Avatars, people, and virtual worlds: Foundations for research in metaverses

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-117

  Davis, Alanah ^a   Murphy, John ^a   Owens, Dawn ^a   Khazanchi, Deepak ^a   Zigurs, Ilze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Metaverses; Virtual teams; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION; HIGH SPEED INTERNET; IMMERSIVE; INTERNET ACCESS; METAVERSES; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; REAL-WORLD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL WORLD; VIRTUAL TEAM; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 63149189088     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00183     Document Type: Article

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