The demographics, motivations, and derived experiences of users of massively multi-user online graphical environments

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-329

  Yee, Nick ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33745434436     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres.15.3.309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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