CVE Project Publications

Conference Papers

A Framework for Prototyping Collaborative Virtual Environments (CRIWG05): This paper gives a general overview of the Unicron framework. Early versions of CVE were named Unicron.
Programming Language Support for Collaborative Virtual Environments (CASA05): This paper describes language support for CVE's, mainly 3D graphics
Remembrances of Things Past: Using Maps and Routes to Navigate through Virtual Environment Experiences (HICSS06): This paper describes a design of navigational aids for education CVEs.
Adding High Level VoIP Facilities to the Unicon Language (ITNG06): This paper describes the voice communication facilities that were added as part of broader multiplatform audio support.
Integrating Collaborative Program Development and Debugging within a Virtual Environment (CRIWG 08): This paper describes the collaborative IDE that is built-in to our virtual environment.
Using Non-Player Characters as Tutors in Virtual Environments (ReLIVE08): This paper describes a design for computer-controlled tutorial instructors in our virtual environment.
SCI: Towards a Collaborative Integrated Development Environment (WSCE09): This paper introduces social networking features into our hybrid IDE+VE
PNQ: Portable Non-Player Characters with Quests (CW2010): Details the architecture, models, and formats for multi-platform NPCs.
Building a Collaborative Virtual Environment: a Programming Language Codesign Approach (CW2011): Description of the interactions between CVE and the Unicon language as the projects evolved together.
Notifications Management in Distributed Development Environments: a Case Study, in the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014), IEEE.: Discussion of CVE's notifications about other users' status and behavior.
Evaluating the Effect of 3D World Integration within a Social Software Environment, in the 12th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2015), Las Vegas, April 13-15, 2015.: The effects of integrating social networking features, collaborative IDE, into CVE, or vice-versa.

Technical Reports

Jafar Al Gharaibeh's Ph.D. Dissertation, 08/2012: on language support for virtual environments
Hani Bani Salameh's Ph.D. Dissertation, 08/2011: on social networks in collaborative virtual environments
Hani Bani Salameh's M.S. report, 11/2006: multi-lingual IDE
Shyam Bukka's M.S. report, 2/2006: virtual tables and chairs
Rashmi Ramagiri's M.S. report, 2/2006: Moodle interoperability for our CVE
Ziad Al Sharif's M.S. thesis, 7/2005: Voice Over IP support
Jayanthan Elumalai's M.S. report, 7/05: remote site connection sharing
Yo Sep Kim's M.S. report, 7/05: avatars
Wynn Winkler's M.S. report, 12/04: basis for multi-user network communication of avatar behavior

Journal Articles

Hani Bani-Salameh, Jafar Al-Gharaibeh, Clinton Jeffery, and Ziad Al-Sharif (2017). ``Collaborative Education in a Virtual Learning Environment'', in International Journal of Business Information Systems, vol 25(4), pp. 474-489, Inderscience, 2017.

Books and Book Chapters

Clinton L. Jeffery and Jafar al-Gharaibeh. "Writing Virtual Environments for Software Visualization", Springer, 2015, 155p.
Hani Bani-Salameh and Clinton Jeffery. "Teaching and Learning in a Social Software Development Tool", in Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments: Present and Future, Springer, 2011, pp. 17-36.

Auxiliary Documentation

Project Source Code Formatting Guidelines: With Professor Griswold's blessing, I will be producing a revised version of this document for Unicon-related coding.