CS4624 News 970420

News from April 20, 1997

Location and events for 4/23 class

The 4/23 class will cover important material. If you participate fully and document that, you can get credit for the Unit NC exercise.

The class will take place in 3 locations.

1. One is the scientific visualization area that has the campus Immersadesk (like one wall of the CAVE), in 202A Hancock Hall, right near the Hancock multimedia laboratory. Professor Ron Kriz (kriz@wave.esm.vt.edu) will explain and demonstrate about virtual reality.
2. Second is Whittemore 475. Dave Lee (dlee@vt.edu), who works with Professor Midkiff, will demonstrate and explain about videoconferencing, including MBONE.
3. Third is Whittemore 567, the Macroergonomics and Group Decision Systems Lab. Sam Thepvongs (sthepvon@vt.edu), who works with Professor Brian Kleiner (bkleiner@vt.edu), will engage you in several debates / decision support sessions. For more information about that software, look at the Ventana pages.

Sequencing is important. Groups will spend 15 minutes in each place and then rotate to the next, so be on time! The rotation is as follows

• Tuesday class with last name starting A-S will go to locations 1, 2, and then 3.
• Thursday class with last name starting A-S will go to locations 2, 3, 1.
• Everyone else will go to locations 3, 1, 2. Thus, they will go to Whit 567 for a 3pm demo, switch at 3:15 to 202A Hancock, and then switch to Whit 567 at 3: 30.

NC Exercise --- Maybe Choose the 4/23 Class Option

One student had trouble finding CU-SeeMe sites that were not full. So, it may be faster to come to class and then writeup your experiences on 4/23 instead - I've added that as an option for the exercise. See above.

NC Unit Quizzes should be available on or before 4/21

This set should be fairly easy.

Scheduling of Presentations on 4/24 and 4/29

Each presentation will take a total of 10 minutes. Assume 7 minutes for you to present, 1 minute for questions, and 2 minutes for setup. Be sure to test your setup before class (e.g., one of the evenings in Derring 2069) and to discuss with the instructor any special needs you have for equipment not available there.

For Thu 4/24, the order (from first to last) is QVR, LNK, MHG, AHS, WRD, QBC, FSE, VTA

For Tue 4/29, the order (from first to last) is AIO, Palace, RHP, ETDscan, MOOsburg, HUM, Virtus ACITC, CHCI Video

Your aim is to demonstrate what you have accomplished and hope it works / can be used. As you have time, also explain what you did, what problems you surmounted, and what you learned.

video Can Be Used

video.cs.vt.edu is working but still has minor networking problems. We are working to correct the situation.