kunst-stoff

Name	Virtual Multiuser Environments
Format	theory, research, visions
URL	http://www.vme.kunst-stoff.de
Describtion	Modern communication technologies offer a variety of new opportunities for people to meet and interact. More and more parts of the internet can be seen as virtual public places. The time when people haven't been really aware of each other surfing the web have changed. That's why it is so important to examine this phenomenon more intensively, for example to analyse how humans act or develop in virtual enviroments, what consequences the new definition of the rules of reality have in virtuality, what kind of role virtual identity combined with its possible forms of appeareance and communication within virtual communities has, which actual tendencies exist and what kind of effects they have, or how to stimulate interactive virtual social relations and learning processes. This extensive work includes various projects that deal with these questions. For a better understanding it is important to throw light on certain phenomena , to be able to come up with proposals to solve various virtual social problems of multiuser enviroments. In the current state of this work the major concentration is focused on the analysation, the concept and the design of online Multiplayer Games. presented at FH Lübeck, Seminar: Basics Media 2003-2005 partly published at MOVII, FH Brandenburg 2003