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To make site architects aware of 3D communication.
To allow scientists to undertake experimental and predictive theorems on 3D ambiance.
An IADIS meeting for those who want to push the web3D forward and benefit from this!

This IADIS conference is meant both for web-site developers, advertisers, usability evaluators and communication architects; you are all actors in the critical stage of adopting 3D “Immersion” or lose your competitive edge.

This conference addresses important topics of today like education, health, corporate image and make customers feel at home at your internet site. Virtual reality already proved its superiority in involving the user. Indeed, medical, defense, architecture and even the car industry managed to increase learning effects and sensation.

If it comes to addressing a larger WWW-public, still critical mass needs to be reached. You will not miss the next step in VR web integration. Keynote speeches, invited lecturers and workshop leaders will bring you to the best technologies nowadays. The phase of risk and pioneering is left behind. t is just a matter of understanding the problem and its opportunities; many cutting edge companies are now able to provide compact solutions. The only thing you have to decide is: What spatial experience your user needs to have.

The important topics of today like education, health and energy all benefit from web3D if present in their content. We want to discuss in Algarve, Portugal how to make the web3D one of the central topics of the web content in the near future. This is clearly inevitable to happen, we just want to push it forward and benefit from that.

The conference will help you to avoid obstacles from the past:
- Standards to be obeyed
- Bridging users’ imagination with your product reality
- Avoid lengthy navigations in VR
- Build upon existing 3D models
- Capture both the gaming generation and who still believe in 2D documents
- And more to say from your experience

The summer conference in Algarve offers you a relaxed period, full of inspiration and innovative plans; All the goodies that might get lost during hectic life. Let us help you to build upon success stories in the recent past.
- You are the expert in knowing why new media might not work.
- We take the lead to convince yourself why it should work the coming years.

There is no way back; the web experiences will change visitors’ expectations soon.
So let’s find together the break-through web3D recipes on the Algarve conference, Portugal 19-21 June 2009! Please look to the total spectrum of thematic strands that you are entitled to join; indeed it is a rich context for all who see the next step.

 Themes related to educational or edutainment web3D, are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

- Web3D in education, health and energy
- Innovative 3D graphics applications for Web/Multimedia in industry, science, medicine, and education
- Geometric Modeling
- Methods for modeling and rendering complex geometry, structure and behaviors
- Virtual Reality
- Graphical User Interface
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer (Educational) Games
- User-interface paradigms and interaction methods for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computational Geometry
- Natural Phenomena Modeling
- GPU and Graphics Systems
- Data Representation
- Data Transformation
- Data Modeling
- Scientific Visualization
- Information Visualization
- Visualization Algorithms
- Software Visualization
- Terrain Visualization
- Flow Visualization
- Interactive 3D graphics and immersive systems
- High-performance 3D graphics
- Animated humanoids (avatars)

The Conference will be composed of several types of contributions:

• Full Papers – These include mainly accomplished research results and have 8 pages at the maximum (5,000 words).

• Short Papers – These are mostly composed of work in progress reports or fresh developments and have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

• Reflection Papers – These might review recent research literature pertaining to a particular problem or approach, indicate what the findings suggest, and/or provide a suggestion - with rationale and justification - for a different approach or perspective on that problem. Reflection papers might also analyze general trends or discuss important issues in topics related to the conference. These have 4 pages at maximum (2,500 words).

• Posters / Demonstrations – These contain implementation information or work-in-progress and have two pages at maximum (1,250 words) besides the poster itself (or demonstration) that will be exposed at the conference.

• Tutorials – Tutorials can be proposed by scholars or company representatives. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

• Invited Talks – These will be made of contributions from well-known scholars and company representatives. An abstract will be included in the conference proceedings.

• Panels – Discussions on selected topics will be held. A proposal of maximum 250 words is expected.

• Doctoral Consortium - A Doctoral Consortium will discuss in group, individual projects and on going work of PhD students. Prospective students should send a report of their PhD projects and work so far with a maximum of 4 pages (2,500 words).

• Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions – The former enables companies to present recent developments and applications, inform a large and qualified audience of your future directions and showcase company’s noteworthy products and services. There will be a time slot for companies to make their presentation in a room. The latter enables companies the opportunity to display its latest offerings of hardware, software, tools, services and books, through an exhibit booth. For further details please contact the publicity chair - secretariat@mccsis.org .

All submissions, except invited talks, are subject to a blind refereeing process.

Important Dates:

 - Submission deadline (2nd call): 27 April 2009
 - Notification to Authors (2nd call): 15 May 2009
 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call): Until 6 April 2009
 - Late Registration (1st call): After 6 April 2009
 - Conference: Algarve, Portugal, 19 to 21 June 2009

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