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This chapter provides an overview of the technical and social issues of CVEs and their impact on designers. The development of CVEs has lead to new ways for designers to collaborate and new kinds of places for designers to design. As a new technology for collaborative design, CVEs impact the collaborative process by facilitating movement between working together and working individually. As new technologies for interacting with CVEs include tangible interfaces, we can expect to see changes in the perception of the design that lead to changes in spatial focus.
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Maher, M.L. (2011). Designers and Collaborative Virtual Environments. In: Wang, X., Tsai, J.JH. (eds) Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0605-7_1
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