Workshop VIA 2004 (Virtual Concept)

 

Scope

The first workshop on Virtual Reality for Industrial Applications
Compiègne - France November 4, 5, 2004

The next event linked to Virtual Concept will be a workshop held at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne in November 2004. The number of participants will be reduced in order to get a working group, focused on discussions and exchanges including presentations and posters. Some demonstrations on research projects will be proposed: all the participants will be invited to bring their work in progress if available. Summaries of the presentations will be provided to all the participants.

Goals and approach

The goal of this workshop is to discuss the role of perceptive feedback in industrial virtual reality applications. The successful use of virtual reality tools in several specific fields of application suggests their generalization for industrial purposes. But at the opposite, these new systems seem to be difficult to use for the average user and some experiments suggest that virtual reality applications need believability to be interpreted correctly.
Participants will contribute with positions or scenarios that clarify some aspects of end user problems when interacting in virtual worlds, focused on these points :

• User centred product design
• Perception of virtual worlds/ virtual objects
• Haptic and tactile feedback
  
• Virtual objects manipulation
  
• Physical models in virtual reality applications
  
• Cooperation or collaboration in virtual worlds