Virtual Reality Sessions All-at-Once
Tutorial: 29. Designing Shared Virtual Environments
Monday 09:00 - 17:30.
Andrew McGrath, BT Labs, Center for Human Communications;
Amanda Oldroyd, BT Labs, Center for Human Communications
Benefits
You will learn where and when to use virtual worlds. You will also learn about
the tools available to support the design of virtual worlds.
Origins
This is a new tutorial for CHI 98.
Features
- understand the conceptual underpinnings of successful virtual environments
- learn where to use virtual environments
- learn about tools for creating virtual environments
- learn about design issues involved in virtual environments
Audience
Anyone interested in designing virtual environments. Prior knowledge of Internet
technology, basic computer graphics terminology and an interest in visual design
concepts is recommended.
Presentation
Lecture, videos, live demonstrations. Design exercises with group discussions.
Instructors
Andrew McGrath is a senior designer and technical manager at BT's research labs
in the UK working on Shared Spaces projects. His most recent work has been on The
Mirror, a collaboration between BT, Sony and the BBC, exploring inhabited TV.
Since 1991, he has focused on 3D user interfaces, including management of the
Portal, an early VRML site. Andrew has a B.A. in 3D Design from Glasgow School
of Art and an M.A. in Product Design from Manchester Polytechnic. Amanda Oldroyd
is an animator at BT's research labs working on inhabited TV and education
applications. Her most recent work has been on The Mirror. She is currently
working on Renegade TV, a collaboration with Channel 4 and Illuminations,
extending concepts pioneered in The Mirror. Amanda has a B.A. in Animation from
Edinburgh School of Art and an M.A. in Animation from Bournemoth University.
Late-Breaking Results: See How You Feel: New Input Techniques and Modalities
Tuesday 14:00 - 15:30.
Session Chair: Maribeth Back, Xerox PARC
- Frustrating the User on Purpose: Using Biosignals in a Pilot
Study to Detect the User's Emotional State
Jocelyn Riseberg, Jonathan Klein, Raul Fernandez, Rosalind W. Picard, MIT
Media Laboratory
- Touchpad-Based Remote Control Devices
Neil R.N. Enns, University of Toronto; I. Scott MacKenzie, University of Guelph
- Tracking Hands Above Large Interactive Surfaces with a Low-Cost
Scanning Laser Rangefinder
Joshua Strickon, Joseph Paradiso, MIT Media Laboratory
- Comparing Single- and Two-Handed 3D Input for a 3D Object Assembly Task
Maarten W. Gribnau, James M. Hennessey, Delft University of Technology
- Real Handles, Virtual Images
Colin Ware, Jeff Rose, University of New Brunswick
- A Kinetic and 3D Image Input Device
Shunichi Numazaki, Akira Morishita, Naoko Umeki, Minoru Ishikawa, Miwako Doi, Toshiba
Papers: Navigation
Tuesday 16:00 - 17:30.
Session Chair: Marti Hearst, University of California
- Worldlets: 3D Thumbnails for 3D Browsing
T. Todd Elvins, David R. Nadeau, Rina Schul, David Kirsh,
University of California, San Diego
- Evolving Video Skims into Useful Multimedia Abstractions
Michael G. Christel, Michael A. Smith, C. Roy Taylor, David B. Winkler,
Carnegie Mellon University
- Navigation Guided by Artificial Force Fields
Dongbo Xiao, Roger Hubbold, University of Manchester
Special Interest Group: Virtual Reality Applications in Health Care
Tuesday 16:00 - 17:30.
Organizer
- Suzanne Weghorst, University of Washington
Panel: Distance Education: Is it the End of Education as Most of Us Know It?
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30.
Organizers
- Lisa Neal, EDS
- Jenny Preece, University of Maryland
Panelists
- Diana Laurillard, Open University
- Lisa Neal, EDS
- Jenny Preece, University of Maryland
- Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
- Yvonne Waern, Linkoping University
Late-Breaking Results: The Real and the Virtual: Integrating
Architectural and Information Spaces (Suite)
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30.
Session Chair: Terry Winograd, Stanford University
- Integrated Design of Real Architectural Spaces and Virtual Information Spaces
Norbert A. Streitz, GMD-IPSI
- Shuffle, Throw or Take It!: Working Efficiently with an Interactive Wall
Jorg Geissler, GMD-IPSI
- Communication Chairs: Examples of Mobile Roomware Components
Christian Muller-Tomfelde, GMD-IPSI; Wolfgang Reischl, Darmstadt School of Design
- Water Lamp and Pinwheels: Ambient Projection of Digital
Information into Architectural Space
Andrew Dahley, Craig Wisneski, Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Laboratory
- Adding Another Communication Channel to Reality: An Experience
with a Chat-Augumented Conference
Jun Rekimoto, Sony CSL; Yuji Ayatsuka, University of Tokyo;
Hirotaka Uoi, Osaka University; Toshifumi Arai, Hitachi
- Basics of Integrated Information and Physical Spaces: The State
of the Art
Norbert A. Streitz, GMD-IPSI; Daniel M. Russell, Xerox PARC
- The Future of Integrated Design of Ubiquitous Computing in
Combined Real & Virtual Worlds
Daniel M. Russell, Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC
Late-Breaking Results: Great E-Scapes: Electronic Landscapes and Soundscapes
Wednesday 16:00 - 17:30.
Session Chair: Marilyn Salzman, George Mason University
- Experiments in Inhabited TV
Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Chris Brown, Nottingham University;
Graham Walker, Tim Regan, Paul Rea, Jason Morphett, BT Laboratories;
John Wyver, Illuminations Television
- The Lightwork Performance: Algorithmically Mediated Interaction
for Virtual Environments
John Bowers, Royal Institute of Technology & University of Manchester;
Sten-Olof Hellstrom, Kai-Mikael Jaa-Aro, Royal Institute of Technology
- Look Who's Talking: the GAZE Groupware System
Roel Vertegaal, Twente University; Harro Vons, Baan Development;
Robert Slagter, Twente University
- Looking for Sound? Selling Perceptual Space in Hierarchically Nested Boxes
Roel Vertegaal, University of Twente; Barry Eaglestone, University of Bradford
- Using Earcons to Improve the Usability of Tool Palettes
Stephen A. Brewster, University of Glasgow
- Multi-Parameter Controllers for Audio Mixing
Craig Wisneski, Ed Hammond, MIT Media Laboratory