Envisioning Cyberspace: The Design of On-Line Communities (1996)
article⁄Envisioning Cyberspace: The Design of On-Line Communities (1996)
abstract⁄The development of the World Wide Web into an active, visual social environment poses unique opportunities for the design professions. Multiuser Domains, social meeting places in cyberspace, are mostly textbased virtual realities which use spatial references to set the stage for social interaction. Over the past year design students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture have investigated several textbased domains. In the course of their work, they envisioned and graphically portrayed these environments as immersive virtual realities through the use of computer animation. Their studies addressed issues ranging from the nature of symbolic motion to socialpolitical structures of these domains.
