AsiaHapticsはアジア地域で2年に1度開催されるハプティクス(触覚・力覚)分野
の国際会議です．投稿はビデオ，発表はデモ展示という新しいスタイルを取り入
れ，最新の触力覚技術を体感できる学会です．また例年好評をいただいている触
覚講習会や，ワークショップ，チュートリアルの併設も予定されています．

この学会には世界各地からハプティクス(触覚・力覚)に携わる研究者・技術者・
アーティストが多数集まり，全ての発表について実演を伴う研究発表を実施しま
す．あわせて多くの企業による製品展示やデモンストレーションを同じ会場にて
行っています．第1回は約200名の国内外の参加者，約60件の発表を集めました
(AsiaHaptics2014の投稿ビデオはこちらで公開されています
http://bit.ly/1S9mGIQ).

本国際会議は，触覚・力覚を中心としたVirtual Reality分野の情報流通の重要
なノードとなっています．是非，投稿をご検討ください．
最新情報は，ウェブサイトで随時ご案内いたします．

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AsiaHaptics 2016
http://asiahaptics.vrsj.org/2016/
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会期: 2016年 11月29日(水) – 12月1日(金)

場所: 三井ガーデンホテル柏の葉

締切： Demonstration Submission： 2016年7月29日
Workshop Proposal： 2016年8月5日
Acceptance Notification： 2016年8月29日

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1st Call for Papers

Asia Haptics 2016

Nov.29-Dec.1, 2016, Kashiwanoha, Japan
http://asiahaptics.vrsj.org/2016/
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AsiaHaptics is a new type of international conference for the haptics fields, featuring interactive presentations with demos. AsiaHaptics welcome for all attendees related to /interested in haptic hardware, human haptic perception, and other haptic applications, not only in Asia but around the world. The second conference, AsiaHaptics 2016, will take place during Nov.29-Dec.1, 2016 at Mitsui Garden Hotel Kashiwanoha, Japan.

AsiaHaptics offer a new presentation style based on demos in the exhibition area like a poster presentation, but you will have a main show time projected your demonstration on the center screen. All submissions are required to prepare a video proposal and will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers. Publication style will be abstract proceedings and videos. A full paper (6 pages) is optional.
– Different from other conferences, it is dedicated to demos.
– All presentations are based on demos.
– Submissions are selected by proposal and video. ( 6-pages paper is optional )
– The conference is also for experiment; audiences are subjects.

Your submission must include both a video portion and 2 pages short paper, which can be extended to 6 pages. After the conference, participants will see their papers published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering from Springer (http://www.springer.com/series/7818), which will be accessible worldwide. Videos from accepted submissions will be uploaded to youtube, and will include a link to the paper (authors may choose not to upload).
You can check the AsiaHaptics 2014 Video Archive for the last year’s video uploades (http://bit.ly/1S9mGIQ).

You may also choose not to publish. Accepted videos and papers will be made available to conference attendees via the electronic proceedings.
Acceptance will be based on all submitted materials. The selection process includes reports by independent reviewers, followed by a jury selection process that will consider these reports as well as other criteria such as feasibility, and available space at the conference.

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Important Dates
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July 29, 2016
Demonstration Submission

August 5, 2016
Workshop Proposal

August 29, 2016
Acceptance Notification

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Committee
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– General chair
Hiroyuki Shinoda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

– Program co-chairs
Masashi Konyo (Tohoku University, Japan) Ki-Uk Kyung (ETRI, Korea) Shoichi Hasegawa (Tokyo Tech, Japan)

– Steering committee
Hiroo Iwata (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Dong-Soo Kwon (KAIST, Korea) Dangxiao Wang (Beihang University, China) Kinya Fujita (TUAT, Japan) Hiroyuki Kajimoto (UEC, Japan) Ki-Uk Kyung (ETRI, Korea) Jee-Hwan Ryu (KOREA TECH, Korea) Yasuyoshi Yokokohji (Kobe University, Japan)

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