From the official page :
At Laval Virtual 2007, 4 major themes will be highlighted:
- Envision the risk to save
(Wednesday April 18th – contact : VRIC07-risk@laval-virtual.org)This full day symposium will introduce the last technical and scientific projections of virtual reality in the fields of: Prevention of the risks (natural or medical disasters, terrorism…), Simulation of scenarios of exit of crisis, Evacuation of people, Environmental risks, intelligent agents use in virtual environments…
- VR & Human Behavior
(Thursday April 19th – contact : VRIC07-behavior@laval-virtual.org)This full day symposium is dedicated to the contribution of Virtual Reality to the field of Human Behavior, and to the multiple applications that emerged with objectives of understanding, measure or treatment. Disciplines covered include: Virtual Reality; Addiction; Emotion; Conditioning; Cue exposure; Measures (e.g. psychophysiology, behavior, or performance); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Cognitive Rehabilitation; etc. In a general way, we expect contributions dedicated to therapeutic applications of Virtual Reality.
- Virtually exploring our landscape through the time
(Thursday April 19th – contact : VRIC07-landscape@laval-virtual.org)This one day symposium will present the last technical and scientific projections of virtual reality in the fields: Virtualized earth & countries; Visualization of disappeared, present or future places; Urban simulations; Simulation of events of the past; traveling without moving; traveling in time and space…
- V&A Reality: break the deadlocks
(Friday April 20th – contact : VRIC07-deadlocks@laval-virtual.org)Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors etc. Despite much progress in the basic enabling technologies, major obstacles are still limiting the wider use and acceptation of mixed systems. This symposium aims at analyzing these deadlocks. Papers that fall into the following categories are welcome: haptic feedback in mixed-reality environments/human-computer interaction/human factors/photo-realistic rendering/modeling and enforcing physical interaction constraints between real and virtual objects (vision based modeling, handling occlusion,..).
