From: dns@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Snowdon)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: CONF: Collaborative Virtual Environments 1996 (CVE'96)
Date: 22 Mar 1996 11:20:53 GMT
Organization: Nottingham University
Sender: dns@marian (Dave Snowdon)
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		Collaborative Virtual Environments 1996 (CVE'96)

				Call for Papers

				19-20 September 1996, 
	Department of Psychology, The University of Nottingham, UK

	Further details available at:
	http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dns/conf/vr/cve96.html

Aims and Scope
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A Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is one that actively supports
human-human communication in addition to human-machine communication and
which uses a Virtual Environment (including textually based environments
such as MUDs/MOOs) as the user interface. This is an exciting field with
much potential for inter-disciplinary collaboration particularly in the
fields of computer science, psychology, sociology, architecture & urban
planning, cultural & media studies and Artificial Intelligence.

The aim of this workshop is to present the current state of the art in
Collaborative Virtual Environments and foster inter-disciplinary links
between researchers in this field.

The main topics of the workshop include:
	- techniques for supporting communication and collaboration in 
	  virtual environments.
	- metaphors for collaboration
	- experiences and evaluation of collaborative environments and
	  applications.
	- systems architectures for collaborative environments.
	- applications of Collaborative Virtual Environments
	- collaborative DIS applications
	- studies of social action and interaction in Collaborative Virtual
          Environments 
	- user centred development of Collaborative Virtual Environments

Demonstrations of systems and applications are also welcome.


Contributions
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Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (about 2 A4 pages) to the
workshop organisers (see below for relevant deadlines). Submission may be
either by sending hardcopy or electronic mail, however electronic
submissions are preferred. Authors may submit abstracts in one of the
following formats:
- ASCII text
- HTML
- Microsoft Word

Authors whose extended abstracts are accepted are encouraged, but not
required, to submit a full length paper. The organisers are currently
exploring possibilities for journal pulication of a selection of papers
resulting from the workshop.

Send electronic submissions (preferred) to:
Dave Snowdon <d.snowdon@cs.nott.ac.uk>

Send hardcopy submissions to:
Elizabeth Churchill
Dept of Psychology,
The University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, 
UK


Schedule
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31st May 1996		Deadline for extended abstracts
28th June 1996		Notification of acceptance / draft programme
19th September 1996	Workshop


Venue and Fee
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The workshop will be held at the Department of Psychology on the University
of Nottingham campus.

Attendance fees will cover the meeting facilities, coffee breaks,
accomodation for one night, evening meal and the workshop proceedings. The
fee will be 85 UK pounds sterling.


Program Committee
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Steve Benford (UK)
John Bowers (UK)
Lennart Fahlen (Sweden)
Tom Rodden (UK)
Mike Zyda (USA) 
Gurminder Singh (Singapore)
David England (Germany)
Elizabeth Churchill (UK)
Dave Snowdon (UK)
Jolanda Tromp (UK)
Mike Daily (USA)