siggraph conference on understanding images nyc acm siggraph understanding images subject pace university siggraph conference on understanding images the purpose of this conference is to bring together a breadth of disciplines including the physical biological and computational sciences technology art psychology philosophy and education in order to define and discuss the issues essential to image understanding within the computer graphics context featured topics include psychology perception image analysis design text sound philosophy date friday saturday may time am pm place the pace downtown theater one pace plaza on spruce street between park row gold street ny ny fees pre registration prior to may members non members students proof of f t status required registration after may or on site all attendees registration fee includes brakfast breaks lunch send registration information fees to dr francis t marchese computer science department nyc acm siggraph conference pace university pace plaza room t new york ny voice fax email marchesf pacevm bitnet registration information name title company street address city state zip day phone evening phone fax phone email detailed description artists designers scientists engineers and educators share the problem of moving information from one mind to another traditionally they have used pictures words demonstrations music and dance to communicate imagery however expressing complex notions such as god and infinity or a seemingly well defined concept such as a flower can present challenges which far exceed their technical skills the explosive use of computers as visualization and expression tools has compounded this problem in hypermedia multimedia and virtual reality systems vast amounts of information confront the observer or participant wading through a multitude of simultaneous images and sounds in possibly unfamiliar representions a confounded user asks what does it all mean since image construction transmission reception decipherment and ultimate understanding are complex tasks strongly influenced by physiology education and culture and since electronic media radically amplify each processing step then we as electronic communicators must determine the fundamental paradigms for composing imagery for understanding therefore the purpose of this conference is to bring together a breadth of disciplines including but not limited to the physical biological and computational sciences technology art psychology philosophy and education in order to define and discuss the issues essential to image understanding within the computer graphics context featured speakers include psychology perception marc de may university of ghent beverly j jones university of oregon barbara tversky standfor university michael j shiffer mit tom hubbard ohio state university image analysis a ravishankar rao ibm watson research center nalini bhusan smith college xiaopin hu university of illinois narenda ahuja university of illinois les m sztander university of toledo design mark bajuk university of illinois alyce kaprow mit text xia lin pace university john loustau hunter college jong ding wang hunter college judson rosebush judson rosebush co sound matthew witten university of texas robert wyatt center for high performance computing robert s williams pace university rory stuart nynex philosophy michael heim education foundation of dpma
