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IADIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Cybercultural Models Beyond Internet Banking: An Ethnographic Study in a Finnish Retail Bank
This paper suggests cultural models for virtual banking based on ethnographic research. The spatial and temporal features of cybersp ace change the traditional banking service and...
Johanna Ahola, Helena Ahola
ECMAST
1997
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
A Multicast Network Architecture for Large Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments
This paper introduces a multicast based architecture for supporting large scale Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). The paper begins by defining CVEs, discussing the motivat...
Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford
ECSCW
1993
13 years 6 months ago
A Spatial Model of Interaction in Large Virtual Environments
: We present a spatial model of group interaction in virtual environments. The model aims to provide flexible and natural support for managing conversations among large groups gath...
Steve Benford, Lennart E. Fahlén
VRST
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Partitioning crowded virtual environments
We investigate several techniques that partition a crowded virtual environment into regions that can be managed by separate servers or mapped onto different multicast groups. When...
Anthony Steed, Roula Abou-Haidar
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Programming self developing blob machines for spatial computing.
: This is a position paper introducing blob computing: A Blob is a generic primitive used to structure a uniform computing substrate into an easier-to-program parallel virtual mach...
Frédéric Gruau, Christine Eisenbeis