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Special Issue of Virtual Reality: Virtual Environments for Defence
Applications
Journal (Virtual Reality, Springer-Verlag),
Increasingly, distributed VR techniques are also being applied to rapid
prototyping and human factors assessments of new defence systems concepts
and equipment design proposals, with recent successes in land vehicle
design. This special issue of Virtual Reality is dedicated to exploring
the growing adoption of VR throughout the global defence community and
invites papers that may consider, but are not limited to, the following
areas:
* Investigations adopting immersive and desktop VR solutions for defence
applications,
* Case studies focusing on the use of VR for part-task training,
* Studies evaluating human performance issues and VR - situational
awareness, workload, transfer of skills/training, etc.,
* Application of VR in support of ergonomics/human factors techniques in
defence systems design (including acquisition life cycles such as CADMID,
and synthetic
environment development standards such as SEDEP),
* VR and unmanned/uninhabited/(semi-)autonomous air/land/subsea vehicles,
* Use of games engine technologies for real-time VR defence training or
mission planning (at individual or team levels)
* VR for command and control (C4I, etc.),
* Distributable and Web-enabled VR applications for defence training,
* Emerging uses of VR for Homeland Security applications.
Important dates:
28 January 2004 - Call for papers.
26 April 2004 - Paper submission deadline.
7 June 2004 - Notification of acceptance.
12 July 2004 - Deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers
and security clearance statements
All papers submitted should be UNCLASSIFIED and should not contain any
material, text or images of a sensitive nature. Papers will be peer-
reviewed in line with the Journal's normal process. Papers submitted for
consideration should be typically be between 4500-6000 words in length
(double-spaced) and should report original research in the form of, for
example, case studies, review articles, discussion papers and integrated
inter-disciplinary essays. Papers should be submitted in Word or PDF
format, via email, to [log in to unmask] by 26 April. A template
illustrating an acceptable paper format is available on request.
Special Issue Guest Editor: Prof Bob Stone. Bob holds a Chair in
Interactive Multimedia Systems and is Head of the Human Interface
Technologies Team at the Department of Electronic, Electrical & Computer
Engineering within the University of Birmingham. He is also Director of
Training Systems at Virtalis Limited and a Principal Investigator of the
UK's Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre. Bob can be
contacted at:
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