Workshop Programme
Tuesday, 6th April 1999
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9.00 - 9.55 |
Coffee and Registration @ Wivenhoe House Hotel |
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10.00 |
Welcome and Introduction Nick Lodge, Independent Television Commission, UK |
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10.15 |
Shared Presence in Virtual Environments - title t.b.c. Mel Slater, University College London, UK |
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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 | |
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11.45 |
Rendering latency in VEs and properties of measures of presence - title t.b.c. Stephen R. Ellis, NASA Ames Research Center, US | |
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13.00 |
Lunch @ Wivenhoe House Hotel | |
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14.00 |
Decomposing the Sense of Presence:
Factor Analytic insights Thomas Schubert, Frank Friedmann, University of Jena; Holger Regenbrecht, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany | |
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14.30 |
The Scope Of
Presence John A. Waterworth, Department of Informatics, Umea University, Sweden | |
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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 | |
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15.30 |
Coffee |
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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 | |
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16.30 |
Presence and
the Content of Virtual Environments P.C. Fencott, University of Teeside, UK | |
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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 | |
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17.30 - 18.30 |
Panel Discussion: Strucure and Measurement of Presence | |
Evening Programme
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19.00 |
Cocktail Reception |
Sponsored by: |
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19.45 |
Workshop Dinner |
Sponsored by: BT and SONY |
Wednesday, 7th April 1999
(a) presence and communication
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9.00 |
Presence in Multimodal
Interfaces Eva-Lotta Sallnas, Interaction and Presentation Laboratory, NADA, Sweden |
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9.30 |
Trust in Shared Virtual Environments:
The Example of Active Worlds Ann-Sofie Axelsson & Ralph Schroeder, Chalmers University, Sweden |
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10.00 |
Participatory Immersive
Drama - A media paradigm for the next century Sharon Springer, Cambridge University, Centre for Communications Systems Research, UK |
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10.30 |
Coffee |
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11.00 |
Broadcasting Digitally Generated
Gameshows Riccardo Antonini, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy |
(b) presence and learning
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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 |
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12.00 |
Understanding the Role of
Presence in Virtual Learning Environments Denise Whitelock and Anne Jelfs, Open University, UK |
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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 |
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13.00 |
LUNCH @ Wivenhoe House Hotel |
Paper Session 3: Technical Presentations related to Presence
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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 |
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14.30 |
MAX: Teleoperated Dog on the
Web Alexander Ferworn, Rick Roque, Ivan Vecchia, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada |
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15.00 |
Coffee/ Demonstrations/ Informal Discussion - 3 groups |
Final Session: Group Discussion
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16.00 |
Panel Discussion: Presence and Performance |
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16.45 |
Open Discussion:
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17.30 |
CLOSE |