IPT Symposium Program


Sunday March 24th, 2002

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Welcome

8:45-10:15 a.m.

Invited paper   Reviewing Single and Multiple Viewer Stereo with DLP Projectors
Ian McDowall, Mark Bolas
 
Invited paper   Creative Uses Of Projection Systems: "Tracking The Net", "Kali", "Pinocchio Interactive" "Robots Avatars"
Franz Fishnaller
 
Invited paper   Multiple Active Viewers in Projection-Based Immersive Environments
Kristopher Blom, Gary Lindahl, Carolina Cruz-Neira

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30a.m.-12:15p.m.

Displays

  • A Real-time Seamless Tiled Display System for 3D Graphics
    Zhiyun Li, Amitabh Varshney
  • Technology for Seamless Multi-Projection onto a Hybrid Screen Composed of Differently Shaped Surface Elements
    Masami Yamasaki, Tsuyoshi Minakawa, Haruo Takeda, Shoichi Hasegawa, Makoto Sato
  • Retained Mode Parallel Rendering for Scalable Tiled Display
    Tom van der Schaaf, Hans Spoelder, Luc Renambot, Desmond Germans, Henri Bal
  • Can we trust that image? Photometric Attributes of Current Projection Systems
    Wolfram Kresse, Dirk Reiners

12:15-1:45p.m.

Lunch

1:45-3:30p.m.

Panel:

PC Clusters for Multiprojection Immersive Environments: Time to Go?
 
Moderator: Marcelo Knorich-Zuffo
Panelists: Benjamin Schaeffer
Bruno Raffin
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Roland Blach

3:30-3:45p.m.

Break

3:45-5:30

Software Tools

  • XJL - A XML Schema for the Rapid Development of Advanced Synthetic Environments
    Timothy Griepp, Carolina Cruz-Neira
  • A Realistic Video Avatar System for Networked Virtual Environments
    Satheesh Subramanian, Vivek Rajan, Damin Keenan, Daniel Sandin, Thomas DeFanti, Andrew Johnson
  • Multiple Active Users in Projection-Based Immersive Environments
    Kristopher Blom, Gary Lindahl, Carolina Cruz-Neira
  • Parallelizing Pre-rendering Computations on a Net Juggler PC Cluster
    Jérémie Allard, Valérie Gouranton, Emmanuel Melin, and Bruno Raffin


Monday March 25th, 2002

8:30 - 9:15 a.m.

Keynote Address

Joseph Kitching, The Procter & Gamble Company

9:15-10:15 a.m.

Hardware

  • IVY: The Immersive Virtual environment at York
    James Zacher, Matt Robinson, Jeff Laurence, Andrew Hogue, Michael Jenkin, Laurence Harris, Robert Allison, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
  • WAVE - A Walk-thru Virtual Environment
    Ismo Rakkolainen, Karri Palovuori

10:15-10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30a.m.-12:15p.m.

Applications

  • A Study of Distance of Manipulation on the Responsive Workbench
    Sabine Coquillart, Alexis Paljic, ean-Marie Burkhardt, Paul Richard
  • ISS Radiation Shielding and Acoustic Simulation Using an Immersive Environment
    Joshua VerHage, E, Chris Sandridge, Garry Qualls, Stephen Rizzi
  • Computing the Narrative: Using Sonification Immersive Technology to Understand Properties of Materials
    Frances L. Van Scoy, Martina Bachlechner
  • Interactive Surface Interrogation Using IPT Technology
    Hans Hagen, Yanlin Guan, Robert Moorhead

12:15-1:45p.m.

Lunch

1:45-3:30p.m.

Panel:

The Elephants and the Ants: Will Large Projectors Be Replaced By Many Small Ones?
 
Moderator: Dirk Rieners
Panelists: William Bleha
Mike Garrido
Kenneth Hunter
Albert Khakshour
Kai Li

3:30-3:45p.m.

Break

3:45-5:30

Lessons learned

  • Mixed-Reailty Interface to Immersive Projection Technology Systems
    Anthony Steed
  • Lessons Learned: Installing a Wireless System in the C6 Virtual Reality Environment
    Ben Graubard, Julie Dickerson, Feng Chen, Zheng Min, Diane Rover, Robert Weber, Carolina Cruz-Neira
  • Experiences with Scalability of Display Walls
    Han Chen, Kai li, Thomas Funkhouser, Grant Wallace, Perry Cook, Anoop Gupta
  • The Effect of Haptic, Visual and Auditory Feedback on an Insertion Task on a 2-Screen Workbench
    A. Lecuyer, C. Megard, J.M. Burkhardt, T. Lim, S. Coquillart, P. Coiffet, and L. Graux