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304 Fominykh, Prasolova-Førland, Morozov, and Gerasimov CASE STUDY The case study presented in the paper had several goals, including providing the target group of students with an experience in collaboration and improving the developed concept of a virtual campus. The main research objectives of the case study were: Identifying the requirements (in terms of appearance, functionality, content and so on) for an educational virtual city as well as for a virtual campus in the context of a virtual city; Evaluating an original 3D virtual environment, where the case study took place; Identifying expectations that present-day Norwegian students have of a virtual campus of their university and of a virtual city representing their home city; The case study was conducted mostly among the students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The students performed a number of educational activities in the Virtual City of Yoshkar-Ola (VCYO). System Description This section presents a short description of the Virtual City of Yoshkar- Ola (VCYO) system. In reality Yoshkar-Ola is a city in the Volga region in Russia, where Multimedia Systems Laboratory (VCYO developer) is located. VCYO is a multiuser virtual environment representing the central part of the real city in exact manner with buildings (with examples of interiors), streets, yards, trees and other elements (Fig. 1 and 2).
Virtual Campus in the Context of an Educational Virtual City 305 Figure 1. The main square in the Virtual City of Yoshkar-Ola The model of the city contains also the main building of NTNU as a symbol of collaboration between universities and as a fun element (Fig. 2). The system is a Research and Development project, which is freeware and available on the web (http://virtyola.ru/index.php?lang=english). The system’s functionality includes representing users by realistic customizable avatars. A user can explore the world, moving his/her avatar by using simple interface. A big and a mini-map as well as teleportation are available to facilitate navigation in the virtual city. Users can communicate to each other by text chatting (private, local-group and global chats); voice chatting is being tested. The system also supports social software (Owen, Grant, Sayers, & Facer, 2006) functionality. It is possible to examine descriptions of places and buildings in the city, users’ notes and photos in the virtual world (Fig. 2). A user can also add their own comments to existing notes or photos, to leave their own notes and put their own pictures around the world. Such user-generated content often shows users’ opinions of the virtual and the corresponding real places that can be useful and interesting for other users.
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