IA 2004  Compiegne UTC   November 4-5  2004    www. utc.fr/via2004/
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We have the pleasure to inform you that the first workshop on Virtual Reality for
Industrial Applications,
VIA 2004, will be held at  at the University of Technology Compiegne on November
4, 5, 2004.This workshop is
related to the international conference Virtual Concept.

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 with virtual reality
(        Belivability of virtual worlds
(        Haptic and tactile feedback
(        Virtual objects manipulation
(        Physical models in virtual reality applications
(        Cooperation or collaboration in virtual worlds

The number of participants will be reduced in order to get working groups, 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.

The program of the scientific workshop of VIA 2004 is already online. You can
discover it on
our website: http://www.utc.fr/via2004/
Instructions will be provided to participants in order to prepare demos and labs
presentations. The accent will be put
on common projects and links between different communities.