Department of Computer Science
The University of Nottingham
The department has a fully funded studentship in the area
of collaborative virtual environments. The topic of the
studentship is to be "Object Centred Interaction" - exploring the
ways in which shared objects in a virtual world can provide a focus
for managing collaboration between people and how this might lead to new
techniques for managing interaction and quality of service in
distributed multi-user virtual reality systems.
The PhD will be jointly supervised by Dr Steven Benford of Computer
Science and Professor Christian Heath of Social Studies. Nottingham
is well known for its research into many aspects of virtual reality and
collaboration technologies.In particular, our work on
collaborative virtual environments has been published
widely in major VR, CSCW and HCI journals and conferences and we
are involved in several major European and UK projects in this area.
Nottingham is one of the UK's main research led universities and offers
excellent facilities for conducting this work including access to
a network of SGI Onyx, Impact and Indy machines and also a newly
established Reality Centre. There will also be good opportunities for
travel and industrial contact.
Candidates must have a 2.i degree or better in a relavant subject or
an MSc. If interested please email a statement of your interest and a
text version of your CV to
Steve Benford ( sdb@cs.nott.ac.uk )
by 1st September 1996.
More background information can be found on:
http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/