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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Abstract

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 languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)725-751
Number of pages27
JournalInternational Journal of Human Computer Studies
Volume54
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

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

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