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DICTA
2003
13 years 9 months ago
A Virtual Environment to Simulate the Experience of Psychosis
Abstract. Psychosis is a mental disorder that affects 1–2% of the population at some point in their lives. One of the main causes of psychosis is the mental illness schizophreni...
Jasmine Banks, Jennifer Tichon, Geoffery Ericksson...
VW
2009
Springer
130views Virtual Reality» more  VW 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
The Conditions of Permeability: How Shared Cyberworlds Turn into Laboratories of Possible Worlds
— Numerous simultaneous paths open in front of the cybernaut, whose person is reflected in the various windows opened on the screen like many fragments of mirror. Yet, the fragme...
Caterina Desiato
WIKIS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Wikis of locality: insights from the open guides
In this paper we describe an emerging form of wikis - wikis of locality – that support physical rather than virtual communities. We draw on our experience as administrators of t...
Mark Gaved, Tom Heath, Marc Eisenstadt
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
113views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
The DSpace Open Source Digital Asset Management System: Challenges and Opportunities
Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from...
Robert Tansley, MacKenzie Smith, Julie Harford Wal...
CSCW
1998
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Community Support for Constructionist Learning
MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual reality environment (or “MUD”) designed to be a constructionist learning environment for children ages eight to thirteen. The constructio...
Amy Bruckman