Archive pour mai 2008

An Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation of London through the Google Maps API

Lundi 26 mai 2008

Voici une publication de Maurizio Gibin, Alex Singleton, Richard Milton, Pablo Mateos et Paul Longley (Department of Geography, University College London, et Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London), qui témoigne du dynamisme des recherches anglaises en matière de nouvelles cartographies :

This paper begins by reviewing the ways in which the innovation of Google Maps has transformed our ability to reference and view geographically referenced data. We describe the ways in which the GMap Creator tool developed under the ESRC National Centre for e Social Science (NCeSS) programme enables users to ‘mashup’ thematic choropleth maps using the Google API. We illustrate the application of GMap Creator using the example of www.londonprofiler.org, which presents a repository of choropleth maps across a range of domains including health, education and other socioeconomic datasets against a backcloth of Google Maps data. Our conclusions address the ways in which Google Map mashups developed using GMap Creator facilitate online exploratory cartographic visualisation in a range of areas of policy concern.

Sources :

GIBIN, Maurizio et Al. An Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation of London through the Google Maps API. [en ligne] www.springerlink.com/content/al871h573×611145/fulltext.pdf {vérifié le 25/05/2008}

Illustration : capture d’écran du site London Profiler

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 : CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Jeudi 22 mai 2008

Urban Screens Melbourne 08
Conference ³mobile publics² 3 ­ 5 October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 ­ 8 October 2008
www.urbanscreens08.net

EXTENDED Deadline for submission: 31st May 2008

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen complemented with other digital elements.

CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is currently looking for researches to present posters on the latest development in the interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. The poster presentations will be integrated in the overall Urban Screens Melbourne 08 event structure. You will be able to showcase your project to a public audience and professionals and stakeholders with distinctive interests in media and public space, in attendance at our conference ³USM08 -Mobile Publics².
www.urbanscreens08.net/conference-2008

The poster presentations provide a forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition we are looking for proposals for posters and experimental presentations in public space. All accepted posters will be displayed in an exhibition in the public Atrium precinct, next to the conference hall, viewable for all conference attendees and the general public. The conference audience will be gathering around the A1 posters during the poster session to engage with the author.

Urban Screens 08 posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects; for drawing important conclusions from practical experiments; for giving an introduction to innovative works or new practical design applications, and reporting on cutting edge technologies and content management systems currently in development.

EXPERIMENTAL SKYPE SESSIONS

Besides the poster exhibition, eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These I-sites offer authors from abroad the possibility to present remotely via scheduled Skype sessions whilst the audience gathers in small groups around the terminals. A time schedule for these digital presentations of 15 minutes will be placed on the chosen posters of the exhibition.

This I-hub presentation should be delivered using Adobe Flash or Powerpoint. For remote presentations, the portrait format screen will be split in two half sections, the top one for the presentation, the other for the life image of the presenter. You will be able to remotely control the presentation.

MAIN CRITERIA

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. We are open to a wide range of issues around this idea about the integration of digital moving images in outdoor public spaces and using this new integrated digital layer of the city for contributing to a lively urban society.

For more information about Urban Screens and range of topics see:
www.urbanscreens.org
For more information about Urban Screens Melbourne 08 see:
www.urbanscreens08.net

EVENT COMMITTEE
Posters will be reviewed by the Event Committee, announced on the website.

PRACTICAL

Applications are due (extended deadline): May 31st 2008
Poster design and presentation due: September 15th 2008

For submissions please use the application form provided under
www.urbanscreens08.net/call

- One author per accepted poster can attend the conference, for free of charge, excluding travel and lodging expenses
- Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication of the best selected posters in the conference proceedings
- Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website: www.urbanscreens.net
- The size of the exhibition poster is portrait A1
- A broad guideline for the poster design and the I-hub presentations will be announced after the selection process
- The final poster design must be submitted by September 15th for printout
- Authors presenting remotely, via Skype will be contacted for a test after September 15th

APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL

Please have a look at the complete calls and the official online submission forms for application, available at:
www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT
exhibition@urbanscreens.net (please use the subject ³USM08 – question concerning the CALL²)

MAYOR EVENT SPONSORS

The event is brought to you by the International Urban Screens Association www.urbanscreens.net

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
www.australiacouncil.gov.au

Fed Square Pty Ltd – www.federationsquare.com
Barco Œvisibly yours¹ – www.barco.com
Melbourne University – www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au
Film Victoria – film.vic.gov.au
Circus – www.circusexp.com
Pinnacle ŒProduction Services¹ – www.pinnacleps.com

Media Partner:
ARS HyperMedia – www.simultaneita.net
australian-architects – www.australian-architects.com

Upgrade! Paris #17 l Festival Mal au Pixel- 21/05 18h l Nicolas Schoffer, HeHe

Mercredi 21 mai 2008

Nous vous communiquons le programme de la session Upgrade! Paris qui abordera la relation entre propositions artistiques et architecture, à travers le travail pionnier de Nicolas Schöffer – son projet de Tour Lumière Cybernétique pour la Défense – et le dernier projet de HeHe, Nuage vert. Dans le cadre du festival Mal au Pixel.

Programme:

de 18h à 19h:
L’oeuvre de *Nicolas Schöffer* dans l’espace public,
Avec Eléonore De Lavandeyra Schöffer, Maude Ligier, Guillaume Richard.
Médiateur: Jean-Noël Montagné

de 19h à 20h:
Présentation de Nuage Vert, du collectif *HeHe*
Avec Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen (HeHe)
Médiateur: Dominique Moulon

Nicolas Schöffer
Français d’origine Hongroise, Nicolas Schöffer (1912-1992) est né à Kalocsa, Hongrie. Après des études aux Beaux Arts de Budapest et un doctorat en Droit, il vient s’installer à Paris en 1936 où il traverse les mouvements du surréalisme et de l’art abstrait. Il opère en 1948 une profonde rupture qui va le conduire à créer ce qu’il nomme un art cybernétique. Dès les années 50, il introduit l’interactivité et la programmation dans ses créations sculpturales, architecturales et urbanistiques, et crée les premières oeuvres multimédia interactives avec de jeunes créateurs comme Pierre Henry ou Maurice Béjart. Il innovera également dans l’art vidéo (1961), la musique, la pédagogie, le spectacle interactif et les pratiques sociales, tout en développant une oeuvre écrite sur l’évolution de la société au travers des pratiques créatives. Nicolas Schöffer s’éteindra à 80 ans à Paris en 1992, sans avoir pu réaliser son chef d’oeuvre d’une Tour Lumière Cybernétique de 320 m de haut, reliée à des miliers de capteurs, symbole d’un art relié au monde, au temps et à l’espace. http://www.olats.org/schoffer/

HeHe
Helen Evans (Angleterre 1972) et Heiko Hansen (Allemagne 1970) forment le duo HeHe, qui vit et travaille à Paris. Le design et l’interprétation de l’espace urbain, ainsi que la relation entre l’individu et son environnement architectural et urbain, sont au coeur du travail de HeHe. http://hehe.org.free.fr

Nuage Vert utilise les émissions de vapeur qui s’élèvent d’une centrale thermique, comme support d’illumination. Un laser projette sur le nuage de vapeur son contour fluctuant, et sa forme et sa taille s’ajustent en temps réel en fonction des niveaux de consommation d’énergie des habitants du quartier. Au cours de la semaine, les habitants étaient invités à réduire leur consommation d’électricité afin de nourrir le nuage vert et le faire s’agrandir. La cheminée et les émissions de vapeur deviennent ainsi, à la fois une sculpture environnementale et un outil de mesure à l’échelle d’une communauté, mais il y a là une véritable ironie: tout en faisant appel à l’attention critique du spectateur, Nuage Vert esthétise un symbole de la pollution industrielle. La première édition de Nuage Vert a été produite en février 2008 à Helsinki avec le festival Pixelache.
http://nuagevert.org

Infos et archives sur: http://incident.net/theupgrade/
Les sessions Upgrade! Paris sont organisées par Incident.net. Elles sont publiques, mensuelles et itinérantes, où les artistes, chercheurs, architectes, théoriciens présentent pendant une heure leur travail récent. Partenaires: Ars Longa, Cela-Etant, le CITU, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, The Upgrade! International
Merci à Marie Daubert, Eléonore De Lavandeyra Schöffer, Jean-Noël Montagné, Mathieu Marguerin.

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Upgrade! Paris l Mal au Pixel Festival

Upgrade! Paris #17
*Nicolas Schöffer l HeHe*
Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6-8 PM – please subscribe
*At Nicolas Schöffer workshop*

Two sessions Upgrade! at Nicolas Schoffer’s workshop, two consecutive discussions on Nicolas Schöffer research (1912-1992) and the recent work of the HeHe duo (Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen) in Helsinkis’ sky.

By Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer
Villa des Arts, 15 rue Hesegippe Moreau, 75018 Paris
M° La Fourche (13)

Thank you to send us your name and the session you want to assist.

Program:

6-7 pm:
The work of *Nicolas Schoffer* in Public space,
With Eleonore De Lavandeyra Schöffer, Maude Ligier, Guillaume Richard.
Mediation: Jean-Noel Montagne

7-8 pm:
Presentation of Nuage Vert, by *HeHe* collective
With Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen (HeHe)
Mediation: Dominique Moulon

Nicolas Schöffer
A Frenchman of Hungarian roots; Nicolas Schöffer (1912-1992) was born in Kalocsa, Hungary. After Studying in the Fine art school in Budapest, and obtains a PhD in Law Studies, he settles in Paris in 1936, where he follows the Surrealism and Abstract art movements. In 1948, he breaks up with these, which allows him to create what he will name cybernetic art. In the 50s, he introduces interactivity and programming in his sculptural, architectural, and urban works. He creates his first interactive media work with people such as Pierre Henry or Maurice Béjart. In 1961, he innovates in the video art, but also in many other fields: music, pedagogy, interactive shows, and social practice, while also developing a written work on society evolution through creative practice. Nicolas Schöffer passed away in Paris in 1992 without having completed his masterpiece: a 320m high cybernetic light tower, connected to thousands of sensors, a symbol of art being connected to world, space and time. http://www.olats.org/schoffer/

HeHe
HeHe, the duo Helen Evans (British) and Heiko Hansen (German), live and work in Paris and initially conceived the project in 2003. Their work engages with the design and interpretation of urban space and the relationship between individuals and their architectural and urban environment. http://www.hehe.org

Nuage Vert uses the chimney emissions of a power plant as a canvas for illumination. The installation consists of tracking, drawing and projecting a laser image onto the contour of vapour, adjusting its shape and size to the current levels of energy consumption by the local residents. During the week, residents were asked to consume less to make the green cloud grow. The chimney and emission are an environmental sculpture and a community measuring tape, but there is an irony here: Nuage Vert aestheticises an icon of industrial pollution while seeking to draw the viewer’s critical attention to it.
The first edition of Nuage Vert was realised in February 2008 in Helsinki, in partnership with Pixelache festival. http://www.nuagevert.org

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Infos and archives on: http://incident.net/theupgrade/
The Upgrade! sessions are organized by Incident.net. They are public, mounthly and itinerants. Artists, researchers, architects, theorists present during one hour their recent work. Partners: Ars Longa, Cela-Etant, le CITU, Ministere de la culture et de la communication, The Upgrade! International
Thanks to Marie Daubert, Eleonore De Lavandeyra Schöffer, Jean-Noel Montagne, Mathieu Marguerin.

http://incident.net/theupgrade
uprgade@incident.net

Nouvelles fonctionnalités de la version 4.3 de Google Earth

Mardi 20 mai 2008

En attendant de pouvoir utiliser la fonctionnalité Google Street View pour la ville Paris, comme le sugère l’article de Jean-Luc Goudet dans Futura-Science, nous pouvons faire un point sur les nouvelles fonctionnalités de la version de Google Earth 4.3. qui s’affirme de plus en plus comme un simulateur :

- Eclairage : voir en temps réel le sur le globe les parties éclairées par le soleil et celles plongées dans l’obscurité, avec une timeline permettant de se représenter ces effets à différents moments (aurore matinale, coucher de soleil);

- Nouvelle interface de navigation dans la partie droite;

- Intégration de la fonction Street View (de Google Maps) : généralisation d’un panorama sphérique apparaissant sous la forme d’une bulle. Segmenter une continuité spatiale en une succession de sphères est pour le moins un choix qui s’il n’est pas étonnant, intrigue formellement. Cette fonction Street View gagne par ailleurs en ergonomie de visite : nous avons la possibilité de naviguer dans l’image panoramique grâce à l’adjonction d’une représentation réduite et à plat du panorama dans une vignette rectangulaire. Enfin, et grâce à une réglette, il est possible de passer du mode photographique à la modélisation 3D, ce qui permet de juger la qualité de cette dernière en la comparant avec cette représentation photographique. Cette transition entre univers photographique et un univers similaire en 3D constitue la nouveauté de la nouvelle version la plus curieuse, donnant l’impression – illusoire – de passer de la représentation construite (3D) à une réalité, qui n’en reste pas moins « photographique» .

Voir la vidéo de démonstration « Google Earth 4.3″ sur Youtube

Sources :

Google Earth Blog

Appel à contribution : « Environment 2.0: Through Cracks in the Pavement» 

Dimanche 18 mai 2008

Leonardo Guest Editor: Drew Hemment

The second call for papers of the Leonardo special project Lovely Weather: Artists and Scientists on the Cultural Context of Climate Change seeks new cross-disciplinary thinking on sustainability in urban environments, with a focus on creative intervention, social change and non-Western perspectives.

In urban environments we are separated from the consequences of our actions as surely as the tarmac of the road cuts us off from the earth beneath. This physical boundary encourages a phenomenological separation. It is also a symptom and a driver of a global reliance on the private car and fossil fuel. But between the cracks in the pavement, another world flourishes—local activism, recycling, environmental collectives, permaculture, urban gardening.

Artistic and social projects can widen the cracks in the pavements. Such creative innovations might be artworks, social entrepreneurship, scientific intervention or innovations that harness everyday creativity. They might seek to decode the complex relationships between people, nature and technology in urban settings. Or they might be conceived as interventions that can help contribute to profound social change, or suggest alternative possibilities for or critical perspectives on sustainability.

A new relationship is emerging as computing migrates into the environment. When the Earth is mapped, tagged and
digitized, it ceases to be inert raw material and becomes instead navigable, computable and manipulable. How will this affect the way that industrial societies have viewed the environment as a resource to be exploited and tamed?

Leonardo is soliciting texts that document the works of artists, researchers, and scholars involved in the exploration of sustainability in urban environments. Themes and issues may include:

• Sustainability in urban environments
• Ubiquitous, pervasive, locative and mobile communication technology
• Growing community
• Sowing seeds of social change.

Linked activity includes an Urban Climate Camp forum at ISEA2008 in Singapore in August 2008, and an exhibition and
workshop at Futuresonic 2009 in Manchester, U.K., during May 2009, <http://www.futuresonic.com>. Submissions are welcome in all linked strands of activity.

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts or proposals to <leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com>. Leonardo submission
guidelines can be found of Leonardo On-Line: <www.leonardo.info>. Please indicate your proposal is for Environment 2.0.

For more information on Leonardo special project Lovely Weather: Artists and Scientists on the Cultural Context of Climate Change: <http://www.olats.org/fcm/artclimat/artclimat_eng.php>.

« Pour une écologie informationnelle»  (Internet Actu)

Vendredi 16 mai 2008

Voici un article qui illustre la montée en puissance de ce concept – notion à laquelle nous sommes particulièrement sensibles sur ce blog, et qui est travaillée par le programme Ville 2.0 et notamment le groupe Chronos dans leur recherche sur le 5ème écran – va apparaître de plus en plus incontournable à une époque où l’on se rend compte que la surconsommation n’a d’égal que la surproduction d’informations numériques, et l’incapacité de nos actuels outils à gérer ces informations. En voici la fin :

Il est temps d’entrer dans le coeur du débat de l’écologie informationnelle, en distinguant mieux ce qui relève d’une culture nouvelle, d’un bouleversement social qui doit interroger chacun dans ses pratiques et ce qui relève d’un saut qualitatif en matière d’interface, de design et de conception logicielle. Une écologie informationnelle n’est pas une utilisation durable de nos outils numériques – qui est aussi un problème important, mais ce n’est pas le même -, mais une utilisation durable de “notre temps de cerveau disponible”. Car si l’information et notre attention sont une matière première, au même titre que le charbon ou le pétrole, il faut reconnaître la valeur de l’activité qui en résulte et les effets néfastes des abus, des excès, des saturations nés des systèmes et des pratiques, notamment numériques. Dans cette infopollution ou nous nous noyons, cette infobésité ou nous surnageons, dans ce temps de L’enfer de l’information ordinaire, comme le clame l’excellent livre éponyme de Christian Morel, “les facteurs humains, sociaux et économiques conduisant à la mauvaise qualité de l’information ordinaire ne sont pas prêts de disparaître”. Ce n’est pas pour autant qu’il ne faut pas s’y atteler.

A quand des outils de haute qualité informationnelle comme on conçoit des bâtiments de haute qualité environnementale ? Comme le disait le philosophe Félix Guattari dans Les trois écologies : “Il n’y aura de réponse véritable à la crise écologique qu’à l’échelle planétaire et à la condition que s’opère une authentique révolution politique, sociale et culturelle réorientant les objectifs de la production des biens matériels et immatériels. Cette révolution ne devra donc pas concerner uniquement les rapports de force visibles à grande échelle mais également des domaines moléculaires de sensibilité, d’intelligence et de désir.”

Sources :

GUILLAUD, Hubert. Pour une écologie informationnelle. In : Internet Actu [en ligne]
www.internetactu.net/2008/04/24/pour-une-ecologie-informationnelle/ {vérifié le 16/05/2008}

CyberCarpet

Jeudi 15 mai 2008

CyberCarpet est un dispositif réalisé dans le cadre du projet CyberWalk. L’intérêt de la recherche réside dans le couplage et l’intégration de ce dispositif dans un système de réalité virtuelle. Il permet de simuler un déplacement sur un tapis roulant omnidirectionnel, tout en demeurant au même emplacement. L’expérience prévue est justement de proposer une expérience de navigation dans une reconstitution en 3D de Pompéi, à partir du travail de Pascal Mueller – dont nous avons parlé dans ce blog – réalisé au Computer Vision Laboratory. La navigation dans les mondes virtuels, jusqu’alors principalement assurée par l’utilisation de wand ou joystick, pourrait être plus intuitive. A suivre…

Sources :

WATERS, Darren. CyberCarpet opens way to Pompei. In BBC News [en ligne] news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7346325.stm {vérifié le 15/05/2008}

“Mobile-Immobile”, journée d’étude le mercredi 14 mai 2008

Mardi 13 mai 2008

“Mobile-Immobile”, journée d’étude le mercredi 14 mai 2008

Dans le contexte du programme de recherche “Formes de la mobilité” et dans la perspective du colloque “Mobilisable” de novembre 2008 (en collaboration avec le Cycle supérieur de recherche, création et innovation de l’Ensad), l’équipe Esthétique des nouveaux médias (EdNM-EA 4010) organise une deuxième journée d’étude à l’Université Paris 8, salle A1-172, le mercredi 14 mai 2008, de 11h30 à 18h00, sur le thème “Mobile-Immobile”. Cette journée est ouverte à tous.

Liste des interventions

11h 30 : Marina Bakic, “Distances Digitales”

12h 15 : Jean-Louis Boissier, “Mobilisable”

12h 45 : Caroline Chick, “Arrêt in vivo, immobilité et fixité”

14h 30 : Dominique Cunin et Mayumi Okura, “Ubiquité dans la ville”

15h 15 : Jean-Michel Géridan, “Drifting et pseudo-déplacements”

16h 00 : Jean-Noël Lafargue, “Vous êtes ici”

16h 45 : Christophe Leclercq, “Territoire augmentée : les pratiques de mashup cartographique, entre représentations et mises en fiction du territoire”

17h 30 : Gwenola Wagon, “Des films vus du ciel”

Sources : “Mobile-Immobile”, journée d’étude le mercredi 14 mai 2008. In : Formes de mobilités, Site du programme “Formes de la mobilité” de l’équipe de recherche Esthétique des nouveaux médias, Université Paris 8 [en ligne]. http://www.arpla.univ-paris8.fr/~canal20/ednm/?p=3 {vérifié le 13/05/2008}

Interactive Architecture

Mercredi 7 mai 2008

Nous avons rajouté dans la blogolist le lien vers ce site dédié à l’architecture interactive :

Interactive Architecture was setup by myself (Ruairi Glynn) with the intention of collecting ideas from a wide range of fields on the future of how we will design or built environment. In particular it focuses on smart materials and digitally responsive technologies from nano to urban scales. I currently split my practice between production of public art installations and teaching. I am a diploma thesis tutor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a design tutor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of Arts London on the MA Textile Futures and MA Industrial Design programmes. I also have lectured, run workshops and been a visiting critic to architecture and interaction design schools including the Delft faculty of Architecture (Netherlands), the Institute of Digital Art and Technology (UK), the Interactive Institute (Sweden), the Angewandte Vienna (Austria), and the Architectural Association (UK).

Sources :

GLYNN, Ruairi. Interactive Architecture [en ligne] www.interactivearchitecture.org {vérifié le 07/05/2008]

2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality

Mardi 6 mai 2008

regard.crg.ulaval.ca
Laval University, Quebec City (Quebec), Canada
August 28-29, 2008

Aims and scope

Augmented Reality (AR) is a means of blending computer generated objects or labels with reality so that both appear to be a part of your natural environment. AR is beginning to mature as a subject field with applications moving from pure academic research into industrial and potential consumer areas. In recent years geographic data representing real world features has increasingly been used for AR applications. In addition, geospatial technologies have established many new services and
applications including navigation, decision support and modelling of the surrounding environment from which mobile AR and location-aware computing can now benefit in order to generate compelling spatiotemporal applications.

The International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality aims at bringing together researchers, developers, users and practitioners carrying out research and development in this field. The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical experiences of mobile AR, geospatial technologies and geoinformatics, and mobile games, fostering interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of these three fields, and will highlight future trends in this area.
The workshop will be organized in a way to promote networking between the participants, to initiate and favour discussions regarding cutting-edge technologies in the field, to exchange research ideas and to promote international collaboration.

Topics of interest

We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical topics of related to mobile geospatial augmented reality. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Geospatial information and geoinformatics
- 3D spatial modeling
- Geovisualization
- Geospatial Service Oriented Architectures and systems for mobile
distributed computing
- Context-aware mobility and LBS
- Geo-sensors and Sensor Web

2. Mobile augmented reality
- Acquisition of 3D scene descriptions
- Real-time and photorealistic rendering
- Vision-based registration, object overlay and spatial layout
techniques
- Display and view management
- Interaction techniques

3. Mobile games
- Location based games
- Spatial data integration and 3D game engine
- Mobile learning and mobile edutainment
- Augmented and mixed reality in mobile games
- Mobile gaming experience and gaming activities

Important dates

The workshop will be held on the 28th and 29th of August 2008. Here are the important dates for the workshop:

1. Paper abstracts due June 02, 2008
2. Full papers due June 09, 2008
3. Notification of acceptance July 01, 2008
4. Registration July 15, 2008
5. Final paper version due July 15, 2008
6. Workshop August 28-29, 2008

Instructions for authors

The proceedings are expected to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNG&C) series (see www.springer.com/series/7418). The decision is currently pending.
Authors must submit full papers in English according to the Springer formatting guidelines
(regard.crg.ulaval.ca/2008/UserFi … hors-e.pdf).

The templates (Latex or Word template) for preparing full papers can be downloaded here:

- Download the Word template
(regard.crg.ulaval.ca/2008/UserFi … 1-book.zip)
- Download the Latex template
(regard.crg.ulaval.ca/2008/UserFi … svmult.zip)

Nevertheless, full papers must be submitted in PDF file format!

The page limit for full papers is 12 pages. Manuscripts not submitted in the provided style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. A paper submitted to the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the workshop. All submissions must be original unpublished work written in English that is currently not under review elsewhere. The submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by two to three members of the international scientific committee and refereed for their quality, originality and relevance.

Submission to the workshop will be electronically only. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first (up to 500 words) in PDF file format and including authors name and affiliations. Please send the abstract by email to atelierregard AT scg.ulaval.ca with « abstract submission»  as subject.

Submissions of full papers (in PDF file format) will have to be performed through the web submission system which is available on the website of the event (regard.crg.ulaval.ca).

Program chairs

Thierry Badard, CRG, Laval University (Thierry.Badard AT scg.ulaval.ca)
Sylvie Daniel, CRG, Laval University (Sylvie.Daniel AT scg.ulaval.ca)