With my apologies to those who got this via another list.

Anthony

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Dr Anthony Steed                       [log in to unmask]


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         "People Working Together in Virtual Environments"

                        Prof. Mel Slater

                 6.30 pm    Wed 25 November 1998

        Room A529, City University, St John St, London EC1

               Organised by the ACM British Chapter

    This talk will begin with a general introduction to Virtual
    Environments. It will then discuss recent experimental work
    comparing what happens when people work together on a task
    in a virtual environment with performing the same task in
    ordinary reality, focusing mainly on the unfolding social
    dynamics. Who emerged as leader? Was there any association
    between computational power and leadership? To what extent
    do social discomforts such as embarrassment or shyness
    emerge in virtual environment encounters? How do people
    respond to their own and other people's `virtual bodies'?
    Such questions are important if virtual reality is to be
    seriously used as a means for social and work encounters.

  Mel Slater is Professor of Virtual Environments at University
  College London, where he leads ten other researchers in the
  Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Group. He has been
  a Visiting Professor at the University of California (1991-92)
  and a Visiting Scientist at MIT (1998). He is particularly
  interested in real-time algorithms for photo-realistic display,
  in what happens when people go into virtual environments, in
  what determines their sense of presence, and in how people
  cooperate.  He leads a project on Virtual Rehearsal for Actors
  funded by the Virtual Centre of Excellence on Digital Broadcast
  (DigitalVCE Ltd) and is a Principal Investigator on an EU ACTS
  project on Collaborative Virtual Environments.


         Refreshments will be provided.  Everyone welcome.

FEES:   Chapter members; host institution staff and students:    Free
        BCS and ACM members;  other students  (ID required)      3.00
        Others:                                                  5.00


Room A529:
Use City University's St John Street entrance, opp. Whiskin St EC1.
The very large clock hanging over this entrance makes it easy to spot.
Obtain a visitor's pass from security. Use the corridor leading away
from the street. Take the lift on the left from level 2 to level 5.
Exiting the lift, turn right, then all corridors take you to A529.

TRAVEL:
>From ANGEL tube station:  Turn left on exit. At the crossroads go
straight ahead into St John Street. Carry on for c. 500 yards (8 min).
(Angel is one stop on the Northern Line City Branch from Kings Cross.)
P.S. from Waterloo a taxi or no. 4 bus (to Ashby St EC1) beats the tube.

Contact:    David Dodson    tel 0171 477 8445    [log in to unmask]

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