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 …

In the late 1980s Virtual Reality (VR) burst onto the public stage propelled by a wave of
media interest and related science fiction novels such as Neuromancer by William Gibson …

Abstract A Collaborative Virtual Environment or CVE is a distributed, virtual reality that is
designed to support collaborative activities. As such, CVEs provide a potentially infinite …

The current research and commercial interest in developing CVEs that support rich social
interaction in densely populated virtual worlds is an ambitious goal, one that requires …

There is a huge variety of tools for synchronous collaboration including instant messaging,
audio conferencing, videoconferencing and other shared spaces. One type of tool …

Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and
computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for …

The BBC TV series Dr Who popularized the race of beings known as the" Daleks"[1]. A
Dalek is a creature that is completely encased in a metallic shell, through which it can slide …

We review current spatial approaches to CSCW (mediaspaces, spatial video conferencing,
collaborative virtual environments and telepresence) and classify them along the proposed …

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 …

Virtual Worlds have not been deployed widely in collaborative design, and their respective
value is largely unknown. In this paper we make a combined use of established principles in …