From: cyberoid@u.washington.edu (Bob Jacobson)
Subject: WHO: HCI International 93 presenters...who are these people?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:15:21 -0700



This is an interesting conference, combining various elements of the
HCI movement into one big confab.  How does this differ from InterCHI?
I guess I'll never know.  The complete information follows, in my next
posting.

I have one question...can we get reports on the research of the
following researchers, who are listed as reporting on "Virtual
Reality"?  Some I know (like Woody Barfield at the UW) but have never
responded to this newsgroup; others are real mysteries.  Anyone know
these people?  Can you prod them to interacting with the rest of us?
Thanks.
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Ken'ichi Kamijo and Akihisa Kenmachi, NEC Corp.
VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM USING PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA--APPLICATION T0
VIRTUAL SPORTS

Wilhelm Bauer and Oliver Riedel, Fraunhofer Inst. of Ind. Engr.
NEW TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS

Lennart E. Fahlen, SICS, and Steve Benford, U of Nottingham
AWARENESS, FOCUS, AND AURA--A SPATIAL MODEL OF INTERACTION IN
VIRTUAL WORLDS

Woodrow Barfield and Scott Pilet, U of Washington
THE SENSE OF PRESENCE WITHIN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS:  A
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK`

Wolfgang Slany and Christian Stary, Tech U of Vienna
THE ART OF THE BELLY

Presiding over this panel is Helmut Krueger, Swiss Federal Inst. of
Technology


The Japanese research panel features:

Michitaka Hirose and Kouichi Hirota, U of Tokyo
SURFACE DISPLAY AND SYNTHETIC FORCE SENSATION

Hiroo Iwata, U of Tsukuba
A SIX DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM PEN-BASED FORCE DISPLAY

Junji Nomura, Kazuya Sawada, Noriko Enomoto, Matsushita Electric Works
Mitsuo Nagamachi, Hiroshima U
KANSEI ENGINEERING SYSTEM OF VIRTUAL KITCHEN

Takushi Fujita, Kayuru Ito, Hitomi Taguchi, Toshiyuki Tokusoka,
Souichi Nishiyama, Kazuyuki Watanabe, Fujitsu Laboratories
SIMULATED WORLD OF HYPOTHETICAL LIFE FORMS--VIRTUAL CREATURES

Fumio Kishino, Jun Ohya, Haruo Takemura, Nobuyushi Terashima,
ATR Communications Systems Research Labs
VIRTUAL SPACE TELECONFERENCING SYSTEM--REAL TIME DETECTION AND
REPRODUCTION OF 3D HUMAN IMAGES

The chairs are Prof. Hirose and Kishino-san.


Finally, this was tucked away in the "3D" panel:

Bruce A. Hobbs and Martin R. Stytz, Air Force Inst. of Technology
A DYNAMIC, INTERACTIVE USER INTERFACE TO A TRUE 3D VIRTUAL
ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY DEVICE

I recognize I'm not in the know, but perhaps others of you are...and
can get these folks online.  It would be nice to know what all of this
signifies.  Thanks.

For more info on the conference, try...

HCI International 93
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
1287 Grissom Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1287 USA

Unbelievably, for an HCI conference, I see no telephone, fax, or
email numbers/addresses for the conference.


Bob Jacobson
Co-Moderator