UK AVS+UNIRAS USER GROUP Annual Conference 2002 The University of Birmingham 4-5 November 2002

The Annual Conference

The 2002 annual conference was organised by the UK AVS+ UNIRAS User Group and was held at the University of Birmingham Conference Park from Monday 4th to Tuesday 5th November 2002. The conference was aimed at both academic and commercial AVS and UNIRAS users. Advanced Visual Systems were, as always, well represented by key management and technical personnel, so the conference provided a valuable opportunity to find out about new developments. The 2001 conference covered a wide range of topics on the majority of the AVS products.

The programme

The conference ran from mid-morning on the 4th to mid-afternoon on the 5th and included the conference dinner. The first day started with the keynote speaker, Professor Bob Spence from Imperial College London, giving a talk illustrating some fundamentals of visualisation based on his research in human-computer interaction and engineering design. The afternoon of the first day had an educational emphasis discussing various techniques that would be useful to users of the software in addressing their visualisation requirements. The second day consisted of user presentations based around the AVS applications. See the full program for details.

The venue

The conference was held in Hornton Grange, on the University of Birmingham Conference Park. Hornton Grange was built during the early years of this century as an Edwardian style gentleman's residence which now stands in its own attractive and peaceful grounds within the Conference Park. It has its own bar and Conservatory Dining Room with 32 modern and highly specified en-suite bedrooms in the adjacent North and South wings. The Conference Park itself is located very close to the University campus. As well as offering ample free car parking it has good rail links with Birmingham International Airport and the rest of the UK.