Avatars at Work and Play
Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Page
%P
5 Result(s)
-
Article
Open AccessAchieving Accuracy through Ambiguity: the Interactivity of Risk Communication in Severe Weather Events
Risks associated with natural hazards such as hurricanes are increasingly communicated on social media. For hurricane risk communication, visual information products—graphics—generated by meteorologists and sc...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
From Crowdsourced Map** to Community Map**: The Post-earthquake Work of OpenStreetMap Haiti
The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 catalyzed a nascent set of efforts in then-emergent “volunteer technology communities.” Among these was the response from OpenStreetMap, a volunteer-driven ...
-
Article
Of Coffee Shops and Parking Lots: Considering Matters of Space and Place in the Use of Public Wi-Fi
Wireless local area networks – or Wi-Fi networks – are proliferating in some societies. Our interest in this exploratory essay is to illustrate how ostensibly free, publicly-accessible Wi-Fi requires users to ...
-
Book
-
Chapter
Why Groupware Succeeds: Discretion or Mandate?
Single-user applications are designed with a ‘discretionary use’ model. In contrast, for large systems, upper management support is considered crucial to adoption. Which applies to groupware? The relatively lo...
