From news@news.kth.se Wed May 17 14:55:26 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by stein2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA07591; Wed, 17 May 95 14:55:26 -0700 Received: from hitl-new.hitl.washington.edu by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.05/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA05422; Wed, 17 May 95 14:55:19 -0700 Received: from relay3.UU.NET (relay3.UU.NET [192.48.96.8]) by hitl.hitl.washington.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA17737 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 14:50:40 -0700 Received: from news.kth.se by relay3.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyqdz16425; Wed, 17 May 1995 17:54:35 -0400 Received: by news.kth.se (8.6.10/nada-mx-1.0) id XAA05855; Wed, 17 May 1995 23:54:24 +0200 To: sci-virtual-worlds@uunet.uu.net Path: kai.nada.kth.se!kai From: kai@kai.nada.kth.se (Kai-Mikael Jdd-Aro) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds,news.announce.conferences,swnet.conferences,comp.groupware Subject: Workshop on Collaborative VR in Stockholm September 10th Date: 17 May 1995 21:54:22 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 62 Message-Id: <3pdrae$5mt@news.kth.se> Nntp-Posting-Host: kai.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Status: OR In connection with the Fourth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Stockholm September 11-14 we will organise a workshop titled "Collaboration in Virtual Environments - Methods and Experiences". The workshop is free of charge, and will be held at the premises of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm on Sunday September 10th. The organisers are Steve Benford University of Nottingham Lennart E Fahlén Swedish Institute of Computer Science Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro Royal Institute of Technology Motivation: A sizable community, interested in using virtual environments for collaboration, has grown up in the last few years, particularly in Europe. We therefore feel that the time is ripe to gather practitioners in the area to a workshop to specifically discuss experiences of developing and using virtual environments for collaboration. Relevant issues include but are not limited to: * User representations * Peripheral awareness * Human-human communication issues * Scaling issues in distribution * World partitioning * Subjective world representations * User-specific interfaces to common environments * Concurrent access to objects * Transactions in virtual spaces * Access negotiations * Tasks and tools appropriate for collaboration The goal of the workshop is a document, gathering the different experiences in the above-mentioned areas (and others that the participants feel to be important), disseminating proven techniques, high-lighting problems and unresolved questions, and suggesting ways to study and resolve particular issues. Those interested in participating should prepare a position paper and submit it to the contact person at the address below before August 1st. The collected position papers will be copied and circulated to the participants so that they can prepare comments for the workshop. Up to date information is found on http://www.nada.kth.se/ecscw95/Workshops.html#VirtualEnvironments. Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro email: kai@nada.kth.se "Don't win, don't lose." IPLab voice: +46 8 790 62 79 -- Yoshigasaki-sensei NADA, KTH fax: +46 8 790 09 30 S-100 44 Stockholm telex: 812 6154 1156 SICS SWEDEN teletex:2401-812 6154 1156=SICS -- Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro email: kai@nada.kth.se "Don't win, don't lose." IPLab voice: +46 8 790 62 79 -- Yoshigasaki-sensei NADA, KTH fax: +46 8 790 09 30 S-100 44 Stockholm telex: 812 6154 1156 SICS SWEDEN teletex:2401-812 6154 1156=SICS