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JCHE
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
The virtual campus of the future: stimulating and simulating civic actions in a virtual world
This paper presents a pre-orientation program for incoming college students, Active Citizenship through Technology (ACT), that engaged students in civic dialogue early in their aca...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Clement Chau
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Virtually There: Exploring Proximity and Homophily in a Virtual World
— Virtual space eliminates the constraints of physical distances on communication and interaction. In this study, we examine the impact of offline proximity and homophily of play...
Yun Huang, Cuihua Shen, Dmitri Williams, Noshir S....
OZCHI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
You can be too rich: mediated communication in a virtual world
Internet-based virtual worlds (VWs) have emerged as a popular form of collaborative virtual environment. Most have offered only text chat for user communication; however several V...
Greg Wadley, Martin R. Gibbs, Nicolas Ducheneaut
VRCAI
2004
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Explorative construction of virtual worlds: an interactive kernel approach
Despite steady research advances in many aspects of virtual reality, building and testing virtual worlds remains to be a very difficult process. Most virtual environments are stil...
Jinseok Seo, Gerard Jounghyun Kim
DGO
2007
133views Education» more  DGO 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Law and governance and virtual worlds
This panel will survey the virtual world phenomena, introduce the governance issues that arise there and suggests why the digital government community can both contribute to virtu...
Ethan Katsh, Alan Gaitenby, Norman K. Sondheimer