The corporate world is changing from boardroom meetings and group gatherings to a virtual team world. Mobile employees who work from home or a remote office are becoming more common. More and more companies are adopting virtual teams because they bring many advantages to organizations and their employees. However, virtual teams carry additional complexity and increase risk of unsuccessful proje...

RATIONALE/OBJECTIVES Previous research shows that the use of ecstasy results in working memory and executive impairments in some users. The present study sought to assess the functional significance of such deficits using a virtual reality task. METHODS Twenty-three ecstasy-polydrug users and 26 nonusers were recruited. Individuals completed a drug use questionnaire measures of sleep quality ...

Twenty groups totaling eighty-three graduate students participated in a 17-day experiment to determine the requirements and high-level design for a computerized post office. The third in a series of experiments comparing virtual interaction to interaction combining both face-to-face and virtual communication, this study focuses on the relationship between group interaction, group development, a...

Operating systems today are created for two-dimensional systems. Virtual reality is the most logical possibility to replace current systems. Virtual Reality must prove to be a useful alternative that offers a more powerful way of interacting with the computer. The VR operating system has special design considerations. To create the system would cost an extravagant amount of money. The VR operat...

Virtual Reality (VR) technology offers new options for neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation. If empirical studies demonstrate effectiveness, virtual environments (VEs) could be of considerable benefit to persons with cognitive and functional impairments due to traumatic brain injury, neurological disorders, and learning disabilities. Testing and training scenarios that wou...

The Virtual Age is the ultimate progress of information technology and knowledgebased environments into a three-dimensional virtual world. We firmly believe that the enormous expansion of the information age by leaps and bounds along with the availability of the required tools and technologies, will bring about a fourth wave of change in the near future. There have been three waves of change in...