Rapid controlled movement through a virtual 3D workspace
SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
The effects of hyperlinks on navigation in virtual environments
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Object-focused interaction in collaborative virtual environments
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction and collaborative virtual environments
Social interaction in virtual enviroments: key issues, common themes, and a framework for research
The social life of avatars
Lessons learned: building and deploying shared virtual environments
The social life of avatars
Evaluation of a collaborative volume rendering application in a distributed virtual environment
EGVE '02 Proceedings of the workshop on Virtual environments 2002
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
GroupWare: Computer Support for Business Teams
Staging and evaluating public performances as an approach to CVE research
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments
Verbal communication during cooperative object manipulation
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments
Exploring collaborative navigation:: the effect of perspectives on group performance
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments
Critical approach to 3D virtual realities for group work
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Empirical development of a heuristic evaluation methodology for shared workspace groupware
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Evaluating a scientific collaboratory: Results of a controlled experiment
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Applications of Temporal Links: Recording and Replaying Virtual Environments
VR '02 Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2002
CSCW at play: 'there' as a collaborative virtual environment
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The usability of collaborative virtual environments and methods for the analysis of interaction
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments - Special issue: 2004 workshop on VR design and evaluation
EGVE'08 Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
Extended social network: a new generalized framework for virtual world analysis
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and its Applications in Industry
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Mobile group dynamics (MGDs) assist synchronous working in collaborative virtual environments (CVEs), and virtual time (VT) extends the benefits to asynchronous working. The present paper describes the implementation of MGDs (teleporting, awareness and multiple views) and VT (the utterances of 23 previous users were embedded in a CVE as conversation tags), and their evaluation using an urban planning task. Compared with previous research using the same scenario, the new MGD techniques produced substantial increases in the amount that, and distance over which, participants communicated. With VT participants chose to listen to a quarter of the conversations of their predecessors while performing the task. The embedded VT conversations led to a reduction in the rate at which participants traveled around, but an increase in live communication that took place. Taken together, the studies show how CVE interfaces can be improved for synchronous and asynchronous collaborations, and highlight possibilities for future research.