Facets of Virtual Environments

1. Front Matter

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2. FaVE 2009 – Track 1

   1. Development of Virtual Geographic Environments and Geography Research

      • Fengru Huang, Hui Lin, Bin Chen

      Pages 1-11

   2. Dual Reality: Merging the Real and Virtual

      • Joshua Lifton, Joseph A. Paradiso

      Pages 12-28

   3. Exploring the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Scientific Research Platform: The Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA)

      • S. G. Djorgovski, P. Hut, S. McMillan, E. Vesperini, R. Knop, W. Farr et al.

      Pages 29-43

3. FaVE 2009 – Track 2

   1. Characterizing Mobility and Contact Networks in Virtual Worlds

      • Felipe Machado, Matheus Santos, Virgílio Almeida, Dorgival Guedes

      Pages 44-59

   2. Landmarks and Time-Pressure in Virtual Navigation: Towards Designing Gender-Neutral Virtual Environments

      • Elena Gavrielidou, Maarten H. Lamers

      Pages 60-67

   3. The Effects of Virtual Weather on Presence

      • Bartholomäus Wissmath, David Weibel, Fred W. Mast

      Pages 68-78

4. FaVE 2009 – Track 3

   1. Complexity of Virtual Worlds’ Terms of Service

      • Holger M. Kienle, Andreas Lober, Crina A. Vasiliu, Hausi A. Müller

      Pages 79-90

   2. The Role of Semantics in Next-Generation Online Virtual World-Based Retail Store

      • Geetika Sharma, C. Anantaram, Hiranmay Ghosh

      Pages 91-105

   3. StellarSim: A Plug-In Architecture for Scientific Visualizations in Virtual Worlds

      • Amy Henckel, Cristina V. Lopes

      Pages 106-120

5. FaVE 2009 – Track 4

   1. Formalizing and Promoting Collaboration in 3D Virtual Environments – A Blueprint for the Creation of Group Interaction Patterns

      • Andreas Schmeil, Martin J. Eppler

      Pages 121-134

   2. Conceptual Design Scheme for Virtual Characters

      • Gino Brunetti, Rocco Servidio

      Pages 135-150

   3. Usability Issues of an Augmented Virtuality Environment for Design

      • Xiangyu Wang, Irene Rui Chen

      Pages 151-164

6. FaVE 2009 – Track 5

   1. The Managed Hearthstone: Labor and Emotional Work in the Online Community of World of Warcraft

      • Andras Lukacs, David G. Embrick, Talmadge Wright

      Pages 165-177

   2. Human Rights and Private Ordering in Virtual Worlds

      • Olivier Oosterbaan

      Pages 178-186

   3. Investigating the Concept of Consumers as Producers in Virtual Worlds: Looking through Social, Technical, Economic, and Legal Lenses

      • Holger M. Kienle, Andreas Lober, Crina A. Vasiliu, Hausi A. Müller

      Pages 187-202

7. Back Matter

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In recent years, the popularity of virtual worlds has increased significantly and they have consequently come under closer academic scrutiny. Papers about virtual worlds are typically published at conferences or in journals that specialize in something - tirely different, related to some secondary aspect of the research. Thus a paper d- cussing legal aspects of virtual worlds may be published in a law journal, while a psychologist's analysis of situation awareness may appear at a psychology conference. The downside of this is that if you publish a virtual worlds paper at an unrelated conference in this manner you are likely to be one of only a handful of attendees working in the area. You will not, therefore, achieve the most important goal of - tending conferences: meeting and conversing with like-minded colleagues from the academic community of your field of study. Virtual worlds touch on many well-established themes in other areas of science. Researchers from all these fields will therefore be looking at this new, interesting, and growing field. However, to do effective research related to these complex constructs, researchers need to take into account many of the other facets from other fields that impact virtual worlds. Only by being familiar with and paying attention to all these different aspects can virtual worlds be properly understood.

• 3D
• Design
• Usability
• avatars
• computational astrophysics
• game networks
• social networks
• virtual environments
• virtual geography
• virtual navigation
• virtual reality
• virtual weather
• virtual worlds
• visualization
• world of warcraft

• Center for Multimedia in Education and Research (MuLF), Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Fritz Lehmann-Grube

• Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Jan Sablatnig

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