Collaboration opportunities in second life:- Collective experiences

Proceedings of the 2008 4th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, ICIAFS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 114-119

  Hansen, Steve ^a   Griffith, Sharon ^a   Ademagic, Miko ^a   Armitage, Chris ^a   Faulkner, Tim ^a   Gavrilovic, Nemanja ^a   Lock, Lawrence ^a   Miltiadis, Simone ^a   Ramnath, Pranav ^a   Turdush, Malik ^a   Sebastian, Rob ^a   Whitaker, Matt ^a   Hansen, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avatars; Second life; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

2 GROUPS; AVATARS; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; SECOND LIFE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 64049104208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIAFS.2008.4783940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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