Haptics-e Update:

It took a little longer than I expected, but you should have just
received for approval the slate of Governing Board Candidates.  Thanks
to those of you who have already voted! For the rest of you, please
take the time to send me your vote and your interest in the Editorial
Board.  This will let us move on from foundations to framing of the 
journal!

First I'm happy to announce that three task groups have been
established with able leaders:

Professional Society Relationships
  Chair:  John Hollerbach (jmh@cs.utah.edu)

Outreach* to "Bio" haptics community
  Chair:  Rob Howe (howe@arcadia.harvard.edu)

Governance Structure
  Chair: Susan Lederman (lederman@psyc.queensu.ca)

Document Technical Standards
  Chair: Walt Aviles [Tentative] (aviles@sensable.com)


* Note the haptic metaphor 
	(http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/CR/Haptics-e/HapticsLang.html)

These excellent volunteers are already hard at work! and I'm working
with them on schedules and plans.  We still need people to 

  1) Help with the above efforts (contact the chairs)

  2) Help to chair or volunteer in others:

	+ Intellectual Property (IP) policy
		(Needed before we can put anything out on the www).

	+ Dissemination, publicity, and indexing


What's Next:

I'm hoping we can have a call for papers out to the world by the ASME
haptics symposium in Dallas (Nov 17-18).  If the call is publicized at
ASME, and is successful, then a few paper should come in within a few
weeks. To be ready we need a schedule something like the following:

Nov. 1		Call for papers ready for Governing Board
		approval cycle.

Nov. 17,18	Approved Call for Papers is announced at ASME 
		meeting in Dallas.

Dec. 1st	Draft IP Policy is presented to Governing Board.

Dec. 15th	Approved IP Policy is in place and we can 
		publish the first paper when reviews/revisions
		are complete.

I'm still seeking a chair for the IP task.  An excellent resource for
this task is going to be university librarians. I've talked with some
already who are closely tracking the field of emerging electronic
journals and are willing to help.

I want to make the definition and operation of Haptics-e more
interactive.  The Document Tech group will look into ways to provide an
interactive www based discussion site so that all can participate.  In
the meantime, if you have an idea or concern that you would like to
broadcast to the whole list, just send it to me and I will post it.


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Expected start of publication: January 1, 1998
http://rcs.ee.washington.edu/CR/Haptics-e (Journal Construction Site!)
(future:  http://www.Haptics-e.net)
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