Prospective authors are invited to submit technical papers of their previously unpublished work. Areas of interest for the technical program include but are not limited to:

Cognitive aspects, perception, user behaviour

• Semantic and cognitive aspects of virtual reality
• Depth perception, multimodal perception
• Behaviour and activity generation
• Representations of self (avatars), embodiment, presence
• Virtual agents, conversational non-player characters (NPCs)
• Understanding and modelling human behaviour, emotions

AI technologies

• Search, planning, reasoning
• Knowledge representation
• Natural language processing
• Robotics and perception
• Multi-agent systems
• Statistical learning, deep learning

Interactions / interactive and responsive environments

• Multimodal interaction and experiences in VR/AR
• Machine learning for multimodal interaction
• Human-virtual user/agent interaction
• Human to human communication in virtual environments, collaboration and communication
• Dialogue modelling and generation, conversational and natural language interfaces, speech interaction for AR/VR
• Navigation and spatial orientation in VR
• Interaction devices, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)

Systems, including techniques, performance, and implementation

• System components, virtual reality platforms
• AI platforms for VR/AR, cloud-based platforms
• Data generation, manipulation, analysis, and validation
• Tracking, physical environment mapping, registration
• Vision for VR/AR, deep learning for VR/AR
• Standards and theoretical models for AI and/or VR

Content creation and modelling

• Generation of immersive environments and virtual worlds
• Environments for gaming, simulation, training
• Visualization, optimized and realistic rendering
• Geometric modelling and design in immersive settings
• Animations, crowd-simulation, character modelling
• Customization and personalization (e.g., for training)

Applications and use cases

• Data and knowledge representation, problem solving
• Visualization concepts (including, e.g., spatial visualization, multimodality for visualization) and domains (e.g., scientific visualization)
• Arts, leisure, and entertainment
• Gaming and game narratives, immersive storytelling and gameplay
• Education, training, simulation
• Business, prototyping, productivity, design and architecture, evaluation
• Telepresence and collaboration, social interactions
• Healthcare and therapy
• Evaluation metrics and methodologies
• Quality of Experience (QoE)

Methodologies

• Artificial intelligence
• Data mining
• Decision support systems
• Fuzzy logic
• Intelligent control
• Information retrieval
• Machine learning
• Neural networks
• Data Visualisation
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Rough sets
• Intelligent image processing
• Independent components analysis
• Intelligent signal processing
• Ontologies-Organisational Memories
• Data fusion
• Evolutionary computation
• Human-machine interaction
• Intelligent measurement
• Knowledge engineering
• Neuro-fuzzy systems
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Intelligent Information Systems
• Intelligent Databases
• Cooperative Artificial Intelligence Systems
• Distributed Artificial Intelligence
• Case-based Reasoning
• Temporal Reasoning

Application areas

• Educational aspects of intelligent control
• Robotics
• Telecommunications
• Business & Finance
• Signal Processing
• Speech Recognition
• Data processing
• Process control
• Transportation
• Manufacturing
• Computer Vision
• Pattern Recognition
• Health, Medicine and Bioengineering