Virtual Environments ’98

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Keynote Papers

   1. Advances in Bridging the Gap: Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Productivity

      • Hans-Joerg Bullinger, Andreas Roessler

      Pages 1-7

   2. New Trends in Virtual Environment User Interface Research: Case Studies at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory

      • Toni Emerson

      Pages 8-17

   3. Teraflop Visualization

      • Arthurine R. Breckenridge

      Pages 18-27

   4. Virtual Reality in Medicine: Developing the Visualization and Interaction Technology for the 21st Century

      • Rolf Dieter Schraft, Matthias Wapler

      Pages 28-37

   5. Making Virtual Worlds Work in a Real World

      • Mark R. Mine

      Pages 38-44

3. Technical Papers

   1. Experiences from an Inhabited Television experiment

      • Paul Rea

      Pages 45-63

   2. Grounding & Awareness Management: Two Architectural Principles for Collaborative Virtual Worlds

      • Avon Huxor

      Pages 64-79

   3. Remote Object Translation Methods for Immersive Virtual Environments

      • Jurriaan D. Mulder

      Pages 80-89

   4. Meet.Me@Cyberstage: towards Immersive Telepresence

      • Vali Lalioti, Christophe Garcia, Frank Hasenbrink

      Pages 90-102

   5. VR Geo — Planning Tool for the Redevelopment of Landscape

      • Bernd Lutz, Rolf Ziegler

      Pages 103-113

   6. Design of A Virtual Environment That Employs Attention-Driven Interaction and Prioritization

      • Doreen Y. Cheng

      Pages 114-123

   7. Navigation in real and virtual environments: Judging orientation and distance in a large-scale landscape

      • H. K. Distler, H. A. H. C. Van Veen, S. J. Braun, W. Heinz, M. O. Franz, H. H. Bülthoff

      Pages 124-133

   8. Analyzing draft tube characteristics for hydraulic turbines in a VR environment

      • R. Eisinger, E. Göde, D. Rantzau, A. Ruprecht, U. Wössner

      Pages 134-141

   9. Collaborative Volume Rendering in a Distributed Virtual Reality Environment

      • P. Benölken, R. Niemeier, U. Lang

      Pages 142-150

   10. Sharing virtual environments over a transatlantic ATM network in support of distant collaboration in vehicle design

       • Volodymyr Kindratenko, Berthold Kirsch

       Pages 151-161

   11. Architecture and Digital Exhibitions the Einstein Tower World

       • Fabio Pittarello, Mauro Pittarello, Giuseppe F. Italiano

       Pages 162-171

   12. Hybrid Approaches to Interactions between Real and Virtual Humans in Mixed Environments

       • Selim Balcisoy, Daniel Thalmann

       Pages 172-181

   13. An interactive face robot able to create virtual communication with human

       • Fumio Hara, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Fumiya Iida

       Pages 182-194

   14. A Flexible Prototyping Tool for 3D Real-Time User-Interaction

       • Roland Blach, Jürgen Landauer, Angela Rösch, Andreas Simon

       Pages 195-203

Ten years after Virtual Environment research started with NASA’s VIEW project, these techniques are now exploited in industry to speed up product development cycles, to ensure higher product quality, and to encourage early training on and for new products. Especially the automotive industry, but also the oil and gas industry are driving the use of these techniques in their works. The papers in this volume reflect all the different tracks of the workshop: reviewed technical papers as research contributions, summaries on panels of VE applications in the automotive, the medical, the telecommunication and the geoscience field, a panel discussing VEs as the future workspace, invited papers from experts reporting from VEs for entertainment industry, for media arts, for supercomputing and productivity enhancement. Short industrial case studies, reporting very briefly from ongoing industrial activities complete this state of the art snapshot.

• Computer Graphics
• Computergraphik
• Layout
• Multimedia
• Navigation
• Virtual Environments
• virtual reality
• visualization

• GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik, IMK-VMSD, St. Augustin, Federal Republic of Germany

  Martin Göbel

• VIS-LAB, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (FhG IAO), Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

  Jürgen Landauer, Matthias Wapler

• HLRS Visualisation Department, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany

  Ulrich Lang

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