Virtual Working Environments
The group's research in on collaborative virtual environments, exploiting the
emerging high performance, multi-media networks that will form the information
highways. The main emphasis is on system architectures for collaborative working
that exploit core strengths in visualisation, constraint based solid modelling
and resource management for networks. There are strong links with companies with
interest in ATM networks and collaborative computing. The research is application
driven through inter-disciplinary projects with the Keyworth Institute of
Manufacturing and Information Systems Engineering,
the Virtual Science Park project
and the School of
Chemistry.
Research Staff
- Professor Peter Dew
- Dr Ken Brodlie
- Dr Terrance Fernando
- Dr Mourad Kara
- Dr David Morris
- Dr Helen Wright
- Mr Jim Jackson
- Mr Andy Walker
- Mr Jason Wood
Key Publications
Maxfield, Fernando and Dew (1995)
Distributed Virtual Environment for Concurrent Engineering. proc. of VRAIS'95,
to appear.
Fa, Fernando and Dew (1993)
Interactive Constraint Solid Modelling using Allowable Motion. proc. of
ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Solid Modelling and Applications, 243-252.
Brodlie, Brankin, Banecki, Gay, Poon and Wright (1993)
A Problem Solving Environment Integrating Computation and Visualisation. Proc.
of IEEE Visualisation 1993 Conf., IEEE Computer Society Press, 102-109.
Kara, Drew, Hunter, Jackson and Dew (1994)
Effect of packetisation on video applications over ATM and Ethernet networks.
in Proc. of the Second IFIP International Workshop on ATM Networks Modelling
and Evaluation.
Core Funding:
Keyworth Institute: Distributive Virtual Engineering (grants totalling £70K).
University of Leeds Virtual Science
Park (grants from the University, DTI and Leeds TEC totalling £200K,
joint with School of
Geography).
Collaborative Visualisation and Scientific Analysis (EPSRC ROPA, £100K).
A Network Architecture with Quality-of-Service Guarantees to Support Real-time
Collaborative Working Applications (£50K, consortium with Biss Ltd, Torch
Communications, IBM UK
University of Leeds, School of Computer Studies
October 1995