Avatars at work and play : collaboration and interaction in shared virtual environments by Schroeder, Ralph; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie instant download

Avatars at work and play : collaboration and interaction in shared virtual environments by Schroeder, Ralph; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie instant download

xv, 277 p. : 25 cm, Includes bibliographical references and index, Work and play in shared virtual environments : overlapping themes and intersecting research agendas / Ralph Schroeder and Ann-Sofie Axelsson -- Transformed social interaction : exploring the digital plasticity of avatars / Jeremy N. Bailenson and Andrew C. Beall -- Selective fidelity : investigating priorities for the creation of expressive avatars / Maia Garau -- Analysis and visualization of social diffusion patterns in three-dimensional virtual worlds / Shashikant Penumarthy and Katy Börner -- Collaborative virtual environments for scientific collaboration : technical and organizational design frameworks / Diane H. Sonnenwald -- Analyzing fragments of collaboration in distributed immersive virtual environments / Ilona Heldal ... [et al.] -- The impact of display system and embodiment on closely coupled collaboration between remote users / David Roberts, Robin Wolff, and Oliver Otto -- The good inequality : supporting group-work in shared virtual environments / Maria Spante, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, and Ralph Schroeder -- Consequences of playing violent video games in immersive virtual environments / Susan Persky and Jim Blascovich -- The psychology of massively multi-user online role-playing games : motivations, emotional investment, relationships, and problematic usage / Nick Yee -- Questing for knowledge--virtual worlds as dynamic processes of social interaction / Mikael Jakobsson -- Play and sociability in There : some lessons from online games for collaborative virtual environments / Barry Brown and Marek Bell -- Digital dystopia : player control and strategic innovation in The sims online / Francis F. Steen ... [et al.]