Dave Snowdon

Computer science and information technology

Refereed Journal Papers

"Neue Benutzungsschnittstellen für die Unterstützung von Arbeits- und Freizeit-Communities" Michael Koch, Dave Snowdon, Antonietta Grasso: Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft 2(55), Jun. 2001, ISSN 0340-2444, pp. 124 - 129

"Pollen: Using people as a communication medium," Natalie Glance, Dave Snowdon and Jean-Luc Meunier, Computer Networks, 35(4), Elsevier Science, February 2001, pages 429-442

"A Poetry Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment", Steve Benford, Gail Reynard, Chris Greenhalgh, Dave Snowdon and Adrian Bullock, in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 20(3), May/June 2000, pages 66-75.

"Collaborative Virtual Environments: an introductory review of issues and systems", Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon, in Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Application , 3(1), Springer, 1998, pages 3-15.

"Visualising and Populating the Web: Collaborative virtual environments for browsing, searching and inhabiting Webspace" Steve Benford, Dave Snowdon, Chris Brown, Gail Reynard and Rob Ingram in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 29, 1997, pages 1751-1761

"A Review of Distributed Architectures for Networked Virtual Reality", Dave Snowdon, Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock and Chris Brown, in Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Applications, 2(1), 1996.

Benford, S. D., Bowers, J. M., Fahlen, L. E., Greenhalgh, C. M., Snowdon, D. N., Embodiments, Avatars, Clones and Agents for Multi-user, Multi-sensory Virtual Worlds, Multimedia Systems, 5(2) Springer-Verlag 1997, pages 93-104.

"VR-VIBE: A Virtual Environment for Co-operative Information Retrieval", Steve Benford, Dave Snowdon, Chris Greenhalgh, Rob Ingram, Ian Knox and Chris Brown. Computer Graphics Forum 14(3) (proceedings of Eurographics’95), 30th August - 1st September, pp 349-360, NCC Blackwell

"AVIARY: Design issues for future large-scale Virtual Environments", David N. Snowdon and Adrian J. West. Presence 3(4), MIT Press, 1994.

Conference papers

"Learning to detect user activity and availability from a variety of sensor data." Mühlenbrock, M., Brdiczka, O., and Snowdon, D., in Proceedings of the Second IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Orlando, FL, March 2004.

"Diffusing information in organizational settings: Learning from Experience," Dave Snowdon, Antonietta Grasso, in proceedings of ACM CHI 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2002, pages 331-338.

"Inside MASSIVE-3: Flexible Support for Data Consistency and World Structuring", Chris Greenhalgh, Jim Purbrick, Dave Snowdon in ACM CVE 2000, 10-12th September, San Francisco, USA

"Supporting Collaborative Information Activities in Networks Communities", Natalie Glance, Antonietta Grasso, Uwe M. Borghoff, Dave Snowdon, Jutta Willamowski, in proceedings of 8th International conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI’99), Bullinger, H.J., Ziegler, J. (eds), vol 2, Munich Germany, 22-27 August 1999, pp 422-426

"Informing the Design of Collaborative Virtual Environments", Steve Benford, Dave Snowdon, Andy Colebourne, Jon O’Brien and Tom Rodden, ACM Group’97 16-19th November 1997, Phoenix, Arizona USA

"Virtual Body Language: Providing appropriate user interfaces in collaborative virtual environments", Tromp, J., and Snowdon, D. in Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1997 (VRST’97) September 15 - 17, 1997, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

"Staging a Public Poetry Performance in a Collaborative Virtual Environment" Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Snowdon, D., and Bullock, A. in Proc. 5th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’97) September, 1997, Lancaster, UK Kluwer Academic Publishers

"Using VR-VIBE; browsing and searching for documents in 3d-space", Elizabeth F. Churchill, Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford and Parmjit Dhanda, to appear in HCI International’97 7th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, August 24-29, 1997, San Francisco Hilton and Towers, San Francisco, USA

"The populated web: Browsing, Searching and Inhabiting the WWW Using Collaborative Virtual Environments", Steve Benford, Dave Snowdon, Chris Brown, Gail Reynard and Rob Ingram to appear in Interact’97 - the 6th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction incorporating OZCHI97 and APCHI97, 14 - 18 July, 1997, Sydney, Australia (CFP)

"Visualising and Populating the Web: Collaborative Virtual Environments for Browsing, Searching and Inhabiting Webspace", Benford, S. D., Snowdon, D. N., Brown, C. C., Reynard, G., T., and Ingram,R. J. to appear in Proc. JENC’97 (8th Joint European Networking Conference), Edinburgh, UK, May 12-15th, 1997.

"A subjective Virtual Environment for collaborative information visualization" Dave Snowdon and Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro. in Virtual Reality Universe’97 April 2-5, 1997, Westin Santa Clara Hotel, California, USA.

"A 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment for Web Browsing" Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Rob ingram, Chris Brown, Dave Lloyd, Lennart Fahlén and MÃ¥rten Stenius, in Virtual Reality Universe’97 April 2-5, 1997, Westin Santa Clara Hotel, California, USA

"Retaining body language in subjective virtual environments using artifact-centred coordinate systems", Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro and Dave Snowdon. in HICSS-30 Software Technology Track January 7-10, 1997, Wailea, Maui, Hawai’i, U.S.A

"Body-Centred Configuration in Collaborative Virtual Environments", Dave Snowdon and Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro. in FIVE’96 Framework for Immersive Virtual Environments II, December 19-20, 1996, Pisa, Italy.

"WWW3D: A 3D multi-user web browser" , Dave Snowdon, Lennart Fahlén and MÃ¥rten Stenius, in WebNet’96 October 16-19, 1996, San Francisco, CA, USA

"From multi-user to cooperative databases supporting communication & awareness", Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhaugh, Andy Colebourne, and Jon O’Brien, in 3rd International Workshop on Interfaces to Databases 8 - 10 July 1996, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

"Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL) - A Project for Cooperation in Multi Participant Environments", M. Slater, M. Usoh, S. Benford, D. Snowdon, C. Brown, T. Rodden, G. Smith, S. Wilbur, in 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, M. Goebel (ed.), 19-20 February 1996, Monte Carlo, ISSN 1024-0861.

"What You See is Not What I See: Subjectivity in Virtual Environments", Dave Snowdon, Chris Greenhalgh and Steve Benford, in Framework for Immersive Virtual Enviroments (FIVE’95) 18-19th December, 1995, QMW University of London, UK.

"User Embodiment in Collaborative Virtual Environments", Steve Benford, John Bowers, Lennart E. Fahlen, Chris Greenhalgh and Dave Snowdon. CHI’95, May 1995, pages 242-249.

"Collaborative Virtual Environments: User Interaction and Populated Information Terrains", Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock, Chris Greenhalgh, Rob Ingram and Dave Snowdon. Invited paper for Imagina’95, Monte-Carlo, February, 1995.

"The AVIARY Distributed Virtual Environment", David Snowdon and Adrian West. The 2nd UK VR-SIG conference, 1st December 1994, Theale, UK.

"A workout for Virtual Bodybuilders", Steve Benford, Lennart Fahlen, John Bowers, Chris Greenhalgh and Dave Snowdon. ISMCR’94, The Fourth International Symposium on Measurement and Control in Robotics, November 1994, Houston, Texas.

"Towards the Next Generation of Human Computer Interface" , David N. Snowdon, Adrian J. West and Toby L. J. Howard. Informatique’93: Interface to Real & Virtual Worlds, March 1993, pgs 399-408.

"AVIARY - A Generic Virtual Reality Interface for Real Applications", A.J. West, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta, D.N. Snowdon and D.A. Butler. Virtual Reality Systems (sponsored by the BCS), May 1992.

Workshop papers

"A context-processing infrastructure for facilitating ad hoc face-to-face interactions," Meunier, J.-L., Mühlenbrock, M., O’Neill, J., & Snowdon, D. (2003), In Borovoy et al., editors, First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces in conjunction with Ubicomp 2003, pages 9-14, Seattle, October 2003.

"Extending the Services and the Accessibility of Community Networks", Antonietta Grasso, Dave Snowdon, Michael Koch workshop on Digital Cities, Kyoto, Japan, 1999.

"Exploring gardens of information, culture and language", Dave Snowdon, Antonietta Grasso, Frédérique Segond in workshop on Arcadian Virtuality, i3 Spring Days, Sitges, Spain, 7th March, 1999

"Campiello - New user interface approaches for community networks" Antonietta Grasso, Michael Koch, Dave Snowdon in workshop on Community Design of Community Networks, CSCW98/PDP98, November, 1998, Seatle, USA

"Cat’s Cradle: Working with other people in overlapping real and virtual worlds through tangled strands of visual and other media", Mike Robinson, Samuli Pekkola, Dave Snowdon in CRIWG’98 Fourth International Workshop on Groupware, September 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"Subjectivity in Collaborative Virtual Environments", Dave Snowdon and Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, workshop on System Aspects of Sharing a Virtual Reality, at CVE’98, June 1998, Manchester,UK

"Collaborative Visualization of Large Scale Hypermedia Databases" Chris Brown, Steve Benford and Dave Snowdon in "CSCW and the Web" Proceedings of the 5th ERCIM/W4G Workshop. Arbeitspapiere der GMD 984, GMD, Sankt Augustin, April 1996.

"The AVIARY VR System: A Prototype Implementation", David N. Snowdon and Adrian J. West. 6th ERCIM Workshop, June 1994, Stockholm.

Books

"Inhabited Information Spaces", David .N. Snowdon, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Emmanuel Frécon (editors), Springer-Verlag, 2003 ( Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk ).

"Collaborative Virtual Environments", Elizabeth F. Churchill, David .N. Snowdon, Alan J. Munro (editors), Springer-Verlag, 2001 ( Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk ).

Book chapters

"Supporting communities of practice with large screen displays", Antoniette Grasso, Martin Muehlenbrock, Frederic Roulland, Dave Snowdon in Public and Situated Displays: Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pages 261-282

"Reinforcing and Opening Communities Through Innovative Technologies" Alessandra Agostini, Valeria Giannella, Antonietta Grasso, Michael Koch, Dave Snowdon, Alessandra Valpiani, in Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies, ed. Michael Gurstein, Idea Group Publishing, 2000.

"Extending the Services and the Accessibility of Community Networks" Antonietta Grasso, Dave Snowdon and Michael Koch in "Digital Cities: Experiences, Technologies and Future Perspectives" Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2000

"Populated Information Terrains: First Steps", Steve Benford, Dave Snowdon and John Mariani. In "Virtual Reality Application", eds. R.A. Earnshaw, J.A. Vince and H. Jones, Academic Press, 1995, pages 27-39. (ISBN 0-12-227755-4)

"AVIARY - A Generic Virtual Reality Interface for Real Applications", A.J. West, T.L.J. Howard, R.J. Hubbold, A.D. Murta, D.N. Snowdon and D.A. Butler. Virtual Reality Systems, eds R.A. Earnshaw, M.A. Gigante and H. Jones, Academic Press, 1993, pgs 213-236.

Posters

"A Bench For All Moods", Antonietta Grasso, Alain Karsenty, Dave Snowdon, poster at CHI 2000, 1-6th April 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands, extended abstractspages 197-198.

"Pollen: Virtual Networks that use people as carriers" Dave Snowdon, Natalie Glance Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing 1999 (HUC’99), 27-29th September 1999, Karlsruhe, Germany.

"Searching for the Biggest and the Brightest; Selection of documents in VR-VIBE", Elizabeth Churchill, Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford and Parmjit Dhanda, in Interact’97 14 - 18 July, 1997, Sydney, Australia

Others CSCW’98 workshop report, Collaborative and co-operative information seeking, Elizabeth Churchill, Dave Snowdon, Joe Sullivan and Gene Golovchinsky, SIGCHI Bulletin, 1999

Editorial in CVE’98 special issue of Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Application , 4(1), Springer, 1999.

CVE’98 conference report, Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon, International Journal of Virtual Reality 3(3), pgs 35-40, 1998.

CVE’98 conference report, Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon, SIGGROUP Bulletin, 19(2), August 1998, pgs 21-22.

CVE’98 conference report, Elizabeth Churchill and Dave Snowdon, SIGCHI Bulletin, number 4, 1998

CVE’98 conference report, Dave Snowdon and Elizabeth Churchill, VR News, 7(6), July’98, pgs 19-20.

Editorial in CVE’96 special issue of Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Application , Springer, 1998

"Subjectivity in Populated Information Terrains", Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro and Dave Snowdon video submission in Fifth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’95), Lancaster, UK, September 1997

"Collaborative Virtual Environments", Steve Benford and Dave Snowdon, IEE Computing and Control Division, Vacation School on Fundamentals of Multimedia Systems, 10-13th September 1995, Lancaster University, UK.

"Information Visualization, Browsing and Sharing in Populated Information Terrains", Dave Snowdon, Steve Benford, Chris Brown, Rob Ingram, Ian Knox and Luke Studley. BCS Seminar series on New Directions in Software Development, University of Wolverhampton, UK, 8th March 1995.

"A Poetry Performance in MASSIVE-2", Steve Benford, Adrian Bullock, Chris Greenhalgh and Dave Snowdon video submission in Fifth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’95), Lancaster, UK, September 1997

"Collaboration in the Digital Library", Elizabeth Churchill, Elisabeth Davenport, Rob Procter, Dave Snowdon, David Nichols and Michael Twidale workshop in Fifth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’95) , Lancaster, UK, September 1997

Benford, S. D., Lloyd, D., Snowdon, D. N., Tromp, J. G. and Ingram, R. J., Virtual Reality Training Techniques: A Report on the Use of Virtual Reality to Support Medical Training, Report commissioned by The Directorate General for Research of the European Parliament, March 1996.

"AVIARY: A Model for a General Purpose Virtual Environment", David N. Snowdon, Ph.D. thesis, 1996, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK

"Collaborative Virtual Environments", S. Benford, A. Bullock, C. Greenhalgh, D. Snowdon, A. Colebourne, L. Fahlén, M. Andersson, O. Stahl, video submission in Fourth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW’95), Stockholm, Sweden, September 1995

"Survey of VR Developers" A Survey performed on the usenet group sci.virtual.worlds in March 1993

"MusE: An Environment for Music", David Snowdon, 1991, M.Sc. thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK

Fiction

"The Last Genius", Dave Snowdon, winner of the 2001 Plane Tree science fiction competition. Published in the The Planetree 2001 Winners Anthology .

Heath & nutrition

"Gadgets", Dave Snowdon, in Living Nutrition, Vol 11, 2001, pgs 8-9 "Oxygenating the colon", Dave Snowdon, in Just Eat An Apple, issue 15, Janury-February 2001, page 26

"Raw Energy in Portland", Dave Snowdon, in Get fresh! (the official magazine of the F.R.E.S.H. network), number 27, July-October 2000

"Raw abundance in Portland", Dave Snowdon, in Brave Raw World, 6th September 2000, (email newsletter edited by Habib Bailey).

"Raw abundance in Portland", Dave Snowdon, in Living Nutrition, issue 9, 2000, page 33.

"Zen and the art of raw food", Dave Snowdon, in Get fresh! (the official magazine of the F.R.E.S.H. network), to appear.

"Raw Foodism: Veganism for Life", Karen Knowler and Dave Snowdon, The Vegan magazine, Vegan Society, Spring 2000, pages 16-17.

"Orkos - exotic fruit to your doorstep", Dave Snowdon, in Get fresh! (the official magazine of the F.R.E.S.H. network), number 26, January-June 2000.

"A raw dinner", Dave Snowdon, F.R.E.S.H. Network News, number 25, November-December 1999.

"Where do you get your protein?", Dave Snowdon, F.R.E.S.H. Network News, number 25, November-December 1999.

"Stranger in a strange land", Dave Snowdon, F.R.E.S.H. Network News, number 23, May-July 1999, pg 28.