Topic Area #1 - Technologies & Applications

• VR / AR in medical treatment, rehabilitation, helping the blind, the disabled and the elderly
• 2D/3D and volumetric display and projection technology
• 3D authoring
• Computer graphics techniques
• Crowd simulation
• Immersive / 360° video
• Immersive analytics and visualization
• Modeling and simulation
• Multi-user and distributed systems
• Multimodal capturing and reconstruction
• Scene description and management issues
• Software architectures, toolkits, and engineering
• Storytelling
• Therapy and rehabilitation
• Tracking and sensing
• Training, teaching, entertainment

Topic Area #2 - Multi-sensory Experiences

• Audio interfaces, sound rendering, spatialized audio, auditory perception and psychoacoustics
• Embodied agents, virtual humans and (self-)avatars
• Haptic and tactile interfaces, wearable haptics, passive haptics, pseudo haptics, other touch-based UI
• Mediated and diminished reality
• Multimodal input and output
• Multisensory rendering, registration, and synchronization
• Perception, cognition and general effects on psychology and use
• Spatial and social presence, embodiment, body ownership, and agency
• Teleoperation and telepresence

Topic Area #3 - Interaction

• Affective computing and design
• 3D user interaction
• 3DUI metaphors
• Collaborative interactions
• Ethical and moral issues
• Human factors and ergonomics
• Input/output devices
• Locomotion and navigation
• Multimodal/cross-modal interaction and perception
• Non-fatiguing 3DUIs
• Non-visual interfaces (such as olfactory)
• Touch, tangible and gesture interfaces
• Usage research, evaluation methods and empirical studies