Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments [Paperback]

Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book offers a comprehensive reference volume to the state-of-the-art in the area of design studies in CVEs. It is an excellent mix of contributions from over 25 leading researcher/experts in multiple disciplines from academia and industry, providing up-to-date insight into the current research topics in this field as well as the latest technological advancements and the best working examples. Many of these results and ideas are also applicable to other areas such as CVE for design education.

Overall, this book?serves as?an excellent reference for postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners who need a comprehensive approach to study the design behaviours in CVEs. It is also a useful and informative source of materials for those interested in learning more on using/developing CVEs to support design and design collaboration.

Preface, by Xiangyu Wang and Jerry Jen-Hung Tsai: I Virtual Environments for Design: Fundamentals: 1 Designers and Collaborative Virtual Environments, by ?Mary Lou Maher; 2 ?Visual-Spatial Learning and Training in Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments, by Maria Kozhevnikov and Andre Garci; ?II Representation and Embodiments in Collaborative Virtual Environments: Objects, Users, and Presence: 3 Design Representation and Perception in Virtual Environments, by Chiu-Shui Chan; 4 Design Paradigms for the Enhancement of Presence in Virtual Environments, by Rivka Oxman; 5 Co-presence in Mixed Reality-mediated Collaborative Design Space, by Xiangyu Wang and Rui Wang; III Design Cooperation: Sharing Context in ClóW