Metaplasticity in virtual worlds
Subtitle: aesthetics and semantic concepts
By: Gianluca Mura, [editor]
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hershey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781609600778; 9781609600792
Subjects: Virtual reality; Communication and technology; New media art; Human-computer interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Virtual metaplasticity (ars metaplastica) / Gianluca Mura; title: ch. 2. The metaplastic virtual world theory / Gianluca Mura; title: ch. 3. The tangiality of digital media / Paul Catanese and Joan Truckenbrod; title: ch. 4. Pervasive virtual world / Everardo Reyes-Garcia; title: ch. 5. Semantic entities in virtual worlds : reasoning through virtual content / Vadim Slavin and Diane Love; title: ch. 6. Humanness elevated through its disappearance / Jeffrey M. Morris; title: ch. 7. The mediation chamber : towards self-modulation / Chris Shaw, Diane Gromala and Meehae Song; title: ch. 8. A behavioral model based on personality and emotional intelligence for virtual humans / Hector Orozco, Felix Ramos, Daniel Thalman, Victor Fernandez and Octavio Guiterrez; title: ch. 9. The virtual world of Cerberus : virtual singer using spike-timing-dependent plasticity concept / Jocelyne Kiss, Sidi Soueina, Martin Laliberte and Adel Elmaghraby; title: ch. 10. Learning from Baroque / Carola Moujan; title: ch. 11. Synthetic worlds, synthetic strategies : attaining creativity in the metaverse; title: ch. 12. Kritical artworks in Second Life / Dew Harrison and Denise Doyle; title: ch. 13. Digital media and the quest for the spiritual in art / Ima Conradi Chavez; title: ch. 14. Plastika [Totipotenta] / Catherine Nyeki; title: ch. 15. Spatial design and physical interface in virtual worlds / Hidenori Watanave; title: ch. 16. The city of Abadyl / Michael Johansson; title: ch. 17. Social and citizenship competencies in a multiuser virtual game / German Mauricio Mejia, Felipe Cesar Londono and Paula Andrea Escandon.