User retention is important to the success of online social media, particularly in virtual world settings where users shape one another’s online experience. We study a rich set ...
: 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...
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
Most research regarding online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Linked-In and Friendster has looked at these networks in terms of activity within the online network, suc...