Human-Computer Interaction

Convergence of the Real and the Virtual

By: William Sims Bainbridge (Editor)

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Paperback | 18 December 2009

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William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life (Rymaszewski et al. 2007), are not games at all, but Internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. Although interest in virtual worlds has been growing for at least a dozen years, only today it is possible to bring together an international team of highly acc- plished authors to examine them with both care and excitement, employing a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular and may in future establish them as a major sector of human-centered computing.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Computer Science Virtual Reality Operating Systems Graphical & Digital Media Applications Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design & Usability Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Databases Data Capture & Analysis

Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Business & Management Business Aspects of E-Commerce Business Applications

Introduction	p. 1
New World View
Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the US	p. 21
The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds	p. 43
Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa	p. 57
Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game	p. 71
Medulla: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Framework for Research, Teaching and Learning with Virtual Worlds	p. 87
A Virtual Mars	p. 101
Opening the Metaverse	p. 111
A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds	p. 123
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Living Laboratories: Opportunities and Pitfalls	p. 135
Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft	p. 147
Dude Looks like a Lady: Gender Swapping in an Online Game	p. 161
Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners	p. 175
Speaking in Character: Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds	p. 187
What People Talk About in Virtual Worlds	p. 201
Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds	p. 213
Game-Based Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems	p. 225
When Virtual Worlds Expand	p. 237
Cooperation, Coordination, and Trust in Virtual Teams: Insights from Virtual Games	p. 253
Virtual Worlds for Virtual Organizing	p. 265
Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments	p. 279
The Future of Virtual Worlds	p. 289
Authors	p. 303
Index	p. 313
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