Avatars at Work and Play : Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments

Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments

By: Ralph Schroeder (Editor), Ann-Sofie Axelsson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 March 2006

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Avatars at Work and Play brings together contributions from leading social scientists and computer scientists who have conducted research on virtual environments used for collaboration and online gaming. They present a well-rounded and state-of-the-art overview of current applications of multi-user virtual environments, ranging from highly immersive virtual reality systems to internet-based virtual environments on personal computers. The volume is a follow-up to a previous essay collection, 'The Social Life of Avatars', which explored general issues in this field. This collection goes further, examining uses of shared virtual environments in practical settings such as scientific collaboration, distributed meetings, building models together, and others. It also covers online gaming in virtual environments, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of users and presents an opportunity for studying a myriad of social issues. Covering both 'work' and 'play', the volume brings together issues common to the two areas, including:
What kind of avatar appearance is suitable for different kinds of interaction? How best to foster collaboration and promote usable shared virtual spaces? What kinds of activities work well in different types of virtual environments and systems?

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Virtual Reality Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Graphical & Digital Media Applications Systems Analysis & Design Language & Linguistics Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design & Usability Artificial Intelligence

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Work and Play in Shared Virtual Environments: Overlapping Themes and Intersecting Research Agendas	p. ix
Transformed Social Interaction: Exploring the Digital Plasticity of Avatars	p. 1
Selective Fidelity: Investigating Priorities for the Creation of Expressive Avatars	p. 17
Analysis and Visualization of Social Diffusion Patterns in Three-dimensional Virtual Worlds	p. 39
Collaborative Virtual Environments for Scientific Collaboration: Technical and Organizational Design Frameworks	p. 63
Analyzing Fragments of Collaboration in Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments	p. 97
The Impact of Display System and Embodiment on Closely Coupled Collaboration Between Remote Users	p. 131
The Good Inequality: Supporting Group-Work in Shared Virtual Environments	p. 151
Consequences of Playing Violent Video Games in Immersive Virtual Environments	p. 167
The Psychology of Massively Multi-user Online Role-playing Games: Motivations, Emotional Investment, Relationships and Problematic Usage	p. 187
Questing for Knowledge-Virtual Worlds as Dynamic Processes of Social Interaction	p. 209
Play and Sociability in There: Some Lessons from Online Games for Collaborative Virtual Environments	p. 227
Digital Dystopia: Player Control and Strategic Innovation in the Sims Online	p. 247
Index	p. 275
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