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CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Virtual Reality 2009 Workshop
Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments (PIVE)

March 14th, 2009
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
http://pive.uni-muenster.de
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Virtual environments (VEs) provide humans with synthetic worlds in which they can interact with their virtual surrounding. However, while interacting in a VE system, humans are still located in the physical setup: they move through a laboratory space or may touch real-world objects. This duality of being in the real world while receiving visual, haptic, or aural information from the virtual world places users in a unique situation, forcing them to integrate (or separate) stimuli from potentially different sources simultaneously. The fact that a person's perception of a virtual reality environment can vary enormously from the perception of real world environments opens up a broad field of potential applications that take advantage of perceptual illusions. Such illusions arise from misinterpretation by the brain of sensory information:

* Visual illusions exploit the fact that vision usually dominates proprioceptive and vestibular senses. Based on this, redirected walking can force users to be guided on physical paths, which may vary from the paths on which they perceive they are walking in the virtual world.
* Haptic illusions may give users the impression of feeling virtual objects by touching real world props. The physical objects that represent and provide passive haptic feedback for the virtual objects may vary in size, weight, or surface from the virtual counterparts without users observing the discrepancy.
* Acoustic illusions may result in users perceive (self-)motion (such as vection) when no such visual motion is being supplied.

Papers should address one or more of the following topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also welcome.

* Visual, auditory and haptic perception thresholds
* Multisensory conflicts
* Illusion of presence and immersion
* Perception-inspired interfaces
* Psychophysiological studies
* Scene interpretation and cognition
* Pseudo- and passive haptics

The IEEE VR 2009 Workshop on Perceptual Illusions in Virtual Environments is the first international workshop focused on the topic of perceptual illusions in VEs and will be held to foster discussions among participants and to provide an intensive exchange between industrial and academic researchers working on various perception research problems. The workshop will last for a half-day.

Important Dates and Submission
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* Research and position papers: February 16th, 2009
* Review decisions: February 26th, 2009
* Camera-ready copy due: March 2nd, 2009
* Workshop Date: March 14th, 2009

The workshop solicits research and position papers. Research papers (up to 6 pages, but typically 4-6 pages) should describe research results, positions papers (up to 2 pages, typically 1-2 pages) should contain preliminary results of research or design work within the scope of perceptual illusions. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with ISBN number.
For further details, please see http://pive.uni-muenster.de/

Organizers
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* Frank Steinicke (University of Münster, Germany)
* Pete Willemsen (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)

Program Committee
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* Mark Bolas, University of Southern California, USA
* Gerd Bruder, University of Münster, GER
* David Engel, MPI Tübingen, GER
* Harald Frenz, University of Münster, GER
* Jason Jerald, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
* Michiteru Kitazaki, Toyohashi University of Technology, JP
* Luv Kohli, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
* Markus Lappe, University of Münster, GER
* Anatole Lécuyer, INRIA at Rennes Cedex, FRA
* Robert Lindeman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Bernhard Riecke, University Surrey, Vancouver, CA
* Jean Sreng, IRISA at Rennes Cedex, FRA
* Anthony Steed, University College London, UK