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...
: 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...
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...
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...
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 ...