Supporting cooperation across shared virtual environments

ABSTRACT

As cooperative virtual environments have become more prominent as a means of allowing users to work together so has the need for users to understand the nature of these environments. This paper presents the development of a set of techniques to allow users to understand the properties of virtual environments as they move between different environments. The development of these techniques is informed by an ethnographic study of a multimedia art museum containing a wide range of different virtual environments.

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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Model development and analysis

      • Model verification and validation

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications