From: colston@gid.co.uk (Colston Sanger) Subject: EVENT: UK CSCW SIG seminar on space in cooperative settings, 26 Jan 93 Date: 21 Oct 92 18:33:40 GMT Message-ID: <348@sixnine.gid.co.uk> Organization: GID Ltd, Upper Basildon, Reading, UK Crossposted from comp.human-factos UK CSCW SIG seminar on the Importance of Space in Cooperative Settings Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 Room 131, DTI, Kingsgate House, 66-74 Victoria Street, London SW1, UK Chair: Steve Benford, University of Nottingham (sdb@cs.nott.ac.uk) This will be a joint meeting with the British HCI Group. This seminar sets out to explore the role of space in cooperative work. At a microscopic level, spatial settings might provide a means of effectively and naturally managing conversations. At a macroscopic level space might allow the organisation of cooperative work on a large scale. Spatial metaphors, particularly "rooms" metaphors, have become increasingly popular in CSCW. The advent of affordable Virtual Reality technology will revolutionise user interfaces in the next few years and will make it possible to build much more powerful representations of these metaphors. The seminar brings together speakers from diverse backgrounds to explore issues of space in cooperative work. Papers will address topics such as the social organisation of space, the affordances provided by space for cooperative work, results from CSCW projects which have utilised spatial metaphors and also the state of the art in virtual reality technology. It is expected that there will be one or more demonstrations of virtual reality systems. The current programme is as follows. This is likely to be expanded by a further one or two presentations. Introduction Steve Benford, University of Nottingham Investigation of the Social Organisation of Space John Hughes, University of Lancaster A Space Based Model for User Interaction in Shared Synthetic Environments Lennart Fahlen, The Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Title to be announced Bill Gaver, Xerox EuroPARC State of the Art Desktop Virtual Reality (+ demonstration) Andy Tait, Dimension International CyCo - Cooperation in Cyberspace Robert Ingram, Steve Benford, The University of Nottingham, Developing Spatial Models for Cooperative Work John Bowers, University of Manchester Project BRICC: Building Real Rooms Using Virtual Rooms David Leevers, The BICC Group ------------------------ A definitive programme will be available during December 1992. For advance registration, please contact: Patrick Holligan LUTCHI Research Centre Dept of Computer Studies Loughborough University of Technology Loughborough, LE11 3TU, Leicestershire Tel. (0509) 222 694 Fax: (0509) 610 815 E-mail: P.J.Holligan@lut.ac.uk ------------------------ THE UK CSCW SIG The CSCW SIG was formed by the UK Human Interface (HI) and Communications and Distributed Systems (CDS) Clubs in 1990 as a special interest group supported by, but separate from the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry. Membership is open to anyone interested in CSCW. The current membership is several hundred people, divided equally between commerce/industry and academia. Anyone wishing to join the SIG or be on its mailing list should contact S.A.Scrivener@lut.ac.uk. ------------------------ UK CSCW SIG/BCS CSCW BOOK SERIES In association with the BCS, the SIG has a book series, published by Springer-Verlag. The first three titles are due to appear in February 1993. The Series Editors are Dan Diaper (University of Liverpool) and Colston Sanger (GID Ltd). Colston Sanger --- -- GID - software engineers to the quality 1 Captain's Gorse, Upper Basildon, Reading, Berks RG8 8SZ, UK UUCP: colston@gid.co.uk Tel/Fax: +44 491 671964