VEAI 2016 - Second International Workshop on Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces (VEAI 2016)

The workshop on “Virtual Environments and Advanced Interfaces” within the 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2016) that will be held on 14-16, December 2016 in Granada, Spain aims to promote the discussion about ways of enhancing human computer interaction and communication in Immersive Virtual Environments. To address relevant challenges, VR software and hardware need to be adopted in embedded environments to allow intuitive interaction between users and/or agents and their environment. It will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their latest work on evaluating the impact of advanced interfaces on human interaction and communication and will highlight innovative applications and research outcomes.
We invite original papers (full/short papers, industrial case studies) that discuss the topic in term of concepts, pilots, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Submissions should not be under consideration of other conferences or journals. The topics include (but are not limited to):
Interactive Virtual Environments
Interactive and Immersive 360 video
Future TV
Evaluating ubiquitous systems
Natural interfaces / Multimodal interaction in Virtual Reality
Context aware Interactive Environments
Agents and human interaction
Gamified Immersive Virtual Environments (in education/training, sports, culture, arts, TV)
Serious Games and Gamification
Principles, theories, and models
Sound synthesis and design for immersion
Personalisation and customisation of virtual reality environments
Contribution Types
Proposals for participation in the workshop can be submitted as Full Papers ? These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages + 2 extra purchased pages.
Workshops, held in parallel with the general conference, are an integral part of the conference. Workshop papers are required to meet the same standards as papers in the general conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the same conference proceedings as the general conference. Articles submitted to VEAI’2016 need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iucc2016) in PDF format. Workshop papers will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI).
Distinguished papers selected from the workshop, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in a Special Issue of the journal: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
For further questions, please contact the workshop chairs or consult the submission guidelines for authors that can be found from the main conference web-site http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/
Workshop Chairs:
Daphne Economou, Department of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK
Email: D.Economou-AT-westminster.ac.uk
Markos Mentzelopoulos, Department of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK
Email: M.Mentzelopoulos01-AT-westminster.ac.uk
Nektarios Georgalas, British Telecom, Martlesham, UK
Email: Nektarios.georgalas-AT-bt.com
VEAI’2015 Program Committee (provisional)
Nikos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Paul Brna, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ioannis Doumanis, CTVC, UK
Anastasios Economides, University of Macedonia, Greece
Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Charalampos Karagiannidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Petros Lameras, Serious Games Institute, UK
Steve Pettifer, University of Manchester, UK
Johanna Pirker, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Aristidis Protopsaltis, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Aleka Psarrou, University of Westminster, UK
Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Lemonia Argyriou, University of Westminster, UK
Sophia Triantafilidou, University of Westminster, UK
Paul McCullagh, Ulster University, UK
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, UK
Leonel Caseiro Morgado, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Panagiotis Antoniou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Panagiotis Vamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece