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Erik Stolterman
Spiritual Leader
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The final goal of this project was to create a working environment for
academic meetings in a virtual world. Hence the name ConfUse which implies
conference use. Since our university is located pretty much on the edge
of the physical world (northern Sweden) we have a special need for virtual
arenas where people can meet without having to physically be at the
same place.
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the way we have explored issues such as the difference between virtual
world (VW) design and traditional IT design, how to support group design
in the VWs, and VW design issues in general. We have also found that
our work on creating this environment has helped shed some light on
different ways of being with technology, touching on aspects beyond
the traditional concepts of use and design.
The project has led to the spin-off
world Ogel, which is a free building Lego world in the Active Worlds
main universe. In Ogel we have arranged courses in virtual world design
for students and staff at Umeå University in collaboration with
HUMlab.
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Mikael
Jakobsson
Project Founder
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Daniel
Skog
Project Coordinator
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Anna Croon
Fors
Participant
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Helena
Holmström
Participant
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| Jakobsson,
Mikael (2003). A virtual realist primer to virtual world design. In Ehn,
Pelle & Löwgren, Jonas (eds.). Searching voices - towards a canon
for interaction design. Studies in Arts and Communication #01. Malmö:
Malmö University. Book chapter [PDF] |
| Jakobsson,
Mikael (2002). From architecture to interacture. Iternet Research 3.0: Net
/ Work / Theory. Conference Paper
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| Croon
Fors, Anna & Mikael Jakobsson (2002). Beyond use and design - the dialectics
of being in virtual worlds. Digital Creativity. 13:1. Published
article [manuscript PDF] |
| Croon
Fors, Anna & Mikael Jakobsson (2000). Beyond use and design - the dialectics
of being in virtual worlds. Internet Research 1.0: The state of the interdiscipline.
Lawrence, KS, USA. Conference paper
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| Holmström,
Helena & Mikael Jakobsson (2001). Using models in virtual worlds design.
HICSS-34. Conference paper [PDF] |
| Holmström,
Helena (1999). Alternativa vägar för systemdesign - Skapande av
virtuell värld baserat på en legomodell. Proceedings of the third
student conference in computing science and informatics. Master
thesis in Swedish |
| Jakobsson,
Mikael & Daniel Skog (2001). What makes a house? Approaching architectural
design in virtual worlds. Conference paper
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| Skoglund,
Ulf (1999). Design av virtuella miljöer - En studie av Confuse. Proceedings
of the third student conference in computing science and informatics. Master
thesis in Swedish |
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Net-Life
Resources
Our collection of resources for Net-Life studies. |
Net-Life
Research Group
Our research group
based at the Department of Informatics,
Umeå University. |
Ogel
A free building Lego world in Active Worlds which
is a spin-off from the Confuse project. |
HUMlab
Our collaborator in giving courses in virtual world
design at Umeå University. |
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