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Over 20 conference sessions, including Plenary and Keynote speaker sessions, will be organised into 8 tracks, focusing on innovative trends in Virtual Reality, and the application of Virtual Reality technologies and techniques in support of a range of industrial approaches.

Day 1 - Wednesday 25 February 2009

Session Trends of VR

• Affordable Interaction Systems for Design Review on a Virtual Room
• From Virtual Reality to Tangible Virtuality: An Inventory of the Technological Challenges

Session Advanced Visualisation

• Virtual Prototyping by Using Holographic Displays - But what about Large Data Problems?
• Towards Enhancement Of The Airborne 3D Visualization Capabilities Of The Holovizio System

Session Motion Simulation

• Motion Cueing Strategies for Driving Simulators
• A 3D Physics-based Hydraulic Excavator Simulator

Session Conceptual Design and Augmented Reality

• Data Pipeline from CAD to AR Based Assembly Instructions
• An Augmented Reality Tool for Conceptual Design

Session Virtual Mechanical Assembly

• Assembly Planning and Motion Study Using Virtual Reality
• Modelling Dynamic Behaviour of Parts in Virtual Assembly Environment

Session Mechanical Virtual Education

• Evaluating the Impact of Virtual Reality on Mechanical Design Education
• Enacting Actions in Simulated Environments

Session on Virtual Shapes Prototyping

• Virtual Bloxing: Assembly Rapid prototyping of Near Net Shapes
• Spherical Harmonics for Surface Reconstruction and Filtering in 3-Dimensional Metrology

Session Virtual Engineering Environments

• An Immersive VR Application for Interactive Product Concept Generation and Qualitative Evaluation
• Virtual Assembly Environment Modelling

Session Emotional Interaction

• Emotion Recognition in Interactive Systems: Application to a Ballet Dance Show
  

Day 2 - Thursday 26 February 2009

Session Haptic and Tactile Interfacing

• Demands and Opportunities for Haptic and Tactile Feedback
• Haptic Feedback to Guide Interactive Product Design

Session Multisensory Interaction

• Development Methods and a Scenegraph Animation API for Cluster Driven Immersive Display Devices
• An Approach for Studying the Effect of High-Level Spatial Properties of 3D Audio in interactive Systems

Session VR for Medical Application

• Isis: Patient Data Visualisation and Surgical Planning in an Interactive Virtual Environment
• Force Models and GPU-based Computation for Fluid Interactions in Surgical Training Simulation Design

Session Physically-Based Model

• Robotic Co-manipulation with Active Impedance Control
• Constraint-base Interaction for Virtual Assembly

Session on Multimodal Interfacing

• Sparsh UI: a Multi-Touch Framework For Collaboration and Modular Gesture Recognition
• Virtual Reality Interface Design for Multi-Modal Teleoperation

Networking Dinner: The Networking dinner will take place at the Château Saint Michel. There will be a pick at IUT directly after the conference at around 18h45. Please kindly note that the bus transfer takes about 30 minutes. You will arrive at the Chateau Saint Michel at 19h15/19h30 and you will be able to enjoy the welcome cocktail with a wine tasting and dinner afterwards!

Panel Discussion on "Virtual Reality Implementation Successes"

This panel will explore the common elements that characterise problems best suited to address Virtual Reality, and describe specific successful implementations in small, medium and large organisations in areas as diverse as product development, manufacturing, and training.

Panel Speakers: Jerry Duncan (Deere and Company), Holger Schmidt (EADS Innovation Works), Professor Bruno Burbaum (Hochschule Manheim), Michael Russo (Tridelity Display Solutions)

Technical Visit

Participants will have the opportunity to visit the Virtual Reality facilities at the Image Institute - Arts & Métiers ParisTech. Live demos will provide opportunities to highlight the emergent ideas of VR research. Innovative applications of immersive and Multi-Sensory Interaction will be presented during the visit of the technical site.

Keynote Speakers

Professor Robert Stone CPsychol, FErgS, Academician (IHEAS, Moscow); Director, Human Interface Technologies Team, University of Birmingham; Research Director, Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre (UK)
Keynote: Serious Games – The New Virtual Reality?

Prof. Roy Steven Kalawsky PhD, MSc, BSc, Ceng, MIEE, FRSA, Loughborough University (UK)
Keynote: Outstanding Grand Challenges in Virtual Reality

Prof. Hunter G. Hoffman PhD, Director VR Research Center at University of Washington HIT Lab (USA)
Keynote: Virtual Therapies: treating excessive pain anxiety with Low Cost

Conference Chair:
Dr. Samir Garbaya, DipEng, MSc, PhD, MFVRS; Senior Scientist at the Image Institute - ENSAM

Conference Co-Chair:
Jeroen van Liempd Ir. MSc; Director of EMEA Operations, ASME EMEA

Who should attend WINVR 09?
The conference will educate, inform and advise specialists from various disciplines engaged in Virtual Reality, in particular researchers, users and suppliers of virtual reality systems, and Engineering professionals from the following disciplines:

Industrial Product Designers • Mechanical Engineers • Computer Graphics Technicians • Industrial Engineers • Nuclear Engineers • Aerospace Engineers • Automotive Engineers • Medical Scientists • Ergonomics Specialists • Specialists in Cultural Heritage and Historic Preservation