Keynote Lecture - Experiences of building Virtual Working Environments on the Web

Professor Peter Dew, University of Leeds

Abstract

This talk will outline work at Leeds in building a Virtual Working Environment which underpins the Leeds Virtual Science Park and will be launched later this year. Such environments are based on familiar physical working metaphors where people can undertake useful work, across the Internet, within a rich integrated information space. The talk will discuss the architectural and presentational issues that mast be addressed. The presentational layer is constructed using a metaphor language developed at Leeds which will generate scenes in both HTML and VRML. It is hoped to report on actual user experience in using the Virtual Science Park.