Report on ``HC-2001" Conference

The International Conference on Human and Computer 2001 September 26-29, 2001

By Minetada Osano, Professor of Software Engineering Laboratory

 The International Conference on Human and Computer provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspect of relating with Human and Computer.

 This year, the Fourth International Conference on Human and Computer 2001 was held in the University of Aizu (September 26-28) and the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan (September 28-29). On September 28, video conferencing was conducted between the University of Aizu and the University of Electro-Communications via Gigabit-Network. Topics of particular interest included, but not limited to: Human, Sensibility Engineering, Motion Analysis Science, Artificial Life, Graphic Processing, Computer Art, Cognitive Science, Virtual Environments, and 3-Dimensional Computer Graphics (3D-CG).

 Especially, we had the following sessions: Geometric Modeling, Virtual Environments, Knowledge Science, Medical Science, Multimedia and Computations and Multimedia and Education. We had nine invited talks for special lectures given by:
Vice President, Witold Kosinsk from Poland,
Prof. Karol Myszkowski from Germany,
Dr. Wolfgang Vonolfen from Austria,
Prof. Jens Herder from Germany,
Prof. Sung-Bae Cho from Korea,
Professor Jurgen Stauder from France,
Prof. Osamu Katai from Kyoto,
Mr. Christoph Bartneck from ATR Japan,
Prof. Fumio Okuyama from Tokyo.

 There are fifty papers presented in the technical sessions. Ten graduate students from the University of Aizu presented their works. The video conferencing session succeeded in Gigabit-Network with the assistant of CITEC, especially Mr. A. Hayashi.

 This conference was cooperated with Three Dimension Forum (3DF) Japan. Selected papers will be evaluated and submitted to 3DF as journal papers at the end of this year.