Special Issue on Networked Reality ================================== . FOREWORD ....................................................... 1317 Hiroshi HARASHIMA INVITED PAPERS ============== . Networked Reality, What? ....................................... 1318 Tak KAMAE . A Taxonomy of Mixed Reality Visual Displays .................... 1321 Paul MILGRAM and Fumio KISHINO . Virtual Playground and Communication Environments for Children . 1330 Michitaka HIROSE, Masaaki TANIGUCHI, Yoshiyuki NAKAGAKI and Kenji NIHEI PAPERS ====== . A Two-Way Dual-View Teleteaching System Conveying Gestures and Chalkboard Contents ............................................ 1335 Amane NAKAJIMA, Takashi SAKAIRI, Fumio ANDO and Masahide SHINOZAKI . InterSpace: Networked Virtual World for Visual Communication ... 1344 Shohei SUGAWARA, Gen SUZUKI, Yoshio NAGASHIMA, Michiaki MATSUURA, Hiroya TANIGAWA and Machio MORIUCHI . The Concept of Tool-Based Direct Deformation Method for Networked Cooperative CAD Interface ...................................... 1350 Juli YAMASHITA, Hiroshi YOKOI, Yukio FUKUI and Makoto SHIMOJO . A Video Browsing Using Fast Scene Cut Detection for an Efficient Networked Video Database Access ................................ 1355 Yasuyuki NAKAJIMA . Quantitative Study of Human Behavior in Virtual Interview Sessions for the Development of the Hyper Hospital --A Network Oriented Virtual Reality Based Novel Medical Care System-- .............. 1365 Atsuya YOSHIDA, Takami YAMAGUCHI and Kiyoyuki YAMAZAKI . The Hyper Hospital --A Networked Reality Based Medical Care System-- ....................................................... 1372 Takami YAMAGUCHI, Nobuyasu FURUTA, Kuniharu SHINDO, Tomoaki HAYASAKA, Hisako IGARASHI, Jun NORITAKE, Kiyoyuki YAMAZAKI and Atsuya YOSHIDA . Is the Virtual Reality a Gentle Technology for Humans? --An Experimental Study of the Safety Features of a Virtual Reality System-- ....................................................... 1379 Hisako IGARASHI, Jun NORITAKE, Nobuyasu FURUTA, Kuniharu SHINDO, Kiyoyuki YAMAZAKI, Katsuro OKAMOTO, Atsuya YOSHIDA and Takami YAMAGUCHI . Communicative Characteristics of Small Group Teleconferences in Virtual Environments ........................................... 1385 Atsuya YOSHIDA and Jun KAKUTA . A Social Psychological Approach to gNetworkedh Reality ....... 1390 Ken'ichi IKEDA . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J77-D-I, J77-D-II, No.12 in Japanese) ....................................................... 1397 . 1994 INDEX ..................................................... 1401