Publications for Steve Benford

Refereed Journal Papers

Greenhalgh, C. M. and Benford, S. D., Supporting Rich And Dynamic Communication In Large Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press (accepted for publication - to appear in 1998).

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N., Brown, C. C., Reynard, G., T., and Ingram, R. J., Visualising and Populating the Web: Collaborative Virtual Environments for Browsing, Searching and Inhabiting Webspace, To appear in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, (Elsevier). First appeared in Proc. JENC'8 (8th Joint European Networking Conference), Edinburgh, UK, May 12-15th, 1997.

Lee, O. and Benford, S. D., An Explorative Approach to Federated Trading, Computer Communications, Butterworth-Heinmann, (in press - to appear in 1997).

Greenhalgh, C. M., Bullock, A. N., Tromp, J. G. and Benford, S. D., Evaluating the Network and Usability Characteristics of Virtual Reality Conferencing, The British Telecom Technology Journal (BTTJ), Special Issue on Shared Spaces, 15 (4), October 1997.

Ingram, R. J. and Benford, S. D., The Application of Legibility Techniques to Enhance 3-D Information Visualisations, The Computer Journal, 39 (10), pp 819-836, 1996, Oxford University Press.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M., Fahlén, L. E., Greenhalgh, C. M., Snowdon, D. N., Embodiments, Avatars, Clones and Agents for Multi-user, Multi-sensory Virtual Worlds, Multimedia Systems, Springer-Verlag, , 5 (2), pp. 93-104, 1997.

Snowdon, D. N., Greenhalgh, C. M., Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N. and Brown, C. C., A Review of Distributed Architectures for Networked Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Application, 2, (1), pp 155-175, 1996, Virtual Press.

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D N., Greenhalgh, C M., Ingram, R J., Knox, I. and Brown, C C., VR-VIBE: A Virtual Environment for Co-operative Information Retrieval, Computer Graphics Forum, 14, (3), pp. 349-360, 1995, NCC Blackwell.

Greenhalgh, C. M., and Benford, S. D., MASSIVE: A Virtual Reality System for Tele-conferencing, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ACM TOCHI), 2 (3), pp. 239-261, ISSN 1073-0516, ACM Press, September 1995.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J., Fahlén, L. E., Greenhalgh, C. M., Mariani, J. and Rodden, T. R., Networked Virtual Reality and Co-operative Work, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 4, (4), pp 364-386, MIT Press, ISSN1054-7460, Fall 1995.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M., Fahlén, L. E., Mariani, J. and Rodden, T. R., Supporting Co-operative Work in Virtual Environments, The Computer Journal, 37 (8), Oxford University Press, 1994.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H. and Zin, A. M., Ceilidh as a Course Management Support System, The Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 22 (3), pp. 235-250, Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1994.

Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N., Cook, N. L., Harvey, P., Ingram, R. J. and Lee, O., From Rooms to Cyberspace: Models of Interaction in Large Virtual Computer Spaces, Interacting With Computers, 5 (2), pp 217-237, Butterworth-Heinmann, 1993.

Benford, S. D. and Lee, O., Collaborative Naming in Distributed Systems, the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, 1 (2), BCS/IEE/IOP publishing, 1993.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K. and Foxley, E., Learning to Construct Quality Software with the Ceilidh System, Software Quality Journal, 2, 177-197, Chapman & Hall, 1993.

Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N., Howidy, H., Shepherd, A. and Smith, H., GRACE: A System to Support the Development of Global Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Applications , Internet Research, Electronic Networking, Applications and Policy, 3 (1), Spring 1993, Meckler Media Publishers, ISSN 1066-2243.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H. and Zin, A. M., Early experiences of computer-aided assessment and administration when teaching computer programming, Association for Learning Technology Journal (ALT-J), 1 (2), 1993, pp. 55-70, University of Wales Press.

Benford, S. D., Turoff, M. and Palme, J., An ISO Standard to Support Asynchronous Group Communication, Computer Standards and Interfaces, 14, pp363-373, North-Holland, 1992.

Benford, S. D., Smith, H. T., Shepherd, A., Bullock, A. N. and Howidy, H, An Information Sharing Approach to CSCW: The Grace Project, in the International Journal of Computer Communications, 15 (8), October 1992 pp502-508, Butterworth-Heinmann.

Benford, S. D. and Palme, J., A Standard for OSI Group Communication, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 25, pp933-946, North-Holland, 1992.

Benford, S. D., Building Group Communication on OSI, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 23, North-Holland, 1991.

Professional journals

Benford, S. D. and Greenhalgh, C. M., Collaborative Virtual Environments on the Internet, Connexions: The Interoperability Report, 9 (10), October 1995, pp 18-24, Interop Inc. Publishing.

Benford, S. D., Emote, Luvvie, Emote, Wired, Europe 1.03, pp 20, June 1995.

Benford, S. D., Components of OSI: Group Communication, Connexions: The Interoperability Report, 4 (9), Interop Inc. Publishing, September 1990.

Benford, S. D., Components of OSI: The OSI Directory Service, Connexions: The Interoperability Report, 3 (5), Interop Inc. Publishing, June 1989 (Reprinted in The Users' Directory of Computer Networks, Tracy LaQuey, Digital Press, 1990).

Edited books and book chapters

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N. and Mariani, J., Populated Information Terrains: First Steps, in Virtual Reality Applications (edited by Earnshaw, Vince and Jones), pp. 27-40, Academic Press, 1995.

Ingram, R. and Benford, S., Improving the Legibility of Virtual Environments, in Virtual Environments'95 (Selected Papers from The Eurographics Workshops in Barcelona, 1993 and Monaco, 1995), (edited by M Goebel), pp 211-223, Springer, ISBN 3-211-82737-4.

Smith, H. T., Benford, S. D. and Onions, J., Distributed Systems: The Amigo Information Handling Model, Ellis-Horwood, 1989, ISBN 0-7458-0741-0.

Bowers, J. M. and Benford, S. D., Studies in Computer SupportedCooperative Work: Theory Practice and Design, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1991.

Refereed Conference Papers (reviewed by full paper)

Reynard, G., Benford, S., and Greenhalgh, C., Awareness Driven Video Quality of Service in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’98, Los Angeles, March 1998, ACM Press (in press).

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N., Colebourne, A., O’Brien, J. and Rodden, T., Informing the Design of Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. ACM SIGGROUP International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP’97), November, 16-19, 1997, Pheonix, Arizona, ACM Press (in press).

Bullock, A. N. and Benford, S. D., Access Control for Virtual Environments, Proc. ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1997 (VRST’97), Lausanne, September 1997, ACM Press (in press).

Benford, S. D., Greenhalgh, C. M., Snowdon, D. N. and Bullock, A. N, Staging a Public Poetry Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment, Proc. Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'97), pp 125-140, Lancaster, UK, September, 1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers. [70%]

Benford, S. D. and Greenhalgh, C. M., Introducing Third Party Objects into the Spatial Model of Interaction, Proc. Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'97), pp 189-204, Lancaster, UK, September, 1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers. [50%]

Benford, S. D. and Greenhalgh, C. M., A Multicast Architecture for Large-Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques - ECMAST'97 (Second European Conference), Milano, Italy, May 1997, pp. 113-128, Published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1242, Springer.

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N., Brown, C. C., Reynard, G. T., and Ingram, R. J., The Populated Web: Browsing, Searching and Inhabiting The WWW Using Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. 6th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT'97), Sydney, Australia, 14-18 July, 1997

Benford, S. D., Greenhalgh, C. M. and Lloyd, D, Crowded Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. 1997 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'97), pp. 59-66, Atlanta, Georgia, US, March 22-27, 1997 (in press).

Benford, S. D., Brown, C. C., Reynard, G. T. and Greenhalgh, C. M, Shared Spaces: Transportation, Artificiality and Spatiality, Proc. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'96), Boston, pp. 77-86, ACM Press, Von 16-20, 1996.

Ingram, R. J., Benford, S. D. and Bowers, J. M., Building Virtual Cities: Applying Urban Planning principles to the Design of Virtual Environments, Proc ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'96), Hong Kong, July 1-4 1996, pp. 83-91, ACM Press.

Benford, S D. and Greenhalgh, C M., A Spatial Approach to Speech and Gestural Control in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. Combined International Conference on Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence '95 and ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology' 95 (ICAT/VRST'95), Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, November 1995.

Ingram, R J. and Benford, S D., Improving the Legibility of Information Visualiations, Proc. IEEE Conference on Vizualisation (IEEE VIZ'95), Atlanta, US, November, 1995.

Snowdon, D. N., Greenhalgh, C. M. and Benford, S. D., What You See is Not What I See: Subjectivity in Virtual Environments, Proc. Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments - FIVE'95, London, 18-19 December, 1995.

Lee, O. and Benford, S. D., An Explorative Model for Federated Trading in Distributed Computing Environments, Proc. IFIP International Conference on Open. Distributed Processing (ICODP'95), Brisbane, Australia, 20-24 February, 1995.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M., Fahlén, L. E., Greenhalgh, C. M. and Snowdon, D. N., User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. 1995 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'95), May 7-11, Denver, Colorado, USA, ACM Press.

Greenhalgh, C. M. and Benford, S. D., MASSIVE: a Distributed Virtual Reality System Incorporating Spatial Trading, Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'95), Vancouver, Canada, May 30-June 2, 1995, IEEE Computer Society, pp 27-34.

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N, Greenhalgh, C. M., Ingram, R. J., Knox, I. and Brown, C. C., VR-VIBE: A Virtual Environment for Co-operative Information Retrieval, Proc. Eurographics '95, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September, 1995, North-Holland.

Greenhalgh, C. M. and Benford, S. D., Virtual Reality Tele-conferencing: Implementation and Experience, Proc. Fourth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'95), Stockholm, September, 1995, North-Holland.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E. F. and Higgins, C., The Ceilidh System for the Automatic Grading of Students on Programming Courses, Proc. 33rd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, South Carolina, March, 1995, ACM Press.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M., Fahlén, L. E., Greenhalgh, C. M. and Snowdon, D. N., A Workout for Virtual Body Builders: Design Issues for User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments, In Proc. ISMCR '94: Topical Workshop on Virtual Reality, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas, USA, December, 1994, NASA Conference Publication 10163.

Benford, S. D. and Lee, O., A Naming Model for Distributed Group Communication, Proc. IFIP 6.5 Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Applications and Architectures (ULPAA'94), Barcelona, Spain, 1-3 June 1994, Elsevier Science Publishers.

Benford, S. D. and Fahlén, L. E., Viewpoints, Actionpoints and Spatial Frames for Collaborative User Interfaces, Proc. HCI'94, Glasgow, August 1994.

Benford, S. D., Fahlén, L. E. and Bowers, J. M., Managing Mutual Awareness in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST'94), August 23-26th 1994, Singapore, ACM Press.

Benford, S. D., Fahlén, L. E. and Bowers, J. M, Supporting Social Communication Skills in Multi-Actor Artifical Realities, Proc. Fourth International Conference on Artifical Reality and Tele-Existence (ICAT'94), Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) and the Japan Technology Transfer Association (JTTAS), Tokyo, Japan, July 1994.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H and Gibbon, C. A., Observations on the Impact of the Ceilidh System on the Teaching of Computer Programming, Proc. 2nd All Ireland Conference on the Teaching of Computing, Dublin, September, 1994, Computers in Teaching Initiative.

Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N., Cook, N. L, Harvey, P. W., Ingram, R. J. and Lee, O., A Spatial Model of Cooperation for Virtual Worlds, in Proc. Informatique '93 - Interfaces to Real and Virtual Worlds, Montpelier, France, March, 1993.

Benford, S. D., Prinz, W., Mariani, J., Rodden, T. R., Navarro, L., Bignoli, E., Brown, C. G. and Naslund, T., MOCCA - A Distributed Environment for Collaboration, Proc. Telepresence'93, Lille, France, March, 1993.

Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N., Cook, N. L, Harvey, P. W., Ingram, R. J. and Lee, O., A Model of Conversation Management in Virtual Rooms, Proc. Telepresence'93, Lille, France, March, 1993.

Benford, S. D. and Fahlén, L. E., Awareness, Focus, Nimbus and Aura - A Spatial Model of Interaction in Virtual Worlds, Proc. HCI International '93, Orlando, Florida, 1993.

Benford, S. D. and Shalaby, T., Planning from Inside the Plans, Proc. EGIS '93, The Fourth European Conference on Geographical Information Systems, Genoa, Italy, March 1993.

Benford, S. D. and Fahlén, L. E., A Spatial Model of Interaction in Virtual Environments, Proc. Third European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'93), Milano, Italy, September 1993.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H. and Zin, A. M., Experiences Using the Ceilidh System, Proc. All Ireland Conference on Computing Curriculum Development and Delivery, 8-10th September 1993, Dublin, Ireland.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H and Zin, A. M., A Course Administration and Marking System, Proc. International Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science, Vienna, Austria, 18-21 December 1993, pp 364-372.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H. and Zin, A. M., Experiences with the Ceilidh System, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science, Vienna, Austria, 18-21 December 1993, pp 530-537.

Benford, S. D., Turoff, M. and Palme, J., Developing International Standards for OSI Group Communication, Proceedings of the 1992 IFIP International Conference on Upper Layer Protocols, Architectures and Applications, Vancouver, Canada, May 1992, North-Holland.

Benford, S. D., Requirements of Activity Management, In Proc. First European Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative Work (ECSCW'89), also published as Studies in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Bowers, J. M.and Benford, S. D. eds), North Holland, 1991.

Benford, S. D., Howidy, H., Shepherd, A. and Smith, H. T., Supporting Collaborative Activities in OSI Networks, Proceedings of the IFIP 6.5 Conference on Message Handling Systems, Amsterdam, 1990, North Holland.

Benford, S. D. and Weiss, K., Management and Directory Service, In Proceedings of the Singapore International Conference on Networks 89 (SICON 89), Singapore, IEEE Computer Press, 1989.

Henessey, P., Benford, S. D. and Bowers, J. M., Modelling Group Communication Structures, In Proceedings of the Singapore International Conference on Networks 89 (SICON 89), Singapore, IEEE Computer Press, 1989.

Benford, S. D., A Datamodel for the Amigo Communications Environment, In Proceedings of the EUTECO 88 Conference on Networks and Distributed Applications, Vienna, North Holland, April 1988.

Benford, S. D., Onions, J., Bogen, M. and Wagner, B., The Implementation of Amigo Distribution Lists, In Proceedings of the EUTECO 88 Conference on Networks and Distributed Applications, Vienna, North Holland, April 1988.

Benford, S. D., Dynamic Definition of Entries and Attributes in the Directory Service, In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Systems, San Jose (USA), IEEE Computer Press, June 1988.

Benford, S. D., Navigation and Knowledge Management within a Distributed Directory Service, In Proceedings of the IFIP 6.5 International Conference, Costa-Mesa (USA), North Holland, October 1988.

Benford, S. D. and Onions, J., Pilot Distribution Lists: Agents and Directories, In Proceedings of the IFIP 6.5 conference on Message Handling Systems, Munich, North Holland, April 1987.

Conference and workshop papers (reviewed by abstract)

Greenhalgh, C. M. and Benford, S. D., Boundaries, Awareness and Interaction in Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises WET ICE '97, MIT, June 1997, (in press).

Churchill, E. C., Snowdon, D. N. and Benford, S. D., Using VR-VIBE: browsing and searching for documents in 3D space, Proc. 7th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI International '97), August 24-29, San Francisco, USA.

Lloyd, D, Benford, S. D. and Greenhalgh, C. M., DIS and Collaborative Virtual Environments, Proc. Simulation in Industry - 8th European Simulation Symposium (ESS96), Edited by Bruzzone, A. G. and Kerckhoffs, J. H., October 24-26, Geneo, Italy, Society of Computer Simulation International, pp 74-78.

Brown, C. C. and Benford, S. D., Tracking WWW Users: Experience from the Design of HyperVis, Proc. WebNet'96, San Francisco, October 15-19, 1996, Association of the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) (in press).

Benford, S. D., Brown, C. C., Reynard, G. T., and Snowdon, D. N, The Internet Foyer, Proc. 3rd Conference of the UK VRSIG, De Montford University, UK, July 1996, The UK VRSIG.

Benford, S. and Bowers, J., Research challenges in multimedia networking applications and human communication. Proc. EPSRC CSCW Programme Workshop, Ambleside, March 27-29, 1996, EPSRC.

Slater, M., Usoh, M, Benford, S., Snowdon, D., Brown, C., Rodden, T., Smith, G. and Wilbur, S., The Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL): A Project for Co-operation in Multi-Participant Environments, Proc. 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, (ed- Goebel, M.), Monte-Carlo, February, 1996.

Snowdon, D. N., Benford, S. D., Greenhalgh, C. M., Colebourne, A. and O'Brien, J., From Multi-user to Cooperative Databases: Supporting Communication and Awareness, 3rd International Workshop on Interfaces to Databases, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, 8-10 July 1996.

Reynard, G. and Benford, S. D., Vivid: A Symbiosis Between Virtual Reality and Video Conferencing, Proc. Video Conferencing Workshop, East Midlands Conference Centre, The University of Nottingham, 13-14 May 1996, The JNT Association.

Brown, C. C., Benford, S. D. and Snowdon, D. N., Collaborative Visualisation of Large-Scale Hypermedia Databases, Proc. 5th ERCIM/W4G Workshop on CSCW and the Web, pp 115-124, GMD, Germany, April 1996 (Arbeitspaper der GMD 984), ISSN 0723-0508, April 1996.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Higgins, C. A., Foxley, E., Tutorial Developments and Marking in Ceilidh, Proc. Computer Based Learning in Science - CBLIS'95, Opava, Czech Republic, July 1995, Open Education.

Nasrulla, Y., Benford, S. D., A Dexter-based Hypermedia Replication Model, Proc. ICEE-95, Third Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Iran, 1995.

Snowdon, D. N., Benford, S. D., Brown, C. C., Ingram, R. J., Knox, I. and Studley, L., Information Visualisation, Browsing and Sharing in Populated Information Terrains, Proc New Directions in Software Development: The World Wide Web, (edited by Wallis, J.), pp 50-60, The University of Wolverhampton, March 1995.

Ingram, R. J. and Benford, S. D., Improving the Legibility of Virtual Environments, in Proc. 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, Jan 31st-Feb 1st, 1995, ISSN 1024-0861.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gibbon, C. A. and Gutteridge, N. H., Some Benefits and Pitfalls of Automated Assessment, Proc. CAL'95, University of Cambridge, April, 1995.

Benford, S. D. and Mariani, J. M., Virtual Environments for data Sharing and Visualisation -- Populated Information Terrains, Proc. Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS) '94, Lancaster, (Pete Sawyer, ed), 1994, Springer-Verlag, Workshops in Computing Series.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M, Gray, S., Leevers, D., Rodden, T. R., Rygol, M. and Stanger, V., Building the Virtual Organisation, in Proc. BCS International Conference on Virtual Reality Applications, Leeds, UK, June 7-9. 1994, British Computer Society.

Benford, S. D. Bowers, J. M., Fahlén, L. E. and Rodden, T. R, A Spatial Model of Awareness, Proc. 6th ERCIM Workshops, Available as ERCIM-94-W001 from theSwedish Institute of Computer Science (Stockholm, Sweden), Stockholm, June 1-3, pp 1-14, 1994.

Benford, S. D. and Mariani, J., A Virtual Environment for Data Sharing and Visualisation, Proc. 6th ERCIM Workshops, Available as ERCIM-94-W001 from theSwedish Institute of Computer Science (Stockholm, Sweden), Stockholm, June 1-3, pp 73-84, 1994.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K. and Foxley, E., Integrating Software Quality Assurance into the Teaching of Programming, Proc. CSR 10th Annual Workshop on "Applications of Software Metrics and Quality Assurance in Industry", Amsterdam, August 1993.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K., Foxley, E., Gutteridge, N. H. and Zin, A. M., The Ceilidh Courseware System, in Proc. International Conference on Computer Technologies in Education (ICCTE'93), Kiev, Ukraine, September 14th-17th, 1993.

Benford, S. D., Burke, E. K. and Foxley, E., Courseware to Support the Teaching of Programming, Proceedings of the conference of Developments in the Teaching of Computer Science, University of Kent, April 1992.

Benford, S. D. and Fahlén, L. E., Focus, Aura and Awareness, in Proc. 5th Multi-G Workshop, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, December 1992.

Benford, S. D., Smith, H. T., Shepherd, A. and Howidy, H., Information Sharing in CSCW: From Models to Architecture, Proceedings of the International Workshop on CSCW, Berlin, April 1991.

Invited papers and presentations

Benford, S., Multi-User Environments, Proc.. SCATA Nottingham’97 (Society for Computing and technology in Anaesthesia), Nottingham, UK, November 1997.

Benford, S. D., Electronic Arenas, presented at the One Day Conference on Parallel Space: The Geography of Virtual Worlds, London, 5th July, 1997, sponsored by The Institute of Contemporary Arts and The Arts Council of England.

Benford, S. D., Mixed Realities, Digimedia'96, 6-8 June, Montreux, Switzerland.

Benford, S. D., Virtual Conferencing, Royal Society of Edinburgh Symposium on Human Communication, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 15th March 1996.

Benford, S. D., Collaborative Virtual Environments, presented at Virtual Environments: State of the Art, EPSRC Visualisation Community Club, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 15 May 1996.

Benford, S. D., Inhabited TV, Lecture to the Graduate Reunion, The University of Nottingham, May 18th 1996.

Rogers, A. and Benford, S. D., Teamwork in Virtual Environments, Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Virtual reality in Society, Engineering and Science, London, July, 1995, The Royal Society, UK

Benford, S. D., Wide Area Collaborative Virtual Environments: Design and Experience, Virtual Reality World '95 (VR'World '95), San Jose, CA, USA, May 1995, Mecklermedia.

Benford, S. D., Bullock, A. N., Greenhalgh, C. M., Ingram, R. J. and Snowdon, D. N., Collabortive Virtual Environments: User Interaction and Populated Information Terrains, Proc. Imagina'95, Monte Carlo, February, 1995.

Benford, S. D., Supporting Group Work in Virtual Reality, British Information Technology Open Day (BIT'94), The University of Leeds, UK, 24th march, 1994, sponsored by JETAI.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J., Gray, S., Rodden, T. R., Rygol, M. and Stanger, V., The Virtuosi Project, in Proc. VR'94 (London Virtual Reality Expo 1994), Meckler, London, February 1994.

Benford, S. D., Lee, O. and Bullock, A. N., Supporting Cooperative Work in Virtual Reality, In. Proc. Infoscience'93 - The International Conference in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Korean Information Science Society, Seoul, October, 1993.

Other (tutorials, seminars, reports etc.)

Benford, S. D., Working together in shared electronic spaces, IEE Colloquium on Computer Mediated Complex Supervisory and Decision Making in Teams, Tuesday 3rd April, 1997, Scottish Engineering Centre, Glasgow.

Benford, S. D., Lloyd, D., Snowdon, D. N., Tromp, J. G. and Ingram, R. J., Virtual Reality Training Techniques: A Report on the Use of Virtual Reality to Support Medical Training, Report commissioned by The Directorate General for Research of the European Parliament, March 1996.

Benford, S. D., Collaborative Virtual Environments for the Citizen, Computer Science Postgraduate Course on Virtual Reality, Lausanne, Switzerland, EPFL, Switzerland, June 1996

Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N., Collaborative Virtual Environments, IEE Computing and Control Division, Vacation School on Fundamentals of Multi-Media Systems, Lancaster University, 10th-13th September, 1995

Benford, S D., Brown, C. C., Bullock, A. N., Greenhalgh, C. M., Ingram, R. J., and Snowdon, D. N., Collaborative Virtual Environments, Tutorial at HCI'95, Huddersfield, UK, August, 1995.

Benford, S. D. and Greenhalgh, C. M., Managing Mutual Awareness in Collaborative Virtual Environments, 1st UK Virtual Reality Special Interest Group (VRSIG) workshop, March 1994, Nottingham University.

Benford, S. D., A Spatial Model of Interaction, the IEE Colloquium on the Role of Space in CSCW, January 1993.

Benford, S. D., Group Communication Standards for Information Sharing, IEE Colloquium on CSCW and Database Technology, January 1992.

Benford, S. D., Ingram, R. J. and Rodden, T. R., Exploiting Virtual Reality as a Conceptual Model for CSCW, the IEE Colloquium on Using Virtual Worlds, April 1992.

Benford, S. D. and Smith, H. T., The Grace Project, IEE Colloquium on CSCW, 1991.

Benford, S. D., Bignoli, E., Brown, C. G., Mariani, J., Navarro, L., Prinz, P. and Rodden, T., MOCCA: An Environment for Open CSCW Systems, SIGOIS Bulletin, Vol 5, No 3, Summer 1992, ACM Press.

Research seminars at various organisations including MIT, Cambridge, Manchester, Lancaster, Queen Mary and Westfield College, UCL, The Swedish Institute of Computer Science.