Acquiring a professional "Second Life:" problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2883-2898

  Bessiere, Katherine ^a   Ellis, Jason B ^b   Kellogg, Wendy A ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Collaboration; Serious games; Social affordances; Social translucence; User training; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; COLLABORATION; SERIOUS GAMES; SOCIAL AFFORDANCES; SOCIAL TRANSLUCENCE; USER TRAINING; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; GAME THEORY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 70349168451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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