Section Editor: Munir Mandviwalla

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Examples

Virtual Conferences

• CybErg 1996/1999 International Ergonomics Conference.

Traditional conferences with on-line events

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Perpetual virtual conferences

• BlakeOnline, listserv conference about the life of a poet (Blake Ives is not the same person but..)

Conferences providing archival access to presentations and papers

• Second WorldWide Web Conference '94: Mosaic and the Web
• AusWeb95Virtual Edition, for the FirstAustralian World Wide Web Conference, April 1995.
• Society and the Future of Computing '95, June 11 - 15, 1995.
• Americas Conferenceon Information Systems, Association of Information Systems, August25 - 27, 1995.
• WebINNOVATION, December 4-6,1995.

Some experiments with annotated and rich archives (e.g., including video):

• Communication Technology and the Conference of the Future. ACM Computer Science Conference, February 17, 1996. Munir Mandviwalla (chair), Ifay Chang, Rick Light, Lorne Olfman, and Jeff Zadeh.

• The Conference of the Future and Communication Technology. ACM Computer Personnel Research Conference, April 13, 1996. Munir Mandviwalla (chair), Reagan M. Ramsower, Dianne H. Jordan, John Nosek, and Geoff Dick.

Conferences providing guided tours of presentations

• A Day at the ConsumerElectronics Show
• A Day at Comdex

Conferences that start and/or continue in electronic form

• Cyberbridge. A continuation of the 4D Dynamics Conference, September 1995.

Virtual Workshops

• ISWorld Net Virtual Meeting Center. Discussion series on collaborative work and systems, April 1998.

Virtual Trade Shows

• Electronics Virtual Trade Show,a trade show in perpetuity.
• Computerworld. Click on"techcity" (you must register first)

Impromptu Meeting and Discussions

• Intercontinental Conferencing Services.An open "room" based conference facility.
• Computerworld. Click onthe "forum" icon (you must register first)
• Design Automation Cafe. A chat service by Sun Microsystems.

Technologies

• Virtual Conference Center.A service provided by a publisher for their journals using newsgroup technology (you may have to register first to view the conferences).
• Ubique, Ltd/Virtual Places. A vendor of chat and more software.
• Virtual Broadcast Company.
• Placeware. Presentations and training over the web.
• Merlin Learning Environment. Distance learning environment.
• Rendezvous. Workgroup collaboration.
• Databeam. Learning server, meeting tools, conference server and virtual meeting center.
• Visual IRC. IRC and more.
• All about IRC.
• Consensus @anyWhere. A more structured interaction tool.
• PowWow. Host virtual communities

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