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Being There Together - Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments (Paperback)
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Being There Together - Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments (Paperback)
Series: Human Technology Interaction Series
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Virtual environments provide places for 'being there together', for
avatars to interact with each other in computer-generated spaces.
They range from immersive systems in which people have life-size
tracked avatar bodies to large-scale spaces such as Second Life
where populations of users socialize in persistent virtual worlds.
This book draws together research on how people interact in virtual
environments: What difference does avatar appearance make? How do
avatars collaborate and play together? How do the type of system
and the space affect how people engage with each other? How does
interaction between avatars differ from face-to-face interaction?
What can social scientists learn from experiments and other studies
of how people interact in virtual environments? What are the
ethical and social issues in doing this research, and in the uses
of this technology? And how do virtual environments differ from
other communication technologies such as videoconferencing systems
and other new media? This book is a state-of-the art survey of
research on these topics, and offers a framework for understanding
this technology and its future implications.
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