"Using a case study analysis, this book provides a unifying perspective for discussing the viability of collaborative virtual spaces as training programs for insurance brokers, forums to support at-risk university students, simulations of historical places, means to aid autistic children learn...

"This book provides a guideline of how to manage virtual organizations, by introducing the concept, explaining the management theories behind the concept and presenting practical examples of successfully operating virtual organizations"--Provided by publisher.

This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the...

"This book focuses on challenges that designers face in creating interfaces for users of various virtual environments, including coverage of various critical issues that have implications for user interface design from a number of different viewpoints"--Provided by publisher.

"This book uses humanistic and social scientific inquiry to explore how humans communicate, behave, and navigate in their new virtual work spaces, providing scholars and practitioners an opportunity to study virtual work from quantitative and qualitative research approaches"--Provided by publisher.

"This book highlights invaluable research covering the design, development, and evaluation of online learning environments, examining the role of technology enhanced learning in this emerging area"--Provided by publisher.

The report is structured as follows. The next section introduces the theoretical notion of a 'virtual economy' and explains how it is distinct from other Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-related economic activities. The following sections describe in detail the main areas of the...