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HICSS
2010
IEEE
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Investigating the Drivers of the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly important environments for social interaction, especially for the younger generations. For SVWs to be economically sustainabl...
Matti Mäntymäki, Jani Merikivi
HICSS
2009
IEEE
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Explaining the Continuous Use of Social Virtual Worlds: An Applied Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly popular spaces for social interaction. To be attractive to engage with, maintaining a sufficient base of active users is a si...
Jani Merikivi, Matti Mäntymäki
ICWSM
2010
14 years 11 months ago
Modeling Group Dynamics in Virtual Worlds
In this study, we examine human social interactions within virtual worlds and address the question of how group interactions are affected by the surrounding game environment. To i...
Fahad Shah, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Chris Usher
HCI
2011
14 years 1 months ago
Body Buddies: Social Signaling through Puppeteering
While virtual worlds have evolved to provide a good medium for social communication, they are very primitive in their social and affective communication design. The social communic...
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Katherine Isbister, Jeffery Ven...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 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