Call For Papers Symposium on Virtual Reality - SVR 2012

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Submissions deadline: March 12th, 2012 **Extended Deadline**
Best papers: The best papers presented at the symposium will also be invited to publish an extended version to the International Journal of Virtual Reality or the SBC Journal on 3D Interactive Systems.
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Traditionally sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), SVR is the major event on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Brazil, having established itself as an international scientific forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge among researchers, professionals, practitioners, students and developers concerned with research and development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems.

Stimulating, original and innovative research papers as well as case studies and applications in the general field of virtual and augmented reality are encouraged to be submitted.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

VR/AR systems and toolkits
Rendering techniques
Advanced optical display technology
Multi-user and distributed VR/AR and gaming
3D interaction
Haptics, audio and other non-visual interfaces
Tracking & Sensing
Modeling and Simulation
Hardware graphics acceleration
Virtual humans and avatars
Internet-based 3D applications and technologies
Immersive VR/AR
Presence, Immersion and Interaction in VR/AR/MR
Social, economical and technical impacts of VR/AR
User studies and evaluation
Applications of VR/AR/MR
Games in VR/AR

Full papers must have a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10 pages. Short papers must have a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically using the IEEE formatting guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and should be written in English (preferentially) or Portuguese. All the paper must have a title and abstract in English

After a rigorous double-blind peer review process, the selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be available online at IEEE Xplore. The authors' names and affiliations, as well as references that identify the authors should be removed from the submitted manuscript. Selected papers should be presented in the technical sections of the symposium.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Full and short papers submission: March 12th, 2012 **Extended Deadline**
Notification of acceptance: April 9th, 2012
Camera ready: April 30th, 2012
URL: https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/svr2012


Program Committee Chairs:
Luciano Pereira Soares, PUC-Rio - lpsoares@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
Liliane Machado, UFPB - liliane@di.ufpb.br