We describe an integrated, tabletop-centered multi-display environment for engaging the public in collaborative community planning. Activities are anchored in a multi-touch tabletop display augmented with multiple large-screen displays and smaller hand-held displays to foster collaborative co-creation. To make the tool accessible for non-technical users, we provide familiar visualizations and i...

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extended abstract 1. introduction in recent years, so many countries have paid many attention to tourism as a strategy to make money and benefit for the local communities. many researchers consider tourism an appropriate strategy for economic and social development of developing countries know. despite all the benefits of community-based tourism, in most developing countries, little authority i...

happy feeling has essential role in life of human beings during the generations. people always try to pass their life with satisfactions and happiness and to be adopted themselves.on this base we have done two different statistical analyses. at first we studied different relational samples with nature and happiness indicators in 250 ordinary people (community) through social network application...

We discuss a virtual reality theater environment and its transition to a virtual community by adding domain agents and by allowing multiple users to visit this environment. The environment has been built using VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language). We discuss how our ideas about this environment changed in time by adding more facilities to it and by paying more attention to potential users. ...