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Sylvia B. Wilbur (born 1938) was a British computer scientist who helped develop the ARPANET, was one of the first to exchange email in Britain, and became a leading researcher on computer-supported cooperative work.
About Silvia Wilbur. Wilbur was born in 1938 in Bromford, Essex 12 miles to the east of London, England. Both her parents were working-class; her father worked in the London Docks. Wilbur has one sibling, ten years her junior. Aged 17 she left school to supplement the family's income, and at 20 she married and later on had two children.
Sylvia Wilbur's 9 research works with 2,489 citations and 1,336 reads, including: Creating a Community of Learning Using Web-based Tools.
Dec 1, 1997 · This paper reviews the concepts of immersion and presence in virtual environments VEs. We propose that the degree of immersion can be objectively assessed as the characteristics of a technology, an...
- Mel Slater, Sylvia Wilbur
- 1997
Feb 1, 1996 · Sylvia Wilbur is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary and Westfield College. She has been active in CSCW research since 1986, working on collaborative projects in the UK funded by the Alvey programme, British Telecom, and Esprit.
- Sylvia Wilbur, Sarom Ing
- 1996
Sylvia Wilbur2, Department of Computer Science, QMW University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. “We modern, civilised, indoors adults are so accustomed to looking at a page or a picture, or through a window, that we often lose the feeling of being surrounded by the environment, our sense of the ambient array of light...
Dec 16, 2013 · Mel Slater and Sylvia Wilbur define immersion as A description of a technology…that describes the extent to which the computer displays are capable of delivering an inclusive, extensive, surrounding and vivid illusion of reality to the sense of a human participant.
