Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
More and more CoPs have chosen virtual environments and services to support their activities. However, recent research has underlined several problems: the lack of adequate scaffol...
Bernadette Charlier, France Henri, Amaury Daele, M...
A distributed immersive virtual environment was deployed as a component of a pedagogical strategy for teaching third grade children that the Earth is round. The displacement strat...
Thomas G. Moher, Andrew E. Johnson, Stellan Ohlsso...
Our design goal for OnLive Traveler was to develop a virtual community system that emulates natural social paradigms, allowing the participants to sense a tele-presence, the subje...
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) offers good solutions for many applications such as large data sharing and collaboration. Thus, it appears as a powerful paradigm to develop scalable distribut...
Stainam N. Brandao, Ricardo T. Silva, Jano M. Souz...