Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...
Collaboration increasingly takes place in virtual communities using the Internet. These communities are socio-technical systems that tend to evolve strongly and become more comple...
We think that Massively Multi-user Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) will soon evolve into Online Societies of political and economic interest. Studying them will require a metho...
The Virtual Math Teams (VMT) project investigates the innovative use of online collaborative environments to support effective mathematical problem-solving by small groups of lear...
How can we create computer games facilitating emotional depth in the playing experience? When entering into a persistent virtual game world the player leaves the body behind. It i...