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.