<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">IEEE VR 2020: the 27th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">March 22-26, 2020, Atlanta, USA</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-12279747&link=http%3A%2F%2Fieeevr.org%2F2020%2F">http://ieeevr.org/2020/</a></p><h4 id="gmail-important-dates" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Important Dates</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Contest registration - December 1, 2019</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Submission of two-page abstract and video - January 5, 2019</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Notification of which entries are accepted - January 15, 2019</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Camera ready version - January 31, 2019</p><h4 id="gmail-overview" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Overview</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">This year, the IEEE VR 2020 will hold the 11th annual 3DUI Contest. It is open to anyone interested in 3D User Interfaces (3DUIs) and Virtual Reality, from researchers to students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The purpose of the contest is to stimulate innovative and creative solutions to challenging 3DUI problems. The theme of this year is “Embodiment for the Difference”. You have to create an environment that will allow people to feel the issues that people with differences(e.g, physical disabilities, mental disabilities, social disorders, or impairments) could feel.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">We expect the following functionality:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">A user should be able to experience the difficulties of being a person with disabilities through your 3D user interface, therefore the user can potentially increase empathy and awareness toward the differences you are simulating.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;box-sizing:border-box">Examples of disabilities are being blind or playing a two hand instrument with just one hand. Your interface makes clear what your avatar could do and what his/her disability is, and how aid is provided.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Interaction and feedback metaphors should act as mechanics to support this experience.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Your avatar should show differences with other avatars/agents in your scenario. Any observer of the experience should notice the differences.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The experience could be played standalone, or connected to an event. In the case of the standalone experience, you should provide credible NPCs (non player characters/virtual agents). We expect to have several conference demonstration events during the conference. An event should not last more than 15 minutes.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Optionally, you could have some kind of collaborative task, where avatars (and/or agents) with more capabilities should help the ones with less capabilities.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Optionally, you could provide a downloadable version of your demo, for IEEE VR attendants.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Optionally, you can embed your interactions inside an online game/simulation, which could make them more interesting to juries.</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Selected contestants will be required to provide a live demonstration of their solutions onsite. For the demonstration track, contestants must bring their own mixed reality hardware (VR, AR, or anything in between), but can choose to use any type of hardware. A grand winner will be selected by juries at the conference.</p><h4 id="eligibility" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Eligibility</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">The 3DUI Contest is open to anyone interested in 3DUIs—researchers, students, hobbyists, professionals, or anyone else. Requirements for the selection and presentation are specified below.</p><h4 id="gmail-rules" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Rules</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">The submitted solutions have to fulfill the following rules to be considered for acceptance and presentation during IEEE VR 2019:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Submissions have to present a 3DUI solution for the above features<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The submitted material should show the 3DUI that makes the limitations of people clear (e.g., through the avatar)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">More tasks or unlisted tasks are encouraged. It will be considered in the evaluation phase.</li></ul></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The developed 3DUI should<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">… be innovative,</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">… provide high usability,</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">… be aesthetically pleasing, and</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">… be enjoyable and thought-provoking.</li></ul></li></ul><h4 id="gmail-teams" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Teams</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Teams of up to ten people may submit solutions.</p><h4 id="gmail-paper" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Paper</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Teams must submit a short paper of two pages, with a description of the solution, details about software developed, a brief description of the closest related work and how your system is novel, and a description of how you iterated upon the design.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">If your submission is accepted, this paper will be included in the IEEE VR Conference proceedings as two-page extended abstract describing the contest solution, and therefore must be formatted using the IEEE Computer Society format as specified for VR conference poster papers.</p><h4 id="gmail-video" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Video</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Teams will also submit a video that presents the solution to the public, including an explanation of the equipment, software, and interaction techniques used to solve the problem. Additionally, the video should include representative footage of example users as they perform the task. If your submission is accepted, the video will be made publicly available. Videos should have a length of 60-90 seconds and should include the title along with the names and affiliations of the contestants. The submitted file should be a high quality compressed video with a size of no more than 50 MB. We will accept h.264 encoded videos (.mp4).</p><h4 id="gmail-demonstration" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Demonstration</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">If your submission is accepted, you will participate in a live demo session at the conference, where you will showcase your work to the IEEE VR community and have a chance to win awards. Since this year’s contest will be judged live at IEEE VR, we will invite various judges from the community to judge your solution. The judging criteria are<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">novelty</strong>,<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">provoked empathy</strong>, and<span> </span><strong style="font-weight:bold;box-sizing:border-box">aesthetics</strong>. We will further offer on-site judging for all conference attendees. Contestants are asked to bring their own equipment for demoing their individual solutions during the 3DUI session as part of IEEE VR.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">The final score will be the combination of the expert judges’ score (70%) plus the audience scores (30%). A winning team with the highest score will be awarded.</p><h4 id="gmail-contest-registration---due-december-1-2019" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Contest Registration - due December 1, 2019</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Teams should register for the contest by December 1, 2019 via EasyChair to the following link:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><a style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" href="https://ieeevrpublicity-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1Hq7YtN0F5ozdTKqa5UIxcegrfouKuDoxHjwijz7Td2g-1941588608&key=YAMMID-12279747&link=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dieeevr20203duicontes">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeevr20203duicontes</a></p><h4 id="gmail-contact" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Contact</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">You can contact us at<span> </span><a style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent">3duicontest2020@ieeevr.org</a><span> </span>if you have any further questions.</p><h4 id="gmail-contact-chairs" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;line-height:1.1;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Contact Chairs</h4><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Pablo Figueroa, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Daniel Roth, University of Würzburg, Germany</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box">Chao Mei, Kennesaw State University, USA</p></div></div>
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