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- PRESENCE: THE FIRST SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON TELEOPERATORS
- AND VIRTUAL REALITY, FORTHCOMING IN MARCH
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- To promote intelligent understanding of major teleoperation and
- virtual environment developments in electromechanical and computer
- science, MIT Press Journals is publishing PRESENCE: TELEOPERATORS
- AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, the first quarterly for serious investigators
- of either or both types of systems. The journal will premiere in March.
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- Until now, scientists, engineers, psychologists, architects,
- executives, artists, and philosophers [who's left out -- football
- players? -- B.J.] had no authoritative publication they could turn to
- for vital research, ideas, and applications pertinent to teleoperators
- *and* virtual environments. PRESENCE will offer understandings and
- design for these types of systems. In the first issue, one paper
- proposes arhitectures for high performance, flexible, and concurrent
- event-coordinated virtual worlds. "Free Style" provides a lesson on
- choreographing human-robot dance, and even includes a short story
- about the lack of presence you get from telephone answering machines.
- "Transforming Human Hand Motion for Telemanipulation" and "Virtual
- Reality, Art and Entertainment" further illustrate what the pages of
- PRESENCE will deliver: multiperspective, penetrating explorations
- into the mental and physical faculties of people and machines;
- stimulating analyses of the impact transformed presence can have on
- aesthetics and culture.
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- The journal will have an initial circulation of approximately 2,000,
- including electrical and mechanical engineers concerned with
- teleoperators; computer scientists, high-tech artists, and media
- people interested in virtual environments; and (3) psychologists
- involved in the study of human-machine interfaces and senorimotor/
- cognitive behavior.
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- EDITORIAL BOARD
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- Co-Editor-in-Chief, Tom Sheridan, Director, MIT Human-Machine Sytems
- Laboratory
- Co-Editor-in-Chief, Tom Furness, Director, HIT Lab, Seattle
- Managing Editor, Nathaniel Durlach, Director, MIT Virtual Environment
- and Teleoperator Research Consortium
- Associate Editor, William Bricken, University of Washington
- Associate Editor, Blake Hanniford, University of Washington
- Associate Editor, Warren Robinett, University of North Carolina
- Associate Editor, J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr., MIT
- Associate Editor, Robert Welch, NASA Ames Research Center
- Associate Editor, David Zeltzer, MIT
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- Editorial Advisors (partial list)
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- Michael MacGreevy, NASA Ames Research Center
- Elizabeth Wenzel, NASA Ames Research Center
- Jaron Lanier, VPL Research Inc.
- Myron Krueger, Artificial Reality Corporation
- Michael Benedikt, University of Texas, Austin
- Brenda Laurel, Telepresence Research
- Scott Fisher, Telepresence Research
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- International Editorial Advisors
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- Massimo Bergamesco, Scuolo Superiore, Italy
- Jens Blauert, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
- John M. Hollerbach, McGill University, Canada
- Ian W. Hunter, McGill University, Canada
- Lynette A. Jones, McGill University, Canada
- Susan Lederman, Queen's University, Canada
- Robert J. Stone, National Advanced Robotics Research Centre, UK
- Susumu Tachi, University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Quarterly, Volume 1 forthcoming in March. 96 pp. per issue,
- illustrated. 8-1/2 x 11.
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- Institution, $120
- Student/Retired, $ 20 (ID required)
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