TOPICS VECIMS inherits part of the legacy of a series of meeting started in 1996 to present and discuss recent developments, results, and practical experiences in technologies for virtual and virtualized environments in support of measurement systems and applications, especially in the areas of industrial cases, like telerobotics, telemedicine, remote control, engineering design, environment sensing and monitoring, training, education, arts, and computer games. The complexity of the real world in many application cases makes difficult to figure out, invent and design innovative solutions. Complexity of real situations in which the humans are expected to be able to operate makes difficult to explain all aspects and learn the appropriate behavior by using conventional training approaches. Implementation of advanced communication systems involving several senses needs multimedia and virtual environments. In all of these cases the use of enhanced human-systems interactions and virtual/virtualized environments may greatly help to create a better perception of the world and foresee better products and behaviors. VECIMS is directed to fill this gap in knowledge and practice, especially by focusing on the quantitative aspect of measurement issues for industrial, environmental, and engineering applications. Typical topics are concerned with all aspects of technologies for virtual and virtualized environments and human-computer interactions related to measurement systems and the related applications, from the points of view of both theory and practice. This includes but is not limited to:   multimodal (visual, haptic, audio, etc) virtual environments,  sensors and displays,  perception and psychophysics,  object modeling,  model validation,  multi-sensor data fusion,  soft computing techniques,  human-computer interaction,  augmented and virtualized reality,  virtual reality languages,  APIs,  RTIs,  collaborative distributed virtual environments,  model-based telecommunications, model-based telecontrol,  calibration,  standards,  implementation technologies,  and applications. The interactive format of the conference allows for in depth discussion and confrontation among attendees. Each brief formal presentation will be followed by a longer informal plenary discussion that can be expected to address broadly the specific approaches and results presented by the authors, the rationale underlying the particular methodologies employed, the experimental and theoretical approaches, the practical difficulties, any unanswered questions, key insights and lessons learned, and the possibility of extension to other problems of interest to the participants.