EQUATOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Thursday/Friday 24/25 October 2002

Brockenhurst

Thursday 24 October 2002

PLEASE NOTE: SESSIONS 1 & 2 ARE BEING HELD AT THE BALMER LAWN
HOTEL (NEXT DOOR TO CAREY'S MANOR)

09:00 Intro and Overview.

Tom Rodden

09:15 SESSION 1 :
Moving from experiences and use to research challenges

Lessons from the lighthouse: Collaboration in a shared mixed reality system

B Brown, I MacColl, M Chalmers, A Galani, C Randell, A Steed

Learning through digitally-augmented physical experiences: Reflections on the Ambient Wood project

Y Rogers, S Price, E Harris, T Phelps, M Underwood, D Wilde, H Smith, H Muller, C Randell, D Stanton, H Neale, M Thompson, MJ Weal, D T Michaelides

From Snark to Park: An overview of the design, practical and technological issues when developing novel learning and playing experiences for indoors and outdoors

E Harris, T Phelps, Y Rogers, S Price

Where On-Line Meets On-the-Streets: Experiences with Mobile Mixed Reality Games

M Flintham, R Anastasi, S Benford, T Hemmings, A Crabtree, C Greenhalgh, T Rodden, N Tandavanitj, M Adams, J Row-Farr

10:45 COFFEE

11:00 SESSION 2: Infrastructure and Devices

Pin & Play: An Overview

K Van Laerhoven, A Schmidt, H Gellerson

Going underground: experiences with flashlights as interaction devices

A Ghali, S Benford, S Bayoumi, J Green, T Pridmore

Exploring the Dynamic Measurement of Position

Cliff Randell, Henk Muller

Weight sensing as a foundation for interactive domestic furniture

A Boucher, B Gaver, H Gellerson, S Pennington, A Schmidt, B Walker

12:30 LUNCH (at Carey's Manor)

14:00 SESSION 3: Understanding Interaction

Wearable Communities: A Research Framework for Investigating Computer Support for Face-to-Face Communication

G Kortuem

Collaboration in a Mediated Haptic Environment

J Jordan, J Mortensen, M Oliveira, M Slater, BK Tay, J Kim, MA Srinivasan

Designing mobile technologies to support collaboration.

D Stanton, H Neale

The Impact of Avatar Realism on Perceived Quality of Communication in a Shared Immersive Virtual Environment

M Garau, V Vinayagamoorthy, M Slater, A Steed, A Brogni

15:30 COFFEE/TEA

16:30 SESSION 4: Frameworks, Maths and Reflections

Sense and Sensability: a framework for designing physical interfaces

S Benford, H Schnadelbach, B Koleva-Hopkin, M Paxton, R Anastasi, C Greenhalgh, B Gaver

A Probabilistic Method for estimating the similarity of Trajectories of Mobile Objects

SR Gunn and DC De Roure

Ambiguity as a resource for Design

WW Gaver, J Beaver, S Benford

Reconciling Versioning and Context in Hypermedia Structure Servers

J Griffiths, DE Millard, H Davis, DT Michaelides, MJ Weal

The Evolution of Buildings and Implications for the Design of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments

T Rodden, S Benford

18:00 CLOSE

Friday 25 October 2002

09:00 SESSION 5 : Understanding Interaction II

Information Awareness and Representation

M Chalmers

Probing for Information

A Crabtree, T Hemmings, T Rodden, K Cheverst, K Clarke, G Dewsbury, and M Rouncefield.

Seamful ubiquity: Beyond seamless integration.

I MacColl, M Chalmers, Y Rogers, and H Smith

Media Layer and Information Thresholds

Sara Pennington

10:45 COFFEE

11:00 SESSION 6: Software Infrastructure and Devices

EQUIP: A Software Platform for Distributed Interactive Systems

C Greenhalgh

‘Getting the Message': SMS Messaging and Community Care

K Cheverst, G Dewsbury, D Fitton, and M Rouncefield

Automatic Ontology-based Knowledge Extraction and Tailored Biography Generation from the Web

H Alani, S Kim, DE Millard, MJ Weal, W Hall, PH Lewis, NR Shadbolt

Agoraphobia Research

D Romano, A Brogni, A Steed, M Slater

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 SESSION 7: Interaction Technologies

Shared visiting in EQUATOR City

Ian MacColl, Dave Millard, Cliff Randell, Anthony Steed

The Use of Spatial Models in Mixed-Reality Systems

Anthony Steed, Ian McColl and Others

MUD Slinging: Virtual Orchestration of Physical Interactions

MK Thompson, MJ Weal, DT Michaelides, DG Cruickshank, DC De Roure

A Lightweight Approach to Managing Privacy in Location-Based Services

A. Friday, H. Muller, T, Rodden, A. Dix

15:00 TEA/COFFEE – Closing Remarks