Collaborative Virtual Environments 1996 (CVE'96)

Aims and Scope

A Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is one that actively supports human-human communication in addition to human-machine communication and which uses a Virtual Environment (including textually based environments such as MUDs/MOOs) as the user interface. This is an exciting field with much potential for inter-disciplinary collaboration particularly in the fields of computer science, psychology, sociology, architecture & urban planning, cultural & media studies and Artificial Intelligence.

The aim of this workshop is to present the current state of the art in Collaborative Virtual Environments and foster inter-disciplinary links between researchers in this field.

The main topics of the workshop include:

• techniques for supporting communication and collaboration in virtual environments.
• metaphors for collaboration
• experiences and evaluation of collaborative environments and applications.
• systems architectures for collaborative environments.
• applications of Collaborative Virtual Environments
• collaborative DIS and VRML applications
• studies of social action and interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments
• user centred development of Collaborative Virtual Environments

Demonstrations of systems and applications are also welcome.

Timetable

31st May 1996

Deadline for extended abstracts

28th June 1996

Notification of acceptance

18th July 1996

Provisional Programme

30th August 1996

Deadline for receipt of revised submissions.

6th September 1996

Deadline for registration

19-20th September 1996

Conference

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Department of Psychology on the University of Nottingham campus.

Attendance fees will cover the meeting facilities, coffee breaks, accomodation for one night, evening meal and the workshop proceedings. The fee will be 85 UK pounds sterling.

Links

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