Social virtual worlds (SVWs) have become increasingly important environments for social interaction, especially for the younger generations. For SVWs to be economically sustainabl...
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...
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...
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...
: 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...