Potential research directions into Virtual Environment Applications.
Speaker: Erik Champion, University of Melbourne
When: 2003-09-26 09:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Storm Griffin
Abstract:Many critics have lambasted Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
technology for promising much but failing to deliver. A more
constructive approach may be to classify differing methods of
interaction, user needs and how these user tasks may be augmented by
technology, rather than invent technology and hope a use may
materialise. This talk will summarise current and potential future
research in this area. It will also discuss various means by which
virtual environments (especially those online or focused on spatial
media), may benefit from these findings.
Biography:Erik Champion is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Melbourne, in
the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, and at the
Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering. He was also until
recently a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in
Multimedia and User Experience Design. He has worked for Hansen
Technologies in Australia and England, for COMPAQ and Digital in
Australia and New Zealand, and he has also worked briefly in
Japan. He studied in New Zealand and in Scandinavia, and has
lectured or tutored for the University of Auckland, UNITEC, Auckland
Institute of Technology, the New Zealand College of Design, and a
private school in England.
Erik's previous published research has been in virtual environments,
architectural theory history, and aesthetics. His current research
is entitled "Cultural Immersion in Virtual Places" as part of a
Lonely Planet and ARC SPIRT research grant. This research is an
evaluation of engaging and effective techniques using scripted
agents and interactive artifacts for cultural immersion in a virtual
reconstruction of Palenque, a Classical Mayan site in Chiapas,
Mexico.
2001-3
Ph.D. candidate in Architecture and Geomatics, University of Melbourne,
ARC SPIRT sponsor: Lonely Planet.
Completed Masters paper in Statistics for Research Workers, Department of Statistics.
2001
First class honours in Masters paper, Interaction Design and Usability,
Dept. of Information Systems, University of Melbourne.
1996
M.Phil (hons), Masters in Philosophy (honours), University of Auckland.
1993
M.Arch Masters in Architecture, University of Auckland.
1990
B.Arch Bachelor in Architecture, University of Auckland.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Storm Griffin, seminar host (storm@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)