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 …

Since 1993 schools of architecture all over the world conduct in various forms of Virtual
Design Studio (VDS). They have become an established part of teaching design within the …

To some extent, design can be described as a process concerned with changing the state of
an environment through purposeful and constrained decision making that requires …

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 …

This paper describes our current work in the development of an interactive, collaborative
design space. It attempts to anticipate a future in which complex design Problems are …

This paper addresses the design of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). More
specifically, it considers key design issues concerning the use of either real world 'facsimile' …

Virtual design studios (VDS) are proliferating as schools of architecture experiment with the
technology of the Internet. Discussions about VDS typically focus on technological issues …

Beginning in 1993, small groups of students of architectural design at different institutions
around the world participated in collaborative design projects using a variety of tools …

Previous studies have argued that a Multi-User Virtual Environment has the potential to
foster creative collaboration, but empirical studies that examine this claim are rare. With a …

This paper presents and evaluates two current advancements of collaborative technologies
for architectural design. The paper focuses on technologies that support synchronous …