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eRENA Partners
BT - EPFL - GMD
- Illuminations - KTH
- MIRALab - Nottingham
- ZKM
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BT
Adastral Park
Adastral Park is
located in Suffolk, England and is British Telecom's core
research and development facility. A key focus of its research
within eRENA has involved the exploration of large-scale shared
spaces, including graphical multi-user real-time networked
environments and simulations of group communication in shared
spaces.
Jason Morphett
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EPFL
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
The Computer
Graphics Lab (LIG) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
in Lausanne was created in July 1988 by its director, Professor
Daniel Thalmann. Research at the LIG is oriented towards populated
virtual worlds with an emphasis on the simulation of virtual
humans. LIG is a world leader in research in behavioral animation
and simulation of crowds.
Prof. Daniel Thalmann
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The
University of Nottingham
The Mixed Reality Laboratory at the The University
of Nottingham is internationally recognised for its pioneering
work on collaborative virtual environments and mixed reality.
Specific areas of research include: models of spatial interaction
in CVEs; scaleable systems architectures for CVEs; mixed reality
boundaries between real and virtual worlds; and production
technologies for on-line performances in CVEs.
Prof. Steve Benford
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GMD
- National Research Center for Information Technology
The
MARS group (Media Art & Research Studies) at the Institute
of Media Communication is part of the GMD - National Research
Center for Information Technology. MARS group's research and
artistic experiments are focused on digital representation
and social interaction in mixed reality and shared virtual
environments.
Monika Fleischmann
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KTH
- The Royal Institute of Technology
CID, the Centre for user-oriented IT Design at KTH, is an
interdisciplinary research laboratory with competence in computing
science, psychology, sociology, pedagogy, graphic design,
music and dramaturgy. Theain research areas are digital worlds
on the net, interactive learning environments, the forms and
expressions of interaction and co-operative design.
Prof. Yngve Sundblad
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MIRALab
- University of Geneva
The MIRALab is part of the Research Center of Computer Science
(CUI) of the University of Geneva. MIRALab was created by
Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann in 1988 and iscomposed of
about 30 PhD students and researchers working in the field
of virtual humans and computer animation. The general research
topics addressed include physics-based models such as the
simulation of clothes, medical human simulation and virtual
cultural heritage.
Prof. Nadia Magnenat
Thalmann
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Illuminations
The Illuminations Group comprises three well-established
independent production companies which produce distinctive
and contemporary television, films and convergent media. Illuminations'
television work has been screened by broadcasters in more
than 25 countries and the company is recognised as a pioneer
in the techniques of Inhabited Television.
John Wyver
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ZKM
- Center for Art and Media
The ZKM is a unique international
center of research, production and presentation of artistic
achievements in the field of the new media technologies. Opened
in 1997, it is a public foundation that includes an Institute
for Visual Media. Here, artists and scientists work together
exploring the artistic, social and commercial potentials within
the emergent technological domain of visualization, interaction,
networked and embedded systems.
Prof. Jeffrey Shaw
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