Organized by the
Austrian Society for Cognitive Science
and the
Austrian Society for Organismic and Systemic Research and Theory
Proceedings | Program | Purpose | Session Topics | Invited Speakers | Conference Language | Scientific Committee | Organizing Committee | Sponsoring Organizations | Registration and Fees | Conference Site and Accomodation | Destination Vienna | Additional Information | Registration Form
A PDF document with all the abstracts is also available.
All talks will be held at the Naturhistorisches Museum.
Please refer to the map of the conference site and how to reach it.
Thursday, Sept 20, 2001 | |
8.45 | Registration. The registration desk will stay open through the whole conference |
9.30 | Opening |
9.45 | Markus F. Peschl and Alexander Riegler Virtual Science: Virtuality and Knowledge Acquisition in Science and Cognition |
10.30 | Shulamith Kreitler Psychological Perspectives on Virtual Reality |
11.30 | Coffee |
11.50 | Karl Edlinger Virtual Reality, Cyberspace and Living Organisms: Towards a New Understanding of Perception and Cognition? |
12.30 | Lunch |
14.30 | Peter König Simulated Learning and Learning in Simulated Environments |
15.30 | Günther Fleck Mental Imagery and Cyberspace: Naturally and Artificially Generated Virtual Worlds |
16.10 | Coffee |
16.30 | Steffen P. Walz and Isabel Zundel Madness & Virtuality: An Approximation |
17.10 | Cecilia Sik-Lányi et al. The Amelioration of Perception of Space and Depth by the Help of Virtual Reality |
20.00 | Reception / Heuriger |
Friday, Sept 21, 2001 | |
9.30 | Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Sumedha Kshirsagar The Emotional Talking Virtual Humans |
10.30 | Coffee |
10.50 | Rolf Ewers et al. Computed Navigation in Cranio-Maxillo-Facial and Oral Head and Neck Surgery: Principles, Indications and Potentials for Telepresence and Teleassistance |
11.50 | Corina Sas, Ronan Reilly and Gregory O'Hare Virtual Reality in Surgery: Between Satisfaction and Stress |
12.30 | Lunch |
14.30 | Chris Stary Exploring the Concept of Virtuality: Technological Approaches and Implications from Tele-Education |
15.30 | Daniel Mellet d'Huart From Reality to "the Real": Using Augmented Virtual Reality for Training |
16.10 | Coffee |
16.30 | Ashweeni Kumar Beeharee, Steve Pettifer and Adrian West A Framework for Optimising Network Usage for Plausible Distributed Virtual Environments |
17.10 | Gerardo Silva Chandía VR and Web Page Support in Civil Engineering Education (Experience Report) |
18.30 | General Meeting / Generalversammlung of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science (location TBA) |
Saturday, Sept 22, 2001 | |
10.00 | László Ropolyi Virtuality and Plurality |
11.00 | Coffee |
11.20 | Stephen E. Robbins Bergson's Virtual Action |
12.00 | Andrea Gaugusch (Re)constructing (Virtual) Reality |
12.40 | Lunch |
14.40 | Rainer Born Virtual Reality: Reflections Of Chances, Changes and Dangers in Communicating Knowledge with the Help of VR-Technologies |
15.20 | Coffee |
15.40 | William Keays Rethinking Boundaries |
16.40 | Plenary Discussion |
The goal of this single-track conference is to investigate and discuss new approaches and developments in the field of virtual reality with regard to its cognitive and philosophical issues and technological implications in a workshop-like atmosphere.
Virtuality is omnipresent nowadays - this conference aims at bringing together scientists from various disciplines in order to clarify the concept of virtuality; new approaches to this phenomenon should be investigated from an interdisciplinary perspective. Both, theoretical foundations (from the disciplines of philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, biology, artificial life, or the social sciences) and technological implications and applications in various fields should be integrated.
Contrary to many conferences in this field, the focus is on interdisciplinary cooperation and on integrating conceptual and epistemological questions, rather than on technical details. We are trying to achieve this by giving more room to discussion and interaction between the participants (e.g., invited comments on papers, distribution of papers to the participants before the conference, etc.). According to the interdisciplinary character of cognitive science, we welcome papers/talks from the fields of virtual reality, cognitive science, artificial life, empirical, cognitive, and computational neuroscience, philosophy (of mind/science), epistemology, education, biology, medical research, anthropology, computer science, psychology, and linguistics.
This conference will be centered around (but not limited to) the following topics:
Rolf Ewers | : | AKH Vienna, virtual operations, Austria |
Bill Keays | : | Ottawa, Media Arts, Canada/Switzerland |
Peter König | : | ETH/Univ Zurich, Neuroscience, Switzerland |
Shulamith Kreitler | : | Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Laszlo Ropolyi | : | Philosophy of Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary |
Christian Stary | : | Communications Engineering, Univ. Linz, Austria |
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | : | Univ. Geneva, MIRALab, Switzerland |
Rainer Born | : | Univ. Linz, A |
Karl Edlinger | : | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, A |
Rolf Ewers | : | AKH Vienna, virtual operations, Austria |
Walter Feigl | : | Univ. Vienna, A |
Günther Fleck | : | Heerespsychologischer Dienst, A |
Giselher Guttmann | : | Univ. Vienna, A |
Bill Keays | : | Ottawa, Media Arts, Canada/Switzerland |
Peter König | : | ETH/Univ Zurich, Neuroscience, Switzerland |
Shulamith Kreitler | : | Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Markus Peschl | : | Univ. Vienna, A |
Alexander Riegler | : | Free Univ. of Brussels, B |
Brigitte Römmer | : | Sysis Interactive Simulations AG, Vienna, A |
Laszlo Ropolyi | : | Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, H |
Christian Stary | : | Univ. Linz, A |
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann | : | Univ. Geneva, MIRALab, Switzerland |
Karl Edlinger | : | Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, A |
Walter Feigl | : | Univ. Vienna, A |
Günther Fleck | : | Heerespsychologischer Dienst, A |
: | Univ. Vienna, A | |
Alexander Riegler | : | Free Univ. of Brussels, B |
Brigitte Römmer | : | Sysis Internet Software, Vienna, A |
until June 30, 2001 | after June 30, 2001 | |
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Members of either society (Austrian Society for Cognitive Science or Austrian Society for organismisc and systemic research and theory) | 800 ATS 58 EUR | 1100 ATS 80 EUR |
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Non members | 1100 ATS 80 EUR | 1300 ATS 94,5 EUR |
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Student Members of either society (Austrian Society for Cognitive Science or Austrian Society for organismisc and systemic research and theory) (proof of valid student ID required) | 300 ATS 22 EUR | 400 ATS 29 EUR |
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Non student members (proof of valid student ID required) | 400 ATS 29 EUR | 500 ATS 36 EUR |
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The registration fee includes admission to talks, presentations, and proceedings (except student fees).
All payments have to be made in ATS (Austrian Schillings).
The conference takes place in the famous Museum of Natural History in the very center of Vienna; the address is:
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (main entrance)
Burgring 7 (at the Maria Theresienplatz)
A-1010 Wien
Austria
It is located in the center of the city and is surrounded by the most beautiful buildings of the city of Vienna. Please refer to the map of the conference site and how to reach it.
As for the accomodation, we recommend the following hotels:
Close to the conference site | ![]() | In the green area of Vienna |
Hotel/Pension Museum | ![]() | Hotel Jäger |
Museumstr 3 | ![]() | Hernalser Hauptstraße 187 |
A-1070 Wien | ![]() | A-1170 Wien |
Tel: +43 1 / 523 44 26-0 | ![]() | Tel: +43 1 486 66 20 0 |
Fax: +43 1 / 523-4426/30 | ![]() | Fax: +43 1 486 66 20 8 |
e-mail: hotel.museum@surfeu.at | ![]() | e-mail: hoteljaeger@aon.at |
You can find more information about Vienna and accommodation at the Vienna Tourist Board or at the Intropa Travel agent Tel: +43-1-5151-242.
For further information on the conference contact:
Accomodation:
Markus Peschl Dept. for Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of Science University of Vienna Sensengasse 8/10 A-1090 Wien, Austria Tel: +43-1-4277-47624, Fax: +43-1-4277-9476
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Conference site:
Karl Edlinger Naturhistorisches Museum 3. Zoologische Abteilung Burgring 7 A-1014 Wien Austria Tel: +43-1-52177-516
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General information about the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science can be found on the Society webpage
Find below the web-based registration form for the conference. Fields in bold are required to fill in. If you do not want to submit your credit card information via the web (this is not a secured connnection), you can alternatively print out the registration form and fax it to the organizers.