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MMM'98

The International Conference on Multimedia Modelling

12 - 15 October 1998
Lausanne, Switzerland

Web page: http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/mmm98.html

MMM'98 Secretariat
ComputerGraphics Lab
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Tel: +41 21 693 5214
Fax: +41 21 693 5328
MMM98@lig.di.epfl.ch
Laurent.Moccozet@cui.unige.ch


The First Workshop on Embodied Conversational Characters

12 - 15 October 1998
Granlibakken Resort & Conference Center at Lake Tahoe
Tahoe City (North Shore), California, USA

With the support of AAAI Cooperation of ACM/SIGCHI

For more information, please consult the workshop web page: http://www.fxpal.com/wecc98/

Scott Prevost
prevost@pal.xerox.com


Neties'98

15 - 16 October 1998
Leeds Metropolitan University
Leeds, UK

Further information can be found on the Website: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/ies/conferences/neties98.htm

Judith Paulin
J.Paulin@lmu.ac.uk


IEEE Visualization 98

18 - 23 October 1998
Research Triangle Park
North Carolina, USA

http://www.erc.msstate.edu/conferences/vis98

Teresa Marie Rhyne
trhyne@vislab.epa.gov


FRACTAL 98

"Complexity and Fractals in the Sciences"
5th International Multidisciplinary Conference

25 - 28 October 1998
Valletta, Malta

The latest information, abstracts of accepted contributions and the registration forms are available on the conference web site:
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fractal/

Miroslav Novak
novak@kingston.ac.uk


ESS98

10th European Simulation Symposium and Exhibition

26 - 28 October 1998
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham, UK

http://hobbes.rug.ac.be/~scs/conf/ess98/index.html

Philippe Geril SCS European Office philippe.geril@rug.ac.be


Pacific Graphics '98

26 - 29 October 1998
Singapore

Organised by: NUS & CGS in Cooperation with (tentative): SCS, KISS, KCGS, IPSJ, ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics
http://www.iscs.nus.edu.sg/~pg98/
pg98@iscs.nus.edu.sg

Teh Hung Chuan
tehhc@iscs.nus.edu.sg


UK AVS+UNIRAS User Group (UAUUG)

Annual Conference

2 - 3 November 1998

Further details of the Conference are available from the UAUUG web page at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/uauug/ or the Conference Organiser:

Paul Hatton
Information Services
Elms Road Building
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3994
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3952
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk

Offers of talks and papers are welcomed by the Programme Organiser:

Rob Fletcher
Graphics Coordinator
Computing Service
University of York
York, YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1904 433816
Fax: +44 (0)1904 433740
R.Fletcher@york.ac.uk

Paul Hatton
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk


Eurographics UK Chapter

17th Annual Conference

13 - 15 April 1999
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK

The Call for Participation can be found online at:
http://info.ox.ac.uk/eg-uk/

Malcolm Austin
Malcolm.Austen@OUCS.ox.ac.uk
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm/


British Computer Society

13 - 15 April 1999
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK

Call for Submissions

"New Media Technologies for Human-Centred Computing"

The following events are being arranged in association with next year's Conference on "New Media Technologies for Human-Centred Computing" and which synchronise with the opening period of the new National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford.

  1. International Conference, 14 - 15 April, Pictureville Call for Papers and Panels. 6 International Invited Speakers have already accepted invitations to give presentations at the Conference. Honourary Conference Co-Chairs are Prof Richard Guedj (INT, France) and Prof Eddy Flerackers (EDM, Belgium)
  2. Workshop on "Capturing the Imagination" arranged by Techserv and the European Commission. This will include presentations on applied creativity and look at current best practice in education, entertainment, and business.
  3. State of the Art Seminar (1-day) with international speakers
  4. Pre-Conference Courses, 12 - 13 April Call for Course Proposals is below. March/April is the time of the grand opening of the new £13.5 million extension to the Museum and the new interactive digital media galleries ("Imaging Frontiers") which will also be on display then. The Museum is moving from the current traditional displays to interactive multimedia and immersive environments. Further information is at: http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/ and http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/
The Conference is being designed specifically to capitalise on the opening of the new Museum and to contribute to the publicity and visibility. Publicity for the Conference will be sent out worldwide.

Call for Papers

13 - 15 April 1999
British Computer Society
Bradford, UK

"New Media Technologies for Human-Centred Computing"

British Computer Society
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK
13 - 15 April 1999

Call for Submissions

"New Media Technologies for Human-Centred Computing"

Honourary Conference Co-Chairs: Professor Richard Guedj (INT, France) Professor Eddy Flerackers (EDM, Belgium)

The British Computer Society Computer Graphics & Displays Group will hold an international two day meeting on this theme to take place in the UK, 13 - 15 April 1999. A book based on, but not restricted to, papers presented at the event will be published after the meeting. There is a lot of current interest in the emerging area of new media brought about by digital convergence. Tools for moving images, graphics, audio, and new kinds of interaction focus attention on integration, content quality, dissemination and distribution.

To create a user-friendly information society requires attention to all these aspects. We need:

Topics to be covered may include (and are not limited to) the following: Other areas of interest will also be considered by the editors.

Call for Papers, Panels, and Courses

Selection of papers for presentation at the meeting will be by invitation or by review of abstracts (up to 4 pages). Chapters for the book will be selected by review of full papers. Papers can be research, experiments/trials, social implication/philosophical aspects, applications. Papers are invited which describe original research in these areas as well as applications.

Please send three paper copies or one e-mail copy of an abstract giving a title, a description of the paper content, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s), a contact address (e-mail and/or postal), telephone and/or FAX number. If a paper is accepted for the meeting, one of the authors will be expected to attend to present it. In this case Conference fees will be waived for the presenter.

The meeting will be preceded by two days of courses and an exhibition display will be mounted to run concurrently with the programme. Course Proposals (for 12 - 13 April) and Panel Proposals for the Conference (14-15 April) are also invited. The event will take place at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK.

Important dates:

Receipt of abstracts
1 November 1998

Agreement on draft programme
1 December 1998

(Notifications to authors)

Final programme confirmation
15 January 1999

Receipt of papers for meeting
1 February 1999

Receipt of final papers for book
1 April 1999

(Illustrations and electronic text)

Meeting (2 days during)
13 - 15 April 1999

Acceptance of final book format
30 April 1999

Contact Addresses:

Co-Chairs Please send all submissions to the first named person below. Queries can be addressed to any of the Co-Chairs

Prof R. A. Earnshaw
Electronic Imaging and Media Communications
University of Bradford
Bradford, BD7 1DP
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1274 384001
Fax: +44 (0) 1274 383727
R.A.Earnshaw@bradford.ac.uk

Prof Huw Jones
Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet, EN4 8HT
UK
d.h.jones@mdx.ac.uk

Prof John A Vince
Virtual Reality Society
P.O. Box 316
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH117 5YA
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1444 414792
Fax: +44 (0) 1444 414792
qi95@dial.pipex.com

Roy Middleton
University of Edinburgh
The Kings Buildings
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4994
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6552
R.Middleton@ed.ac.uk


INTERACT '99

Call for Participation

The Seventh IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

30 August - 3 September 1999
Edinburgh, Scotland

Papers

Deadline for submission:
25 January 1999.

Further information:
http://www.bcs.org.uk/hci/i99/
interact@meetingmakers.co.uk

Phil Gray
pdg@dcs.gla.ac.uk


VG99: International Workshop on Volume Graphics

24 - 25 March 1999
Swansea, UK

Conference Chair: Arie Kaufman.

Programme Committee Co-Chairs: Roni Yagel and Min Chen

Organisers: University of Wales Swansea and Silicon Graphics UK.

For details (including programme committee, objectives, themes, abstract/paper submission, and deadlines), please see:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/vg99/

or for a leaflet, please contact:

VG99 Secretariat
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1792 295663
Fax: +44 (0) 1792 295708
vg99@swansea.ac.uk

Min Chen
M.Chen@swan.ac.uk


Announcement of New Journal and Call for Papers for Volume 1, Number 1, late 1998/early 1999

International Journal of High Performance Computer Graphics, Multimedia and Visualisation

You are invited to submit your research for publication in this new Journal for the first and/or subsequent issues.

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~maxhpcg/

Derek Paddon
hpcg@cs.bris.ac.uk


EGVE'99

5th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments

31 May and 1 June 1999
Vienna, Austria

Special Focus on Augmented Reality

Aims and Scope

The Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments has become a well-known international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with virtual environments and virtual reality.

This year a special focus is set on research, techniques and applications of Augmented Reality. Authors with outstanding contributions to this focus will be asked to publish an extended version of their paper in the planned special issue of COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS on Augmented Reality.

Besides Augmented Reality, we ask prospective authors to submit interesting and stimulating research papers as well as case studies in the general field of virtual environments. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Participation to the workshop will be open to all researcher, developers and interested people from industry. An industrial exhibition is planned. http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/egve99/

Paper Submission

Authors are requested to prepare their paper (up to ten pages) according to the style guides for Springer publications. Instructions for authors are available via http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/conferences/egve99/springer.html

Schedule

30 November 1998
Submission deadline

15 January 1998
Notification of acceptance

28 February 1998
Deadline for camera ready copies

31 May and 1 June 1999
Two days workshop

Workshop Co-Chairs

Michael Gervautz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Axel Hildebrand (Computer Graphics Center, ZGDV, Germany)

Workshop Organising Co-Chairs

Dieter Schmalstieg (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Emmanuel Wenger (Austrian Academy of Science, Austria)

Michael Gervautz
Institute of Computer Graphics
Vienna University of Technology
Schoenbrunner Strasse 7/A/1
A-1040 Vienna, Austria

gervautz@cg.tuwien.ac.at


Graphics-related events maintained on behalf of EG-UK

http://info.ox.ac.uk/eg-uk/diary/