Organized by ACTS TAPESTRIES (AC055)

Academics and industrialists with an interest in presence research and applications are kindly invited to attend the second International Workshop on Presence.

We aim to provide an open discussion forum in which we can share fruitful concepts for presence research, useful measurement methodologies and discuss applications in areas such as virtual environments and new broadcast media.

A central goal of the workshop is to bring together academic researchers in the area of media and presence, content and technology developers, and commercially interested parties so that they can meet, learn from each others experiences, present their research, and exchange ideas.

This two-day workshop will start with plenary paper presentations providing a good overview of the state-of-the-art of current research and needs for future research. Subsequently, small workgroups will be established discussing specific topics, i.e. co-presence, definition and measurement, and specific application areas. These workgroups will be asked to report back to the plenary session on the second day to enable a broad discussion. The afternoon will be reserved for free discussions and the opportunity to sample some presence-enhancing technologies.

The workshop will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK on Tuesday 6^th and Wednesday 7^th April, 1999.

Potential contributors are invited to submit a URL before 1 February 1999 via e-mail to Jonathan Freeman. This URL should point to an HTML document containing the following information (all in the document, not via links to other documents):

• Names and full adresses of all authors - presenting author should be underlined.
• Phone, fax and email of corresponding author.
• Summary of main contributions (e.g. a set of bullet points)
• The main document of the work to be presented (no more than 4 pages when printed).