Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Moher, T., Leigh, J., Vasilakis, C., and Barnes, C. (1998).
Learning and Building Together in an Immersive Virtual World
In Presence vol 8, no 3, June, 1999, special issue on Virtual Environments
and Learning; edited by William Winn and Michale J Moshell., MIT Press,
pp. 247-263 and the cover.
Johnson, A., Roussos, M., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T.,
The NICE Project: Learning Together in a Virtual World,. In
the proceedings of VRAIS '98, Atlanta, Georgia,
March 14-18, 1998, pp.176-183.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Vasilakis, C., Barnes, C., and Moher, T. (1997).
NICE: Combining Constructionism, Narrative, and Collaboration in a Virtual Learning
Environment.
In Computer Graphics vol. 31 num. 3, August 1997, pp. 62-63.
and presented at SIGGRAPH '97 Educators Program.
(presentation slides)
Images from the NICE project are on the cover of Computer Graphics Vol.31 Num.3.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., and Moher, T. (1997).
The NICE project: Narrative, Immersive, Constructionist/Collaborative
Environments for Learning in Virtual Reality.
In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM 97,
Calgary, Canada, June 1997, pp. 917-922.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T. (1996).
Constructing Collaborative Stories Within Virtual Learning Landscapes.
In Proceedings of European conference
on A.I. in Education, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 30 - Oct.2 1996, pp. 129-135.
presentation slides (extremely slow)
1997
NICE was demonstrated at the ThinkQuest contest award ceremony in
Washington DC, November 22-25, 1997, networked between 3 remote sites.
NICE was demonstrated at Supercomputing 97 in San Jose California,
November 15-21, 1997, networked between 16 remote sites including sites
in Japan and Europe.
NICE was demonstrated at the Internet 2 General Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
October 7-9, 1997, networked between 3 remote sites.
Roussos, M., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Barnes, C., Vasilakis, C., Moher, T.,
"NICE: Combining Constructionism, Narrative, and Collaboration in a Virtual Learning
Environment." Presented and demonstrated at the
SIGGRAPH '97 Educators program, Los Angeles,
California, August 3-8, 1997.
The NICE project video was shown in the SIGGRAPH 97 Computer Animation Festival's Screening Room,
and included in the SIGGRAPH Video
Review, Los Angeles, California, August 3-8, 1997.
1996
NICE was demonstrated at the
ThinkQuest contest award ceremony in Washington DC, November 22-25, 1996, networked
between 3 remote sites. See highlights from that show here.
NICE was also demonstrated networked on multiple Immersadesks as part of
NCSA's Research Exhibit
at Supercomputing 1996, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 17-22, 1996.
Networked demonstration of NICE ( Story Sculpting in Virtual Landscapes)
at SIGGRAPH '96,
August 4-9, 1996 - New Orleans, LA.
NICE was shown on two
ImmersaDesks
that were networked between the Digital Bayou Interactive show & the Bridge art show.
A 3rd networked participant, physically located in Chicago, shared the experience disguised as a
bird-avatar.
Presentation and networked demonstration in the CAVE, on the
Immersadesk, and on the Infinity Wall at the VR Workshop for Educators, organized by the
Education and Outreach Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, July 16, 1996.
Roussos, M., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Approaches to constructive K-12 playtime/education
in the CAVE: the N.I.C.E project
