11.40 Session 1 VE Systems and Evaluation
02.30 Session 2 Shared Virtual Environments: Trials and Applications
04.30 Session 3 Distributed Virtual Environment Systems
11.00 Session 4 Multi-Resolution Models and Control
02.00 Session 5 Human Interaction
04.00 Session 6 Modelling and
Sketching
Henry Fuchs
Department of Computer
Science
Sitterson
Hall
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA.
11.00-11.30
The HiBall Tracker: High-Performance Wide-Area Tracking for Virtual and Augmented Environments
Greg Welch,
Gary
Bishop, Leandra Vicci, Stephen
Brumback, Kurtis Keller
Department of Computer
Science
Sitterson
Hall
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, USA.
D'nardo Colucci
Alternate Realities
Corporation
27 Maple Place
Minneapolis, MN 55401, USA
11.30-11.40 BREAK
Karl-Petter Åkesson
and Kristian Simsarian
The Interactive Collaborative
Environments Laboratory
Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden
12.10-12.40
A Video-based Virtual Reality System
Haruo Takeda,
Masami Yamasaki, Masami Yamasaki, Toshio Moriya,
Tsuyoshi Minakawa, Fumiko Beniyama, Takafumi Koike
Systems Development Laboratory
Hitachi, Ltd.
Kawasaki, Japan
12.40-01.10
Testbed Evaluation of VE Interaction Techniques
Doug Bowman,
Department of Computer
Science
Virginia Polytechnic and
State University
USA
Donald Johnson, Larry F. Hodges
Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
01.10-02.30 LUNCH
Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event
Chris
Greenhalgh, Steve.Benford
and Mike Craven
Communications
Research Group
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
University of
Nottingham
UK
03.00-03.30
Coping with Inconsistency Due to Network Delays in Collaborative Virtual Environments
Ivan
Vaghi, Chris
Greenhalgh, Steve.Benford
Communication
Research Group
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
The University
of Nottingham
UK
03.30-04.00
The London Travel Demonstrator
Anthony
Steed
Department of Computer
Science
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Emmanuel Frécon,
The Interactive Collaborative
Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden
Gareth Smith and Duncan Pemberton
Department of Computer Science
University of Lancaster
Anneli Avatare
The Interactive Collaborative
Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden
04.00-04.30 BREAK
The DiveBone - An Application-Level Communication Infrastructure for Internet-Based CVEs
Emmanuel Frécon,
The Interactive Collaborative
Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden
Chris
Greenhalgh,
Communications
Research Group,
School of Computer
Science and Information Technology
The University
of Nottingham, UK
Mårten Stenius,
The Interactive Collaborative
Environments Laboratory,
Swedish Institute of Computer
Science , Sweden
05.00-05.30
MAVERIK -- A micro-kernel for large-scale virtual environments
Roger
Hubbold, Jon Cook, Martin
Keates, Simon Gibson,Toby
Howard, Alan
Murta, Adrian West,Steve
Pettifer
Advanced Interfaces
Group
Department of Computer
Science
University of Manchester
UK
05.00-06.00
Distributed Open Inventor: A Practical Approach to Distributed 3D Graphics
Gerd Hesina,
Dieter Schmalstieg, Anton Fuhrmann, and Werner Purgathofer
Institute of Computer Graphics
Vienna University of Technology
Austria
Daniel Cohen-Or
,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of Mathematical
Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10.00-10.30
Navigating Through Sparse Views
Shachar
Fleishman,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of Mathematical
Science,
Tel Aviv University,
Israel
Baoquan Chen,
Department of Computer
Science,
State University of New
York at Stony Brook, USA
Arie Kaufman,
Department of Computer
Science,
State University of New
York at Stony Brook, USA
Daniel Cohen-Or
,
Department
of Computer Science,
School of Mathematical
Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
10.30-11.00 BREAK
A Method for Progressive and Selective Transmission of Multi-Resolution Models
Danny S.P.
To, Rynson W.H. Lau
Department of Computing
Science
City University of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Mark Green
Deptartment of Computer
Science
University of Alberta
Canada
11.30-12.00
A Market Model for Level of Detail Control
J.Howell,
Y.Chrysanthou,
A.Steed,
M.Slater
Department of Computer
Science
University College London
UK
12.00-12.30
Levels of Detail(LOD) Engineering of VR Objects
Jinseok Seo,
Gerard
Jounghyun Kim, Kyo Chul Kang
Department
of Computer Science and Engineering
Pohang University
of Science and Technology(POSTECH)
Korea
12.30-02.00 LUNCH
">Xiaodong
Jiang,
">Department of Computer
Science
">Nanjing University,
Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210093, P.R. China
">Yunlai Wang,
Nanjing Oral School Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210026, P.R. China
02.30-03.00
A Method for Sharing Interactive Deformations in Collaborative 3D Modeling
Hiroaki Nishino
, Atsunori Sakamoto, Kouichi Utsumiya, Kazuyuki Yoshida
Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems,
Oita University,
Japan
Kazuyoshi Korida
Department of Communication,
Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture,
Japan
03.00-03.30
Direct 3D interaction with Smart Objects
Marcelo
Kallmann and Daniel
Thalmann,
Computer Science
Department
Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Switzerland
03.30-04.00 BREAK
Real Time Rendering of Deformable Parametric Free-Form Surfaces
Frederick
W. B. Li and Rynson W.H.
Lau
Department of Computer
Science
City University of
Hong Kong
Kowloon
Hong Kong
04.30-05.00
Modeling and Animation of Botanical Tree for Interactive Virtual Environment
Tatsumi Sakaguchi
and Jun Ohya
ATR Media Integration
and Communications Research Laboratories
Kyoto, Japan
05.00-05.30
Software Architecture for a Constraint-based Virtual Environment
Terrence Fernando,
Norman
Murray, Kevin Tan,
Prasad
Wimalaratne
The Centre for
Virtual Environments
The University of
Salford
UK
05.30-06.00
Sketching a Virtual Environment: Modeling Using Line-Drawing Interpretation
Alasdair Turner
VR Centre for the
Built Environment
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Dave Chapman
Department of Geomatic
Engineering
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK
Alan Penn Bartlett
School of Architecture
University College London
Gower Street, London, UK