Designing our town: MOOsburg

John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson; Philip Isenhour; Craig Ganoe; Dan Dunlap; James Fogarty; Wendy Schafer; Christina Van Metre

doi:10.1006/ijhc.2000.0438

Designing our town: MOOsburg

John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, Philip Isenhour, Craig Ganoe, Dan Dunlap, James Fogarty, Wendy Schafer, Christina Van Metre

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MOOsburg is a community-oriented multi-user domain. It was created to enrich the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) by providing real-time, situated interaction and a place-based model for community information. Three versions of MOOsburg have been developed: A classic text-based MOO, a MOO extended to drive a Web-browser, and a Java-based system. The most recent version of MOOsburg is fundamentally different from classic MOOs, supporting distributed system development and management and a direct manipulation approach to navigation. We are currently developing a variety of community-oriented applications, including a virtual science fair and a dispersed natural history museum.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	725-751
Number of pages	27
Journal	International Journal of Human Computer Studies
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.2000.0438
State	Published - 2001

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Software
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Education
General Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Hardware and Architecture

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