Workshop Schedule

Following our last meeting, we have arranged the final workshop timetable
as follows:

      09:00 Introductions
      09:30 Plenary discussion: What is a VE ?
      10:30                         -- Break --
      11:00 Demos
      11:30            A1: Information Representation
                       A2: User Interfaces & Clients
                       A3: Integration of the "real world"
      12:30                       ---- LUNCH ----
      14:00            B1: Spacial Organization & Navigation
                       B2: Collaboration and CSCW in VEs
                       B3: Large scale systems and distributed architectures

      14:58 Changeover
      15:03            C1: Community (Users, Social Aspects, Evolution, etc.)
                       C2: Integration of the WWW
                       C3: Objects for collaborative work (including
                           technical aspects?)
      16:00                         -- Break --
      16:30 Presentation of topics discussed (10 min each)
      17:30 Summing up: Recommondations
      18:30                      ---- END ----

      Note that other issues can be raised in plenary discussion

      Off Workshop: The "Eurogroup"

Please note that lunch is from 12:30 - 14:00 rather than 14:30 to allow
extra time for discussion in the afternoon.

We have three hour-long discussion sessions (A, B and C) where we will
split into three smaller groups to discuss separate issues.  We have tried
to assign people to these groups on the basis of preferences (either sent
to us by email or apparant interests expressed through position papers)
*and* to ensure each group has enough people with different perspecitives
to generate interesting discussion.

If you feel strongly that you want to change a group, you should try to
swap with someone in the group you want to change to.  If this proves
impossible, we will only consider reassignment if you prove to us you're
desperate ;)  Guests (Dick, Jay, Colin) will not be reassigned by us.
Group assignments are at the bottom of this email.

For those leading sessions (Doree, Jola, Araki, Rob, Chris, Jay), there
will be more information on what we expect from you soon (promise).

To reiterate, we will meet at the registration desk at *19:45* on Sunday,
and go to a restaurant which Gavin is sorting out for food, drink and
getting to know each other.

See you in Paris,

Jeni

A1: Information Representation                            -- Jeni
  - how can information be represented in VEs?
  - representation of 'aging', persistence and history.
    - Daniel
    - Seth
    - Anny
    - Jeff
    - Araki

A2: User Interfaces & Clients                             -- Gavin
  - what do clients need to be able to do?
    - Chris
    - Luc
    - Colin
    - Kim
    - Kees

A3: Integration of the "real world"                       -- Doree
  - how can the real world be integrated into VEs?
  - what about the real world should be integrated?
    - Jola
    - Rob
    - Nakhshon
    - Jay
    - DavidA
    - Dick

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B1: Spatial Organisation and Navigability                 -- Jola
  - how should VEs be organised for good navigation?
    - Chris
    - Jeni
    - Gavin
    - Jeff
    - Kees

B2: Collaboration and CSCW in VEs                         -- Daniel
  - how can existing CSCW tools be integrated into VEs?
  - what tools are needed for collaboration in VEs?
    - Rob
    - Seth
    - Anny
    - Kim
    - Dick
    - Doree

B3: Large Scale systems and distributed architectures     -- Araki
  - scalability
  - decentralisation
    - Nakhshon
    - Luc
    - Jay
    - DavidA
    - Colin

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C1: Community (Users, Social Aspects, Evolution etc)      -- Rob
  - ownership
    - Jola
    - Araki
    - Nakhshon
    - DavidA
    - Kees

C2: Integration of the WWW                                -- Chris
  - how can VEs be effectively integrated with the WWW?
    - Jeni
    - Gavin
    - Luc
    - Anny
    - Jeff
    - Dick

C3: Objects in Collaborative work (technical aspects)     -- Jay
  - what objects can be used in VEs for collaborative work?
  - what should they do?
    - Daniel
    - Seth
    - Doree
    - Colin
    - Kim

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Jeni Tennison
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
Department of Psychology
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
UK

tel: +44 (0) 115 9515151 x8352
fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5361
url: http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/aigr/people/jft.html
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