ITEE seminar: Theodor Wyeld, 01.15PM, Fri 19 Sep 2003

Perspective and Our Spatial Ontology

Speaker: Theodor Wyeld, The University of Adelaide

When: 01.15PM, Friday 19 Sep 2003

Venue: 78-420

Host: Storm Griffin

Abstract:

  This seminar outlines my current and past research
  direction. Providing an overview of experiments conducted and so
  on. It discusses our mental perception and how this has been
  affected by the science of perspective since the Renaissance. The
  ubiquitous use of persepctival imagery in advertising and so on. And
  how we come to recognise the objects on a computer screen because
  we've been acculturated to seeing the world in perspective. And how
  moving between objects displayed on our computer screens we
  experience virtual worlds.  It then goes on to discuss various types
  of virtual worlds providing real-time examples in vrml. The notion
  of an expanded spatial experience in virtual worlds is broached, and
  real-time examples are provided. The lecture wraps up with a brief
  commentary of the use of the logistics of perception (in Manovich's
  terms) in the latest Irapi war.

Biography:

  Theodor G Wyeld is a PhD candidate in Architecture at Adelaide
  University, Australia.  Between graduating from Architecture at
  Adelaide University, completing a Master of Regional and Urban
  Planning at the University of South Australia and commencing a PhD
  he worked for large architectural firms in Australia and established
  a solo practice.  He teaches digital media to undergraduates in the
  school of Architecture and runs a remote collaboration,
  semester-long, course with Masters of Digital Media students using
  various networked media. Most recently he has been also consulting
  to government agencies assisting them to better understand their
  vast arrays of asset data using 3-D visualisation technologies. His
  research centres on game-oriented interaction in multi-user
  distributed 3-D virtual environments. He is a regular contributor to
  the VRMLnewsgroup and committee member of the web3d consortium.

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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