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>                              Call for Papers
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>Conference on Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies VII
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>Part of SPIE's Photonics East 5-6 November 2000 
>Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts 
>
>Conference Chairs: Matthew R. Stein, Roger Williams University
>
>Program Committee: Peter Berkelman, Carnegie Mellon University; Paolo
Fiorini, Jet 
>Propulsion Lab.; Ken Goldberg, U.C. Berkeley; Greg R. Luecke, Iowa State
University; 
>John Pretlove, University of Surrey(UK); Roland Siegwart, Swiss Federal
Institute of 
>Technology, Lausanne, Ken Taylor, University of Western Australia;
>
>
>This program will address issues and recent advances in telemanipulator and 
>telepresence technology. Common to all teleoperation systems is a human
operator in a 
>manual or supervisory control loop overseeing remote task
>performance.
>
>In teleoperator systems, the remote manipulator system can be
>augmented with semiautonomous functions which can either be
>preprogrammed, taught by demonstration or self-learned. An operator
interface at the 
>local site supports human sensory information processing and
decision-making. 
>Augmentation at the operator interface could include graphic, multimedia
or virtual 
>reality displays, text or animation presented in an intuitive manner.
>
>Topics include application examples of telemanipulation and telepresence
technology, 
>augmented reality, hardware implementation, new developments in
teleoperator modeling, 
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>analysis, and control, and efficient operator interface designs for both
manual 
>teleoperation and supervised autonomy.
>Also to be included are advanced techniques to cope with communication
time delay and 
>operation over the Internet. Papers in the following areas and related
topics are 
>solicited:
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> * innovative research and applications in telemedicine and telesurgery
> * applications and research for systems in hazardous environments including
>   space, underwater, construction, security, battlefield, and radioactive
>   environments
> * telemanipulation application of virtual environments and the Internet
> * techniques and implementations of assistive telerobotic systems for
>   persons with disabilities
> * multimodal user input and interface methods using combinations of speech,
>   vision, kinesthesis, gesture recognition and text
> * new developments and applications for augmented reality, virtual
>   environments in business, manufacturing, and entertainment
> * task and user adaptive human-interfaces
> * acquisition of skills and task knowledge via autonomous or supervised
>   learning techniques
> * reactive planning and subsumption approaches to teleoperation
> * system experimental results and performance evaluation methodologies
> * advanced kinesthetic (force/position) and graphical displays
> * human-machine interface issues, ergonomics and operator aids, including
>   graphics visualization, human sensory perception/information processing
and
>   psychometrics
> * Internet or World Wide Web robots and systems
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>                  *       Abstract Due Date:      *
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>                  *         April 10, 2000        *
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>                  *     Manuscript Due Date:      *
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>                  *        October 9, 2000        *
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>contact:
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>http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pe00/confs/RB09.html
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>Sumbit to: RB09, STEIN
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