<s5>Æliens</s5> -- topical slide(s)

Virtual Environments

mission statement

Our goal is to study aspects of the deployment
and architecture of virtual environments
as an interface to multimedia information systems.

Our focus is (quite) technological

www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/research

slide: Mission statement

History -- The DejaVU project

Object-Orientation -- POOSD 2nd
Hypermedia -- van Ossenbruggen (CWI)
Visualization -- Schönhage (ASZ/OTI)
(Embedded logic) -- ... van Welie

slide: History

Selected publications

Bringing music to the Web
Animating the Web -- an SGML-based approach
Jamming (on) the Web
3D Gadgets for Business Process Visualization (Ballegooij)
A taxonomy of Web agents (Huang)
Navigation by Query (van Ballegooij)

slide: Selected publications

Research Projects

WASP -- Web Agent Support Program (NWO)
RIF -- Retrieval of Information in Virtual Worlds (NWO)

slide: Research Projects

Perspective(s)

education -- IMM, MMA1 (Web3D)
research -- architecture, 3D GUI, agents
collaboration -- AI (VU), CWI
student projects -- VU Campus, Out of the Dark

slide: Perspectives