Virtual Environments Technical Group of the HFES
COMING EVENTS
 June 6-8, 2000 Hyatt Regency Dearborn, Michigan, USA Mission of SAE G-13 Digital Human Modeling Technical Standards Committee Develop, maintain, distribute, and promote an SAE standard for human modeling technology that will support the computer-based simulation of human actions required for equipment operation, production, and maintenance for the purpose of influencing equipment design so that products perform more effectively, are more responsive to user requirements, and are less costly to design, produce, maintain, and operate than current ones. The third SAE conference and exposition on Digital Human Modeling is organized to address research, development, and applications of this important area of technology to aerospace and ground vehicle professionals from around the world. |
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE
Who Should Attend: A vertical-interest audience of more than 400 mobility industry managers, designers, scientists and engineers of the following technologies: Ergonomic and engineering analysis |
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Innovative Modeling & Advanced Generation of Environments 10-14 July 2000 Scottsdale, Arizona The IMAGE Society Inc. WEB SITE: http://www.public.asu.edu/~image |
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THE CONFERENCE The IMAGE (Innovative Modeling & Advanced Generation of Environments) Conference, first held in 1977, is sponsored by the IMAGE Society Inc., a non-profit, professional association for the advancement of the technologies used to create, sense, operate, and navigate computer generated virtual environments. THEME: "3D TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE in the NEW MILLENNIUM" IMAGE 2000 focuses on the rapidly
increasing convergence of advanced 3D technologies (sound, motion,
haptic, etc. with an emphasis on visual) used in creating enriched
virtual environments into widespread application areas including
(but not limited to) training, education, entertainment, recreation,
communication, medical simulation & training, vehicular design
and operation, networked simulation, etc. All of our sensory
data exist in 3D not just vision, e.g. 3D sound - "surround
sound", 6 degree-of-freedom motion systems, olfactory -
"where is that smell coming from?" etc. Just as the
public became dissatisfied with black & white motion pictures/TV
with the advent of color, today's end users of virtual environments
will not remain satisfied operating in 2D virtual worlds with
the promise of total 3D lying on the horizon of the new millennium.
In addition, our simulated environments are still far from the
technical quality necessary to achieve anything near total 3D
realism. For example, visual simulation technology is still struggling
to meet the field-of-view and acuity requirement of the human
eye. Ultimate end user satisfaction will only occur when one
cannot tell the difference between a virtual environment and
reality. |
 IEA 2000 / HFES 2000 July 30 - August 4, 2000 San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina WEB SITE: http://iea2000.hfes.org/ |
The 14th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), will be held in conjunction with the 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) resulting in a gathering of an international audience composed of human factors/ergonomics professionals from around the world. Represented will be 37 IEA federated and affiliated societies
representing more than 50 countries. In combination with HFES,
it is anticipated that more than 2500 people will attend, which
will make IEA 2000/HFES 2000 the largest human factors/ergonomics
professional meeting ever held anywhere in the world! So mark
your calendar: July 30 through August 4, 2000 at the beautiful
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina. |
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