Design and Social Context, RMIT,

and evaluating the use of Web-delivered tools to supplement the community decision-making process. This has involved building and testing a 3D tool for Community Collaborative decisionmaking in the Jewell Station Neighbourhood (JSN). The focus of this decision-making tool provision is placed in an urban planning context. VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) was used to build two tools: a ‘Sandbox ’ and a virtual world. Building the tools was done so that community members, or planning consortia, could use the tools in a group meeting or individually through home Internet computers, or even at Internet cafes. The underlying criterion for design was simplicity and accessibility. The virtual worl