This paper describes how different kinds of research activities (theory building and
application, exploratory and experimental studies, prototyping, user testing) are instrumental …

Traditionally, the development of virtual environments has been limited to particular
technologies and the associated constraints on environment definition and interaction …

The development of interactive, participatory, multisensory environments that combine the
physical with the virtual comes as a natural continuation to the computer game industrys …

The purpose of the present article is to examine how virtual design studio environments can
be used to aid collaborative designing and to describe some of our experiences in …

End users′ expertise in the development of new applications is acknowledged in user‐
centered and participatory design. Similarly, children′ s experience of what they find …

This paper presents an overview of the uses of virtual reality in education. It draws
particularly on three projects, the West Denton High School in Newcastle, the Human …

This paper describes a process for creating a design tool, which is based in constructivism.
The process is described for the creation of a tool to help novices in designing virtual …

The research reported in this paper set out to explore novel, interactive techniques to
stimulate active participation, involvement and learning by children visiting a museum …

This paper describes the design, evaluation, and lessons learned from a project involving
the implementation of an immersive virtual environment for children called NICE (Narrative …

This paper discusses the use of theatrical techniques to communicate to designers the user
requirements for IT interfaces–particularly those of “extreme users” such as older people …