Avatars at Work and Play
Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Editors: Schroeder, Ralph, Axelsson, Ann-Sofie (Eds.)
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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?
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Transformed Social Interaction: Exploring the Digital Plasticity of Avatars
Pages 1-16
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Selective Fidelity: Investigating Priorities for the Creation of Expressive Avatars
Pages 17-38
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Analysis and Visualization of Social Diffusion Patterns in Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds
Pages 39-61
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Collaborative Virtual Environments for Scientific Collaboration: Technical and Organizational Design Frameworks
Pages 63-96
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Analyzing Fragments of Collaboration in Distributed Immersive Virtual Environments
Pages 97-130
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Avatars at Work and Play
- Book Subtitle
- Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
- Editors
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- Ralph Schroeder
- Ann-Sofie Axelsson
- Series Title
- Computer Supported Cooperative Work
- Series Volume
- 34
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-3898-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-3898-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-3883-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-6989-4
- Series ISSN
- 1431-1496
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 278
- Topics
