Topics include:

Emerging Areas:

• Human Performance & Perception: Learning, Training, Therapy, Rehabilitation, Virtual Analytics and Entertainment are beginning to leverage the convergence of disciplinary applied MR/AR research to expand how we experience and enhance the limits of human experience.
• Augmented Virtuality: Telepresence, tele-immersion, real-time 3D video acquisition and streaming, (auto-)stereoscopic displays, multi-user 3D displays, tele-operation and live video stream augmentation (e.g., in robotics), broadcast augmentation and virtual studios.
• Multi-Sensory Mixed Reality: Auditory, haptic and olfactory interfaces.
• Wearable Computing: Wearable displays (e.g., Google Glass, smart watches), wearable sensors and actuators, augmented humans (e.g., cyborg technology).
• Spatial Input: Tangible interfaces, ambient-device interaction and novel sensors (e.g., situated/embedded touch input), location sensing technologies (of any kind, including non real-time), smart spaces, situated 2D displays, enabling technologies for spatial interfaces (e.g., 3D reconstruction, touch interfaces, gesture detection).
• Spatial Output: Wearable projectors, projector-camera systems, ambient displays.

Science and Technology Program

1. MR/AR
   
   • Information Presentation
   • Visual, aural, haptic, and olfactory augmentation
   • Multisensory rendering, registration, and synchronization
   • Mediated and diminished reality
   • Photo-realistic and non photo-realistic rendering
   • Real-time and non real-time interactive rendering
   • Input
   • Acquisition of 3D video and scene descriptions
   • Video processing and streaming
   • Projector-camera systems
   • Calibration and registration of sensing systems
   • Location sensing technologies (of any kind, including non real-time)
   • Sensor fusion
   • Wearable sensors, ambient-device interaction
   • Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces
   • Smart spaces
   • Output
   • Display hardware, including 3D, stereoscopic, and multi-user
   • Live video stream augmentation (e.g., in robotics and broadcast)
   • Wearable and situated displays (e.g., Google Glass, smart watches, pico-projectors)
   • Wearable actuators and augmented humans
   • User Experience Design
   • Collaborative interfaces
   • Interaction techniques
   • Multi-modal input and output
   • Usability studies and experiments
   • Technology acceptance and social implications
   • System Architecture
   • Distributed and collaborative architectures
   • Real-time performance issues
   • Wearable and mobile computing
   • Online services
   • Scene description and management issues
   • Content creation and management
   • Applications
   • Personal information systems
   • Architecture
   • Art, cultural heritage, education and training
   • Entertainment, broadcast
   • Industrial, military, emergency response
   • Medical
2. MASH’D (Media, Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities & Design)
   
   • Media Applications
     • Performing arts
     • Art history
     • Architecture
     • Urban design
     • Entertainment (stories, games, toys)
     • Cultural heritage
     • Social media
     • Education, training, therapy
   • Fields and approaches of interest include, but are not limited to:
     • Media studies
     • Cultural studies
     • Literary studies
     • Game studies
     • Practitioner case studies
     • Design research
     • Communications
     • Instructional technologies
     • Telepresence & perception