Social factors play an important role in determining whether instructional communication in
computer-supported settings will be successful. Social presence is a social factor …

Commercial social VR applications represent a diverse and evolving ecology with
competing models of what it means to be social in VR. Drawing from expert interviews, this …

Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually
happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it …

Virtual environments (VEs) can create collaborative and social spaces, which are
increasingly important in the face of remote work and travel reduction. Recent advances …

Despite the extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent
years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and …

A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the
emerging field of mixed reality performance. Working at the cutting edge of live performance …

Abstract This chapter surveys Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) research
and groupware development. In the 1980s, as computer and software vendor companies …

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent
information structures; it contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative …

The realism of avatars in terms of behavior and form is critical to the development of
collaborative virtual environments. In the study we utilized state of the art, real-time face …

This paper describes an experiment that compares behavior in small groups when its
members carry out a task in a virtual environment (VE) and then continue the same task in a …