IEEE Kansai Section第21回技術講演会
IEEE Kansai Section第21回技術講演会
The 21st IEEE Kansai Section Lecture Meeting
「スティーブン・ファイナー博士 特別講演会」
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技術講演会概要
講演会テーマ(Title)
"Taking it to the Streets:How Virtual Reality Can Change Mobile Computing"
講演者(Lecturers)
Prof. Steven K. Feiner (米国 Columbia University 教授)
日時(Time & Date)
Monday, May 26, 2003 10:30 - 12:00
場所(Place)
大阪大学 銀杏会館 3階 三和銀行ホール（大阪大学吹田キャンパス内）
(Osaka University, Ichou-Kaikan 3F)
〒565-0871 大阪府吹田市山田丘1-1
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/access/suita.html
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http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/ja/access/
言語(Language)
英語(English)
主催(Organizer)
科学技術振興事業団(JST) 戦略的基礎研究推進事業(CREST) 研究領域「高度メディア社会の生活情報技術」
共催(Co-organizer)
IEEE(電気電子学会) 関西支部
講演内容（Abstract)
Virtual reality has long been an indoor affair. Whether constrained by
stationary computers or displays, or by the limitations of our tracking
technologies, researchers typically build virtual environments that work
within a single physical room or a portion of a room. Even distributed
virtual reality systems usually interconnect two or more such indoor
spaces. Meanwhile, as computers grow ever smaller and faster, mobile
computing is becoming an increasingly important part of our daily lives,
accompanying us wherever we go, outdoors, as well as indoors.
What will it take for virtual reality to move outdoors and finally see
the light of day? And, why should we care? Within the virtual reality
research community, work on augmented reality has already begun to
explore outdoor environments---tracking using computer vision,
gyroscopes, accelerometers, compasses, and GPS; and experimenting with
(barely) wearable testbeds. I will discuss why virtual reality
(especially in the form of augmented reality) and mobile computing are a
synergistic combination, and will provide an overview of the research
problems that must be addressed for mobile augmented reality systems to
play a major role in our future.
Among the issues that I will review are overcoming physical and
aesthetic barriers to mobility and wearability; tracking and
registration of heads, hands, bodies, and other objects; rendering
virtual objects in the real world; and developing sufficiently high
quality displays. Equally important is the design of head-tracked user
interfaces that are well suited to mobility. Wearable systems will need
to support collaboration among mobile users, facile interaction with
real and virtual objects, and coordination across a wide range of
heterogeneous displays and devices. Key here is the volatile nature of
mobile interactions---users continually move into and out of the
presence of other users, devices, and objects, and rapidly change
tasks.
Furthermore, augmented reality makes it possible for real and virtual
objects to share the same display space, creating the potential for a
variety of visually confusing relationships as objects overlap
andocclude each other. Avoiding these problems will require that the
virtual world be redesigned and laid out on the fly, to maintain desired
visual relationships between virtual objects and other real and virtual
objects.
講演者略歴(Biography)
Steven Feiner (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~feiner)
is a Professor of
Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer
Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory
(http://www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/).
He received a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Brown University in 1987. Prof. Feiner's research
interests include virtual environments and augmented reality,
knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, wearable computing,
information visualization, and hypermedia. He is coauthor of Computer
Graphics: Principles and Practice (Addison-Wesley, 1990) and of
Introduction to Computer Graphics (Addison-Wesley, 1993). He is an
associate editor of ACM Transactions on Graphics, has served on the
executive boards of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics and the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on
Human-Centered Information Systems, and is a member of the steering
committees for the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, the IEEE
and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, and the
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems.
Prof. Feiner is program co-chair for the 2003 IEEE International
Symposium on Wearable Computers. Over the past few years, he has been
general chair of IEEE Information Visualization 2001, symposium co-chair
of the 2001 IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Augmented Reality,
program co-chair of the 2001 International Symposium on Mixed Reality,
and program co-chair of IEEE Virtual Reality 2000. In 1991 he received
an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
参加費 (Fee)
無料 (Free）
会員以外の参加も可能ですので、お近くの方々にご周知頂ければ幸いです。
Anyone can attend it even if you are not a member.
参加申込み先 (Contact for registration)
ATR音声言語コミュニケーション研究所 柴田 葉子
Yoko Shibata(ATR SLT Labs)
Tel: (0774) 95 1347
Fax: (0774) 95 1308
E-mail: yoko.shibata@atr.co.jp
会場準備の都合上、参加ご希望の方は、所属、お名前（ふりがな）および
IEEE会員番号を上記参加申し込み先までEmail (Faxでも結構です）にて
5月22日（木）までにお知らせください。
Please register in advance. E-mail or fax IEEE member ID, your name and affiliation by May 22(Thu).
本件連絡先 (For further information)
IEEE Kansai Section Technical Program Committee Secretary
山本 誠一（ATR音声言語コミュニケーション研究所）
Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR SLT Labs)
E-mail: seiichi.yamamoto@atr.co.jp
