The Sixth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality

Tue, Nov. 13  -  Fri, Nov. 16, 2007

Nara-Ken New Public Hall, Nara, Japan

ISMAR 2007 is over with great success!!

The conference general chair Haruo Takemura would like to thank everyone who helped to make the conference the success that it was with 241 participants. In particular,  I would like to thank all of the sponsors, chairs and student volunteers for their financial support and dedication to the conference.

ISMAR 2008 will be held in Cambridge, UK, on a week of September 14th, 2008. More details will soon be available.

Go to ISMAR 2008 Homepage

AIMS AND SCOPE

Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences. MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications.

Since 1998, ISMAR and its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the premier forums in this vital field (http://www.augmented-reality.org/iwar/).

This year we are proud to present the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2007). The symposium will be held on Nov. 13-16, 2007, in historical Nara, Japan. We invite you all to participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this exciting field!

HIGHLIGHT

Nov. 13 16:00-17:00

Special Event in Workshop2 (Open to all ISMAR participants)

• Special Noh Theatre Performance of Research Collaboration for “Humorous Interaction” 2-Man Stand-Up Comedy (Manzai) with a Robot
  JUNICHI OSADA & ZENJIRO and PaPeRo ROBOT. Junichi Osada is a senior designer at NEC Design, Ltd. Zenjiro is a famous comedian in Japan.

Nov. 14 9:15-10:15

Keynote Talk 1

• Upscaling and Downscaling Augmented Reality
  Dieter Schmalstieg (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Nov. 14 18:45-19:30

Noh Performance (Japanese Traditional Dance)

Nov. 15 9:00-10:00

Keynote Talk 2

• Mixed and Augmented Reality in Broadcasting
  Seiki Inoue (NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan)

Nov. 15 During Banquet (19:30-21:30)

Dinner Talk

• Where's the Reality in Augmented Reality ?
  Mark Billinghurst (HITLabNZ, New Zealand)

And more... !!

Photo. Nara-ken New Public Hall and it's Noh theater.