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- From: VFOAO073@VAX.CSUN.EDU (Harry Murphy (VAXMAILID))
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- Subject: CONF: VR and Disabilities, San Francisco, June 17-18, 1993
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- Date: 25 Dec 92 15:40:22 GMT
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- Advisory Board Meets
- for June 17-18, 1993
- Conference on
- "Virtual Reality and Disability"
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- (California State University, Northridge (CSUN). December 15, 1992).
- On December 11, twenty-five (25) leaders came together from the fields
- of virtual reality and rehabilitation and assistive technology to plan
- the June 17-18, 1993 meeting, "Virtual Reality and Disability," to be
- held at the Westin Hotel near the San Francisco Airport.
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- Greenleaf Medical Systems, CyberEdge Journal, Pacific Bell, and the
- California Department of Rehabilitation agreed to co-sponsor the
- conference. Dr. Walter Greenleaf has agreed to Chair the Advisory
- Board.
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- A Call for Papers has been issued. Papers are solicited which deal
- with applications in the field of disability, access issues, and the
- potential of VR to assist persons with disabilities.
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- The purpose of the meeting is to bring together three groups: the
- Virtual Reality community, the disability community, and the
- rehabilitation/assistive technology community in order to stimulate
- new applications of VR, insure that persons with disabilities have
- access to VR technologies, and the integrate VR into the
- rehabilitation/assistive technology field.
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- For a "Call for Papers" brochure, or other information, please
- contact:
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- Dr. Harry Murphy
- California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
- 18111 Nordhoff Street - DVSS
- Northridge, CA 91330
- Phone: 818 885 2578
- FAX: 818 885 4929
- EMAIL: VR@VAX.CSUN.EDU
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