Are two heads better than one?: Object-focused work in physical and in virtual environments

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 287-296

  Heldal, Ilona ^a   Spante, Maria ^a   Connell, Mike ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b WSP Environmental   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Immersive; Performance; Presence; Social interaction; Usability; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL INTERACTION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547422864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180495.1180553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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