Our work on 'social interaction' centres on ethnomethodologically-inspired research methods. Over the past few years, we have worked closely with the Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group at Kings College London. Further ethnographic researchers with an ethnomethodological orientation will soon be arriving at Nottingham with the Equator IRC and various Disappearing Computer projects. This means that our work in these areas will expand into new areas of analysis in mixed reality systems and new applications, in particular for domestic environments.

References from our first project of this kind are provided below. This project is decribed on the WIT group pages here. In terms of virtual and mixed reality work, this project drew most attention with its 'Furniture World' analyses, providing design and methodological issues for 'object-focused' interaction in CVEs.

References

Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C., Benford, S. and Greenhalgh, C., Object-Focused Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments, in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM ToCHI), 7 (4), December 2000, ACM Press

Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C. and Benford, S., Virtually Missing the Point: Configuring CVEs for Object-Focused Interaction, to appear in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Springer-Verlag (CSCW series)

Fraser, M., Glover, T., Vaghi, I., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Hindmarsh, J. and Heath, C., Revealing the Reality of Collaborative Virtual Reality, in Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE 2000), San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2000, pp. 29-37, ACM Press

Fraser, M., Benford, S., Hindmarsh, J. and Heath, C., Supporting Awareness and Interaction through Collaborative Virtual Interfaces, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'99), CHI Letters 1 (1), Asheville, NC, USA, November 1999, pp. 27-36, ACM Press

Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C., Benford, S. and Greenhalgh, C. Fragmented Interaction: Establishing Mutual Orientation in Virtual Environments, in Proc. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'98), Seattle WA USA, ACM Press

Links

The following are links to related pages:

People

• Mike Fraser

Projects

• Disappearing Computer
  • SHAPE
  • MIME
  • ACCORD
• Equator
• ESRC "Social Interaction in co-present and virtual environments" (with King's College London)

Publications

• Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C., Benford, S. and Greenhalgh, C., Object-Focused Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments, in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM ToCHI), 7 (4), December 2000, ACM Press
• Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C. and Benford, S., Virtually Missing the Point: Configuring CVEs for Object-Focused Interaction, to appear in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Springer-Verlag (CSCW series)
• Fraser, M., Glover, T., Vaghi, I., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Hindmarsh, J. and Heath, C., Revealing the Reality of Collaborative Virtual Reality, in Proceedings of the Third ACM Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE 2000), San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2000, pp. 29-37, ACM Press
• Fraser, M., Benford, S., Hindmarsh, J. and Heath, C., Supporting Awareness and Interaction through Collaborative Virtual Interfaces, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'99), CHI Letters 1 (1), Asheville, NC, USA, November 1999, pp. 27-36, ACM Press
• Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C., Benford, S. and Greenhalgh, C. Fragmented Interaction: Establishing Mutual Orientation in Virtual Environments, Proc. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'98), Seattle WA USA, ACM Press

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URL:

http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/research/technologies/social

Author:

Mike Fraser mcf@cs.nott.ac.uk - Department of Computer Science

Created:

19th March 1998

Last-modified:

21st May 1998