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About
The
Virtual Reality Forum is an annual conference on Modeling and
Simulation in Medicine. It is arranged by MSHS, which is a special
interest group within the Modeling
and Simulation Society in Sweden (MoSiS).
Participants
at VRforum are typically researchers and students from all over
Sweden, international researchers, representatives from governmental
institutions and the simulation industry.
VRforum
2001 was arranged in Göteborg and attracted more than 80
participants.
VRforum
2002 takes place in Umeå, Sweden on October 9-10.
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VRforum live
Most
seminars and the demo session are broadcasted live on the Internet
from our streaming server:
http://real.lh.umu.se:7080/ramgen/encoder/vrforum.rm
You
need Real Player for this to work!
Support
and downloads.
Additional
information.
After
the closing of the conference, the seminars will be
made available here.
The
Center for Educational Technology and Jan
BM Karlsson are acknowledged for making this possible.
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Program
Key
note speaker:
Dr.
Anthony G Gallagher, Northern Ireland Centre for Endoscopic Training
and Research and School of
Psychology, Queen’s University of Belfast.
http://www.psych.qub.ac.uk
Conference
program - english version (pdf)
Conference
program - swedish version (pdf)
Abstracts
(pdf)
Poster
presentation (pdf)
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Registration
Registration
is closed.
If
you are prevented from attending you must inform us
about this no later than October 3. Otherwise you will be charged
a conference fee of 500 SEK.
For
contributions to the conference and the exhibition, and for sponsorship
issues, please contact Kenneth Holmlund or
Lotta Eriksson.
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Practical
information
- Time:
Oct 9th 13.00-17.00 + dinner at 19.00, Oct 10th 09.00-12.30
- Location:
MA-121 (seminars), MA-112 (exhibition), MIT-building, Umeå
university, Campus, Umeå
- Registration:
Obligatory, no later than Sept. 27
- Conference
fee : None
- Travelling
and accomodation: Handled individually by the participants.
Some hotels will give a discount if you inform that you will
participate a conference at Umeå university.
Further
information is available here (.pdf in
swedish)
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Organizers
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Local Contacts
For
further information please contact:
Lotta
Eriksson, Project Coordinator, Center for Educational Technology/Skill
Aquisition Lab
Umeå University.
lotta.eriksson@cut.umu.se
Phone: 090-786 7552, Cell: 070-540 7552
Kenneth
Holmlund, Director VRlab/HPC2N
Umeå University.
holmlund@hpc2n.umu.se
Phone: 090-786 9655, Cell: 070-631 5520
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