Large Scale Collaborative Virtual Environments

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Collaborative Virtual Environments.- 1.2. Issues of Scale.- 1.3. Approach.- 1.4. Thesis Structure and Reading Plan.- 2. CVEs: a Review.- 2.1. CSCW.- 2.2. Multi-user Virtual Reality.- 2.3. Summary.- 3. The Spatial Model of Interaction.- 3.1. Motivations.- 3.2. The Model.- 3.3. Extensions and Developments.- 3.4. Demonstrations and Examples.- 4. MASSIVE-1.- 4.1. User Interface.- 4.2. Tools.- 4.3. Distribution Model.- 4.4. Implementation Overview.- 5. Direct Awareness.- 5.1. Implementation.- 5.2. In Use.- 5.3. Evaluation.- 5.4. Summary and Conclusions.- 6. Spatial Trading.- 6.1. Implementation.- 6.2. Use.- 6.3. Evaluation.- 6.4. Summary and Conclusions.- 7. Third Party Objects.- 7.1. Theory.- 7.2. Examples.- 7.3. Exploitability.- 7.4. Summary.- 8. MASSIVE-2.- 8.1. User Interface.- 8.2. Third Party Objects.- 8.3. Distribution Model.- 8.4. Implementation Overview.- 9. Contextualised Awareness.- 9.1. Implementation.- 9.2. Use.- 9.3. Evaluation.- 9.4. Summary.- 10. Awareness Driven Communication.- 10.1. Implementation.- 10.2. Use.- 10.3. Evaluation.- 10.4. Summary and Conclusions.- 11. Conclusions.- 11.1. Summary.- 11.2. Main Contributions.- 11.3. Reflection.- Appendix A. User Profiling.- A. 1. Data Sources.- A.1.1. MASSIVE-1 Log Files.- A. 1.2. Network Traffic Data.- A.2. Movement.- A.2.1. Time Spent Moving.- A.2.2. Group World Transitions.- A.2.3. Returning to Worlds.- A.3. Audio.- A.3.1. Network Audio Data.- A.3.2. Visual "Mouth" Data.- A.3.3. Audio Data Conclusions.- Appendix B. Exploitation and Dissemination.- B.1. Primary Publications.- B.2. Secondary Publications.- B.3. Project Input.- References.

Chris lived and worked in Italy and Athens for five years before returning to the UK to complete his PhD on the American poet, Frank O'Hara. In 1992 he received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. He has since published three volumes of poetry, a novel, and written the screenplay for Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, which was selected to occupy the prestigious closing slot at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. He is married to Ruth, has two young sons, Saul and Ethan, and is Deputy Head Academic at Sevenoaks School in Kent.