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Virtual environments and the future of human-computer interfaces: the electronic frontier in social context

Virtual environments have assumed a prominent place among the possibilities for the human-computer interfaces of tomorrow. Yet the simultaneous transformation of a number of information and communication technologies makes it difficult to assess how computergenerated simulated worlds will become part of interface design. This paper argues that thinking about the potential role of virtual environments requires locating them among a range of related technologies for interacting with information and communication tools on the one hand and identifying the dynamics of the social contexts in which they operate on the other. The relation between these two levels, in turn, can provide us with a conceptual framework for identifying the distinctive contribution that virtual environments can make to humancomputer interface design.