Creating a Sense of Place: Designing for Online Learning Conversations

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction, Designing Systems for Conversing: A Research Setting, Learning Conversations, Museum Ecologies: An Overview, Tensions, Constraints, and Barriers, The ArtView Study: Spatial Metaphors and Coversational Props, Replicating the Museum's Role as Social Place, Lack of Social Conventions and Cues, Authority, Crowding, Sources of Information, Loss of Aesthetic Presence, Conclusion