You can be too rich: Mediated communication in a virtual world

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group - Design: Open 24/7, OZCHI '09

Volumn 411, Issue , 2009, Pages 49-56

  Wadley, Greg ^a   Gibbs, Martin R ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Media richness; Second life; Virtual worlds; Voice

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERNET BASED; MEDIA RICHNESS; MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; QUALITATIVE METHOD; SECOND LIFE; SOCIAL PRESENCE; TEXT CHAT; USER COMMUNICATION; VIRTUAL CONTEXTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952962228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1738826.1738835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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