Virtually there: Exploring proximity and homophily in a virtual world

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 354-359

  Huang, Yun ^a   Shen, Cuihua ^b   Williams, Dmitri ^b   Contractor, Noshir ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; ERGM; Homophily; Proximity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION; HOMOPHILY; OFFLINE; ONLINE BEHAVIOR; ONLINE INTERACTION; SPATIAL PROXIMITY; VIRTUAL SPACES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70849093358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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