From: kai@kai.nada.kth.se (Kai-Mikael J-Aro)
Subject: 5th MultiG workshop
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Distribution: swnet
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:02:35 GMT

5th MultiG Workshop, December 18, 1992
CALL for PARTICIPATION

This is the fifth in a series of semi-annual workshops with the objective to bring together research-
ers and industrial practitioners in order to disseminate and discuss results and activities in the 
MultiG research programme.

The focus of this "special edition" workshop is on Virtual Reality techniques and systems as seen 
in the perspective of the MultiG infrastructure. What are the needs, capabilities, problems and 
promises of this fledgling technology? 

There will be a number of short talks and discussions presented on these issues at the workshop. 
Invited keynote speaker is Carl Loeffler, Carnegie Mellon University.

MultiG is a research program on distributed multimedia applications and high speed networks. 
The program is a national Swedish effort conducted in broad cooperation between academia and 
industry with public support.

Venue: In and near lecture hall E7 and 359D, Lindstedtsvgen 17, Stora Grden, KTH 

Date: December 18, from 9 am to 6 pm (+ evening event)

The presentations and demonstrations will be simultaneously distributed to the Forum Electrum, 
a demonstration showroom in Electrum, KISTA.

VERY WELCOME!!

Kai-Mikael J-Aro, KTH <kai@nada.kth.se> and Lennart E Fahln, SICS <lef@sics.se>.

5th MultiG Workshop, December 18, 1992



Venue: In and near lecture hall E7 and 359D, Lindstedtsvgen 17, Stora Grden, KTH

Date: December 18, from 9 am to 6 pm (+ evening event)

Registration: On the form below sent by

	email:	joann@nada.kth.se
	paper mail:	IPLab, att: JoAnn Gerdin, NADA, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm
	fax:	to +46-8-7900930

in parallel with SEK 1000 (academia and students SEK 400) 
to Swedish postgiro account no 706834-9, MultiG/Sundblad

The registration fee covers proceedings, coffee and evening event, but does not include lunch.

Preliminary Program, Friday, Dec 18, 1992

	9.00	Morning Session

Networked Virtual Art Museum
Carl Loeffler

Collaborative Graph Editing in Three Dimensions
Rolf Staflin

The Architecture of the MultiG Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment 
Christer Carlsson and Olof Hagsand

Telepresence in Conference Applications - Current Research Issues
Robert Forchheimer

Virtual Reality - Possibilities for the Handicapped?
Torleif Sderlund

A Virtual Environment Human/Robot Interface
Magnus Andersson

Building Sound Into a Virtual Environment
Stephen Pope and Lennart E Fahln

Mapping Organizations and Interaction Inside the Space
John Bowers

DIVE Objects as Interface to KBS
Per Kreuger

	12.00	Lunch

	13.00	Afternoon Session

Some VR Applications of the DDM Architecture 
Ashley Saulsbury, Peter Magnusson and Lennart E. Fahln

Persistent Objects in DIVE
Kai-Mikael J-Aro

A Distributed Calender
Bo Malmberg and rjan Sterner

Aura, Focus and Awareness
Steve Benford, Lennart E. Fahln

Implementation Issues of Aura Based Tools
Olov Sthl

Audio and Video Communication in Distributed Virtual Environments
Emmanuel Frecon, Christer Carlsson and Hans Eriksson

Description of High Performance Color Helmet Mounted Display
Jan Bogdanski

Advanced Visualization as an Aid to Effective Design and Marketing
Mats Werke

Using SICStus Objects in GUI Design
Thomas Sjland

The Stockholm Gigabit Network
Gunnar Karlsson

Can Cognitive Science Contribute to The Design of VR Applications
Kristina Hk

MultiGossip - A Distribution Package
Bjrn Eiderbck, Per Hgglund

	18.00	End of Session

Program likely to change

Demos

Distributed Interactive Virtual Environment
Olov Sthl

A High Resolution Miniature Colour CRT
Jan Bogdanski

Networked Virtual Art Museum (video)
Carl Loeffler

HUD - Virtual Windows
Anders Klemets

A Distributed Calender
Bo Malmberg and rjan Sterner

MultiGossip
Bjrn	 Eiderbck, Per Hgglund

	.........



Evening event

In the evening there will be a social gathering accompanied by an electronic music concert and other auditory and 
non-auditory events.

The time is 19.30 and the location will be Krken in Krhuset, a short walk from the workshop venue. 

The music is composed and performed by Stephen Pope, Sten-Olof Hellstrm, Lennart Fahln, 		John Bowers, Jonas 
Sderberg, Christer Carlsson, Ulf Bilting, Lars-Gunnar Bodin and others.



		CYBER ENJOY!





More information from:



Kai-Mikael J-Aro	email: kai@nada.kth.se	
IPLab				voice: +46 8 790 91 05		
NADA, KTH		fax: +46 8 790 09 30
S-100 44 Stockholm			
SWEDEN			



Lennart E Fahln	email: lef@sics.se
DSLAB 	voice: +46 8 7521539, 7521570
SICS Box 1263	fax: +46 8 7517230 
S-16428 KISTA
SWEDEN

ABSTRACT

Networked Virtual Art Museum

Carl Eugene Loeffler

The Networked Virtual Art Museum is a project directed by Carl Eugene Loeffler, Research Fel-
low, at the Studio for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, CMU. The pioneering project inves-
tigates telecommunications and virtual reality, and provides a basis for multiple users located in 
distant geographical locations to be conjoined in the same virtual, immersion environment. The 
project employs telecommunication hardware, as well as the hardware associated with virtual 
reality: data eyephones and multi-directional navigation devices.

The immersion environment is an art museum, which contains galleries offering exhibitions. The 
exhibition presented for the first demonstration conducted between Munich and Carnegie Mellon 
University, was conceived by Director Carl Eugene Loeffler and titled Fun House.

While based on the traditional concept of the fun house, the exhibition features advanced pro-
gramming concepts such as agents with Artificial Intelligence, mirrors offering reflections, and a 
game room which explores gravity and other aspects of physics illustrated by thrown objects. 

The Networked Virtual Art Museum utilizes the WorldToolKit, a virtual world development soft-
ware, available from Sense8 Corporation. The Virtual Research head mounted display, and the 
Ascension Technology 6-D mouse (The Bird), and 486/50 compatible with DVI and MIDI com-
prise the basic system hardware.

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Carl Eugene Loeffler, is Project Director, Telecommunications and Virtual Reality at the Studio 
for Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University. The project investigates 
the basis for multiple users located in distant geographical locations to conjoin in the same virtual, 
immersion environment. The project employs telecommunication hardware, as well as the hard-
ware associated with virtual reality: data eyephones and multi-directional navigation devices.











5th MultiG Workshop, December 18, 1992
LATE CALL for PAPERS



The 5th MultiG workshop will be hosted by the Interaction and Presentation Laboratory at the 
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. 

This is the fifth in a series of semiannual workshops with the objective to bring together research-
ers and industrial practitioners in order to disseminate and discuss results and activities in the 
MultiG research programme.

The focus of this "special edition" workshop is on Virtual Reality techniques and systems as seen 
in the perspective of the MultiG infrastructure. 

What are the needs, capabilities, problems and promises of this fledgling technology? 

Talks should be around 10 to 20 minutes long and preferably invite to discussion. 

Submissions are preferred in machine-readable format and will be put in the MultiG ftp archive 
after the workshop. 

(VHS videotapes can be handled in PAL and NTSC formats.)

Abstracts should be received by the 1st of December.

Preferred format: 

			A4, no page numbering, font is 12 points Times or similar (=CMR).

					The text area should be 150 mm wide and 237 mm high with 20 mm margin at the top.

			Language should be English.

	LaTeX, SGML, RTF or MIF, PostScript formats are all acceptable.

The manuscript should be delivered on the 18th December at the latest, printing and distri-
bution of the proceeding will be done after the workshop. 

It is of the utmost importance that we get a description of the requirements for a suggested demo 
as soon as possible and not later than December 1.

Contacts are Kai-Mikael J-Aro at KTH and Lennart E Fahln at SICS.



Kai-Mikael J-Aro	email: kai@nada.kth.se	
IPLab				voice: +46 8 790 91 05		
NADA, KTH		fax: +46 8 790 09 30
S-100 44 Stockholm			
SWEDEN			



Lennart E Fahln	email: lef@sics.se
DSLAB 	voice: +46 8 7521539, 7521570
SICS Box 1263	fax: +46 8 7517230 
S-16428 KISTA
SWEDEN
Registration form for the 5th MultiG Workshop, December 18, 1992

(to IPLab, att: JoAnn Gerdin, NADA, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm)



	Participants name:

	Company/Institution:

	Paper mail address:



	Phone: 		Fax:

	Email:

	Academia/Student?			___Yes ___No 

	Will attend evening event/concert?		___Yes ___No 	



(Registration form must be received by the organizers by the 7th of Dec)
-- 
Kai-Mikael J-Aro	email:  kai@nada.kth.se	    "Don't win, don't lose."
IPLab	 		voice:  +46 8 790 91 05		-- Yoshigasaki-sensei
NADA, KTH		fax:    +46 8 790 09 30
S-100 44  Stockholm	telex:  812 6154 7052 SICS
SWEDEN			teletex:2401-812 6154 7052=SICS