Beginning CAVE: interdisciplinary exchange and experiment
We have now started developing the first of our project experiments on presence within CAVE, through a process that will extend through until mid-July.
Focusing on this process are Gabriella Giannachi, Nick Kaye, Mel Slater, David Swapp, Marco Gillies, with support from Annie Hudson, Peter Hulton, and others.
This will be an intensive period of collaboration aimed at realising a scenario that will transpose and test propositions and practices across disciplinary boundaries.
In its culmination, we aim to draw conclusions of relevance to our various disciplines and of significance across The Presence Project and beyond.
These images show an earlier and unrelated experiment in CAVE, exploring social interactions with 'responsive' avatars. Once our process is complete, we aim to post documentation on the Presence site, including still images, video, diary and analysis.
In the meantime, the basis of our work in CAVE is explored in the Collaboratory by Gabriella Giannachi at http://presence.stanford.edu:3455/Collaboratory/371