Call for Papers / Posters / Workshops

12th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL REHABILITATION
Montreal, Canada, June 19-22, 2017
http://www.virtual-rehab.org

Submission deadline extended to January 20

ICVR is an international conference series that provides an in-depth presentation of novel technologies and clinical developments in the field of virtual reality and associated topics applied to rehabilitation. We invite submissions for papers, posters, demonstrations and workshops related to:

• Motor and/or cognitive rehab
• Sensory Rehab
• Gaming and low cost systems
• Haptic interfaces
• Tele-rehabilitation
• Knowledge translation
• Brain computer interfaces
• Vestibular and balance rehab
• Rehabilitation robotics
• Virtual / Mixed / Augmented reality
• Psychological and environmental rehab
• Communication / Language
• Regulatory, educational, sociological, demographic, legal aspects of VR

TIMELINES

Paper, Poster and Workshop submission deadline: January 20, 2017
Notification of the review decision: March 17, 2017
Final camera-ready paper due and deadline for registration of at least one author: April 14, 2017

PUBLICATIONS

Proceedings will be made available to conference attendees. Papers and posters will become part of the IEEE Online Library, carrying the IEEE © notice, provided that at least one author has registered for the conference by April 14, 2017. We aim to organize one or more special issues in relevant journal(s).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

TIIU POLDMA is full professor at the School of Design in the Faculty of Environmental Design at the Université de Montréal. Dr. Poldma’s research expertise lies in the creation of spaces in flexible and temporal environments using light, color and design elements through changing human user experiences of interior space, and adapting the environment for various populations.

MEL SLATER is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona in the Faculty of Psychology. He has been Professor of Virtual Environments at University College London since 1997 in the Department of Computer Science. He has been involved in research in virtual reality since the early 1990s. He has contributed to the scientific study of virtual reality and to technical development of this field. He has also contributed to the use of virtual reality in other fields, notably psychology (in relation to clinical psychology – studies of paranoia – and also social psychology) and the cognitive neuroscience of how the brain represents the body.

JUDITH E. DEUTSCH is a professor of physical therapy in the Department of Rehabilitation & Movement Sciences at Rutgers University. She is also the director of the Research in Virtual Environments and Rehabilitation Sciences Lab. Her research has focused on the development and testing of virtual reality technologies to improve mobility, balance and fitness of individuals with neurologic conditions. More recently she has worked on knowledge translation related to adoption of video games in clinical practice.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information and complete instructions:
http://www.virtual-rehab.org

For questions on the call for papers, scientific program: icvr2017pc@gmail.com.
For general inquiries on the conference: icvr2017montreal@gmail.com.
For questions on the workshops: icvr2017workshops@gmail.com.