This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Organizations increasingly coordinate their product and service development processes to deliver their products and services as fast as possible, and to involve employees, custome...
Abstract. Virtual professional communities require a strong coevolution of their social and information systems. To ensure that the evolutionary process of their socio-technical sy...
Today a wide variety of virtual worlds, cities, gaming environments etc. exist and become part of life of their human inhabitants. However, our understanding on how technology infl...
It is now common to encounter communities engaged in the collaborative analysis and transformation of large quantities of data over extended time periods. We argue that these comm...