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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am cordially inviting you to write a paper for the web3D
conference that takes place on June 29-21th 2009 in Algarvae, Portugal and I am
chairing it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(In case you have already submitted your contribution,
please disregard this mail - I do not have the overview of who has already sent
the paper).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Call for Papers - <b>extended deadline: April 27th 2009<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Website: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Best Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tomaz Amon Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>President<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Center for scientific visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.bioanim.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>www.eduanim.com/silkroute<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>email: tomaz.amon@bioanim.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2nd call): 27
April 2009 --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW)
2009 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Algarve, Portugal, 19 to 21 June 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(http://www.Web3dw-conf.org)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):Professor Nadia
Magnenat-Thalmann, Director of MIRALab / C.U.I., University of Geneva,
Switzerland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Conference background and goals<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To make site architects aware of 3D communication.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To allow scientists to undertake experimental and predictive
theorems on 3D ambiance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>An IADIS meeting for those who want to push the web3D
forward and benefit from this!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This IADIS conference is meant both for web-site developers,
advertisers, usability evaluators and communication architects; you are <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>all actors in the critical stage of adopting 3D
“Immersion” or lose your competitive edge.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This conference addresses important topics of today like
education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>internet site. Virtual reality already proved its
superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and
even <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the car industry managed to increase learning effects and
sensation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>If it comes to addressing a larger WWW-public, still
critical mass needs to be reached. You will not miss the next step in VR web <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>integration. Keynote speeches, invited lecturers and
workshop leaders will bring you to the best technologies nowadays. The phase of
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>risk and pioneering is left behind. t is just a matter of
understanding the problem and its opportunities; many cutting edge companies <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>are now able to provide compact solutions. The only thing
you have to decide is: What spatial experience your user needs to have.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The important topics of today like education, health and
energy all benefit from web3D if present in their content. We want to discuss <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>in Algarve, Portugal how to make the web3D one of the
central topics of the web content in the near future. This is clearly
inevitable <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>to happen, we just want to push it forward and benefit from
that. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The conference will help you to avoid obstacles from the
past:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Standards to be obeyed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Bridging users’ imagination with your product
reality<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Avoid lengthy navigations in VR<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Build upon existing 3D models <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Capture both the gaming generation and who still believe
in 2D documents<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- And more to say from your experience<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The summer conference in Algarve offers you a relaxed
period, full of inspiration and innovative plans; All the goodies that might
get <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>lost during hectic life. Let us help you to build upon
success stories in the recent past. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- You are the expert in knowing why new media might not
work. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- We take the lead to convince yourself why it should work
the coming years. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There is no way back; the web experiences will change
visitors’ expectations soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So let’s find together the break-through web3D recipes
on the Algarve conference, Portugal 19-21 June 2009! Please look to the total <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>spectrum of thematic strands that you are entitled to join;
indeed it is a rich context for all who see the next step.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Format of the Conference <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral
presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also
in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Best Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>International Journal on Computer Science and Information
Systems - ISSN: 1646-3692) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Types of submissions <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers,
Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Themes related to educational or edutainment web3D, are of
interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Web3D in education, health and energy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in
industry, science, medicine, and education<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Geometric Modeling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry,
structure and behaviors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Virtual Reality<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Graphical User Interface<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Human-Computer Interaction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Computer (Educational) Games<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for
real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Computer-Aided Design<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Computational Geometry<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Natural Phenomena Modeling <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- GPU and Graphics Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Data Representation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Data Transformation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Data Modeling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Scientific Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Information Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Visualization Algorithms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Software Visualization <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Terrain Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Flow Visualization <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- High-performance 3D graphics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Animated humanoids (avatars)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Submission Deadline (2nd call): 27 April 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Notification to Authors (2nd call): 15 May 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2nd
call): Until 25 May 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Late Registration (2nd call): After 25 May 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 19 to 21 June 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Conference Location <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The conference will be held in Algarve, Portugal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Secretariat <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WEB
VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW) 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>E-mail: secretariat@web3dw-conf.org<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Web site: http://www.web3dw-conf.org/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Program Committee <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>WEB VIRTUAL REALITY AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLDS (WEB3DW)
2009 Program Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tomaz Amon, Amnim, Center for Scientific Visualization,
Ljubljana, Slovenia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>General MCCSIS Conference Co-Chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open
University), Portugal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nian-Shing Chen, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Committee Members: *<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* for committee list please refer to
http://www.web3dw-conf.org/committees.asp<o:p></o:p></p>
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