Contents

• Introduction
  • The birth of TECFAMOO
  • A List of ``Questions''
  • This is *not* an article!
• MOOs and other VR and CSCW
  • What is needed for a Cyberspace?
  • MOOs vs. other CSCW tools
  • What is great about the MOO
  • The bandwidth argument
  • What is really missing?
• On Building a MOO world
  • How much planning do we need?
  • First Time Users and/or Beginners
    • The Welcome Screen
    • The Welcome Area
    • Work in progress
  • Communication and Navigation on the MOO
  • Topology and Navigation
    • Building on CollegeTown
    • Building Rules on TECFAMOO
• MOOs for Research Work
  • Virtual Meeting Spaces
    • A look at some ``meeting'' MOOs
    • Meeting Spaces at TECFAMOO
• MOOs for Education
  • Virtual Classrooms
    • Education Tools at Diversity University
    • Ken's generic classroom
    • Please don't disturb!
    • So what is new ?
  • MOO Learning Environments
    • The Ohlone Village
    • The Ticinese Village
    • Social-Psychological Experimentation
    • The MOO as Learning Environment: The case of EON
      • Learning by Immersion at EON
  • Private Immersion in the MOO
• New ways of living with hypertexts
  • Spacial Cooperative User Interfaces to Hypertext
  • Cooperative Living Documents
• The MOO as new form of text and literature
  • A new textuality: written conversations
• New ways of thought and interaction
  • Better than real?
  • Constraint by the MOO ?
  • (Un)Social Features
    • At look at some MOOs
      • Social features at DU
  • How weird are MUDDers?
• Ruling, rules and other social Issues
  • The organization of a MOO world
    • The role of player classes
    • Forms of government
    • Government in serious MOOs
  • The role of quotas
    • Byte vs. object quota
    • An economic approach
  • Manners
    • Examples from social MOOs
      • Manners at Bay MOO:
      • Manners at College Town:
    • Examples from educational and research MOOs
  • Social Identities on MUDs
    • Should "serious" MOOs allow anonymity ?
  • wizards
    • A story from the MOO Cows
• References
• About this document ...