Workshop at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 Conference
Specification of Mixed Reality User Interfaces:
Approaches, Languages, Standardization
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Time and Location
The halfday workshop will be held on Saturday morning (i.e. before the 3DUI Symposium), MARCH 25, during the IEEE Virtual Reality 2006 Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Workshop Goals and Topics
Research in the field of Mixed Reality (MR) has produced a wide variety of interaction techniques for navigation in virtual worlds, selection and manipulation of virtual objects, a range of different 3D widgets, and real world enhancements in tangible user interfaces, among others. Despite these efforts, the design and creation of MR applications remains a complex task. MR user interfaces are mostly described in an informal way, which leads to incomplete specifications and missing information relevant for selecting and reusing them.
This workshop is focusing on descriptive models for MR interaction techniques and on classification approaches that may benefit the way MR user interfaces are created. For that, peculiarities of interfaces in application domains such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Desktop VR shall be examined first. We would like to analyze the design space for mixed reality interface components in these fields and to set up requirements for appropriate specification and description languages.
We would also like to discuss existing classifications for MR user interface components allowing for a consistent and unambiguous interface specification. It is an interesting issue to develop requirements and characteristics of such languages, for example automatic processing and tool support (e.g. for authoring). We would also like to discuss community involvement (e.g. through Web portals or Wikis) and possible roadmaps for standardizing MR interface components, so more complex interfaces could be built on top of previous work.
Call for Participation
Participants are invited to submit a position statement, which will be reviewed by the organization committee. Position papers must outline the submitters view on the workshop theme and reasons for interest in the topic. In addition they will provide the basis for the plenary discussion and group work. Position statements should be submitted as PDF, plain text, HTML, or Word documents. Submissions should be 2 to 4 pages long and should include Name, Affiliation, and Contact Address. Additional materials (text, video, pictures, XML files etc.) are welcomed to support the submission. Unless clearly indicated otherwise, submission of a position statement and associated materials implies permission for a publication on the Web.
Submission Deadline: Wednesday February 1st, 2006
Notification expected: Wednesday February 15th, 2006
Camera-ready submission: Wednesday March 1st, 2006
Your paper should not exceed six pages in length and be formatted using the IEEE VGTC format.
E-Mail submissions to: MRUI-Workshop (at) mail-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de
Download call for paper as PDF
Schedule
| 8:00-8:30 | Raimund Dachselt Irma Lindt Pablo Figueroa |
Welcome and introductory talks Slides |
| 8:30-8:45 | Chadwick A.Wingrave | PS1: Understanding the Limits and Benefits of a 3D Interface Specification Slides |
| 8:45-9:00 | Arnd Vitzthum | PS2: Towards a Structured Design of Augmented Reality Applications Slides |
| 9:00-9:15 | Michael Wittkaemper Wolfgang Broll |
PS3: A Mixed Reality User Interface Description Language Slides |
| 9:15-9:30 | Mathias Kölsch Craig Martell |
PS4: A Common Gesture Language Slides |
| 9:30-9:45 | Nicholas F. Polys Andrew Ray |
PS5: Supporting Mixed Reality Interfaces through X3D Specification Slides |
| 9:45-10:00 | Irma Lindt | Discussion on topics and group organization |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:20-11:10 | Group work and discussions | |
| 11:10-11:30 | Short group presentations | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Organizers | Workshop summary and wrap-up |
Workshop Results
The accepted position papers were printed as IEEE VR workshop notes and can be downloaded (MRUI 2006 Workshop Proceedings).
Please look in the schedule table above to download the slides of all workshop presentations.
Look at some workshop pictures.
Workshop Organization
Raimund Dachselt, TU Dresden, Multimedia Technology Group, Germany
dachselt (at) inf.tu-dresden.de
Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Columbia
pfiguero (at) uniandes.edu.co
Irma Lindt, Fraunhofer FIT Sankt Augustin, Germany
irma.lindt (at) fit.fraunhofer.de
Please direct all questions and your submission to the workshop e-mail:
MRUI-Workshop (at) mail-mmt.inf.tu-dresden.de