Designing information spaces
The adoption and use of 'BABBLE': a field study of chat in the workplace
ECSCW'99 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
NESSIE: an awareness environment for cooperative settings
ECSCW'99 Proceedings of the sixth conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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As a large geographically distributed company, Boeing needs integrated technologies that support, even encourage, working together across distances. As a foundation for working together, employees need to become acquainted with one another, form communities around shared interests, develop relationships, build trust, and communicate. Social networks are important within Boeing; people use these networks to find and fill openings in projects and programs. Project teams will more readily span geographic distances when social networks span distances.At Boeing Applied Research & Technology (AR&T) we have been investigating 3D virtual environments as support for geographically distributed teams, including support for social interactions. In this paper we outline potential business applications within large companies such as Boeing, and we describe our experiences with Boeing World, a corporate 3D environment based on the Active Worlds systems from Circle of Fire, Inc. (see http://www.activeworlds.com).