Demonstrations

Tuesday 9 - Thursday 11  September, 1997

ECSCW '97 included a demonstrations track as part of the technical program providing the opportunity to see and experience a range of exciting new collaborative tools and technologies. Demos have a 2 page description in the Conference Supplement.

NCSA HabaneroTM - Synchronous Collaborative Framework and Environment
Annie Chabert, Ed Grossman, Larry Jackson, Stephen Pietrovicz, Software Development Division, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

PublicSpace: A Flexible Shared Workspace System
Frank Reiff, Computing Department, Lancaster University

The BSCW System: Supporting Cooperative Work on the WWW
Jonathan Trevor, Richard Bentley, Uwe Busbach, Wolfgang Appelt, FIT.CSCW, GMD

Orbit - Supporting Social Worlds
Tim Mansfield, Simon Kaplan, Ted Phelps, Mark Fitzpatrick, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Charles Herring, Rik Taylor, Philip Johnson, Blaize Rhodes and Andrew Berry, CRC for Distributed Systems Technology, University of Queensland

Building and Exploring CVEs
Adrian Bullock, Steve Benford and Chris Greenhalgh, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham; Rob Aspin, Andy Colebourne, Gareth Smith and Tom Rodden, Computing Department, Lancaster University

Collaborative Compound Document Editing: the CoCoDoc Framework and its Applications
G. Henri ter Hofte, Harm Bakker, Hermen J. van der Lugt, Martin Wibbels, Raymond A.A. Otte, Ferial Moelaert El-Hadidy, Wouter B. Teeuw, Telematics Research Centre, The Netherlands

The ECSCW'97 video offers a series of short (ten minute) glimpses of recent and on-going CSCW projects. Topics covered will include cooperative working for environmental sciences, collaborative virtual environments and new techniques for spatial interfaces.

The video is available for purchase from the Conference Office. Descriptions of the systems shown in the video can be found in the Conference Supplement.

SPACE: A New Generation of Human-Computer Interface for CSCW
Patrice Carlier, Patricia Plénacoste and Jean-Claude Tarby, Trigone Cité Scientifique; Cédric Dumas, Institut National de l1Audiovisuel, France & Laboratoire d1Informatique, Lille; Christophe Chaillou and Grégory Saugis, Laboratoire d1Informatique, Lille

Inhabiting the Web: Highlights from a series of VR Meetings
Adrian Bullock, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham

Building Real Virtual Worlds
Rob Aspin, Andy Colebourne, Gareth Smith and Tom Rodden, Lancaster University

The MANICORAL Video
Werner Fürst, Technical University of Graz; Roger Haagmans and Marc Naeije, Delft University of Technology; Janni Nielson, Copenhagen Business School

Experiments with DIVE
Anneli Avatare, Tomas Axling, Lennart E. Fahlén, Emmanuel Frécon, Olof Hagsand, Pär Hansson, Kristian T. Simsarian, Mårten Stenius, Olov Ståhl, Anders Wallberg, Kale Åkesson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Subjectivity in Populated Information Terrains
Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, KTH, Sweden; Dave Snowdon, University of Nottingham

A Poetry Performance in MASSIVE-2
Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock, Chris Greenhalgh and Dave Snowdon, University of Nottingham

The following posters have a 2 page description in the Conference Supplement.

In the Right Place at the Right Time: Placement Options for Web-based Architectures
Devina Ramduny and Alan Dix, School of Computing, Staffordshire University

MobiCom: Designing IT use for Distributed, Mobile and Networking Groups
Steinar Kristoffersen, Computing Department, Lancaster University; Fredrik Ljungberg and Martin Strömberg, Viktoria Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden

Hybrid Floor Control Method in Computer Support Meeting System
Satoru Watanabe and Akihiko Obata, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd, Japan

The CSCW3 Prototype - Supporting Collaboration in Global Information Systems
Tom Gross, Institute of Computer Science, University of Linz

CCF: Collaborative Computing Frameworks
Vaidy Sunderam, Math & CS, Emory University

Exploring Methods of Reducing Normative Influence in Computer-mediated Groups through MIMICS (HuMan Imitating Machine in Computer Software)
Andy Morley and Fraser J Reid, Dept of Psychology, University of Plymouth

An Environment for Prototyping CSCW Applications
Marie-Chantal Pons, Ministry of Defence, France; Bernard Merialdo, Institut EURECOM, France

Active Annotations in the World Wide Web
Jakob Hummes, Alain Karsenty and Bernard Merialdo, Institut EURECOM, France

Techniques for "natural" Interaction in Multi-user CAVE-like Environments
Pär Hansson, Anders Wallberg and Kristian Simsarian, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Navigational Agents for Large Scale Virtual Worlds
Rameshsharma Ramloll, Lancaster University