[4eyes] Fwd: 3DUI Contest 2013 - 3rd CFP (new dates!)

Sun Dec 9 09:09:08 PST 2012

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Subject: 	3DUI Contest 2013 - 3rd CFP (new dates!)
Date: 	Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:16:55 -0500
From: 	Rob Teather <rteather at CSE.YORKU.CA>
Reply-To: 	3DUI (3D User Interfaces) Mailing List <3DUI at LISTSERV.VT.EDU>
To: 	3DUI at LISTSERV.VT.EDU

Apologies for cross-posting

*Call for Participation: 3DUI Contest*  *[New submission dates!]*

*Description*

This year, IEEE 3DUI will hold the 4th annual 3DUI Contest. It is open
to anyone interested in 3D user interfaces, from researchers to
students, enthusiasts, and professionals. The goal is to find
innovative solutions to classic 3DUI problems (navigation, selection,
manipulation). Think outside the box, unleash your creativity, and
show your ideas to the 3DUI community! You may use whatever software
and hardware you want to achieve the task, including, but not limited
to: simple mouse/keyboard, specialized controllers, haptic devices,
multi-touch tables, 3D trackers, head-mounted displays, and projection
systems.

*Problem Description*

In the year 2007 filmmaker Bruce Branit  released a seminal science
fiction film called the 'World Builder', which shows a futuristic user
interface that enables an actor to build an entire virtual world in a
computer program:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8&noredirect=1

This year's task for the 3DUI Grand Contest is to implement a 'world
builder' interface using current-state technology, which enables a
user to create a virtual 3D environment from scratch.  The system
should be designed for at least one user, who should be presented with
a first-person view of the environment, with the goal of building a 3D
environment in the most efficient way while not limiting the user's
abilities. The user interface should minimally enable a user to
navigate in the virtual scene, as well as create, select, and
manipulate (translate, rotate, scale and texture) simple virtual
objects (e.g., basic forms or prefabs).  The in- and output hard- and
software, and modalities are for the individual teams to decide. The
effectiveness and originality of the interface will be one of the
criteria used to judge the winners of the contest. All teams should
perform a pilot evaluation of their world builder interface with at
least two expert users (preferably not the authors), as well as two
novice first-time users. In this evaluation the users should get the
task to use the world builder interface to create a virtual model of a
major landmark of the team's choice, preferably from the Disney World
in Orlando, Florida, where 3DUI 2013 will be held. Similar to the task
shown in the science fiction film, users should have a fixed amount of
time (15 minutes) to build an appealing virtual replica of the real
scene. The quality of the resulting 3D environment will be one
criterion of the evaluation. The study participants should judge the
usability of the interface, including ease of use, intuitiveness, etc.
Questionnaire results should be reported in the submitted short paper
(see below). The quality and rigor of the evaluation will be one
criterion used to judge the winners of the contest, but a large number
of participants is not required. The major criterion for evaluating
submissions will be the usability of the 3D UI. You are free to
provide the modeling tools you wish (besides pure creation,
translation, rotation and scale), and to place your system anywhere in
the continuum between pure scene composition and object modeling, but
remember that the contest focuses ultimately on the interface, and
that submissions will be judged accordingly.

*Rules*

Teams of up to ten people can submit solutions.  We expect the
following material to be

- 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 included in the
electronic proceedings.

- A short paper of two pages, with a description of the solution,
details about the hardware and software used, and results from the
basic user study.  If your submission is accepted, this paper will be
included in the 3DUI proceedings, and therefore must be formatted
using the IEEE Computer Society format.

We will have two categories of prizes this year: A winner will be
determined by a panel of expert judges, based on the video and paper
submissions, and participants will have the chance to win a people's
choice award at the conference.  The judging will be based upon a
variety of criteria, including: the effectiveness of the solution at
accomplishing the task; how innovative the solution was; the rigor of
the evaluation; and the professional quality of the video and paper.
An extra prize will be awarded to the best
low-cost/minimally-intrusive solution.

If your submission is accepted, you will be also invited to
participate in a live demo session at the conference, where you will
be given the opportunity to directly showcase your work to the 3DUI
community.  If a live demo is not feasible, then we will publicly
display your video during the conference session.

Videos should have a length of approximately 4-6 minutes, 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 nomore than 50 MB.  We will accept videos in MPEG
(.mpg), Quicktime (.mov), AVI (.avi), MP4 (.mp4), Matroska (.mkv), or
Flash Video (.flv) formats.

The submission deadline is *January 7, 2013* (new date!)  The paper
and videos must be submitted directly to the chairs on that date
(contest.chairs at 3dui.org). The notification of acceptance is on
*January 11, 2013*. The camera ready papers are due on *January 17,
2013*. Please ensure that all materials are of high quality.

*Prizes*

To be determined. Past prizes have included high-end graphics cards,
game input devices, software licenses and cash.

*Contact Information*

The contest chairs are:

Robert J. Teather, York University, Canada

Gerd Bruder, University of Würzburg, Germany

Carlos Andujar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

You may contact us at: contest.chairs at 3dui.org

*Organization and Important Dates*

December 23:  Expression of interest (and ~150 abstract) due

January 7: Submission date for the papers and videos

January 11: Author notification

January 17: Camera-ready papers and final videos due

March 16 & 17: Live demo session and announcement of winners at the
conference.

*Contest website*

http://3dui.org/cfp-3dui-contest -- See here for additional details
and resources!

-- 
Robert J. Teather
PhD Candidate, Computer Science & Engineering
York University
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~rteather

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