Papers are being solicited on all aspects of multimodal haptic audio visual virtual environment technologies and related haptic applications, including:

• Haptic sensors and renderer

• Hapto-audio-visual systems and applications

• Hapto-surgical/medical systems

• Haptic compression and prediction

• Multimodal perception and psychophysics

• Haptic game interfaces

• Tele-haptics and tele-operation

• Augmented and virtualized reality

• Collaborative virtual environments

• Human-computer interaction in virtual environments

• Multi-sensor data fusion

• Object modeling

• Soft computing techniques