BT Presence Workshop

BT Labs

10-11 June 1998

Provisional Programme

Further Information


10.30

Reception and Coffee


Day 1: Wednesday 10th June

11.00-11.15

Graham Walker
BT Labs

Welcome and Introduction


Session 1 - Conceptual Issues

Chair: Peter Lawrence – BT Labs

11.15-11.45

Nat Durlach
Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T., (USA)
Mel Slater (University College London)
Presence in Shared Virtual Environments and Virtual Togetherness

11.45 - 12.15

Karl-Petter Kesson
Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Fredrik Ljungberg, Viktoria Research Institute, Sweden
Coupling real and virtual environments

12.15-12.45

Mike Holderness,
London U.K
Presence in CVEs as extelligence: virtuality and collectivity


12.45-1.45 LUNCH (Buffet)


Session 2: Conceptual Issues (continued)

1.45-2.15

Carlton Reeve
University of Bradford, U.K
Presence in Virtual Theatre

 2.15-2.45

Stefan Thie
KPN Research, The Netherlands
A General Theory on Presence


2.45-3.15

Panel discussion: Conceptual Issues


3.15-4.00

Tea + demos (Human Interaction Centre)


Session 3 Practice and Experience I

Chair: John Seton, BT Labs

4.00-4.30

Randy Jackson
Wayne Taylor
William Winn
University of Washington, Box 353090, Seattle, Washington 98195-3090 USA
Peer Collaboration and Virtual Environments: A Preliminary Investigation of Multi-Participant Virtual Reality Applied in Science Education

4.30-5.00

Daniela M. Romano
Paul Brna
John A. Self
University of Leeds, UK
Collaborative Decision-Making and Presence in Shared Dynamic Virtual Environments

5.00-5.30

Chih-Hao Ho
Cagatay Basdogan
Mel Slater (UCL)
Nat Durlach
Mandayam A. Srinivasan
Research Laboratory of Electronics, M.I.T., USA
The Influence of Haptic Communication on the Sense of Being Together

5.30-6.00

Jenny Gristock
University of Sussex, UK
Communications and Organisational Virtuality


7.30 for 8.00 Workshop dinner - Venue TBA


Day 2: Thursday 11th June

Session 4 Measurement

Chair: Mel Slater (UCL)

9.30-10.00

Roy Kalawsky
Loughborough University, UK
VRSART A Tool for Evaluation of Contributory Factors Associated with Presence in Spatially Immersive Environments

10.00-10.30

Craig D. Murray
Paul Arnold
Ben Thornton
University of Manchester, UK
Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of presence


10.30-11.15

Tea + demos


Session 5 Measurement (Continued)

11.15-11.45

Jonathan Freeman
S.E Avons
Don Pearson
University of Essex, UK

David Harrison
Nick Lodge
Independent Television Commission
Behavioural Realism as a Metric of Presence

11.45-12.15

W.A. IJsselsteijn
H. de Ridder
IPO, Center for Research on User-System Interaction, The Netherlands
Measuring Temporal Variations in Presence


12.15-1.30 LUNCH in "The Carvery", BT Labs


1.30-2.00

Panel discussion: Measurement


Session 6 Practice and Experience II

Chair – Peter Lawrence: BT Labs

2.00-2.30

Monika Büscher
Jon O'Brien
Tom Rodden
Jonathan Trevor
University of Lancaster, UK
Red is behind you: the experience of presence in shared virtual environments

2.30-3.00

Peter Henne
Gloria Mark
Angi Voss
German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
Gestures for Social Communication in Virtual Environments

3.00-3.30

M. Slater
A. Sadagic
M. Usoh
University College London, UK

R. Schroeder
Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Small Group Behaviour in a Virtual and Real Environment: A Comparative Study


3:30-4.00

Panel discussion: Practice and Experience


4.00-4.15 Plenary discussion: Future Directions

Chair: Mel Slater


4.15 Close of workshop