Proceedings of the First Intl Workshop held August 31 – September 1, 2000, in Glasgow, UK. Focuses on haptic human-computer interaction and offers topical sections on haptic interfaces for blind people, collaborative haptics, and applications of haptics. Softcover.

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Review”Edward Castronova has again charted new waters to the virtual worlds emerging as the next frontier. He has proven himself as the oracle of the virtual world revolution.”–Christian Renaud, Networked Virtual Environments, Cisco ”A book full of insights about our online present and a hopeful look at the future where politics and economics will be increasingly governed by the rules of video games.”–John Beck, President of The AttentionCompany and co-author of The Kids are Alrigh (more…)