INRIA in brief

Science Fair

The French Science Fair (Science en fête) will be held on the 10th to 12th October, 1997. On this occasion, the research units of INRIA Sophia Antipolis and INRIA Rocquencourt will open their doors to the public. An opportunity for everyone to discover how a research institute works and what the researchers do.

Cooperative Work

Computer aided cooperative work is a recent and promising field. It is at the crossroads of a number of other areas, notably scientific and technical. The Rusken initiative was created in this context. Its goal is to design an operational and innovative platform offering services for cooperative work. Researchers at IRISA-INRIA Rennes are working on the perception of group activity. The participants at a tele-meeting are represented in a 3D virtual building. Each one can visualize the activity of the others in the building and manipulate the shared documents and objects.
The Rusken activities make it possible to transfer the result of the research conducted at IRISA, for example the handling of multi-user three-dimensional scenes, the management of the quality of service of distributed software or toolboxes for the development of applications for distributed cooperative work.

Contact: Noël Plouzeau, head of the Rusken research activity
Tel.: +33 2 99 84 71 89 - Noel.Plouzeau@inria.fr