I finished up at PARC and flew back to Australia last week. One of my first tasks here is to give a presentation on my PARC project at the Australian Virtual Worlds Workshop at Swinburne Uni on Friday 28th November. Then on Friday 5th December, Bernd Ploderer and I will give a presenation on our visits to America at our Interaction Design Group seminar.
I’ve got two jobs at November’s CSCW conference in San Diego.
On Sunday 9th I’m in a workshop on Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, and Workplace Productivity. I submitted this position paper, on communicating by voice and collaborative building.
Then on Mon 10th through Wed 12th I’m helping Nic Ducheneaut and Mike Roberts give a tutorial on virtual worlds. We’ll cover three example VWs: WoW, Wonderland and SL. The tutorials are two hours long. Here is my handout.
On Sunday 2nd Nov I’m speaking at a workshop in Second Life. The workshop is run by the “At The Intersection” group and is held at Research Island Denmark from 11am to 1pm Second Life Time. The other speakers are Professor Robert Bloomfield and Sisse Siggaard Jensen, and the convenors are Marianne Riis & Dina Friis Jensen. After the three speakers there is a panel discussion with the audience, and I think it’s free for interested researchers to attend.