Virtual worlds - past, present, and future: New directions in social computing

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 204-228

  Messinger, Paul R ^a   Stroulia, Eleni ^a   Lyons, Kelly ^b   Bone, Michael ^a   Niu, Run H ^c   Smirnov, Kristen ^a   Perelgut, Stephen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IBM TORONTO LAB   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avatars; Gaming; Social computing; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; BUSINESS RESEARCH; GAMING; LITERATURE REVIEWS; NEW DIRECTIONS; RESEARCH ISSUES; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES; TAXONOMIES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 67349276632     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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