The awareness management problem is still very far from solved. It is difficult to create an abstraction that’s flexible enough to be used in the wide range of applications that deal with Awareness management problems. This paper describes a generic object-oriented abstraction for the problem of awareness management in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). The described abstraction allows ...

The motivation for this project was to find a way to give engineers, and the community affected by Civil Engineering work, information that is often difficult to visualise via computer screens, 2D plans or even scale models. We developed a Digital Scale Model using the existing expertise at the University of Nottingham on Space Geodesy and Mixed Reality. The user works in a collaborative Virtua...

In consecutive years, a fifth grade teacher of a self-contained classroom enacted five-week Earth sciences units that included learning activities focusing on the interpretation of seismograms and the location of earthquake epicenters. In one class, the unit utilized an embedded design that situated learners within the spatial and temporal extent of the phenomenon during the epicenter determina...

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This paper describes experiences of using a 3D Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) as a tool for a creative collaborative visualization of curriculum content in a university course. The goal of this project was to improve the students’ understanding of the curriculum and explore the possibilities of 3D CVEs in this context. The project resulted in a number of original virtual constructions ...

We describe a telerehabilitation system that has been developed in our laboratory, and initial results following use of the system on 2 patients with stroke. The system allows a therapist in a remote location to conduct treatment sessions, using a virtualenvironment-based motor-training system, with a patient who is located at home. The system consists of a patient computer with motion-capture ...

The problems of providing a real, physical specialist laboratory to teach computer networking such as, the lack of funding and physical space and the risks and threats to the network environment and infrastructure, can be solved by the use of a virtual learning environment. Velnet is such a virtual learning environment that we have developed and used successfully. Velnet consists of one or more...

This paper presents a VR-based ILE, which integrates virtual reality (VR) technology into interactive learning environment (ILE). It is said that ILE is composed of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) and micro world. ILE supports a student's discovery learning activity and fosters his/her creativity and adaptability. Moreover, we integrate VR technology into ILE and build discovery learning envi...