  Mario Santana:           Executive Officer, VSMM Society;

                                   Professor, KU Leuven and UPenn

                                                                                                                                                             

Media Art/Design Chairs:

  Christa Sommerer:      Professor, Instituite for Media, Univ. of Art and Design Linz

  Masayuki Akamatsu:   Professor, IAMAS

  Seungho Park:            Professor, Ewha Univ.

 

 

Papers, Workshop & Tutorial Proposal Submission Guidelines:

 

Topics include (but are not limited to): 

 

TransMedia, Science and Arts 

- TransMedia Theory and Design

- TransMedia, Art and Content

- TransMedia and Future Computing

- TransMedia and IT Convergence

- TransMedia and Creative Industry

 

VR/AR/MR

- Ubiquitous MR/AR

- 3D Modeling, Interpretation and Reconstruction

- Immersive Virtual Environments

- Rending and Visualization of Large-scale Models

- Real time Visual Tracking and Registration

- Wearable and Mobile MR/AR

- Distributed and Collaborative MR/AR

- Industrial MR/AR Applications

- Medical MR/AR Applications

- MR/AR for Entertainment

- MR/AR for Training

- Robotics and Tele-Presence

- Avatars and Virtual Community

- Aural, Haptic and Olfactory Augmentation

 

Virtual Heritage

- MR/AR for cultural heritage

- Digital Libraries and Archives

- Digital Documentation (2D/3D laser scanning, Lidar, photogrammetry, ..)

- 3D Modeling, City Modeling, and Large-scale Terrain Modeling

- 3D conservation, preventive maintenance and preservation of historic places

- Digital Anastylosis, Restoration and Preservation

- Applied Shape and Pattern Recognition in Heritage
- Digital Heritage Tools and systems
- Geo-temporal 3D Databases
- Remote Sensing and GIS for Culture Heritage
- Virtual Heritage, Virtual Tourism and Museum Applications

- Heritage Interpretation and Presentation, Kiosks and Site Explanations
- Case Studies for Virtual Heritage

- Webcams and Site Monitoring

- Cultural Heritage and Edutainment

- Enhanced Environments and Locative Media

- Virtual Reality in Archaeology and Historical Research

 

Media Art, Science and Technology

- Ubiquitous/Pervasive Media and Art

- Media Arts and Creative Technologies

- Digital Cinema and Media Performance

- Computer Music

- Interactive and Mobile Media & Art
- Museum Art and Exhibitions
- Networked Experiences
- Site-specific Installations
- Experimental Art Forms

- Affective Computing

- Collaborative Spaces and Environments

- Application of Serious Gaming Technologies

- Playfulness and Experience Design

- Digital Arts and Politics

- Digital Storytelling and Nonlinear Scripting

 

 

Entertainment and Education

- MR/AR for entertainment

- Traditional, Mobile, Location Based, Online and Pervasive Gaming

- Entertainment Design Theory

- Mobile Entertainment,

- Education, Virtual Classroom and Virtual Collaborative Learning

- Interactive Television

- Digital Broadcasting and Digital Cinema,

- Interactive Graphic Design; Interactive Sound Design

- Narratives / Digital Storytelling,

- Smart Gadgets and Toys,

- Social Impact, Social Networking, Sound and Music,

- Social and Interactive Computing and Media

 

Human Factors

- Human Factors/Human-Centered Design Issues

- Usability Studies and Experiments

- Social Implications

 

 

 

   VSMM 2010will cover not only technical but also artistic, empirical and theoretical issues

   regarding TransMedia practices and we invite submissions of

 

  l.  Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

  l.  Full Papers (not exceeding 8 pages)

  l.  Short Papers (not exceeding 4 pages)

  l.  Posters (not exceeding 2 pages)

 

   All accepted peer-reviewed papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings

   (IEEE) and available at the conference. Please use the IEEE format for your paper.

   A special issue with the top 6-8 long papers will be published in the international journal.

  

   Word 2000 templates can be found here. Latex users please use this stylesheet with this bib file.

 

   All Workshop and Tutorial proposals must include the organizer/lecturer’s name,

   affiliation, mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address together with

   title, objective, contents, number of speakers, and expected number of participants.

 

   Workshop and Tutorial proposals must be submitted to hsyang@kaist.edu

 

   All Paper submissions must include the author's name(s), affiliation, complete mailing

   address, phone number, fax number and email address.  Papers should be submitted

   through the automated EasyChair system at

   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vsmm2010 either in PostScript or PDF format

 

 

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Important Dates

 

    Deadline for Tutorial & Workshop Proposal Submission   May 15, 2010      

    Deadline for Full and Short Paper Submissions   May 26, 2010     

    Notification of Acceptance for Full and Short Paper Submissions   June 18, 2010     

    Deadline for Poster and Demo Submissions   July 5, 2010     

    Notification of Acceptance for Poster and Demo Submissions   July 15, 2010    

    Camera Ready Copy    August 15, 2010     

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   posters, workshop & tutorial proposals to VSMM 2010. You can submit, check and update

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   On Behalf of Organizing Committee of VSMM 2010

 

   Hyun Seung YANG (KAIST)

   Alonzo Addison (UNESCO)

   Michitaka Hirose (Univ. of Tokyo)

  

 

 VSMM Society

 

  Honorary President   Takeo Ojika

  President                   Harold Thwaites, Multimedia University Malaysia

  Vice President           Alonzo C. Addison, UNESCO World Heritage Center

  Executive Officer       Mario Santana, KU Leuven and Upenn

  www.vsmm.org

 

  Attached file: VSMM2010-CFP-091210.doc