Communications Research Group

Welcome! to the Communications Research Group's WWW site.

The group was formed in 1986 with the goal of:

investigating support for human communications through computer communications

The group conducts research into social computing environments: the use of computer and communications technologies including virtual reality, distributed systems and multimedia to support human communications and especially the work of physically distributed groups. Our current major focus is on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs).

The group consist of sixteen researchers led by Professor Steve Benford, and Dr Chris Greenhalgh. We are funded from a variety of sources including The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), The European Commission and directly by industry (e.g. British Telecom and British Gas). Total funding for our research has been in excess of 2 million Pounds in the past four years.

This WWW site is divided into a number of sections, to which there are links below. More detail on navigating this site is available.

Research

Information on the various projects and systems under development within the CRG, as well as more theoretical research. Also included are lisitings of the group's publications

People

The home pages of the researchers within the CRG.

Events

Information on events that have been organised by members of the CRG: workshops, conferences and special events.

Groups

Home pages for special interest groups that are organised by members of the CRG.

Resources

Information about the resources that are available within the CRG, mainly of interest to members of the group.

Mixed Reality Laboratory

CRG are closely involved in interdisciplinary research with other Nottingham research groups and wider collaborations. This aspect of our work is discussed under the Mixed Reality Lab pages

email: crg@cs.nott.ac.uk

tel: +44 (0) 115 951 4203

fax: +44 (0) 115 951 4254