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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 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
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Josh Eno, Susan Gauch, Craig W. Thompson
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Maps and Signs for Ordered and Unordered Navigation Tasks in Virtual Worlds
Online 3D virtual worlds have many exciting and contemporary uses such as for social interaction, teaching and training, entertainment, and even for the development of virtual bus...
Daniel C. Cliburn, Todd Heino
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Accessibility in virtual worlds
Shari Trewin, Mark Laff, Anna Cavender, Vicki L. H...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Acquiring a professional "second life": problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business
The current surge of interest in virtual worlds suggests they are poised to make an evolutionary leap to the workplace, as instant messaging did a decade ago. In recent work we ha...
Jason B. Ellis, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A...