The Virtual Sandbox

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 26-28

  Junglas, Iris A ^a   Steel, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental Research; Laboratory Research; Simulation; Social Laboratories; Social Presence; Virtual World; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 50549094055     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314234.1314240     Document Type: Article

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