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PRESENCE:  THE FIRST SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ON TELEOPERATORS
AND VIRTUAL REALITY, FORTHCOMING IN MARCH
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
 
EDITORIAL BOARD
 
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
 
Editorial Advisors (partial list)
 
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
 
International Editorial Advisors
 
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
 
Quarterly, Volume 1 forthcoming in March.  96 pp. per issue, 
illustrated.  8-1/2 x 11.
 
Annual subscription rates:  Individual,         $ 50
                            Institution,        $120
                            Student/Retired,    $ 20 (ID required)
 
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