The paper addresses the purposes and design decisions produced while developing a peer-to-peer virtual world platform. The work is being done within the FP7 VirtualLife project. Th...
Access control is an important aspect of shared virtual environments. Resource access may not only depend on prior authorization, but also on context of usage such as distance or ...
Martin Scheffler, Jan P. Springer, Bernd Froehlich
This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It wil...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Janet Ho, Mark H. Chignell...
This paper presents a JavaBeans framework that supports real-time synchronous collaborative applications. We contribute a generic collaboration bus as an enabling virtual "ch...
In this work informal learning theories and practices and social networking features are taken as starting points to build a reference collaboration model to support collaborative ...