Mission Queen Maud Land (MQML) is a collaborative virtual environment that was developed to explore new ways to stimulate secondary school pupils to collaborate in grasping comple...
Legitimacy is a key part of the social requirements specification for a trusted virtual community environment (VCE). If an environment is not seen as legitimate, social conflicts m...
This position paper discusses different philosophical views of learning and the consequences of these different epistemologies on the design of online learning environments. Acade...
The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
When creating applications that should be available on multiple computing platforms, designers have to cope with different design tools and user interface toolkits. Incompatibilit...