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

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

3. Bravo! 10 years of service as the editor in chief
High quality and interesting articles are the norm.
RAM #4 robotics publication!

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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)

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

9. 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.

10. Status of the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Dick Volz