RAS Publication Activities Bill Hamel Vice President RAS AdCom Meeting ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain April 23, 2005

Outline Status of current publications RAM TASE TRO Evolving IEEE publications strategy Status of proposed TVAR Status of TMech

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Outline Status of current publications RAM TASE TRO Evolving IEEE publications strategy Status of proposed TVAR Status of TMech

Goal For 2010: For IEEE to be the First Stop for Technology Information Be the premier source for technical information to all technology practitioners (in IEEE fields of interests). Be a leader in creating and organizing a variety of technical content and disseminating it to users in a personalized, seamless, coherent, and integrated fashion. Content creation mechanisms would include conferences, publications, tutorials, informal messages (blogs), virtual communities, etc.

A New 6-Point Strategy New Strategy Current Strategy Research oriented EE and CS Centric Both theory & applied All aspects of technology 1. Content Peer Reviewed, Professional Process Peer review + new ways to evaluate and process 2. Process Services as way to deliver IEEE Content Enhanced, personalized services to find, manage info 3. Services Package content with services together Sell services separate from content 4. Sales Institutional library focus Focus on End-user & Member 5.Customers Do it by ourselves Work with others 6. Partners

VR/Haptics Publication Initiative – Status Advocates Professor Greg Burdea, Rutgers Professor Susumi Tachi, The University of Tokyo Potential Sponsors Computer Society–TVCG Working Group (visualization, immersion) RAS (haptics, visualization)

TVAR Scope Interdisciplinary Theory aspects, hardware design, modeling, real-time programming, human factors issues and practical applications Virtual and augmented reality; haptics

Planned Action/Status Planned Action – Sendai: Pursue the creation of the new journal. VP PA will promote 50/50 co-sponsorship with CS; continue development of formal IEEE TAB proposal. Preliminary special magazine issues will be published to provide data. TAB/CAB will be encouraged to add VR/haptics tracks in upcoming conferences. If successful…submit to AdCom for approval in the future. Status: Burdea guest editing special issue of TVCG on AR+haptics; did not involve RAS members; 80 papers submitted. Initial IEEE proposal completed. Burdea encountered difficulties with principals within TVCG. VP PA for Computer Society: Reduced interest Not generally supporting joint publications Future of the initiative is uncertain.

Status of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Dick Volz