September 26-27, 2005, Mel Slater gave an invited keynote talk ‘Interactions with Virtual People and Presence in Virtual Environments’ at Zweiter Workshop Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR, RWTH Aachen, Virtual Reality Center.

September 21-23, 2005, Mel Slater was the International Programme Committee Chair, 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence PRESENCE, London.

September 21-23, 2005, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy was the demonstrations co-chair at the 8th Annual International Workshop on Presence, London, UK.

September 12-14, 2005, Doron Friedman presented "Teaching virtual characters how to use body language" and Marco Gillies presented "Direct manipulation-like tools for designing intelligent virtual agents" at Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005, Kos, Greece.

July 25-26, 2005, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy was invited to present
'Building Characters: Lessons Drawn from Virtual Environments', at Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science: A Cognitive Sciences 2005 Workshop, Stresa, Italy.

July 22, 2005, Anthony Steed presented at the Futuresonic 2005 workshop, 'Creative VR Futures: Creative Arts & Sciences in Virtual Environments'

July 18-22, 2005, M.V. Sanchez Vives and M. Slater presented an invited talk ‘Attention, Presence and Consciousness’ at Fundacion duques de Soria, Seminario de Neurociencias: Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Biological and Computacional Approaches, Soria, Spain.

July 6-8, 2005, Mel Slater (University College, London) and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives (Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, Universidad Miguel Hernández-CSIC, Spain) presented ‘Is perception based on minimal cues?’ at Primer Congreso Ibérico de Percepción, Barcelona.

July 4, 2005, Mel Slater presented at Actividades Culturales, Seu Universitària De Cocentaina, Conferencia Inaugural Cursos D'estiu 2005, Interaccioknes sociales en realidad virtual, a cargo del Profesor Mel Slater.

June, 8-10, 2005, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Virtual Environments and Interactions with Virtual People’ at Central European Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference 2005, Prague, Czech Republic.

April 2005, Maria Roussou presented ‘Can Interactivity in Virtual Environments Enable Conceptual Learning?’ at the 7th Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC) and First International VR-Learning Seminar, Laval, France.

March 12-16, 2005, Mel Slater was awarded the 2005 Virtual Reality Career Award: ‘In Recognition of Pioneering Achievements in Theory and Applications of Virtual Reality’.

March 2005, Mel Slater was member of ACM SIGGRAPH Papers Panel, 2005, meeting in Boston.

March, 7-9, 2005, Mel Slater presented ‘From Presence to Consciousness in Virtual Environments’ at 3rd VR Symposium: Virtual Reality, Associated Technologies, and Rehabilitation, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

February 17, 2005, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (with David Swapp) gave a guest lecture on 'HCI: Virtual Environments and Applications' at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), London, UK.

February 2, 2005, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ at the University of Sheffield.

October 13-15, 2004, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy presented 'An
Investigation of Presence Response across Variations in Visual Realism', at the 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence, Valencia, Spain.

August 30 - September 3, 2004, Marie-Paule Cani & Mel Slater served as International Programme Co-Chairs of Eurographics 2004.

July 2, 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ at the Institut Universitari De L'audiovisual (Iua) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Àrea De França. Campus De La Ciutadella, Barcelona.

June 30-July 1, 2004, Mel Slater presented an invited keynote talk ‘Interactions with Virtual People’ at the 3rd International Congress ARQUITECTURA 3000, Barcelona.

June 25, 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Practice’ at the workshop ‘From Presence Towards Consciousness’ organised by Mel Slater and Maria V. Sanchez-Vives at the 8th Annual Conference for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Antwerp, Belgium.

June 1, 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence Technologies and their future prospects & challenges’ at FET S&T Seminars, European Commission, Brussels.

June 2004, Maria Roussou participated in the doctoral consortium and presented ‘Examining Young Learners’ Activity Within Interactive Virtual Environments’ at the 3rd International Conference for Interaction Design & Children, University of Maryland College Park, USA.

May 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ at the Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island, USA.

May 28, 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘Presence in Virtual Environments’ at the Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin.

May 28, 2004, Maria Roussou was an invited keynote speaker ‘Emerging Trends in Digital Cultural Heritage Experiences’ at the European Cultural Heritage: RTD Challenges Ahead workshop, organised by the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and JOANNEUM RESEARCH in collaboration with the European Commission's IST Programme, Graz, Austria.

April 24-29, 2004, Maria Roussou participated in the doctoral consortium and presented ‘Interactivity and Conceptual Learning in Virtual Environments for Children’ at ACM SIGCHI 2004 (CHI '04: Human Factors in Computing Systems), Vienna, Austria.

March 27, 2004, Maria Roussou co-organised (with Dave Pape and Josephine Anstey) the VR for Public Consumption workshop at the IEEE VR 2004 conference, Chicago USA.

February 2004, Mel Slater presented ‘The future direction of presence research’ at a meeting organised by 6th Framework FET Presence Research, Darmstadt, Germany.

January 20, 2004, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (with David Swapp) gave a guest lecture on 'HCI: Virtual Environments and Applications' at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), London, UK.

2003

December 12, 2003, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy was invited to give a talk on 'Virtual environments and applications' at Gesticons for Expressive Embodied Conversational Characters, Vienna, Austria.

17th November 2003, UCL ReaCTor and VECG research featured on BBC Radio 4 programme Go Digital.

4 November 2003, UCL ReaCToR and VECG research on Paranoid Ideation featured on BBC Radio 4 programme All In The Mind.

September 2003, ‘The Illusion of Sentience in Virtual Environments’, presented at Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments, conference co-chairs S. Ellis & M. Slater, organised by NASA/NATO, London.

September 15-17, 2003, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy was invited to give a poster presentation on 'Nonverbal behaviour in virtual humans: expressing emotion through body posture' at the Symposium on Intelligent Motion and Interaction Within Virtual Environments (IMIVE), London, UK.

February 26, 2003, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy was invited to present
'Encounters With Virtual Humans' at the University of Surrey (UniS), Surrey, UK.

2002

December 2002, Mel Slater presented ‘Real People Interacting with Virtually Real People: Some Experiments’ 12th International Conference on Aritificial Reality and Tele-Existence, ICAT 2002, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

November 14th, 2002, BBC Tomorrow's World Virtual Vertigo.

August 2002, UCL ReaCToR featured on Discovery Channel programme Living Pulse.

May 30-31, 2002, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (with Jesper Mortensen) presented 'Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments' at the Eight Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments, Barcelona, Spain.

March 26th, 2002, Mel Slater gave the keynote talk at IEEE VR 2002, Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sleep? Virtual Humans and the Sense of Presence.

November 7-14, 2001, Mel Slater, visit to MIT Touch Lab and Sensory Communication Lab, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for project meetings. Talk given at UNC-CH 'Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep'.

November 2001, Celine Loscos presents a paper at VRST2001.

November 2001, UCL ReaCTor featured in IEE 2001 Faraday Lecture Beyond the Square Window, broadcast on Channel Four.

November 2001, David Swapp gives a talk at the Natural History Museum about the UCL ReaCTor and VECG research.

October 2001, UCL ReaCTor featured on BBC World Service programme Go Digital.

August 2001, UCL at SIGGRAPH 2001.

July 2001, UCL ReaCTor featured on BBC Radio 4 programme Leading Edge.

June 2001, UCL hosts the Eurographics Rendering Workshop.

April 2001, UCL hosts the Eurographics UK Conference.

April 2001, a team from UCL visited our colleagues in Cape Town and presented a workshop on Virtual Environments.

March 2001, Anthony Steed was part of a team that presented a tutorial on usability at IEEE VR2001 in Yokohama, Japan.

March 15, 2001, Mel Slater talk at University of California, Santa Barbara: Do Avatars Dream of Digital Sheep.

March 8-11 2001, Mel Slater on SIGGRAPH Papers Committee in Colorado Springs.

March 2001, UCL ReaCTor hosts the SuperJANET4 launch event.

January 2001, Yiorgos Chrysanthou was part of a team that presented a tutorial on Visibility at GTEC'01.

July 2000, Yiorgos Chrysanthou was part of a team that presented a tutorial on Visibility at SIGGRAPH 2000.

May 2000, Feature on UCL ReaCToR in FX Magazine.