There is substantial current interest in the convergence of computing, telecommunications, television and broadcasting. Media organisations can put their information on network servers and periodically update it. Users download what they are interested in. Tools and techniques for accessing, interacting with, and displaying, media information are on the increase. Strategies for overcoming bandwidth limitations are needed.
Mr Keiran O'Hea, TechServ, European Commission DGXIII-E, Luxembourg
Prof Marc Cavazza, University of Bradford, UK
Convergence of Technologies and its impact on Content Creation and Access
Dr Mikael Jern, Vice-President, AVS/UNIRAS, Denmark
'Thin' versus 'Fat' Visualization Clients
Prof Peter Gibbins, Director, Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence, UK
Virtual Research and Development
Mr David Leevers, BICC, UK
Telepresence and Shared Virtual Environments over Networks
The Future of Web TV: Controller and Controlled
Dr Olga Kisseleva, University of Montpellier, France
WWW TV News In Context - Organisational practices and media products
Dr Simeon J Yates and Ms Jane L Perrone, Open University, UK
Multi-user visualization: a CORBA / Web-based approach
Bastiaan Schšnhage, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Implementing a 3D collaborative virtual environment on a networked PC-based architecture
Dr Karin Coninx, Prof Frank Van Reeth and Prof Eddy Flerackers, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Belgium
Video Search and Retrieval: current practice and future evolution
Michele Re, Finsiel, Italy
Realtime Remote Reality System
Steven J Madsen, Matsushita Electric Works, Japan
Jogging the Memory: Dynamic Visualisation over the Web
Dr Jeremy Walton, NAG Ltd, UK
Live Internet broadcasting - some unique experiences
D R Lawrence*, A Sloane*, G Contable**, D A Price**, **Department Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, *School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Agent-Based Facial Animation
Ali Al-Qayedi and Adrian F Clark VASE Laboratory, Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, UK
Implications of TV over the Internet
Nikolaos Kotsis, Robert Lambert and Douglas McGregor University of Strathclyde, UK
The Role of 3D Shared Worlds in Support of Chance Encounters in CSCW
Dr Avon Huxor, Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, UK
How to build a pan-European multilingual information distribution system
Jill A Hewitt and James A Malcolm, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Reusable dynamic behaviours for network based computer animation
W Tang, A Osman and Dr I. J Palmer, University of Bradford, UK
Remote Rendering on the WWW
M. D. J McNeill, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
The Performing Arts Data Service
Steve Malloch, Carola Boehm, University of Glasgow, UK
Virtual Rehearsal over Networks
C M Reeve and I J Palmer, University of Bradford, UK
Video Compression in MPEG4
Prof J Jiang, University of Glamorgan, UK
Merging Synthetic Animation Sequences with Camera Captured Video from Broadcasts over the Internet
Dr A L Thomas, University of Sussex, UK
Segmenting, Describing and Compositing Video Sequences containing Multiple Moving Elements
Dr G A Jones, Kingston University, UK
Prof Huw Jones
Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
BARNET, EN4 8HT
UK
d.h.jones@mdx.ac.uk
Prof John A Vince
Virtual Reality Society
PO Box 316
Haywards Heath
West Sussex, RH117 5YA, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1444 414792
Fax: +44 (0) 1444 414792
qi95@dial.pipex.com
Roy Middleton
University of Edinburgh
The Kings Buildings
Mayfield Road
EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 650 4994
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6552
R.Middleton@ed.ac.uk
A Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) is one that actively supports human-human communication in addition to human-machine communication and which uses a Virtual Environment (including textually based environments such as MUDs/MOOs) as the user interface. This is an exciting field with much potential for inter-disciplinary collaboration particularly in the fields of computer science, psychology, sociology, architecture and urban planning, cultural and media studies and Artificial Intelligence.
CVE'98 is aimed towards the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology and applications which support collaboration between users rather than on VR technology itself. CVE'98's goal is to present the current state-of-the-art in Collaborative Virtual Environments and foster inter-disciplinary links between researchers in this field.
This year CVE'98 will be held in conjunction with the workshop System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality which will take place on the 17 June 1998.
The main topics of the workshop include:
Dave Snowdon
dns@cs.nott.ac.uk
The latest information is available on : http://www.kingston.ac.uk/fractal
For more information please contact:
Dr Miroslav M Novak
School of Physics
Kingston University
Surrey, KT1 2EE
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 181 547 7481
Fax: +44 (0) 181 547 7562
novak@kingston.ac.uk
John's presentation will include a demonstration of the latest examples of the Gsharp Application Seat and the recommended Application Framework for developing applications with an emphasis on applications likely to be used in the UAUUG community. He will also demonstrate the latest Gsharp web examples and describe the new profile system and how to use it.
Steve's presentation will cover the new features available in the release of AVS/Express 3.4. This will include the Animator module which provides users with a convenient method of generating and viewing keyframe animations from AVS/Express applications. The talk will also include live demonstrations of the Animator and other features.
John will be running a clinic/workshop/open forum in parallel with Steve's presentation, and vice-versa. This allows those who are only interested in one of the product lines and those who are interested in both to make full use of the day.
The conference will have exclusive use of Hornton Grange, on the University of Birmingham Conference Park. Hornton Grange was built during the early years of this century as an Edwardian style gentleman's residence which now stands in its own attractive and peaceful grounds within the Conference Park. It has its own bar and Conservatory Dining Room with 32 modern and highly specified en-suite bedrooms in the adjacent North and South wings. The Conference Park itself is located very close to the University campus. As well as offering ample free car parking it has good rail links with Birmingham International airport and the rest of the UK.
Presentations are welcomed on various topics:
Further details of the Conference are available from the UAUUG web page at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/uauug/
or the Conference Organiser:
Paul Hatton
Information Services
Elms Road Building
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 121 4143994
Fax: +44 (0) 121 4143952
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk
Offers of talks and papers are welcomed by the Programme Organiser:
Rob Fletcher
Graphics Coordinator
Computing Service
University of York
YORK YO1 5DD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 433816
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 433740
R.Fletcher@york.ac.uk
Paul Hatton
P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk