CVE'96: Final Programme

CVE'96 promises to be an interesting workshop with presentations on a wide variety of topics related to Collaborative Virtual Environments. The current session topics are: applications, user interfaces, implementation issues, metaphors, design and experiences.

The workshop is set to be an international event with speakers from 10 countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK & USA).

Thursday 19th September

9-11am	Registration & Coffee

11am	Welcome

11:15am	Introduction to Collaborative Virtual Environments Steve Benford (University of Nottingham, UK)

11:30am	Session 1 - Applications 1
	Using Usage Data in Collaborative Information Environments Matthew Chalmers (UBILAB, Switzerland)
	A Collaborative Environment for Role-Playing in Object Space Chris Hand & Mark Skipper (De Montfort University, UK)
	Discussion

1pm	Lunch

2pm	Session 2 - Applications 2
	Virtual Administration: Providing a DIVE VR interface to POLITeam David England, Wolfgang Prinz, (GMD, Germany) Kristian Simarian & Olov Stahl (SICS, Sweden)
	A Shared Virtual Environment for Architectural Design Review Jon Mandeville, Jim Davidson, Dace Campbell, Austin Dahl, Paul Schwartz & Tom Furness (HIT lab, USA)
	Discussion

3:30pm	Tea & coffee

4pm	Session 3 - user interfaces
	Shared Space: An Augmented Reality Interface for Computer Supported Collaborative Work. Mark Billinghurst, S. Weghorst & T. Furness (HIT lab, USA)
	"Studierstube" - An Environment for Collaboration in Augmented Reality Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, Zsolt Szalavari & Michael Gervautz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
	A Conversational Agent to Help Navigation and Collaboration in Virtual Worlds Olivier Bersot, Pierre-Olivier El Guedj, Christophe God Reaux & Pierre Nugues (ISMRA & University of Caen, France)
	Discussion

6pm	End of day one

Meal & social.

Friday 20th September

9am	Session 4 - Implementation issues
	Extending VRML to Support Collaborative Virtual Environments Wolfgang Broll (GMD, Germnay)
	A Concurrency Control Model for the Real-time Interactive Shared Virtual Environment UnJae Sung & K. Wohn (KAIST, Korea)
	Supporting Awareness in Shared Workspaces using Relevance-dependent Event Notifications Uwe Rauschenbach (University of Rostock, Germany)
	Discussion

11am	Tea & coffee

11:30am	Session 5 - Metaphors
	Drama as a Metaphor for Design of Situated, Collaborative Distributed Learning Annita Fjuk & Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen (Norway)
	Interacting with people and objects in Virtual Environments Metaphors for User Centered Design Mirco Bolzoni, Giuseppe Riva & Luca Melis (University of Padova, Italy)
	Discussion

1pm	Lunch

2:30pm	Session 6 - Design
	Interactive Collaborative Media Environments J.Bowskill & D.Traill (BT, UK)
	Collaborative Interactive Design in Virtual Environments Tomas Axling (SICS, Sweden)
	Discussion

4pm	Tea & coffee

4:30pm	Session 7 - Experiences
	An Organisational perspective on Collaborative Virtual Environments Helen Walker (University of Bath, UK)
	Technology for Collaborative Virtual Environments Michael Rygol, Stephen Ghee, Jon Naughton-Green and John Harvey (Division, UK)
	Concluding Discussion

6pm	Workshop ends

Posters

In addition to the presentations, the following posters will be on display throughout the workshop:

"Effects of Virtual Presence in Collaborative Environments: Social and Cognitive Aspects of Video-Mediated Interaction"
Mirco Bolzoni (University of Padova, Italy) and Revital Marom (Theseus, France)
"A Language of Design for a Virtual Community"
Anna Cicognani (University of Sydney, Australia)
"Finding People in the Virtual World"
Alistair Duke (BT, UK)
"A visual MUD system on the WWW: Computer supported co-operative learning for part-time students on theoretical social science or humanities modules"
Graham Gibbs (University of Huddersfield, UK)
"Making People Persistent in Collaborative Virtual Environments"
Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham, UK)
"VR User Health and Safety - Implications for Virtual Reality Developers"
Sarah Nichols (University of Nottingham, UK)
"Psychological Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality on Body Representations"
Giuseppe Riva, Mirco Bolzoni and Luca Melis
"A Single-user Perception Filter for Multi-user Collaborative Virtual Environments"
Paul M. Sharkey, Paul D. Sandoz, David J. Roberts and Robert Cruse (University of Reading, UK)

CVE'96: Final Programme

Contents

Thursday 19th September

Friday 20th September

Posters