Workshop 1: Virtual Reality and its Application for Human Centered System

The purpose of the workshop is to have an open forum for all the research scientists and engineers who work for practical application area of VR, especially for industrial use. In Japan, the government research project, “Human Media,” has started in 1996 and this year is the end of the first project term. “Human Media” project aims to develop basic technology for human centered multimedia system that integrate virtual reality, artificial intelligence and “Kansei” engineering technology. The workshop consists of invited talk from “Human Media” project and other presentation recruited from general audience. The workshop organizer will call for papers and publish workshop proceedings. The organizers hope to make the workshop as a discussion forum for researchers and engineers who designs industrial applications of VR in the 21 century. Proceedings of the Virtual Reality 2001 Conference (VR’01) 0-7695-0948-7/01 $17.00 © 2001 IEEE