Amditis, Angelos

Karaseitanidis, Ioannis

Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia

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Vis Comput (2008) 24: 933DOI 10.1007/s00371-008-0292-2E D I T O R I A LEditorial to Special Issue INTUITIONNadia Magnenat-Thalmann · Angelos Amditis ·Ioannis KaraseitanidisPublished online: 20 August 2008© Springer-Verlag 2008This special issue contains a selection of papers presented atthe 4th INTUITION International VR/VE Conference. Thepapers selected in this special issue have been reviewed bythe INTUITION conference program committee membersand the papers reflect experimental work in the field of ARand VR. INTUITION is one of the largest European Net-works of Excellence dealing with VR and AR in Europe andthe readers will surely appreciate to read some work beingdeveloped in this area.Nadia Magnenat-ThalmannEditor-in-ChiefThe Visual ComputerThe purpose of this Special Issue is to present some ofthe new developments as they were discussed at the 4thINTUITION International VR/VE Conference and Work-shop held in Athens in October 2007 (for more info checkwww.intuition-eunetwork.org). A scientific committee se-lected the most interesting and well prepared papers, out ofthe 24 peer reviewed papers, presented at the conference forinclusion in this Special Issue.The technology per se is a multi-disciplinary field en-compassing different scientific and technological attributes.This fact makes strategic research planning and technologyN. Magnenat-Thalmann ()University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerlande-mail: thalmann@miralab.unige.chA. AmditisInstitute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens,Greecee-mail: a.amditis@iccs.grI. KaraseitanidisNational Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greecee-mail: gkara@esd.ece.ntu.grknow-how acquiring a difficult task. That is why the firstpaper focuses on studying the future research perspectivesand the means to structure knowledge and resources in VRwithin Europe. The other papers are addressing issues frominterfaces and interactions up to robotic and industrial appli-cations.The paper by W.A. Aprile et al. is focusing on the con-struction of a tracked robotic head (driven by joystick) toprovide switching stereo/mono vision.Interactive simulation in automotive design is being ad-dressed by L. Nikitina et al. who describe also how to buildlarge-scale 3D virtual mockups.Speaking of interaction techniques, a very important sub-ject for VR, L. Vanacken et al. present a method for speechgrammar generation that can be combined with interactiontechniques aiming at easing the development process of VEapplications.C. Syllebranque and S. Boivin present a method enablingto estimate the mechanical parameters of soft bodies directlyfrom videos of solids getting deformed under external useraction.Continuing with haptics, a very important interactiontechnique for VR/AR applications, R. Iacob et al. speakabout assembly/disassembly simulation of industrial prod-ucts using haptic devices.Emotion experiences could not be missed in a discussionabout interactions, so N. Zagalo et al. present an emotionmodule from an authoring tool of interactive storytelling.Moving now to applications, R. Reif and D. Walch dis-cuss augmented and Virtual Reality applications in the fieldof Logistics.Finally, D. Harm et al. study the after-effects of expo-sure to Virtual Environments taking into account durationand exposure rates.Dr. Angelos AmditisDr. Ioannis Karaseitanidis

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