Papers and Reports

2007/In Press
  • Steed, A., Milton, R.
    Using Tracked Mobile Sensors to Make Maps of Environmental Effects
    Personal and Ubiquitous Computing [PDF (417KB)]


  • Beeharee, A., Steed,A.
    Exploiting Real World Knowledge in Ubiquitous Applications
    Personal and Ubiquitous Computing [SpringerLink]


2006
  • A. Beeharee, A., Steed
    A Natural Wayfinding - Photos in Pedestrian Navigation System
    Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Human-Computer interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Helsinki, Finland, September 12 - 15, 2006). MobileHCI '06, vol. 159. ACM Press, New York, NY, 81-88. [DOI]


  • A. Brogni, V. Vinayagamoorthy, A. Steed, M. Slater
    Variations in Physiological Responses of Participants During Different Stages of an Immersive Virtual Environment Experiment
    Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2006) [PDF (476KB)]


  • R. Freeman, A. Steed
    Interactive Modelling and Tracking for Mixed and Augmented Reality
    Proceedings of ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology, pp. 61-64, Limassol, Cyprus, November 2006. [PDF (KB)] [Video]


  • I. Heldal, L. Brathe, R. Schroeder, A. Steed
    Interaction Fragments Influencing Collaboration in Distributed Virtual Environments
    Schroeder, R., Axelsson, A.S. (ed.) Avatars at Work and Play: Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments, 2006, London, Springer-Verlag.


  • A. Milton, A., Steed
    Mapping Carbon Monoxide using GPS Tracked Sensors
    Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. [DOI]


  • A. Steed, C. Angus
    Enabling Scalability by Partitioning Virtual Environments using Frontier Sets
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 15(1), 77-92, MIT Press. [DOI]


  • Vinayagamoorthy, V., Gillies, M., Steed, A., Tanguy, E., Pan, X., Loscos, C., Slater, M.
    Building Expression into Virtual Characters
    Eurographics 2006, STAR - State of the Art Report. [PDF (783KB)]


  • Vinayagamoorthy, V., Steed, A., Slater, M.
    The influence of a virtual character posture model on reported presence in an immersive virtual environment
    In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM international Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (Hong Kong, China). VRCIA '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 229-236. [ PDF, DOI ]


2005
  • Beeharee, A., Steed,A.
    Filtering Location-Based Information Using Visibility
    Location and Context Awareness 2005, Strang, T., Linnho-Popien, C. (ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. , 3479, 306-316. [ PDF ] .


  • Benford, S., Schnadelbach, H., Koleva, B., Gaver, B., Schmidt, A., Boucher, A., Steed, A., Anastasi, R., Greenhalgh, C., Rodden, T., Gellersen, H.
    Expected, sensed, and desired: A framework for designing sensing-based interaction
    ACM Trans
    Computer-Human Interaction 12(1), 3-30 [ ACM]


  • Freeman, R., Steed,A., Zhou, B.
    Rapid Scene Modelling, Alignment and Specification for Mixed Reality Systems
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (Monterey, CA, USA, November 07 - 09, 2005). VRST '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, 147-150. [ DOI ]


  • Heldal, I., Schroeder, R., Steed, A., Axelsson, A.S., Spante, M., Wideström, J.
    Immersiveness and symmetry in copresent scenarios
    IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, , 171-178 [ PDF preprint ]


  • Heldal, I., Steed, A., Schroeder, R.
    Evaluating Collaboration in Distributed Virtual Environments for a Puzzle-solving Task
    HCI International 2005, the 11th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 22-27 July 2005, Las Vegas [ PDF ]


  • Heldal, I., Steed, A., Spante, M., Schroeder, R., Bengtsson, S., Partanan, M.
    Successes and Failures in Co-Present Situations
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 14(5), 563-579. ISSN: 1054-7460 [ PDF preprint ]


  • Jacobs, K., Angus, C., Loscos, C., Nahmias, J.D., Reche, A., Steed, A.
    Automatic Consistent shadow generation for Augmented Reality
    Graphics Interface 2005, , 113-120 [ PDF ]


  • A. Lanfranco, F. John, A. Brogni
    Realities And Virtualities: The Networking Of Viewers, Information And Spaces
    Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale - XV Congresso Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici - Museo Oggi, tra Reale e Virtuale, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste, 2005, 51 (suppl.), 15-18 [PDF (130KB)]


  • Milton, R., Steed, A.
    Correcting GPS Readings from a Tracked Mobile Sensor
    Location and Context Awareness 2005, Strang, T., Linnho-Popien, C. (ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. , 3479, 83-94. [ PDF ] .


  • Nahmias, J.D., Steed, A., Buxton, B.
    13th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2005, WSCG 2005, University of West Bohemia, Campus Bory, Plzen-Bory, Czech Republic, January 31 - February 4, 2005, 113-116 [ PDF ]


  • Nahmias, J.D., Steed, A., Buxton, B.
    Analysis of Cost Functions and Structured Light Patterns for Modern Dynamic Programming Stereo Algorithms
    IEE International Conference on Visual Information Engineering 2005, University of Glasgow, Scotland, April 4 - 6, 2005


  • Steed, A., Roberts, D., Schroeder, R., Heldal, I.
    Interaction Between Users of Immersion Projection Technology Systems
    HCI International 2005, the 11th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 22-27 July 2005, Las Vegas. [ PDF ]


  • Steed, A., Vinayagamoorthy, V., Brogni, A.
    Using Breaks in Presence to Identify Usability Issues
    HCI International 2005, the 11th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 22-27 July 2005, Las Vegas. [ PDF ]


  • Steed,A., Angus, C.
    Supporting Scalable Peer to Peer Virtual Environments using Frontier Sets
    IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, Bonn, Germany, March 2005:IEEE Computer Society, 27-34 [ PDF preprint ]


  • Steed,A., Parker, C.
    Evaluating Effectiveness of Interaction Techniques across Immersive Virtual Environment Systems
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 14(5), 511-527. ISSN: 1054-7460 [ PDF preprint ]


  • Vinayagamoorthy, V., Steed, A., Slater, M.
    Building Characters: Lessons Drawn from Virtual Environments
    Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science: A CogSci 2005 Workshop, Stresa, Italy, 119-126 [ PDF ]


2004
  • V. Vinayagamoorthy, A. Brogni, M. Gillies, M. Slater, and A. Steed
    "An Investigation of Presence Response across Variations in Visual Realism"
    Presence 2004: The 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence. [PDF (375KB)]


  • C. Guger, G. Edlinger, R. Lee, G. Pfurtscheller, A. Antley, M. Garau, A. Brogni, D. Friedman, M. Slater
    Heart Rate Variability and Event-Related ECG in Virtual Environments
    7th Annual International Workshop on Presence ( PRESENCE 2004) [PDF (159KB)]


  • V. Vinayagamoorthy, A. Brogni, M. Gillies, M. Slater, and A. Steed
    "An Investigation of Presence Response across Variations in Visual Realism",
    Presence 2004: The 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence. [PDF (375KB)]


  • D. Friedman, R. Leeb, A. Antley, M. Garau, C. Guger, C. Keinrath, A. Steed, G. Pfurtscheller, and M. Slater
    "Navigating Virtual Reality by Thought: First Steps",
    Presence 2004: The 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence. [PDF (988KB)]


  • Maia Garau, Hila Ritter Widenfeld, Angus Antley, Doron Friedman, Andrea Brogni, and Mel Slater
    "Temporal and Spatial Variations in Presence: A Qualitative Analysis",
    Presence 2004: The 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence. [PDF (296KB)]


  • A. Steed
    "Supporting Mobile Applications with Real-Time Visualisation of GPS Availability", S. Brewster and M. Dunlop (eds), MobileHCI 2004, LNCS 3160, pp. 373-377. [PDF (207KB)]


  • A. Beeharee, A.Steed
    "Filtering Location-Based Information Based on Visibility in the Real World",
    Poster Presentation at Ubicomp 2004, Nottingham, UK, September 7th-10th, 2004. [PDF (189KB)]


  • M. Slater, D.-P. Pertaub, C. Barker, D. Clark
    An Experimental Study on Fear of Public Speaking Using a Virtual Environment
    3rd International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation, September 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland [ PDF (352KB) ]


  • A. Steed and C. Angus
    "Frontier Sets: A Partitioning Scheme to Enable Scalable Virtual Environments", M. Alexa and E. Galin, EUROGRAPHICS 2004, Short Presentations and Interactive Demos Grenoble, France, August 30th - September 3rd 2004, ISSN 1017-4656 [PDF (549KB)]


  • V. Vinayagamoorthy, M. Garau, A. Steed, M. Slater
    An Eye Gaze Model for Dyadic Interaction in an Immersive Virtual Environment: Practice and Experience
    The Computer Graphics Forum, March 2004 [ PDF (253KB) ]


  • A. Crabtree, S. Benford, T. Rodden, M. Flintham, R. Anastasi, A. Drozd, M. Adams, N. Tandavanitj, J. Row-Farr, A. Steed, and C. Greenhalgh
    "Moving Out of the Control Room: Decentralizing Orchestration of a Mixed Reality Game",
    Proceedings of the 2004 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 24th-29th, Vienna: ACM Press. [PDF (422KB)]


  • W. Gaver, A. Boucher, S. Pennington, B. Walker, J. Bowers, H. Gellerson, A. Schmidt, N. Villars, and A. Steed
    "The Drift Table: Designing for Ludic Engagement",
    Extended Abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems , 885-900. [ACM Page]


  • A. Steed, S. Spinello, B. Croxford, and R. Milton
    "Data Visualisation within Urban Models",
    TPCG2004. [PDF (613 KB)]


  • A. Steed, I. MacColl, C. Randell, B. Brown, M. Chalmers and C. Greenhalgh
    "Models of Space in a Mixed-Reality System",
    to be presented at 8th International Conference on Information Visualisation, 14-16 July, 2004, London, England. [PDF (441KB)]



2003
  • Mel Slater, Andrea Brogni and Anthony Steed
    Physiological Responses to Breaks in Presence: A Pilot Study
    Presence 2003, The 6th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Aalborg, Denmark, October 6th-8th.[PDF (247KB)]


  • Anthony Steed and Janet McDonnell
    Experiences with Repertory Grid Analysis for Investigating Effectiveness of Virtual Environments
    Presence 2003, The 6th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Aalborg, Denmark, October 6th-8th.[PDF (138KB)]


  • Andrea Brogni, Anthony Steed, and Mel Slater
    More Breaks Less Presence
    Presence 2003, The 6th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Aalborg, Denmark, October 6th-8th.[PDF (102KB)]


  • Areti Galani, Mattew Chalmers, Barry Brown, Ian MacColl, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed
    Developing a mixed reality co-visiting experience for local and remote museum companions
    10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, June 2003, Crete, Greece


  • Maia Garau, Mel Slater, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Andrea Brogni, Anthony Steed, M. Angela Sasse
    The Impact of Avatar Realism and Eye Gaze Control on Perceived Quality of Communication in a Shared Immersive Virtual Environment
    CHI, April 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. [ PDF (1.18M) ]


  • Barry Brown, Ian MacColl, Mattew Chalmers , Areti Galani, Cliff Randell,Anthony Steed
    Lessons from the Lighthouse: Collaboration in a Shared Mixed Reality System
    CHI, April 2003, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA.


  • Anthony Steed, Maria Spante, Ralph Schroeder, Ilona Heldal, Ann-Sofie Axelsson
    Strangers and Friends in Caves: An Exploratory Study of Collaboration in Networked IPT Systems for Extended Periods of Time
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 27 - 30, April 2003, Monterey, California, USA.


  • Maria Spante, Ilona Heldal, Anthony Steed, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Ralph Schroeder
    Strangers and Friends in Networked Immersive Environments: Virtual Spaces for Future Living
    Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics (HOIT), 6-8, April 2003, Irvine, California, USA.


  • Jolanda Tromp, Anthony Steed, John Wilson
    Systematic Usability Evaluation and Design Issues for Collaborative Virtual Environments
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (to be published), MIT Press.


  • Manuel Oliveira, Jesper Mortensen, Joel Jordan, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater
    Considerations in the Design of Virtual Environment Systems: A Case Study
    In Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Application and Development of Computer Games, January 2003, Hong Kong, Rep. of China. [ PDF (105K) ]



2002
  • Manuel Oliveira, Jesper Mortensen, Joel Jordan, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater
    The Pitfalls in System Design for Distributed Virtual Environments: A Case Study
    Immersive Telepresence (ITP), December 2002, Juan Les Pin, France. [ PDF (111K) ]


  • Ian MacColl, David Millard, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed
    Shared visiting in EQUATOR City
    Proceedings of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE2002), Bonn, Germany, October 2002, p88-94.


  • Daniela Romano, Andrea Brogni, Anthony Steed, Mel Slater
    Progress Report: Agoraphobia Research
    In Proceedings of Equator's Annual Meeting, October 2002, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. [ PDF (272K) ]


  • Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy. Supervisors: Mel Slater, Anthony Steed
    Emotional personification of humanoids in Immersive Virtual Environments
    In Proceedings of the Equator Doctoral Colluquim, October 2002, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. [ PDF (101K) ]


  • Joel Jordan, Jesper Mortensen, Manuel Oliveira, Mel Slater, Boon K Tay*, Jung Kim*, Madanyam A Srinivasan*
    Collaboration in a Mediated Haptic Environment
    Presence, October 2002, Portugal. [ PDF (272K) ]     ( * = In collaboration with MIT )
    Also in Proceedings of Equator's Annual Meeting, October 2002, Brockenhurst, New Forest, Hampshire.


  • Alois Schlögl*, Mel Slater, Gert Pfurtscheller*
    Presence research and EEG
    Presence, October 2002, Portugal. [ PDF (61.7K) ]
    ( * = In collaboration with The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Technology Graz )


  • Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy. Supervisors: Mel Slater, Anthony Steed
    Bender Behaviour: Posture & Emotion
    First Year Viva, September 2002, London. [ PDF (1.22M) ]


  • Laura Kayte James. Supervisor: Mel Slater
    The Virtual Wine Bar Experiment
    MSc Thesis, September 2002, London. [ PDF (577K) ]


  • Chien-Yu Lin. Supervisor: Mel Slater
    Social Phobia
    MSc Thesis, September 2002, London. [ PDF (350K) ]


  • Jean-Daniel Nahmias. Supervisor: Anthony Steed
    Real-Time Massive Model Rendering
    MSc Thesis, September 2002, London. [ HTML (734K + 4.48M in Images) ]


  • Joel Jordan. Supervisors: Mel Slater, Anthony Steed
    Minimal Cues in Immersive Virtual Environments
    First Year Viva, August 2002, London. [ PDF (188K) ]


  • David Marchal. Supervisor: Celine Loscos
    Simulating pedestrian crowd behaviour in virtual cities
    Technical Report, April-July 2002. [ PDF (3.38M) ]     (In collaboration with École Polytechnique, France)


  • Jesper Mortensen, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy, Mel Slater, Anthony Steed, Benjamin Lok, Mary C. Whitton
    Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments
    Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Barcelona, May 2002, p93-101. [ PDF (1.57M) ]


  • Sharif Razzaque, David Swapp, Mel Slater, Mary C. Whitton, Anthony Steed
    Redirected Walking in Place
    Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Barcelona, May 2002, p123-130. [ PDF (970K) ]


  • Anthony Steed, Steve Benford, Nick Dalton, Chris Greenhalgh, Ian MacColl, Cliff Randell, Holger Schnädelbach,
    Mixed-Reality Interfaces to Immersive Projection Systems
    Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, March 2002, Orlando, Florida. [ PDF (850K) ]

2001
  • Christoph Groenegress (2001) Designing Intuitive Interfaces for Virtual Environments (PDF), MRes (Master of Research) in Computer Vision, Image Processing, Graphics and Visualisation.

  • Céline Loscos, Franco Tecchia, Yiorgos Chrysanthou,
    Real Time Shadows for Animated Crowds in Virtual Cities
    ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology 2001, Banff, Canada, November 2001.

  • Franco Tecchia, Céline Loscos, Yiorgos Chrysanthou,
    Real-Time Rendering of Populated Urban Environments
    Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH'01, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2001.

  • Franco Tecchia, Céline Loscos, Ruth Conroy, Yiorgos Chrystanthou
    Agent Behaviour Simulation (ABS): A Platform for Urban Behaviour Development
    GTEC'2001, Hong Kong, January 2001.

  • Steed, A., Mortensen, J., Frecon E.
    Spelunking: Experiences using the DIVE System on CAVE-like Platforms
    Immersive Projection Technologies and Virtual Environments 2001, ed. Frohlicj B., Deisinger, J., Bullinger, H.- J., pp. 153-164, Springer-Verlag/Wien. [ PDF (150K) ]

  • Schroeder, R., Steed, A., Axelsson, A-S, Heldal, I, Abelin, A., Widestrom, J., Nilsson, A., Slater, M.
    Collaborating in Networked Immersive Spaces: As Good as Being There Together?,
    Computers & Graphics, Special Issue on Mixed Realities - Beyond Conventions, 25(5), October 2001.

  • Steed, A., Schroeder, R., Axelsson, A.-S., Nilsson, A., Heldal, I., Wideström, J., Abelin, Å.
    Solving a 3D Cube Puzzle in a Collaborative Virtual Environment: As Good as Really Being There Together?
    Presented at SIGGRAPH 2001.

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