Virtual and Augmented Reality opened new possibilities for immersive simulations. Ability to simulate and evaluate almost any scenario is attracting still more and more businesses, combining forces with academia. This collaboration brought exciting opportunities for applied research, focusing on optimisation of user experience and delivery of high-impact immersive content. Often, such simulations require presence of simulated mechanics, individuals or crowds, popularly represented by virtual agents, controlled by artificial intelligence. But, the computational complexity of immersive virtual environments does not allow for execution of more sophisticated AI processes without putting significant strain on hardware, rendering most current AI (i.e. planning) approaches useless. What we seek is an alternative traditional AI approach, focusing on finding the balance between computational complexity and believability the simulation. In this workshop, we invite researchers to either present fundamental research on AI and ML algorithms targeting VR simulations, or showcase their solutions of applying AI and ML in VR simulations of their particular domain.

Submission Guidelines

The workshop program stretches over a full-day, and will contain a combination of invited keynote presentations, oral presentations, posters, and demonstrations. We are calling for paper submissions of extended abstracts between 2-5 pages long, following the submission format of IEEE Manuscript Formatting guidelines. Please choose one of the three submission categories:

• Abstract: 1-2 pages long
• Short paper, demo, or poster: 2-4 pages long
• Long paper: 4-6 pages long

Please download the paper template from IEEE website 
The copyright form can be downloaded from VISEX Website

Your submission should include: scanned signed copyright form + original contribution in word or latex + pdf of the paper. Add ALL your files (copyright form, word document/latex files, scanned copyright form) into ONE zip file.

Upload the zip file to the workshop submission system on EasyChair website

List of Topics

• VR/AR/MR(=XR) technology and devices
• Low-latency and high-performance XR
• Multi-user and distributed XR
• Interaction techniques for XR
• 3D Interaction for XR simulations
• Input devices for XR
• AI for XR simulations
• ML from XR simulation
• Computer graphics techniques for XR simulations
• Computer vision techniques for XR simulations
• Human Computer Interaction for XR simulations
• Modeling and simulation
• Virtual humans and avatars
• User studies and evaluation
• Perception, presence, virtual embodiment, and cognition
• Applications of XR simulations

Committees

Program Committee

• Prof. Simeon Simoff (WSU, Australia)
• Dr. Juan Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA, Spain)
• Dr. Tomas Trescak (WSU, Australia)
• Dr. Anton Bogdavych (WSU, Australia)
• Huyen Vu (UNSW, Australia)

Organizing committee

• Dr. Juan Rodriguez Aguilar (IIIA, Spain)
• Dr. Tomas Trescak (WSU, Australia)
• Dr. Anton Bogdavych (WSU, Australia)

Publication

AMISIM2018 papers will be published in proceedings of IEEE Artificial Intellligence and Virtual Reality 2018 (IEEE AIVR) conference. 

Venue

The conference will be held December 10-12, 2018, Taichun Taiwan

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to t.trescak@westernsydney.edu.au