Recent research focuses instead on their utility in carrying out work in the real world.
This research has identified the importance of a mapping between the real and the virtual that permits the representation of real tasks in the virtual environment. Chime does not introduce the concepts of focus and nimbus and thus does no t provide awareness clues at related artefacts. The rooms contain the artefacts that have to be manipulated in the rooms task. J.C. Doppke, D. Heimbigner, and A.L. Wolf. Software process modeling and execution within virtual environments.