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Call for Papers

With increased availability of bandwidth and continuing convergence of the computer, television, and telephone, there is great interest in the next generation of technologies that enable individuals and groups to effectively participate in, and experience, remote events. This workshop will focus on multimedia technologies for immersive telepresence. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from various fields such as computer graphics, computer vision, human computer interaction, acoustics, networking, and databases, who are working on different aspects of telepresence. We invite papers from both academia and industry on all aspects of immersive telepresence. 

Areas of interest for this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Design of telepresence systems
• Architecture of physical spaces to support telepresence
• Multimodal sensing (including cameras/computer vision, microphone arrays/acoustics, haptic sensors, active badges etc.)
• Multimodal presentation and display (including projection systems, flat panels, 3D graphics, 3D audio) 
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Network infrastructure
• Spatio-temporal databases for telepresence
• Design of the telepresence experience
• User studies on effective telepresence
• Example systems for videoconferencing, virtual meetings, remote surveillance etc.

Proceedings and Submission Guidelines

We seek submissions describing original and unpublished work. The page limit for submissions is four pages in double-column format. Authors should use the ACM template for their submissions and submit electronically in pdf format via the workshop web page. All accepted papers will be published in proceedings printed by the ACM. Authors of accepted papers are required to sign the ACM Transfer of Copyright Agreement form. At least one author of an accepted paper should register for the workshop by the early registration deadline of October 31, 2002.

Important Dates

Submissions due                  September 13, 2002

Acceptance notification       October 11, 2002

Camera-ready paper due     October 25, 2002

Early Registration Deadline   October 31, 2002

Workshop date                    December 6, 2002