Synchronous interaction among hundreds: An evaluation of a conference in an avatar-based virtual environment

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 503-512

  Erickson, Thomas ^a   Sadat Shami, N ^a   Kellogg, Wendy A ^a   Levine, David W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Collaboration; CSCW; CVE; Second life; Spatialized audio; Synchronous interaction; Virtual environment; Virtual world

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D VIRTUAL WORLDS; COLLABORATION; CSCW; CVE; DEPTH EVALUATIONS; SECOND LIFE; SPATIALIZED AUDIO; SYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONS; VIRTUAL CONFERENCES; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79958125605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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