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Call for Papers

Organization

The ICAT-EGVE 2024 conference will be held between December 1st and December 3rd at the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. The ICAT-EGVE is the merger of the 34th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2024) and the 29th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE 2024). Together, these are two of the oldest international conferences in the world on Artificial Reality and Virtual Environments.

Submissions

We invite the submission of Papers, Posters and Demonstrations describing novel research ideas, work in progress, recently completed work, preliminary results, or unusual systems and applications. ICAT-EGVE 2024 seeks inspiring submissions describing research, applications or systems in all areas of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Telexistence, and 3D User Interfaces, e.g., the following non-exhaustive list of more specific areas:

  • 3D interaction for VR/AR/MR
  • VR/AR/MR systems and toolkits
  • User studies and evaluation for VR/AR/MR
  • Telexistence, Telepresence, and Tele-immersion
  • Haptics, audio, and other non-visual modalities
  • Serious games and edutainment using VR/AR/MR
  • Presence, cognition, and embodiment in VR/AR/MR
  • Novel devices (both input and output) for VR/AR/MR and haptics
  • Metaverse, Multi-user and distributed VR/AR/MR, Tele-immersion and Telepresence
  • Virtual humans, Avatars, Embodied communications, and Embodiment
  • Immersive projection technologies and other advanced display technologies Submissions in other related areas are welcome, too.

Submission Guidelines

The following are the guidelines for the submission of full and short papers:

  • Full papers must not exceed eight (8) pages in length (excluding references).
  • Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages in length (excluding references).
  • Both full and short papers must be in English and should be formatted using the
  • Eurographics format. Sample LaTeX and MS Word documents for ICAT-EGVE 2024 can be found here
  • ICAT-EGVE uses a double-blind review process. Therefore, submissions should not contain information (including citations and optional videos) that unnecessarily identifies the authors or their institutions or places of work. All papers must be submitted electronically as PDF. Authors are encouraged to submit videos to aid the program committee in the review of their submissions.
  • The conference uses the EG submission tool. All submissions should be made through the online submission system. If you have any questions regarding how to modify your submission, please see this page.
  • Submissions should be original, unpublished work, and should not be in submission to other venues concurrently. Any dual submission will be rejected outright without review. Submissions to full-paper sessions not accepted as oral full-paper may be redirected to the poster sessions.
  • Note on SRM2: Before uploading the manuscript PDF file and the additional materials file, you must create the submission in SRM2. Then, when you open to edit your submission, an “Upload file” link appears in the left bar of the page.
  • [UPDATED Aug. 29] Titles and abstracts must be submitted by Aug. 31. Please also upload a current draft of the paper if possible, as reviewer assignments will be based on the submission as of Aug 31.
  • [UPDATED Aug. 29] Papers, including titles, can be revised until Sep. 5.
  • [UPDATED Aug. 29] Reviewer assignments will begin on Sep. 2, with reviews starting on Sep. 6.

Submission Guidelines: Posters and Demos

Please note that there is a separate submission portal for Posters and Demos; please see the Call for Posters / Demos.

Review and Publication

  • All accepted Papers/Posters/Demos will be published in the Eurographics Digital Library and presented interactively at the conference.
  • Papers/Posters/Demos will be selected by the responsible chairs for presentation at the conference. Upon acceptance, the camera-ready version of the submission will be included in the electronic proceedings, provided that potential comments from the reviewers are appropriately addressed.

Program Chairs

  • Shoichi Hasegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • Nobuchika Sakata (Ryukoku university, Japan)
  • Veronica Sundstedt (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Contact Details: chairs-icategve2024@eg.org.

Important Dates (All times: AoE)

  • Title and Abstract Deadline (please also submit a draft of the paper if possible): August 16, 2024 August 31, 2024 (EXTENDED)
  • Full Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024 September 5, 2024 (EXTENDED)
  • Author Notification: October 19, 2024
  • Camera Ready Deadline: October 28, 2024 (TBC)
  • Conference: December 1-3, 2024