Computational Infrastructure for Experiments in Cognitive Leverage
CT '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind
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This paper synthesizes earlier work on collaboration and Virtual Worlds, and proposes a new attitude about distributed heterogeneous systems that extends both the shared artifacts of the World-Wide Web, the shared presence of the Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), and allows in addition the use of any user-favored tools from within the same environment. The result is no loss of diversity or heterogeneity, and we claim a great improvement in computer support for collaboration. We propose the development of a collection of Virtual WebWorlds (VWWs), which will be both more tightly coupled sets of Web services and data, and more distributed Virtual Worlds (VWs).