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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
P2P Second Life: Experimental Validation Using Kad
: Applications such as Second Life require massive deployment of servers worldwide to support a large number of users. We investigate experimentally how Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communic...
Matteo Varvello, C. Diout, Ernst W. Biersack
HICSS
2009
IEEE
104views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Second Life as a Medium for Lecturing in College Courses
Second Life is an online virtual world that is gaining popularity in academic institutions as an alternative means for collaborative and distance education. However, the number of...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Jeffrey L. Gross
HAPTICS
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Bringing Haptics to Second Life for Visually Impaired People
Potential applications of online virtual worlds are attracting the interest of many researchers around the world. One and perhaps the most famous example of such systems is Linden ...
Maurizio de Pascale, Sara Mulatto, Domenico Pratti...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
96views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Towards a Framework for Evaluating Immersive Business Models: Evaluating Service Innovations in Second Life
Virtual worlds may be enabling technologies for the next generation of business models, practices and innovations in service. We situate our research within the field of service s...
Henry M. Kim, Kelly A. Lyons, Mary Ann Cunningham
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation of sensor-based tracking in Second Life
This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...