2nd International Workshop on 
Presence

University of Essex, April 6 and 7, 1999


Workshop Programme



Tuesday, 6th April 1999


Opening Session: Welcome, Introduction and Guest Speakers

9.00 - 9.55

Coffee and Registration @ Wivenhoe House Hotel

10.00

Welcome and Introduction

Nick Lodge, Independent Television Commission, UK

10.15

Shared Presence in Virtual Environments - title t.b.c.

Mel Slater, University College London, UK

11.00

Across media: Toward a standardized conceptual and operational definition of presence

Matthew Lombard, Temple University, US

Theresa Ditton, Villanova University, Villanova PA, US

11.45

Rendering latency in VEs and properties of measures of presence - title t.b.c.

Stephen R. Ellis, NASA Ames Research Center, US

13.00

Lunch @ Wivenhoe House Hotel



Paper Session 1: Presence - Structure and Measurement

14.00

Decomposing the Sense of Presence: Factor Analytic insights

Thomas Schubert, Frank Friedmann, University of Jena; Holger Regenbrecht, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany

14.30

The Scope Of Presence

John A. Waterworth, Department of Informatics, Umea University, Sweden

15.00

Critical Ratios as Behavioural Indices of Presence

Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; John M. Flach, Wright State University, US; Fred A. Voorhorst, ETH Zurich, Switserland

15.30

Coffee

15.45

Measuring Presence through Television - TAPESTRIES review

Jonathan Freeman, Steve E. Avons, University of Essex, UK; Wijnand IJsselsteijn, IPO - Center for Research on User-System Interaction, The Netherlands; Huib de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

16.30

Presence and the Content of Virtual Environments

P.C. Fencott, University of Teeside, UK

17.00

The Visual Cliff Revisited: A Virtual Presence Study on Locomotion

Martin Usoh, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater, UCL, UK; Kevin Arthur, Mary Whitton, Rui Bastos, Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US

17.30 - 18.30

Panel Discussion: Strucure and Measurement of Presence
Including coffee/ refreshments

Evening Programme

19.00

Cocktail Reception

Sponsored by:
TAPESTRIES

19.45

Workshop Dinner Sponsored by:
BT and SONY


Wednesday, 7th April 1999


Paper Session 2: Presence and Performance

(a) presence and communication

9.00

Presence in Multimodal Interfaces

Eva-Lotta Sallnas, Interaction and Presentation Laboratory, NADA, Sweden

9.30

Trust in Shared Virtual Environments: The Example of Active Worlds

Ann-Sofie Axelsson & Ralph Schroeder, Chalmers University, Sweden

10.00

Participatory Immersive Drama - A media paradigm for the next century

Sharon Springer, Cambridge University, Centre for Communications Systems Research, UK

10.30

Coffee

11.00

Broadcasting Digitally Generated Gameshows

Riccardo Antonini, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

(b) presence and learning

11.30

Some topics concerning 3D virtual environments for learning and the concept of presence, Nuno R. P. Otero, University of Sussex at Brighton Falmer, UK

12.00

Understanding the Role of Presence in Virtual Learning Environments

Denise Whitelock and Anne Jelfs, Open University, UK

12.30

Between real and unreal: Investigating Presence and Task Performance

Katerina Mania, Hewlett Packard Labs, University of Bristol; Alan Chalmers, University of Bristol, UK

13.00

LUNCH @ Wivenhoe House Hotel

Paper Session 3: Technical Presentations related to Presence

14.00

Investigation of Sheet Bending using Mass-Spring Systems within a Virtual Environment

B. S. Mahal, D. E. R. Clark, J. E. L. Simmons, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

14.30

MAX: Teleoperated Dog on the Web

Alexander Ferworn, Rick Roque, Ivan Vecchia, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada

15.00

Coffee/ Demonstrations/ Informal Discussion - 3 groups

Final Session: Group Discussion

16.00

Panel Discussion: Presence and Performance

16.45

Open Discussion:

  • Directions for Future Research
  • Venue for 3rd International Workshop on Presence

17.30

CLOSE


Please Note: On the evening of Thursday 8th April 1999 the London VR Group will have a meeting at the Bartlett Centre in Central London: Re-focussing VR - what the future holds, which might be of interest to conference delegates.