Designing Virtual Worlds

Examine and apply concepts, strategies and skills related to the life cycle of virtual world planning, design and product development. Focus on concepts of usability, architectural design, knowledge management and urban community factors. This course involves conceptual frameworks in design, graphic relevance and social networking practices that ensure the scalability, reliability and availability of 3D immersive environments. Emphasis is given to Internet-based services for storing and accessing information to be used in integrated virtual world development. This is an integrative course that builds on problem-solving techniques learned in the Winter course and examines comprehensive factors for designing and building immersive information platforms, requiring utilization of knowledge gained from previous information technology studies and organizational experience.

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