[Ltg] HAIL Seminar (23rd October): Professor Frederic Merienne, ENSAM, France

[Andrew Lampert]

                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/


Title:          Virtual Immersion: from technology to experience

Speaker:        Professor Frédéric Merienne
                Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image
                ENSAM, France

Date:           Tuesday 23rd October 2007 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO ICT Centre,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

The presentation will talk of virtual immersion and the scientific subjects related to this interdisciplinarity area; especially between cognitive science and engineer science. The presentation will follow this plan : 1.History/Definitions; 2.Principles/Technologies; 3.Bolts/Issues. Some works will be presented to illustrate the talk.


Short resume

Prof Merienne is head of the Imaging Institute of the LE2I (Laboratoire Electronique, Informatique et Image) Laboratory of ENSAM, France <http://www.ai.cluny.ensam.fr/> . His group in France are researching a number of applications of Virtual Environments, including applications in the medical, aviation, architectural, cultural and computer-aided design fields. He is currently spending a year in the Networking Technologies Laboratory of the CSIRO ICT Centre, where he is extending the capabilities of his technology taking advantage of CSIRO's expertise in telecollaboration and Human Factors.


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