COVEN
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- Full name
- COVEN: Collaborative Virtual Environments
- Acronym
- COVEN
- Website
- http://vrlab.epfl.ch/Projects/coven.html
- Keywords
- User representation for his interaction on the virtual, augmented or mixed worlds,
Avatars (simulation of facial expressions...), Distributed software architectures
- Budget
- €
- Start date
- 9/1/1995
- End date
- 9/1/1999
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Partners
- [[Thomson CSF (France), Division Ltd (UK), University College London (UK), University of Nottingham (UK), University of Lancaster (UK), Swedish Institute of Computer Science (Sweden), Arax (UK), Integrated Information Systems (Greece), KPN Research (The Netherlands), TNO Physics and Electronics (The Netherlands), UNIGE (CH).]]
Funding Bodies
Contact
- [[no more contact, EPFL can give information
EPFL VRlab EPFL Vrlab Station 14 CH 1015 Lausanne Email: Daniel.Thalmann@epfl.ch Web: http://vrlab.epfl.ch/Projects/coven.html Tel: +41-21-693-5214 Fax:+41-21-693-5328 (mailto:useremail@useremail)
Objectives
The main goal of the COVEN project is to define a new platform, which will be able to deal with 3D, shared environment.
Main Results
Development of a platform for Collaborative Virtual Evironments using avatars The project is a unique endeavour that brings together expertise on communications infrastructures; computer supported cooperative work; virtual reality and animation to provide support for a European wide distributed virtual environment. This virtual environment will enable groups of geographically disparate users to work together by inhabiting common information spaces.
- Scientific results:
-PhD thesis Many, cannot find them
End Users
Evaluation Methodologies
Design Approach
Publications
V. Normand, C. Babski, S. Benford, A. Bullock, S. Carion, N. Farcet, E. Frecon, J.Harvey, N. Kuijpers, N.Magnenat-Thalmann, S. Raupp-Musse, T. Rodden, M. Slater, G. Smith, A. Steed, D. Thalmann, J. Tromp, M. Usoh, G. Van Liempd, N. Kladias, The COVEN project: exploring applicative, technical and usage dimensions of collaborative virtual environments, Presence: teleoperators and virtual environments, MIT Press, Vol.8, No2, 1999, pp.218-236.. A.Guye-Vuillieme, T.K.Capin, I.S.Pandzic, N.Magnenat Thalmann, D.Thalmann, Non-verbal Communication Interface for Collaborative Virtual Environments, The Virtual Reality Journal, Springer, Vol. 4, pp.49-59.
