ITEE seminar: Erik Champion, 09.00AM, Fri 26 Sep 2003

Potential research directions into Virtual Environment Applications.

Speaker: Erik Champion, University of Melbourne

When: 09.00AM, Friday 26 Sep 2003

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.

Contact:

Storm Griffin, seminar host (storm@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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