CVE'96: Call For Papers

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.

Contributions

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (about 2 A4 pages) to the workshop organisers (see below for relevant deadlines). All submissions should be written in English and clearly state the title, author and a contact address (e-mail and/or snail mail). Submission may be either by sending hardcopy or electronic mail, however electronic submissions are preferred. Authors may submit abstracts in one of the following formats:

• ASCII text
• HTML
• Microsoft Word

Authors whose extended abstracts are accepted are encouraged, but not required, to submit a full length paper. The organisers are currently exploring possibilities for journal pulication of a selection of papers resulting from the workshop.

Send electronic submissions (preferred) to:

Send hardcopy submissions to:

Schedule

31st May 1996

Deadline for extended abstracts

28th June 1996

Notification of acceptance / draft programme

19-20th September 1996

Workshop

Venue and Fee

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.

Programme Committee

• Steve Benford (Nottingham University, UK)
• John Bowers (Manchester University, UK)
• Lennart Fahlén (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
• Tom Rodden (Lancaster University, UK)
• Michael Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
• Gurminder Singh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• David England (GMD, Germany)
• Elizabeth Churchill (Nottingham University, UK)
• Dave Snowdon (Nottingham University, UK)
• Jolanda Tromp (Nottingham University, UK)
• Mike Daily (Hughes Research Labs, USA)