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BL
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730728
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b550494
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| Main Entry
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Chris Greenhalgh.
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| Title & Author
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Large scale collaborative virtual environments\ Chris Greenhalgh.
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| Publication Statement
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London: Springer, ©1999.
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| Series Statement
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Distinguished dissertations.
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(xvi, 229 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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1447108671
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: 1447112229
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: 9781447108672
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: 9781447112228
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| Contents
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Introduction --;CVEs: a review --;The spatial model of interaction --;MASSIVE-1 --;Direct awareness --;Spatial trading --;Third party objects --;MASSIVE-2 --;Contextualised awareness --;Awareness driven communication --;Conclusions --;Appendix A: User profiling --;Appendix B: Colour plates --;Appendix C: Exploitation and dissemination --;Appendix D: Video contents --;References --;Index.
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| Abstract
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Collaborative virtual environments are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book addresses the theory, design, realisation and evaluation of such systems, with a particular emphasis on support for large numbers of distributed users.
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Human-computer interaction.
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Teleconferencing.
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Virtual reality.
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| LC Classification
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QA76.9.H85C475 1999
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British Computer Society.
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Chris Greenhalgh
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Conference of Professors and Heads of Computing (Great Britain)
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