The scientific research potential of virtual worlds

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5837, 2007, Pages 472-476

  Bainbridge, William Sims ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRONICS; ETHNOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTATION; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 34547606452     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146930     Document Type: Review

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64. This article was written while the author was working at NSF. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF. The author's work on World of Warcraft is a personal project, neither supported nor endorsed by any real-world organization.