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.

"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.

1. Innovation through virtual technologies / N. Raghavendra Rao -- 2. Soft-touch Haptics modeling of dynamic surfaces / Hanqiu Sun, Hui Chen -- 3. Collision detection / Gabriel Zachmann -- 4. Virtual environment visualisation of executable business process models / Ross Brown, Rune Rasmussen --...

"This book documents real-world experiences of innovators in higher education who have redesigned spaces for learning and teaching, including physical, virtual, formal, informal, blended, flexible, and time sensitive factors"--Provided by publisher.

Factors influencing e-commerce growth: a comparative study of Central Asian transition economies / Farhod P. Karimov -- Readiness to adopt e-business among SMEs in Malaysia: antecedents and consequence / Malliga Marimuthu -- E-commerce training with virtual commerce simulation / Alper Özpinar,...

1. Context and learning / António Figueiredo -- 2. Virtual settings / Philip Duchastel, Markus Molz -- 3. Context engineering for learning / Licínio Roque -- 4. The Role of context when implementing learning environments / Bernard Blandin -- 5. Space as a learning context / Ellen Chistiansen...