Fernando Cassola in Virtual Worlds

Título: Proceedings of the SLACTIONS 2009 International Conference - Life, imagination, and word using metaverse platforms
Autores: Morgado, Leonel; Zagalo, Nelson; Boa-Ventura, Ana
Palavras-chave: Second Life; metaverse; virtual worlds
Data: 2009
Editora: Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
ISBN: 978-972-669-924-8

Would you like to practise your English in the exciting virtual world of Second Life?

David W. Deeds' presentation for the 2012 Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (VWBPE) Conference.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Research conference on virtual worlds – Life, imagination, and work using metaverse platforms

Starting tomorrow May 16 through May 18 is the annual Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds (FCVW) in Washington, DC at the National Defense University.

Investigações recentes concluíram que a alteração das características das representações digitais (avatares) dos utilizadores de mundos virtuais pode ter um impacto relevante nos seus comportamentos.

The dissertation Ways of Virtual World-making: Actors and Avatars is about some of the many choices that lead human actors to engage with large online roleplaying games and social virtual worlds. The study addresses questions about how the choices made make sense to human actors in their daily life and communication. In several case studies, we follow the choice and co-design of virtual world and avatar, the social relationships formed, the expressions of self and the navigation through physical and virtual worlds. The cases have been followed over time and with the methods of virtual ethnography and ‘in situ’ iterative video interviews. Thus, the choice of methods reflects the methodological approach of “following the human and nonhuman actors” in their daily life online as well as offline.

The dissertation is published by Roskilde Universitetsforlag (Roskilde University Press), and you can buy it here. Read the first review on Marianne Riis’ blog.

Applications of Virtual Reality. Edited by: Cecilia Sik Lanyi .

Information Technology is growing rapidly. With the birth of high-resolution graphics, high-speed computing and user interaction devices Virtual Reality has emerged as a major new technology in the mid 90es, last century. Virtual Reality technology is currently used in a broad range of applications. The best known are games, movies, simulations, therapy. From a manufacturing standpoint, there are some attractive applications including training, education, collaborative work and learning. This book provides an up-to-date discussion of the current research in Virtual Reality and its applications. It describes the current Virtual Reality state-of-the-art and points out many areas where there is still work to be done. We have chosen certain areas to cover in this book, which we believe will have potential significant impact on Virtual Reality and its applications. This book provides a definitive resource for wide variety of people including academicians, designers, developers, educators, engineers, practitioners, researchers, and graduate students.