A great many papers have been written on MOOs, MUDs, virtual realities, and the like; Here we list only a few.
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AstroVR
- [DBu1] The AstroVR Collaboratory, An On-line Multi-User Environment for Research in Astrophysics , Dave Van Buren, Pavel Curtis, David Nichols, and Michael Brundage. Proceedings of the 1994 ADASS Conference, Baltimore. November, 1994. Also available in HTML format.
- [DBu2] ISSA-PS, the Postage Stamp Server for IRAS Imaging Data , Dave Van Buren, Rick Ebert, D. Egret. Proceedings of the 1994 ADASS Conference, Baltimore. November, 1994. Also available in HTML format.
Jupiter
- [PCu1] The Jupiter Audio/Video Architecture: Secure Multimedia in Network Places , Pavel Curtis, Michael Dixon, Ron Frederick, and David Nichols. Proceedings of the 1995 ACM Multimedia Conference
- [DNi1] High-Latency, Low-Bandwidth Windowing in the Jupiter Collaboration System , David Nichols, Pavel Curtis, Michael Dixon, and John Lamping. Proceedings of UIST 1995
Miscellany
- [PCu2] Not a Highway, but a Place: Joint Activity on the Net , Jupiter Project Team. National Information Infrastructure Scenario
- [EOs1] MOO Client Request Protocol (1.0), Erik Ostrom, Dave Van Buren, Pavel Curtis, David Nichols, and Jay Carlson
- [DBu3] MCP 2.0 (proposed), Dave Van Buren, Michael Brundage
- [JCa1] The MUD Client Protocol, Version 2.1 , Jay Carlson, Roger Crew, Ken Fox, Richard Godard, Dave Kormann, Erik Ostrom, John Ramsdell, Vijay Saraswat, Andrew Wilson
- [PCu3] LambdaMOO Programmer's Manual , Pavel Curtis.
Supernova
- [MBr1] The Nova MOO Client Protocol , Michael Brundage, Dave Van Buren. Preprint.
- [DBu4] The SIM Collaborative Environment - A Generalizable Shared Workspace for Flight Projects , Dave Van Buren, Michael Brundage, Marie Levine-West. Preprint.
- [MBr2] Supernova, a Multimedia Java Client for Network Places , Michael Brundage, Dave Van Buren. Preprint.
Additional References
- Bruckman, Amy, Gender Swapping on the Internet . Proceedings of INET, 1993.
- Bruckman, Amy, Programming for Fun: MUDs as a Context for Collaborative Learning . Proceedings of the National Educational Computing Conference, 1994.
- Bruckman, Amy, et al., Serious Uses of MUDs? Proceedings of DIAC94. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1994.
- Curtis, Pavel, Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities . 1997.
- Curtis, Pavel, and David Nichols, MUDs Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality in the Real World . Proceedings of COMPCON '94, 1993.
- Deger, Renee, The next seat may be your own in cyberauditorium . PC Week, March 24, 1997.
- Dieberger, Andreas, A study about navigation in a virtual environment . Navigation in Textual Virtual Environments using a City Metaphor, Ph.D. Thesis. Vienna University of Technology, 1994. Also available at MIT and in PDF format.
- Hardy, Robinson, Doughty, Findsen, Towell, Towell, and Wilson, A new direction in conferencing: the First Electronic Glycoscience Conference . Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 21, January, 1996. pp. 31-33.
- Langham, Don, The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality . Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, 1 (3), July, 1994, p. 7.
- Meyer, Tom, David Blair, and Suzanne Hader, A MOO-Based Collaborative Hypermedia System for WWW . Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1995.
- Newsweek staff, Fifty for the Future . Newsweek, Feb 27, 1995, p. 43.
- Rheingold, Howard, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier . Addison-Wesley, 1993. pp 170-173. Revised 1995 edition here.
- Serpentelli, Jill, Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication . Senior Thesis, Haverford College, 1992.
- Towell, John F., and Elizabeth R. Towell, Internet conferencing with networked virtual environments . Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 5 (3), 1995. pp. 15-22.
- Towell, John F., and Elizabeth R. Towell, Presence in Text-Based Networked Virtual Environments or "MUDs" . Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality, MIT Press, 1997.
- Towell, Hansen, Mercer, Leach, Rubin, Prilusky, and Glusman, Networked virtual environments and electronic conferencing. In S.M. Bachrach, D.B. Boyd, S.K. Gray, W. Hase, and H. Rzepa (Ed.), Proceedings of the First Electronic Computational Chemistry Conference [CD-ROM]. ARInternet: Landower, MD. November, 1995.
- Trager, Louis. Falling Into Place: A behind-the-scenes look at a Silicon Valley start-up . San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, March 23, 1997. p. B1.
- Unsworth, John, Constructing the Virtual Campus . 1994 Modern Language Association meeting, Toronto.