First day
6th of May / 7th of May
7h45-8h00: Bus departure at Denfert Rochereau, Paris (close to RER station)
9h00-9h30: Participants’ welcoming at Université Paris-Sud, Orsay (Amphi BLANDIN, Blg. 510)
- Bus arrival from Paris
- Participants’ check in and badges’ distribution
- Coffee
9h30-12h00: Introductive plenary session:
- Meeting opening by Dr. Patrick Bourdot (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI)
- - Objectives of the EuroVR-EVE meeting
- - Overview of the V&AR research activities at CNRS/LIMSI
- Invited Keynote Speaker:
- Pr. Bernd Fröhlich (University of Weimar, Germany) - Virtual Reality: Challenges and Opportunities
- Short talks:
- Tony Doat (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI) - Virtual Reality to experiment out-of-reach physics in a relativistic framework: progress report
- Sébastien Noury (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI) - Toward Real-Time Fluid Simulation for Virtual Reality
- Yoav Nir (BARCO, Belgium) - Short overview of the technological challenges of the EVE system
- Closure of the session:
- Pr. Angelos Amditis (President of EuroVR - ICCS, Greece) - EuroVR association: actions in progress
- Dr. Patrick Bourdot (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI) & Dr. Manfred Dangelmaier (IAO, Germany)
- - EuroVR consultation on the future SIGs: first analysis of the results to open the discussions
- - Organisation of the EuroVR-EVE sessions (workshops and demos)
12h00-13h30: Lunch (+ finalisation of the inscriptions to demo sessions)
13h30-16h00: First Parallel session:
- Workshop 1 "VR/VE for Experiences and Life sciences":
- Chairman: Dr. Mirabelle D’Cruz (University of Nottingham, UK)
- Co-chairman: Dr. Jean-Louis Vercher (CNRS/LMP, France)
- Invited Keynote Speaker:
- Dr. Daniel R Mestre (CNRS/Institute of Movement Sciences, University Aix-Marseille II, France) - Presence in virtual environments
- Speakers:
- Dr. Sue Cobb (Univ. of Nottingham, UK) - VR for disability, assessment and rehabilitation
- Dr. Jean-Pierre Bresciani (MPI Tuebingen, Germany) - Motion perception and sensorimotor learning in virtual environments
- Short talk:
- Bob Ménélas (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI) - Multisensory rendering for virtual explorations of large CFD datasets
- General discussion
- Demo session 1:
- Marc Rébillat, Dr. Brian Katz (“Acoustic Audio” team, CNRS/LIMSI), Dr. Etienne Corteel (Sonic Emotion) - The SMART-I²: A window open through audio-visual spatialized spaces
16h00-16h30: Coffee break
16h30-19h00: Second Parallel session:
- Workshop 2 "VR/VE technologies, User needs & Evaluation":
- Chairman: Pr. Mariano Alcañiz (LabHuman - Human Centered Technology, Valencia, Spain)
- Co-Chairman: Dr. Jean-Marie Burkhardt (Univ. Paris Descartes 5, France)
- Invited Keynote Speaker:
- Pr. Vincent Hayward (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France) - News trends in haptic interface design
- Speakers:
- Pr. Lauri Savioja (HUT, Finland) - 3D Audio in Virtual Environments
- Dr. Gabriele Bleser (DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany) - Human-Centered Augmented Reality
- Short talk:
- Marc Rébillat (“Acoustic Audio” team, CNRS/LIMSI) - The SMART-I²: A new approach for the design of immersive audio-visual environments
- General discussion
- Demo session 2
- Pierre Martin, Dr. Patrick Bourdot, Dr. Damien Touraine (VENISE team, CNRS/LIMSI), Dr. Philippe Gravez (CEA/LIST), Stéphane Masfrand (PSA Peugeot Citroën) - Collaborative (co-localised) multimodal immersion for automotive industry
19h00-19h15: Bus departure for Paris
19h15-20h15: Bus travel
20h30-23h00: Dinner at the Wine Museum of Paris.