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The Social Life of Avatars : Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments /

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Virtual reality technology has been developed commercially since the early 1990s but it is only recently, with the popularity of the internet, that it has become feasible to link many users simultaneously in shared virtual environments. This raises a number of interesting questions such as: what is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schroeder, Ralph
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London : Imprint : Springer, 2002.
Series:Computer supported cooperative work.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Computer graphics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Social Interaction in Virtual Environments: Key Issues, Common Themes and a Framework for Research
  • Social Conventions in Computer-Mediated-Communication: A Comparison of Three Online Shared Virtual Environments
  • Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Worlds
  • Rest in Peace, Bill the Bot:: Death and Life in Virtual Worlds
  • 30 Days in Active Worlds
  • Community, Design and Terrorism in a Virtual World
  • Lessons Learned: Building and Deploying Shared Virtual Environments
  • The long Term Uses of Shared Virtual Environments: An Exploratory Study
  • Social Influence Within Immersive Virtual Environments
  • Meeting People Virtually: Experiments in Shared Virtual Worlds
  • The Digital Divide
  • Status Differences in Virtual Environments
  • The Social Life of Small Graphic Chat Spaces
  • Index.