Designing Virtual Environments for Social Interaction
Andy Crabtree, Mark Rouncefield, Steve R. Pettifer · 2000
The Distributed Legible City (DLC) is an interactive multi-media art installation enabling a number of ‘cyclists’ to participate in a shared virtual environment. In this paper we describe the evolution of the DLC guided by ethnographic study. We consider the implications and problems associated with designing a virtual environment where the requirements to ‘support social interaction’ are ambiguous and open ended. Although our own work is but exploratory, we identify trans-situational features of social interaction which may be oriented to and explicated in other settings in designing virtual environments to support social interaction.