ARVO HMD SIG

Color and Vision Network (cvnet@lawton.ewind.com)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:14:53 -0700

From: HMD SIG Email list <hmdsig@pathfinder.cbr.com>
Subject: ARVO HMD SIG Meeting

Appended are the details of the meeting and a tentative programme.
This information can also be found at:

http://www.cbr.com/people/simon/hmdsig.html

Details on the above page will be updated as further information
becomes available - we hope to add short abstracts of the talks,
include note of any other relevant talks or posters during ARVO (if
you want us to list _your_ paper or poster email us), etc.

Please forward this message to anyone (or any lists) who might find
it of interest.

simon

[please send any suggestions, additions for the web page etc to hmdsig@cbr.com]
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ARVO'99 HMG SIG Meeting: Vision and Head-Mounted Displays
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Thursday, Ballroom D (2:00-4:00pm)

Prelimary Schedule

2:00 Welcome

2:05 - 2:20 Talks: Movement and Navigation using HMDs

Andrew Duchon
"A large-scale virtual environment for the study of walking
and navigation"

Laurence Harris
"Using visual and vestibular cues to create plastic movement."

2:20 - 2:40 Open Discussion re HMDs and psychophysics

2:40 - 2:55 Talks: Clinical Applications of HMDs

Eli Peli
"Vision multiplexing, an engineering approach to vision rehabilitation"

Gislin Dagnelie
"Mapping phosphenes for prosthetic vision"

2:55 - 3:25 Open Discussion re HMDs and clinical use

3:25 - 3:50 Open Discussion: Anything else

3:50 - 4:00 What next & Goodbye


ECVP SIG Meeting?
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Would anyone interested in a HMD SIG meeting (or less formal version)
at ECVP please let us know. Send email to: hmdsig@cbr.com


Contact
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General email: hmdsig@cbr.com

Eli Peli, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School,
Phone: 617-912-2597, E-mail: eli@vision.eri.harvard.edu

Sheryl Ehrlich, Interval Research Corporation,
Phone: 650-842-6211, E-mail: ehrlich@interval.com

Simon Rushton, Cambridge Basic Research, Nissan R & D,
Phone: 617-374-9672, E-mail: simon@cbr.com