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CSCW
2007
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Doing Virtually Nothing: Awareness and Accountability in Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds
To date the most popular and sophisticated types of virtual worlds can be found in the area of video gaming, especially in the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Ga...
Robert J. Moore, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Eric Nickell
NETGAMES
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A peer-to-peer architecture for massive multiplayer online games
Massive Multiplayer Online Games with their virtual gaming worlds grow in user numbers as well as in the size of the virtual worlds. With this growth comes a significant increase...
Thorsten Hampel, Thomas Bopp, Robert Hinn
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Modeling Epidemic Spread in Synthetic Populations - Virtual Plagues in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
A virtual plague is a process in which a behavior-affecting property spreads among characters in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG). The MMOG individuals constitute a synt...
Magnus Boman, Stefan J. Johansson
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Coordinating joint activity in avatar-mediated interaction
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) currently represent the most widely used type of social 3D virtual worlds with millions of users worldwide. Although MMOGs take face-to-...
Robert J. Moore, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nico...
CGI
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Providing Full Awareness to Distributed Virtual Environments Based on Peer-to-Peer Architectures
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer onl...
Pedro Morillo, W. Moncho, Juan M. Orduña, J...