Call for abstracts: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CyberWalk Workshop: Platform Presentation and Symposium April 17.-18.2008 Tübingen, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walking is the most natural way for humans to navigate through their environment. To date, however, it is almost impossible to physically walk through Virtual Environments in an unconstrained way. In the EU project “CyberWalk” we developed an omnidirectional treadmill, which together with markerless tracking, optimized control and several perceptual tricks enables humans to walk through Virtual Worlds in a natural and unconstrained fashion (www.cyberwalk-project.org). However, research on and for human locomotion in Virtual Environments is still in its infancy. Therefore, we are planning to hold a workshop bringing together research on locomotion covering a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines .The two-day workshop includes the presentation of the omni-directional CyberWalk treadmill with its scientific background and a symposium with invited speakers and poster sessions. We invite abstracts for poster presentations on the topic of locomotion research from all different scientific areas, including (but not limited to): /// perception research /// engineering /// locomotion and gait research /// control theory and modelling /// sport sciences and rehabilitation /// vr and visualization Steering Committee: Marc Ernst, Heinrich Bülthoff, Heinz Ulbrich, Luc Van Gool, Alessandro De Luca, Gábor Székely, Martin Buss Local Organization: Marc Ernst, Jan Souman, Ilja Frissen, Friederike Wolf-Oberhollenzer Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik Spemannstr. 36 72076 Tübingen contact: Dr. Marc Ernst Phone: +49-7071-601 644 submission deadline: 15. febuary 2008 more information: cyberwalk.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de Regards, Marc Ernst --------------------------------- Marc O. Ernst, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics NWG Ernst - Multisensory Perception & Action Group Spemannstr. 41 72076 Tuebingen Germany Tel.: +49-7071-601 644 Fax: +49-7071-601 616 personal: www.kyb.mpg.de/~marc group: www.kyb.mpg.de/ernstgroup e-mail: marc.ernst@tuebingen.mpg.de |
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