HAVE 2008 – 7^th IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games

http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/HAVE2008

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 18-19 October 2008

/Organized by the TC-15 Virtual Systems of the IEEE I&M Society, the TC-28 Instrumentation and Measurement for Robotics and Automation, and the TC-37 Measurements and Networking of the IEEE I&M Society with the technical cooperation of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, "IEEE/CIS Virtual Reality Task Force and the/

/ Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE I&M Society/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are solicited on all aspects of the multimodal haptic and visual virtual environment technologies and related applications to tele-haptic robotics, design, tele-medicine, arts, education and training, Entertainment and Games. This includes but is not limited to: haptic & audio/visual sensors and displays, multimodal perception and psychophysics, object modeling, multi-sensor data fusion, soft computing techniques, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtualized reality, APIs, RTIs, collaborative distributed virtual environments, and applications.

Deadline for extended abstract or draft paper submission: 1 August 2008

Submit your paper (4-6 pages) electronically using the web submission form available at: http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/HAVE2008. The acceptance/rejection decision will be emailed by September 1, 2008. The final manuscript is due by September 15, 2008.

Submission implies willingness to register for the workshop, pay the registration fee and present the paper. Papers will be included in the proceedings only if at least one author has registered and *paid full registration fee by *September 15, 2007. If an author covers more than one paper with her/his registration, to guarantee inclusion in the proceedings, she/he must have paid *a US$50 surcharge for each paper in excess of one* (no exceptions).

*Honorary Chair:*

Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University

*General Chairs:*

Peter Liu, University of Carleton

Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa

*Technical Program Co-Chairs:*

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa

Alex Garcia-Alonso, Universidad del País Vasco

*Demo Chair:*

Jongeun Cha, University of Ottawa

This year we are soliciting demos. 2-4 pages technical description of each demo will be published in the IEEE HAVE Proceedings and digital library.