Call for Papers and Submission Instructions

The 1st edition of the workshop on Perception and AnimatioN of Dissimilar AvatarS (PANDAS) will take place during the 31st IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, held on March 16 - 20, 2024. (https://ieeevr.org/2024/).

All accepted submissions must be presented orally at the conference.

Workshop organizers call for submissions of research papers, technical notes, and position papers and encourage the submission of work-in-progress research (such as early results, pilot studies etc.)  on the following topics:

• Design of dissimilar avatars for VR

• Perception/embodiment with dissimilar virtual avatars

• Interaction with dissimilar virtual avatars

• Animation/motion/control of dissimilar virtual avatars

• VR applications of dissimilar avatars

Short papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the IEEE VGTC format, following a double-blind process. All paper submissions must be in English. All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Library. Papers should be submitted using PCS. A committee of expert reviewers will evaluate all submissions. We welcome the following submissions (page limits include references):

• Research papers: 4-6 pages

• Technical notes: 2-4 pages

• Position papers: 2-4 pages

• Work-in-progress research: 1-4 pages

We will also call for Late Breaking Reports on the basis of an abstract submission that will not be published in the IEEE Xplore Library. The goal of these Late Breaking Reports is to get feedback on a research idea/the study design etc - through a short presentation used to start a discussion with the audience.

• Late Breaking Reports: 0.5-1 page

Each deadline is 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) == GMT/UTC-12:00 on the stated day, no matter where the submitter is located.

• Paper submission: 14th January

• Notification of Acceptance: 19th January   21st January

• Camera Ready: January 24th

• Late breaking reports: February 17th

• Notification of late-breaking reports: February 24th

If you have inquiries regarding the submission process, please contact the organizers:

Rebecca Fribourg - rebecca.fribourg@ec-nantes.fr

Jean-Marie Normand - jean-marie.normand@ec-nantes.fr

Hugo Brument - hugo.brument@tuwien.ac.at

Iana Podkosova - yana.podkosova@tuwien.ac.at

Rachel McDonnell - ramcdonn@tcd.ie