IEEE international symposium on wearable computers
IEEE international symposium on wearable computers
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DOI:
10.1145/279389.285089
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发表时间:
1998-02
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Joan Truckenbrod
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作者:
Joan Truckenbrod
On October 28-30, 1997, the Fraunhofer Institut f~ir Graphische Datenverarbeitung (IGD) celebrated the opening of its new building in Darmstadt, Germany as well as the 10th birthday of the Institut.The celebration included a workshop -"Agents, Assistants, Avatars," a symposium -"Compute r Graphics in the Next 50Years of Computing," a presentation of the SIGGRAPH traveling art show and a display of the new portraits in computer graphics. Interactive demonstrations were located throughout the building. The impact of the IGD on computer graphics, particularly in Europe, is so large that an unexpectedly large number of people -more than 900 -attended the official opening. The event exceeded the capacity of the IGD facility and had to be moved to a larger audi tor ium on the campus of the Technische Universi t i i t Darmstadt. SIGGRAPH was represented by Chair Steve Cunningham, who congratulated IGD on its success on behalf of all the computer graphics professional societies. Participants enjoyed professional interactions with their international colleagues and the gracious hospitality of the Director of IGD, Jose Encarnaq~o, and his staff. The new building is the world's largest facility dedicated entirely to computer graphics. It includes four floors of laboratories, classrooms, lecture rooms and offices. Some of the rooms are named for computer graphics luminaries (including Wolfgang Gilloi and Andries van Dam), and one of the highlights of the celebration was the naming of a room for Bert Herzog, a Iongtime supporter of the Institut. The workshop, "Agents, Assistants, Avatars," was chaired by Detlev Kr6mker of the IGD, and included six sessions: Agents and Avatars in Mu l t iuser Environments, Anthropo log ica l Avatars, Visualization Agents, User Interface Agents and Agents in Mobi le and D is t r i bu ted Environments I and II.The sessions included 14 presentations, in German, for the 33 workshop participants. The symposium, "Computer Graphics in the Nex t 50 Years of Computing, ' , was chaired by Bob Hopgood and Matthias Unbescheiden.The symposium included five sessions: Education & Profession,Virtual Env i ronments, Design and Model ing, Networked Computer Graphics and User Interface. The sessions were presented in English and included 21 speakers f rom Europe, North America and Australia.