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Collaborative Virtual Environments

Digital Places and Spaces for Interaction

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth F. Churchill

    1. FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., Palo Alto, USA

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  2. David N. Snowdon

    1. Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

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  3. Alan J. Munro

    1. School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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Part of the book series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs): Histories, Perspectives and Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Collaborative Virtual Environments: Digital Spaces and Places for CSCW: An Introduction

      • Dave Snowdon, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Alan J. Munro
      Pages 3-17

  3. Technical Issues and System Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Extending the Limits of Collaborative Virtual Environments

      • Mike Robinson, Samuli Pekkola, Jonni Korhonen, Saku Hujala, Tero Toivonen, Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen
      Pages 21-42

    3. System Challenges for Collaborative Virtual Environments

      • Adrian West, Roger Hubbold
      Pages 43-54

    4. Understanding the Network Requirements of Collaborative Virtual Environments

      • Chris Greenhalgh
      Pages 55-74

  4. Bodies, Presences and Interactions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. “He’s Behind You”: The Experience of Presence in Shared Virtual Environments

      • Monika Büscher, Jon O’Brien, Tom Rodden, Jonathan Trevor
      Pages 77-98

    3. All That Is Solid Melts Into Software

      • Andrew McGrath, Wolfgang Prinz
      Pages 99-114

    4. Virtually Missing the Point: Configuring CVEs for Object-Focused Interaction

      • Jon Hindmarsh, Mike Fraser, Christian Heath, Steve Benford
      Pages 115-139

  5. Sharing Context in CVEs — Or “I Know What I See, But What Do You See?”

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. How Not To Be Objective

      • Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro, Dave Snowdon
      Pages 143-159

    3. Supporting Flexible Roles in a Shared Space

      • Randall B. Smith, Ronald Hixon, Bernard Horan
      Pages 160-176

  6. So, Now We’re In A CVE, What Do We Do?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Designing Interactive Collaborative Environments

      • Adrian Bullock, Kristian T. Simsarian, Mårten Stenius, Pär Hansson, Anders Wallberg, Karl-Petter Åkesson et al.
      Pages 179-201

    3. Designing to Support Collaborative Scientific Research Across Distances: The nanoManipulator Environment

      • Diane H. Sonnenwald, Ronald E. Bergquist, Kelly L. Maglaughlin, Eileen Kupstas-Soo, Mary C. Whitton
      Pages 202-224

    4. Tele-Immersive Collaboration in the CAVE Research Network

      • Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh
      Pages 225-243

  7. The Emerging and Existing Cultures of CVE Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Designing an Emergent Culture of Negotiation in Collaborative Virtual Communities: The DomeCityMOO Simulation

      • Elaine M. Raybourn
      Pages 247-264
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About this book

Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) are online digital places and spaces where we can be in touch, play together and work together, even when we are, geographically speaking, worlds apart. We can hang out, present alternative selves, interact with realistic and fantastic objects and carry out impossible manoeuvres. In CVEs we can share the experience of worlds beyond the physical. This book offers an introduction to up-to-date research in the area of CVE design and development. A reader might feel that, collectively, the chapters in this book beg the questions "What is a CVE?". And, for that matter, "What isn't a CVE?". These are good questions, which invoke many different responses. What is certain is that CVEs are the perfect arena for gaining insights into human-human communication and collaboration, collaborative interaction with (virtual and real) objects, the effect of (potentially differing) embodiments, and the nature of place and space. Central to our work and to the work of the authors in this volume is the belief that putting people "into the loop" - explicitly considering human-human and human-environment interaction in the design and development process - is central to the design of any technology, and especially to the design of CVEs. In the case of CVEs this means actually putting people into the worlds, and many of our authors talk explicitly about their experiences and the experiences of study partici­ pants in virtual environments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FX Palo Alto Laboratory Inc., Palo Alto, USA

    Elizabeth F. Churchill

  • Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

    David N. Snowdon

  • School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Alan J. Munro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Collaborative Virtual Environments

  • Book Subtitle: Digital Places and Spaces for Interaction

  • Editors: Elizabeth F. Churchill, David N. Snowdon, Alan J. Munro

  • Series Title: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0685-2

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-244-0Published: 19 March 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0685-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1496

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computer Communication Networks

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