The social life of Avatars
Subtitle: presence and interaction in shared virtual environments
By: Ralph Schroeder (ed.).
Contributors: Schroeder, Ralph.
Series: Computer supported cooperative work
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Computer animation; Virtual reality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social interaction in virtual environments : key issues, common themes, and a framework for research / Ralph Schroeder; title: Social conventions in computer-mediated communication : a comparison of three online shared virtual environments / Barbara Becker and Gloria Mark; title: Living digitally : embodiment in virtual worlds / T.L. Tayor; title: Rest in peace, Bill the bot : Death and life in virtual worlds / Mikael Jakobsson; title: 30 days in active worlds : community, design, and terrorism in a virtual world / Andrew Hudson-Smith; title: Lessons learned : building and deploying shared virtual environments / Lili Cheng, Shelly Farnham, and Linda Stone; title: The long-term uses of shared virtual environments : an exploratory study / Alexander Nilsson ... [et al.]; title: Social influence within immersive virtual environments / Jim Blascovich; title: Meeting people virtually : experiments in shared virtual environments / Mel Slater and Anthony Steed; title: Collaboration in multi-modal virtual worlds : comparing touch, text, and voice and video / Eva-Lotta Sallnäs; title: The digital divide : status differences in virtual environments / Ann-Sofie Axelsson; title: The social life of small graphical chat spaces / Marc Smith, Shelly Farnham, and Steven Drucker.