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ACMACE
2009
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Getting acquainted in Second Life: human agent interactions in virtual environments
The paper investigates human agent interactions in virtual environments like Second Life. As interactions in such environments are inherently social, the agent should be able to p...
Christian Pallay, Matthias Rehm, Ekaterina Kurdyuk...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 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
2008
IEEE
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14 years 2 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
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Textures in Second Life: Measurement and Analysis
We collected packet traces from Second Life client sessions and analyzed the packet contents. We observed that textures constitute a majority of the network traffic. We further c...
Huiguang Liang, Mehul Motani, Wei Tsang Ooi
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind
This is a programmatic paper, marking out two directions in which the study of social media can contribute to broader problems of social science: understanding cultural evolution ...
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi