Subject: CFP: Collaborative Virtual Environments 2000
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1999 15:55:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Martin Reddy <reddy@ai.sri.com>
Organization: University of Washington
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds


                  CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION:
                               CVE 2000
               Collaborative Virtual Environments 2000

      Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, SIGGROUP and SIGCHI* (*pending)
    September 10th-12th, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, USA

                    http://www.ai.sri.com/cve2000

CVE 2000 is an international conference dedicated to the design,
development and use of collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). It is the
third conference in this bi-annual series, and attracts delegates from a
wide number of fields. A CVE is a computer-based, distributed, virtual
space or set of places. In such places, people can meet and interact with
others, with agents or with virtual objects. CVEs might vary in their
representational richness from 3D graphical spaces, 2.5D and 2D
environments, to text based environments. The instantiation of the CVE is
by no means limited to desktop devices, but might well include mobile or
wearable devices, public kiosks, etc.

The aim of the CVE conferences is to inspire fruitful discussion and
encourage information flow between practitioners of different disciplines.
Previous CVE conferences (CVE'96 and CVE'98) have attracted delegates from
computer science, psychology, sociology, architecture & urban planning,
cultural & media studies and Artificial Intelligence.

RESEARCH TOPICS

CVE2000 invites submissions on the full range of CVE-related topics,
including, but not limited to:-

o   the design and development of CVE systems and architectures
o   applications of Collaborative Virtual Environments
o   the design of interaction techniques, including non-verbal
    communication and conversation support
o   models and metaphors for collaboration
o   input/output methods, user-environment interactions
o   the design and deployment of autonomous agents within the environments.
o   experiences and evaluations of collaborative environments
    and their applications

DEADLINES
March 9th 2000: Submission deadline for Papers and Posters, Workshops and
Demos.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon: General Chairs
Alan Munro: Publicity Officer
Antonietta Grasso: Finance Officer
Martin Reddy: Exhibits Chair
Jonathan Trevor: Workshops Chair

PROGRAM COMMITTEE(provisional)
Steve Benford (University of Nottingham, UK)
Frank Biocca (Michigan State University, USA)
Wolfgang Broll (GMD, Germany)
Michael Capps (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA)
John Bowers (KTH, Sweden)
Anna Cicognani (University of Sydney, Australia)
Elizabeth Churchill (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA)
Mike Daily (Hughes Research Labs, USA)
Tapas Kumar Das (Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
David England (John Moores University, UK)
Lennart Fahlén (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Antonietta Grasso (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham, UK)
Chris Hand (Napier University, UK)
Bob Jacobson (SRI Consulting, USA)
Andrew McGrath (BT Adastral Park, UK)
Stefan Mueller (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany)
Alan Munro (Napier University, UK)
Samuli Pekkola (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Wolfgang Prinz, (GMD Germany)
Elaine Raybourn (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Martin Reddy (SRI International, USA)
Mike Robinson (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Tom Rodden (Lancaster University, UK)
Satu Ruuska (Nokia, Finland)
Dave Snowdon (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Jeni Tennison (Epistemics Ltd, UK)
Jonathan Trevor (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA)
Jolanda Tromp (University of Nottingham, UK)
Adrian West (University of Manchester, UK)

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